(Good) My Clueless First Friend

Series in one sentence:
Little boy has an extra chromosome. Encrusted with gold.

Series in more sentences:
Nishimura has always been bullied for her dreary look, but when the new kid in class takes her nickname "The Grim Reaper" seriously, he becomes determined to befriend her and witness her supposed powers.

I liked this alot, it was a fun, though repetitive friendship. Nishimura often mutters how Takada shouldn't get involved with her, despite the guy having made clear since day one not to care, and you can do that for 2 episodes, but after that, it's time to get the picture and stop dictating how others should feel about you.
And then there's Takada himself. This guy fucks. His intrigue for getting cursed was strange and he didn't really come up with any other powers for his Grim Reaper interpretation, but he was enjoying himself and his unbreakable optimism was funny.

I did wonder early on: would people realistically speaking be fine with getting lovingly called something they're also vindictively called on a daily basis? The show addresses the question, and I suppose it's not bad to take a bad word and turn it into something silly or positive, but still.
I remember back in junior high, there was this troubled kid who called me "dragon fucker", because I'd draw dragons in class and often wore a necklace with one on it. Now, if some other guy came up to me, with stars in his eyes, and said "YOU FORNICATE WITH DRAGONS?! OMG, ARE YOU THEIR QUEEN, HOW DID YOU TAME THEM, SHOW ME YOUR OFFSPRING!", I'd worry more about his mental health than that of the one bullying me.

It wouldn't charm me, but I suppose "dragon fucker" is less easy to twist into something cool than "Grim Reaper".

Nishimura's classmates were awfully one-dimensional. They insulted her for the sake of insulting her, and I expected a more sensible reason for it. She has a penetrating stare, so she's The Grim Reaper? Alright, but what else?
Hino isn't looking that "attractive" either and has a tank top fetish, yet no one is making his life hard over it. His existence also raises the question where he was before Takada showed up. Why didn't he befriend Nishimura first, he clearly doesn't care about her bad reputation. The same can be said about Hino's childhood friend, who obviously doesn't enjoy the bullying Nishimura endures, so then, where was she when it mattered?
Her love story with Hino was also pointless. She rarely approached him. Just come up with a different reason for her and Nishimura to bond as friends if it's going to be like this.

As for the rating, I wondered. The series is cute, but it didn't feel like any of the episodes established anything new. Takada blindly adores Nishimura, that is the joke every time, and even when they realize to be in love with each other, they're not sure what they're feeling, since they're blissfully ignorant children. But well, I've given high ratings to lesser shows, so "Good" it is.

..Also, I couldn't have been the only one left confused by the bit where Nishimura had pigtails in. She had pigtails in the swimming episode that came way before it, so why everyone pretended she did something new, I can't guess.