Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You

"You don't get married because you've proven you're in love... You get married so you can prove it." - Yuzaki Nasa First, one thing I want to make clear is that if you don't like simple romance with no drama, then you need to stay away from Tonikawa, because it's definitely not for you. Anime like OreGairu will suit you better. The beauty of Tonikawa lies in it's simplicity. It's not just another wholesome fluffy rom-com, it's much more than that. What I think makes Tonikawa the perfect rom-com for me is that how the romance isn't dragged out, there is little to no drama, whichis perfect for people like me. Not that I hate it, but I find it overwhelming, drama isn't something I'd watch every time, anime like OreGairu is good, but exhausting at the same time. On the other hand, we have anime like Tonikawa, which is completely different from that, it's something I could always watch. These kind of anime is precious to me, because it just eases my exhaustion of real life, it's a real mood refresher, at the end of a tiring day, I'd love to sit with a bowl of ice-cream and enjoy this sweet anime. It's THAT kind of an anime. Another reason why I think it's great, is because of how it keeps some question unanswered. And frankly, I don't mind it, it's only been season 1 and they have been successful to pique my interest in the story that if a season 2 ever drops, I'd gladly watch it, not just because of it's wholesome romance aspect, but also because to find out where the plot is heading, because there's clearly a plot and it's definitely heading somewhere, as hinted by the mystery surrounding Tsukasa. The mystery keeps the overarching plot alive. The plot is very simple, Nasa Yuzaki, our MC, falls in love at first sight with Tsukasa, our FMC. As Nasa tries to approach her, he gets hit by truck, only to be saved by Tsukasa's swift movements. Nasa doesn't miss the opportunity and forces himself to confess and ask her out. However, Tsukasa has one condition, they can only be together if he marries her! It may sound unrealistic, but nobody said it has to be realistic to enjoy the anime. The entire story is just Nasa and Tsukasa's compilation of learning how to be a married couple. Though, it might sound boring at first, it is far from it. This is where the wholesome part shines the most. Going to bedding shopping together, Nasa trying his best to make small living space comfortable for his new bride, Tsukasa showing Nasa how to make a proper meal, Nasa introducing Tsukasa to his parents, all of these small things are a big part of this show, and most possibly the best part. This is where the true beauty of the anime lies, simply having fun in your daily life, that's what this anime is about, for most of it's part. While some questions have been left as a mystery, such as Tsukasa's past, all of it just compliments the plot while keeping the viewer's attracted. Now onto the characters, one of the best aspect of this anime! While Nasa might seem like a very childish MC, I mean who throws away their life for a girl they barely know about? But it's no doubt how his love for Tsukasa is real. Though it may seem he loves Tsukasa just because she's cute (As per the title of the anime, Tonikaku Kawaii) he actually does love everything about her, not just that she's cute. During his speech with Chitose, he said the destiny is real and how he talked about his love to Tsukasa was just too heartwarming. Riemann Zeta Function is the very last thing I would expect to appear in an anime, using math to prove your love is also something I never expected from this anime. This just goes to say how he loves Tsukasa, a girl who he just met more than a person that you love and knew from a long time. As much as Nasa loves Tsukasa, Tsukasa also loves everything about Nasa. When she was asked about what he likes about Nasa and how she blushes a little while saying that she like everything about him, it's just really heartwarming. Tsukasa notices the littlest detail about Nasa and compliments him on it, and Nasa also loves when she compliments him, what can be more cute than this? Other than Nasa and Tsukasa, all other characters are absolutely adorable! Kaname, Aya, Nasa's parents, all these side characters, I just can't get enough of these adorable set of casts! The character who was a teensy bit annoying was Chitose, she reminded me of those generic Tsundere characters, other than that I don't hate her much. Also the voicing of each and every character is so amazing! I adore all the Seiyuus (Voice actors) working behind this anime. About the artstyle, it's adorable! I don't know how anyone could not like it. The artstyle just compliments the setting and couldn't be any better. The blush lines are kinda ridiculous, but I'd be lying to myself if I said that I didn't find that cute. The opening is just amazing, at first, I kind of didn't like the idea of EDM in an anime opening, because most of the time it sounds generic, but Yunomi changed my mind. I've listened to Yunomi before this, and I was very surprised that this opening was from Yunomi. And I was even more surprised when I found out that it was Tsukasa's Seiyuu who was singing the opening. Starting with a beautiful instrumental, when the EDM part started, it took me by surprise. Not only the opening, but the ending is beautiful beyond explanation. I have already listened to it an unhealthy amount of times, the piano's involvement in the ending is really great. I'm listening to it as I'm writing this review! It's really helpful and I'd suggest you listen to it while reading this as well, kinda gives a good feeling. And now onto the most important part, enjoyment. If you read this review completely then you know that I've enjoyed this a lot. There aren't many heartwarming anime like this, which is why this is so special to me. I remember making a thread months ago, asking for a romance anime with simple story, "I just want a romance anime where the boy and girl are simply in love with each other, and do relationship stuff together without any drama." were my exact words, after I saw this anime, it felt like it was just made for me. I couldn't be more happier, I enjoyed every second of this anime. I see a lot of negative comments about this anime, most of them complain about the same thing, about how everything is too simple, how much of a fool can you be? With a little bit of research, anyone could've found out that it's those simple SoL type of anime, if it wasn't your thing then why watch it? Many people try to bring real life logic into it, like how it shouldn't be possible for them to marry each other, blah blah blah. Oh please, this fiction, nowhere did it say that it's based on real life laws. I also don't get why people say that nothing happens in this anime, please don't be ignorant. All criticisms on this anime look very shallow, it's what happens when you try too hard to find something bad about an anime. Although I don't blame those people, even if I tried then I couldn't truly find something about this anime that was absolutely terrible. Fridays have been sweeter with this anime around. This anime impacted me in a way that Fridays will be a little empty without this, this is a huge success, and for that alone, this anime is more than deserving of a solid 9.

"If you marry me, I'll go out with you." - The (Princess Kaguya-ish) waifu material, Tsukasa Tsukuyomi: The modern-day sequel story of "The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter's Wife". "Yes!! With pleasure!!" - The simp (that's not so simp) husbando material, Nasa Yuzaki: The man who'll achieve the speed of light faster than NASA! That's the only story plot "full of love and dreams" you need to know, an overnight done deal, and truly "faster than the speed of light". If you're wondering what Tonikaku Kawaii is all about, this is Hata Kenjirou (Hayate the Combat Butler!) flexing his marriage to Asano Mayumi (Sore ga Seiyuu!) in early 2018,that birthed the start of this amazing rom-com manga (right-smack on Valentine's Day in the same year, no less), and has finally come around to this anime adaptation (albeit under "Crunchyroll Originals" URGH). As a huge fan of the manga, I can't tell you how long fans have waited for this diamond gem of a rom-com to be brought to the small screen, and now this reality has come true. For anime-onlys, sorry, but you'll still have to read the manga regardless! Rather than going through the usual points (as my reviews tend to be), I'd like you to conduct this very simple checklist: - Wholesome, cutesy, adorable Rom-Com SoL happiness? Vanilla check. - Romance right at the START instead of the END? Story plot check. - Male MC not a clueless, spineless moron that thinks with his brain? Absolute check. - Male MC is a man of Kazuma-level culture and boldness? DOUBLE check. - Female MC not a violent tsundere bitch? Absolute check. - Female MC smug face? DOUBLE check. - Supporting cast isn't annoying AF? Hilarious, yet serious check. - Even the most annoying character (the blonde loli) is reasonably non-intrusive? Idealistic check. - No filler characters: Everyone seems real instead of feeling like they are being put there just for the sake of the MCs alone? Realistic check. - Great OST? Musically check. - "Meta" memes and references of Japan's pop culture and others? Extra check, if you're eagle-eyed, that's a plus. Good one on you. - (Most importantly) Truck-kun unable to Isekai MC? TRIPLE Check!!! If any of the points you see here checks out, then I'm sorry to say that this show is not for you. And yes, to add the salt and rub some more wounds, Japan's legal age for young marriages are truly a gleam of wonder, with males at 18 and females at 16 (and yeap, both Nasa and Tsukasa are legal of age!). Talk about moving past ALL the BS drama, troupes and cliches (NTR included) and dense "high school" relationships we've seen time and time again that gets old so quickly. What you see here, is what you get: a pure wholesome vanilla romance of a young boy and young girl, their marriage as fresh as their friendship-cum-relationship towards one another, exploring each other's quirks and identifying what is good and bad while holding no grudges, and more importantly, going through the rite of passage together as one of (if not) the best husbando and waifu couple pairings of recent times. Dr. Seuss even puts it best with this romantic quote: “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep, because reality is finally better than your dreams.” BUT, with a cinch of comedy, as Mae West puts it: “Marriage is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.” WHEW, talk about idealistic (but realistic) gut-punching. In a nutshell: This is the marriage life of the Yuzakis': Nasa and Tsukasa, who only coincidentally met each other on a winter's night road, and within the span of the night, a marriage proposal is formed...and after 3 years of disappearance, the wishful thinking has come full circle. Day and night, this lovely and beautiful couple learns to understand each other's likes and dislikes for character development, all while committing "lewd" acts time and time again to amaze-balls of "will they get on it, or not?" (even right in Nasa's original home, such kind parents). Some backstories here and there that'll question you about Tsukasa's "immortality", but it's just a small set-up for both the anime and the manga (for now). Even with the supporting cast of the Arisugawa family of jokers: Kaname is a down-to-earth, but extremely fun and comical (best supporting) LIT younger sister; Aya being the complete airhead (of over 9000) of an older sister that has held her crush for the husbando (for far too long) and reverting into YouTubing after the damage is done; and not to mention, their loving-cum-merciless mother who always gives the cold, hard truths to the older sister with no remorse. Like mother, like (older) daughter. Also, the questions about the frustrations of blonde-haired Chitose and her able maids Aurora and Charlotte: Chitose seems like the typical "annoying AF" character that is the only opposing factor to the Yuzakis' marriage, but it sure takes a lot of convincing to get the mistress's mind straight and recognize that regardless of her actions, there's no stopping them both from divorce, and at the very least, she acknowledges that the marriage is here to stay. Both maid servants Charlotte and Aurora however, really punch in the "butt of the joke" towards the condescending naivete of the mistress, even Tsukasa (because she's THAT easy to be fooled). Carry the humour back and forth, because it's as hilarious as heck. The only thing that worried me about this adaptation is the "Crunchyroll Originals" tagline, because shows under the series get a VERY BAD rap for subpar production quality (remember Gibiate from Summer 2020 and EX-ARM for Winter 2021?). Well, colour me surprised, because this is one of the better low-budget productions (besides Onyx Equinox) that was produced decently. The production team over at Seven Arcs did a fine job at adapting Hata Kenjirou's work, and even in an interview where the creator himself said that "this work is left to good hands" under director Hiroshi Ikehara (mainly directing kids' shows) and his team, I was SO relieved, and watching this for 3 months, it held on its own pretty nicely. A pretty good job, if I were to say so. And the music, OOH. If that "historical-gone-total rap" feeling of an opening of Yunomi X Akari Kitou isn't a banger, then I don't know what is. While the ED is plentiful fine-ish, it does not get more important than getting the right VAs for both Nasa and Tsukasa. I know many have been asking for the old VAs of both main leads Hayate and Nagi (Ryouko Shiraishi and Rie Kugimiya) to reprise their roles, but what we got of the modern-day big favourites of both Junya Enoki (who's also Jujutsu Kaisen's main lead Yuuji) and Akari Kitou (who's also Adachi to Shimamura's main lead Adachi) are really good. Not quite the same nostalgia for die-hard Hayate fans, but definitely a worthy refresh for the times of now. If you haven't got the gist of what I've said so far, please go back to that checklist, because Tonikaku Kawaii is truly a masterpiece work of Hata Kenjirou's calibre as a veteran mangaka that knows what he's doing, and really moving hearts a plentiful with overflowing fluffiness. Fans of the Rom-Com genre should absolutely not swipe left against this show, because it is pure diabetes to your heart.

I don’t understand the praise for this. Tonikaku tries to be different and yet it falls short. Actually, scratch that. It falls FAR from being any different from any rom-com that I’ve seen. It attempted to mix up the order of a cliche and yet it still is the cliche. The show doesn’t know what it wants to be itself and there is near to nothing redeemable about the show. I have plenty of reasons why, as well. Let's dive in, shall we? TL;DR at the bottom Story One look at the plot reveals that there’s nothing special. In summary, the protagonist, Nasa, gets really smart and later seesa girl he likes and is too scared to confess. Hmmm, I’ve never seen this before. But wait! There’s Truck-Kun to save the day! Truck-Kun hits poor Nasa while he’s crossing the road! But fortunately for him, there’s the girl there to save the day. Let’s take a pause here, the synopsis itself is unappealing. It glues a bunch of cliches together into one giant mess; a protagonist that likes a girl, a girl that he’s too scared to confess to, and a truck that hits the protagonist. This has been seen God knows how many times even the newest of new weebs find the concept repetitive. Of course, this smart guy decides to try to ask out this girl after nearly bleeding to death, then she says yes on the condition that they marry. Then after a long while of not meeting, the girl just comes to his doorstep to marry him. Seriously? I don’t care how many people come up here using their excuses, this plot is straight-up brainless, like the story was made using mad libs and you pick the words using a random word generator. On top of all of this, the show clearly wants to be different. The director was like, “You know what? Let’s just skip to the end and get them married”. This is an example of them wanting to drift away from a cliche. They switch up the beginning and the end in an attempt to “stand out”, because who cares about developing relationships when you can just conclude it in the first episode, right? But guess what? It still doesn’t stand out! Because everything sandwiched in the middle is just generic Slice-of-Life without a point except for introducing side characters or showing off their failed attempts to make it “cute”. This Slice-of-Life is pretty mediocre, to say the least. It relies on “cute” faces and textbook awkward situations to tick off time, and the jokes they make aren’t that funny. Caught sniffing someone else’s clothes? Freaking out about a girl sleeping next to you? Really? I mean, I guess if you like small penis jokes and guys freaking out about a girl sleeping next to him, then this may be a bit enjoyable. And how many times does a show have to reference internet culture? It seriously got annoying after the second episode and afterward I wondered if I should drop this show or not. A girl saying to another girl that their skin is “like an iPhone X?”? And who else loves “game-streaming Youtubers?” I swear this script was made by someone who comes home after work from the studio for dinner and has to listen to his 11-year-old son blab on about internet things. Except this time, he is taking extremely loose notes. It’s mostly hit-or-miss humor except with the accuracy of a stormtrooper. They also leave many things open-ended, to the point where you can’t tell if they are serious or it was just a joke, and it was infuriating to watch and wait until they explain it again. Along with all of this, there is a random “mystery” element to it, as there is no explanation or clear backstory with Tsukasa. With that, they don’t give any further explanation why she is around and brushes off that element like it doesn’t exist. The main reason people seem to enjoy this show is because it is cute. However, I fail to find what is so cute about the same repeated jokes, Nasa acting like an awkward loser most of the time, and the side characters being absolute airheads. This is easily a 1. Sound Music is decent. The OP music is fairly interesting, as it has the vibe of Youtuber’s opening from 5 years ago, not that it’s a good or bad thing. There are also some notable VAs in this anime, like Akari Kitou, Konomi Kohara, and Sumire Uesaka. Each one of them has had their own big roles and their talent made this show a bit more tolerable. The music and sounds throughout the show, however, is a problem. It uses the wrong sounds at the wrong time. It fails to find the right emotion for the scene multiple times. This wrong use of sounds is recurring and can be unsettling. The soundtracks are catchy, so I’ll give this a 3. Art The art in the background gives a tranquil feeling. Definitely one of the better things in the series. However, there are some backgrounds and color combos that look like they were made in Microsoft 3d builder. The character designs are also one of the worst things I’ve seen. I’m not sure how people believe that these designs are cute and all. It’s expected during the hard times currently, but I’ve seen hentais with better character design than this crap. Its oversaturated colors and creepy looking eyes with their simplistic face structure make it hard to look at the half-decent scenery that was before my eyes. I also hate the blushes on this anime. Everytime someone blushes in this anime, it is represented by a bunch of red lines lazily stroked across the face. This is neither aesthetic nor appealing, and it looks disgusting. 2. Characters Characters are another black spot in the series. We have Nasa, and he acts like a clueless 11 year old around Tsukasa, the girl he fawns over. He’s absolutely hopeless in his love life and it is cringeworthy to watch the moves he makes on Tsukasa. And his personality? A textbook hopeless loner nerd, except without the harem, but still perverted. This is somehow meant to be “relatable” to the audience. What else? Oh, he’s smart? And guess why? He’s named Nasa! He felt obliged to become smart because his name was Nasa, which happened to be the name of the American Space Agency. I’ve heard many stupid explanations from anime, but this takes the cake. So let’s say he actually gets his goal, studies hard, and becomes a billionaire. If I were to see a billionaire with a scientific discovery, I’d still be reminded if they have some weird name. Like Stephen Hawking, despite him making so many discoveries, in the end he’s known for being disabled. Another weird thing about this show is that even though they bother to add a smart personality, it is almost never projected throughout the show. I actually forgot about his “smart” personality 7 episodes in until I decided to look back at the first episode, which shows how subtle and unnecessary this trait was. Now let’s look at Tsukasa, the most lazily written character. Her personality is quite questionable. She decides to save Nasa, a random guy at the moment, from getting hit by a truck and just survives. They don’t bother explaining why this happens until the very end. And like any other logical character, decides to marry this random person he saved 2 years later, because who cares about developing relationships when they can just skip to the end? There’s no effort put into developing her, either, as she still has no foreseeable characteristics or backstory. Oh yeah, let's make her underage, too. She’s 16 while Nasa’s 18, and they’re getting married… Cute, right? I get that Japan has a low age of consent, but that itself is messed up on its own. The intention for her existence is to give the perfect girl that the audience can suck-up to. Nasa and Tsukasa’s relationship goes nowhere as well, as after they get married in the first episode. The episodes after consist of either introducing side characters, Nasa fantasizing things to do with Tsukasa and failing, or doing “fiance” things like picking out a wedding ring, introducing each other’s families, and kissing. The side characters are unappealing as well, just whiny and annoying characters that provide random moments of fanservice. Let’s look into each of these side characters. First, we have Kaname. Kaname is Nasa’s friend and doesn’t make fun of his name. Awww, wholesome. Her entire existence, however, is to provide more fanservice to the audience, as she cleans Nasa’s bath while he’s still in the bath and makes fun of his penis. Her presence is an inconvenience and makes the show more uncomfortable. There’s her big sister, Aya, too. The reason for her existence is to have a random onee-chan feeling to the show. Now we have a textbook pervert and a textbook onee-chan. Really. The parents are pretty boring as well in their little appearance. If anything, they are a nuisance to the screen as they are constantly loud and worrying and I just can’t stand them. Now we can look at Tsukasa’s side of characters. There’s Chitose, the generic imouto/tsundere. She is the wannabe conflict in an episode, but after that, she’s just a whiny grudge that I despise every time she appears on the screen. And of course, they had to inject more generic themes, with her wanting to marry Tsukasa as well, adding an unnecessary yuri relationship that doesn’t even go anywhere. Another piece to glue into this mess. The maids in this show are really just there to be clueless and don’t have any meaning to them. All in all the side characters are a mess and uninteresting and exist only for the point of making the audience uncomfortable. Overall the characters are either annoying and have no sense to them or they exist for giving unnecessary fanservice. 1. Enjoyment I wasn’t able to find enjoyment in this show. As stated before, it relies on awkward situations and fanservice to keep the audience engaged. The show doesn’t even know itself what it wants to be, as it switches between random moments of fanservice and wholesome moments. It’s hard to tell if they wanted Tonikaku to be cute or uncomfortable to watch. It made me uncomfortable how they run time off of the clock making sexual jokes or giving compilations of Nasa failing to develop the little relationship that he has. It relies on the exploitation of an otaku’s fantasy of a girl just coming up to their door and wanting to marry him, and him not being able to do anything with the relationship to entertain the audience. This is yet another 1. TL;DR Story - 1/10: SOL so it’s not expected of a plot, but the premise is just plain stupid and the SOL is unfunny and tries too hard to reach out to the younger generation. Sound - 3/10: Pretty good OP/ED, but the song choices feel off during most scenes. Art - 2/10: Half-decent background/scenery, but the character designs are creepy and the art is oversaturated. Characters - 1/10: The characters either have no explanation or have tropes that aren’t used throughout the entire show. Side characters are inconvenient and give occasional fanservice as their purpose. Enjoyment - 1/10: The show doesn’t know itself, as it either switches around from cute to lewd moments in random intervals. Uncomfortable to watch. Overall Tonikaku tried hard to be different, but it couldn’t. It had no potential to be something and yet it tried to be something else. I suffered through Tonikaku. It’s a bad show that relied on random “cute” moments and unfunny situations in order to keep the audience engaged. Tonikaku truly wanted to be something, but in the end, it was a cliche mess. A cliche mess with uncomfortable characters, unbearable sounds, and eye-killing artstyle, and I’m glad it’s over.

I was going to review Rose of Versailles, but I decided to binge this somewhat polarizing series on a whim. Most of the reviews I've read are either super positive and in the 8-10 range or super negative in the 2-3 range. I personally came down somewhere in the middle. I don't think this show is good by any means, but I also don't think it's offensively bad. It's just frustrating because it had so much untapped potential. How many beloved anime couples are actually married? Really think about it. I guess Holo and Lawrence from Spice and Wolf get married in the last chapter ofthe Light Novel, but it sure as hell doesn't happen in the anime. Mamoru and Usagi from Sailor Moon do get married but it's in the future and we never see much of what their marriage is like. Several Dragonball characters get married, but Toriyama doesn't write romance. I have zero idea how Goku and ChiChi's marriage works. He's a manchild that trains in the wilderness and sometimes occasionally comes home for dinner. What if there was a relatable anime about a young married couple and how they have to face the everyday problems of married life? There are many real life couples in their late 20s and early 30s who grew up with anime and who would really enjoy a show like that! Since there isn't a single anime that's like that, it would be a wide open market! That's an amazing idea! How could they possibly screw this up?! They screw it up directly out of the starting gate. The premise is actually one of the dumbest I've ever come across in anime. I've been watching anime since 1998, so I've seen some DUMB anime in my time. I do not make this statement lightly. Our hero is named NASA after the space institute because his parents are quirky and weird. He was so embarrassed by his name that he vowed to study until he became a genius and was the greatest student in Japan. Then nobody could make fun of him. That is one dumb motivation! One day, he's walking to school and sees a cute girl. He decides to rush across the street like a moron and get plowed by Truck-kun. Fortunately, this doesn't become an isekai. Instead, his life is saved by the cute girl. She starts to walk away, but he chases after her on 2 broken legs and with severe blood loss and head trauma to ask her on a date. She says she's not interested in dating and will only be with him if he agrees to marry her then and there. He agrees, but she disappears. Nasa then does what anyone would do. He drops out of high school and wastes his natural genius by becoming a delivery boy. This is all in the hopes of somehow finding that girl he met one time when he was badly injured and suffering brain trauma. She shows up 2 years later out of the blue with a marriage certificate and they get married at midnight. Their marriage is illegal under Japanese law since he's 18 and she's only 16, but the series never actually brings this up! It would technically be legal in some provinces with parental consent, but they pay some random homeless person to be their witness and the parents never consent! So the premise is stupid. So what? It's the execution that matters. Surely these 2 have great chemistry and are an adorable couple right? Nope! Almost every scene of them together was awkward and cringe inducing rather than warm and wholesome. Firstly, they have very little chemistry together and don't play off each other at all. Nasa is an awkward, geeky virgin whose only real trait is that he's a genius when the show remembers that he is. However, Nasa still has FAR more of a personality and character than Tsukasa. She's meant to be a blushing, Yamato nadeshiko but the show takes that to an extreme. She loves to cook, clean, compliment her husbando, and rarely ever speaks accept when spoken to. This makes her extremely boring. With a good anime couple, the guy will say something, then the girl has a witty retort, then the guy responds back in a playful way, and it's like a ping pong ball being lobbed back and forth. In Over the Moon, Nasa will engage in a long inner monologue about how cute his wife is and how maybe someday they might actually hold hands. Then he awkwardly asks to hold her hand. She then blushes and lets him do it. They never go back and forth exchanging more than 4 sentences! To the show's credit there is one scene where it reveals she loves trashy movies and forces Nasa to buy her a TV so she can watch Sharknado! Sadly, that's probably the best character development she gets in the entire show! I've read some bad fanfiction. I've attempted to write mushy, romantic fanfiction. The dialogue in Over the Moon is BAD even by fanfic standards. Half of Nasa's dialogue is just "I can't believe girls are soft! I can't believe her hand is warm! I can't believe girls breathe when they sleep! I can't believe her hair smells nice!" In episode 2 he asks if he can touch her body and she replies, "From now on, my body is an all you can grab buffet!". That's Sci-fi original movie level dialogue. That's reaching Tommy Wiseau levels of stilted and unnatural. I've covered the dialogue and lack of chemistry, but that's not all that's wrong with this show. You would expect them to tackle issues that young couples would find relatable. Maybe she snores loudly and he has to sleep somewhere else. Maybe their first time having sex is awkward and we get a comedic "training" montage. Maybe she gets stressed with school and they have an argument and need to make up. Instead they just do stuff like go to the hot springs or go to a festival or the kind of dates you would see in any other anime. They never encounter any of the problems that young couples actually face. If you've ever dated a woman in your life, watching this show becomes like watching aliens interact. It's not remotely realistic or relatable. I know they can't show too much because she's 16 for some reason, but I would expect an anime about a young married couple to deal with physical intimacy. Instead, they act like 2 middle school kids going on their first date. I know I'm not the first review to say that, but it's so true! After 3 months, she's sleeping on the floor because both of them are too afraid of sleeping in the same bed! After 2 months of being married, they act like holding hands is some SUPER kinky, forbidden shit. I told my girlfriend this show was written by an Amish otaku whose entire knowledge of relationships is based off a single volume of Love Hina that he secretly bought at Walmart. At one point, Nasa comes home from work and catches her changing skirts in the bathroom. She still has her panties on, but they both freak out. She then apologizes for changing clothes in her own house because she should have known he would be coming home around that time. Also she was in the bathroom, not changing right behind the front door or anything! Trad Waifu's puritan power is hitting levels that shouldn't even be possible! When I was in college, I had a project partner from Saudi Arabia who lived with his wife from a traditional, arranged marriage. I could never imagine her apologizing for changing clothes in her own bathroom. No human being would ever do that! As much as I like to dunk on this show and berate the fact it's rated far above anime romcoms that I enjoy like Karekano, the show does have moments where it's amusing. Tsukasa has a possessive little sister that wants to marry her and perpetually screams orders at 2 idiotic minions. Basically, her little sister is Emperor Pilaf from Dragonball. That at least made me happy. The random Sharknado reference was so awkward and out of nowhere it was pretty funny. The last episode was actually almost good and started to get near wholesome territory despite all its bad writing. I honestly don't believe this show was created to cater to incels as some have suggested online. It doesn't have ill intent and isn't deliberately reactionary in its gender roles or portrayal of marriage. The author really did want to create a wholesome, young couple and mix it with traditional anime quirks. In the end, it deserves indifference rather than vitriol. This isn't actually a hateful series, just a woefully underdeveloped one with awkward writing. They also shouldn't have chosen the director of fucking Ninja Slayer and Akiba's Trip to try direct a wholesome romance anime. The series dialogue was the man behind the series composition for Akiba's Trip, which is about a guy running around Tokyo ripping girls' clothes off to save them from alien parasites. Even with flawed source material, a better director and script writer probably could have made this work. Sadly, it's just kind of a wreck.