(Average+) Tomo-chan is a Girl!

Series in one sentence:
Take note, losers: the only requirement to being a "cute girl" is to have big breasts, no matter if you're mistaken for a man every other time.

Series in more sentences:
Tomo has been treated like a boy her entire life, but when she develops a crush on her best friend, she realizes how badly she wishes she wasn't.
Even though the two friends are enamoured by each other, they struggle to express themselves and fear that doing so could ruin the perfect dynamic they've had since childhood.

A high "Average+".

It checked off all the basic "high school anime"-storylines, but offered a fun direction and didn't linger on it for too long. The ending was a bit lame, though. These two losers don't even kiss, they just talk about what their relationship should be like, Junichiro fucking falls down the stairs, and that's the end.
What their relationship will entail is something that speaks for itself, I'd say, it didn't need a scene.

Tomo's friendship with Junichiro was nice. At times. I didn't like it whenever she beat the soul out of this boy over nothing, because this kind of behaviour doesn't only affect the likeability of a character, but makes you not care for their love journey, either.
The anime saved itself by toning it down further on. The bonding scenes and flashbacks were nice.

The side-characters were interesting enough, but Tomo's other friend had really strange motives for doing the things she did, I couldn't follow her reasoning. At first, I suspected she was in love with Tomo and intended to boycott her journey whilst pretending to be a supportive friend -with the end goal of pushing Tomo and Junichiro into realizing they make for a bad couple and never wanting to try it again, but no, that would've been a better story.
Didn't like it how the blonde one saw fit to flirt with Junichiro all of the sudden, either. Very out-of-character, while I really liked her in general. Blunt, oblivious yet perceptive, and most importantly, harmless. The scene violated that last personality trait.

In short, an enjoyable series with genuinely funny moments, but a dry pay-off. Still worth it to check this one out, so by all means.

P.S. Dating relatives is aids, stop Japan.