My Little Monster

i loved this anime because it shows the awkwardness during puberty and growing up, and its good for teaching people about setting boundaries and taking time away from that person to work on yourself, the plot could become quite predictable but the fact that it was only 13 episodes was fine, you could probably binge watch the anime in a day but i took a few days to finish it because i wanted to enjoy it more. Secondly, i really liked the fact that the anime almost switched ' gender ' roles, how the boy was the obsessed, soft, loving character and the girl was almost cold, unfeeling and intimidating. The style was pretty, i really personally liked it.

the only thing i didn't quite like about this anime was the personalities, haru was very clingy and whenever shizuku set boundaries he took them way out of proportion and didn't even try and listen / understand, and i wish we could have seen shizuku open up to haru more, even when she would confess she never seemed comfortable with him, she almost seemed like she didnt actually know what she was feeling and i wish she would've opened up more about that.

i also, wish we could've been able to see more backstory of some of the characters, like harus friends and why some of them are so violent and what caused them to be that way, or the backstory of shizukus family to see why her dads shop keeps going under, and why we never got to see her mother because of that, and what made shizuku to grow up to be so cold and unfeeling

the story did get confusing and annoying sometimes, only because they would confess at terrible times and far off from when the other did, this caused the other one to get bored or forget about it and then not know how to feel, which was sad because it would've been nice to see them progress and grow, confess to each other then have a cute loving ending with each other, but the ending was actually just quite unsatisfying but the actual anime makes up for it

the pacing was so fast, just a warning. The first 15 minutes she was a shy, ' study bug ' and then she was now dealing with a guy she met 2 minutes ago confessing to her, which i personally didnt actually mind but it just seemed almost unrealistic because shizuku just kind of accepted it and they were suddenly super close etc.

I am quite new to anime and i would say this is a favourite of mine because im not that fussy about endings, it would just of been so much better with a cuter happier ending, with all the friends haru and shizuku made and grew up and matured with together and maybe even a kiss that they both consented to, instead of haru jumping into one without thinking and shizuku getting flustered. The message is a good one, and i know that a lot of my friends will like it too