Time they had not drawn one eye of the character and the background was justįoggy. Stopped at 18, I would've rated it higher than Kimi Ni Todoke.Īnother thing that really bothered me, was the drawing style. But truth be told, for me, it kind of ruined the series. Into "what will happen in the future" and "will we be togetherįorever"? My guess would be that they were trying to build an intro to Were emotions and laughter and some serious stuff. Then what use is it trying to make the show longer? CauseĪfter the part that everyone was interested in ended, there's still like 7-8Įpisodes. Now the big question in my eyes is - if the main topic (the dead girlfriend Around the 18th episode it all resolves though. So from then on, there's lots of crying and even rivalry for Nanami's heart. That leads to a opening of Yano 's h eart which makes Nanami realize she can't make him happy since she doesn't want to be just a replacement. Things get messed up when Yano gets a flashback from h is past and confuses Nanami with his ex for a second. <.<īut obviously this happy part cou ldn't last forever, otherwise it would not be a shoujou. They actually showed the beginning of the couples' first time pretty bluntly. They had showed already that Yano used to sleep with h is ex -gf (and not only.) but then after Yano and Nanami had been dating for a while, it also came into question. They talk to each other pretty openly and it actually resembles a working relationsh ip - at least in the beginning.Īnother thing that surprised me was t h at sex was actually a topic. They do si lly things and Yano is a fun guy. So from the very desc ription of the show you should see where it' s headed - going to be lots of tears and ha rdships.īut unlike Kimi Ni Todoke, it also has some laughs. Needless to say there are many incidents involved that start coming out one by one and most of them don't really help their relations hip. He still thinks about her often and even though he gets in to a relationship with Nanami, he finds himself remembering all kinds of things about his past with the dead girl. In reality though, he's obviously not over it. In front of others he treats the memory with a cold shoulder and i gnores the topic most of the time. In this c ase though, Yano used to ha ve a gi rlfriend (te chnically he had several, but what counts is this one particular girl) who died a year earlier while in the car with her e x. Maybe you'll say s omething stupid or maybe he or she will hate you if you say something wrong? It really IS hard to talk to the person that you're head over heals in love with, especially if you 're a teenager. You'd never know what could be meant a s a joke - or what could be serious.Ī lso, the more Sawako admits that she likes Ka zehaya, the harder talking to him becomes. Imagine if you 've just recently managed to make friends and been a ccepted into a group. It gets so hard to see clearly - and that even if you are good with people. If someone becomes that important to you, every word they say and action they take seems to be of substantial meaning. Kimi Ni Todoke really hits the spot with it. It's so easy to start doubting yourself when your head is clouded by strong feelings and read a lot into things that didn't mean much - or read too little into those that actually did. Maybe this, a bit of a paradox, is what really catches one's attention. Kazehaya on the other ha nd doesn 't even imagine that she co uld be seeing such a thing as a p roblem and when Sawako constantly says how they are only friends, he starts doubting whether he even means anything more to her. Now here's the catch: since Sawako has such a low sel f esteem, she does admit to herself that she has f eelings for Kazehaya but is convinced that he c ouldn't p ossibl y s ee her the same way.