Contain Spoilers of s1 and s2
Sangatsu is an emotional work, those who do not feel empathy, attachment, and affection for the characters will never take advantage of the story itself, which humanly deals with problems such as emotional dependence, food compulsion, depression, loneliness, among others. Kiriyama's friendship with the girls of the Kawamoto family is very cute, I really like to see a sincere and reciprocal friendship in this way, besides that Kiriyama is very kind to everyone even if in his kind of clumsy way.
Another outstanding character in Sangatsu is Nikaido Harunobu, Kiriyama's childhood friend who is present in most of the competitions and we see over time both his development as a friend of the protagonist, almost a right arm I would say, as the development of his illness and of Nikaido himself as a character. I honestly thought he was going to die :0
I really like how Kiriyama treats Hina like a sister and respects her, Momo, and Akari a lot, the scenes of the two studying together are very enjoyable, it makes it seem like I'm watching a slice of life (I like this contrast with an anime that addresses somewhat sensitive issues)
Kyouko Kouda, Rei's adopted sister, what a character fellas. Many may not like her because she doesn't like the protagonist directly, but I particularly think she's super complex and well written, the fact that she uses a man so much older than her as emotional support and depends on his approval for almost everything is kinda sad, this is all a reflection of the lack of attention she got as a child as her parents were busy taking care of the "new genius". One that I felt a little lack of background was the other brother of Rei, Ayumu, who had a different reaction from Kyouko (in relation to the lack of parents in childhood) who used all means to get attention, Ayumu just isolated himself even more in his room and spends days there without wanting to see his mother.Touji Souya, another icon. Souya is the best player presented in the anime, he is a very mysterious man, in fact even after his direct contact with the protagonist we still don't know much about him, but this air of mystery he brings is what makes him even more interesting. The first game he played with Kiriyama was tense, man, I never imagined feeling this watching a shogi game, besides that scene soon of them in the rain, that whole episode was very strange, I liked it.
(the review must have more than 2100 letters and i have any idea of what to say so here´s a little about me: i´m 14, started watching anime in quarantine, watched about 80 by now, january to be exact)
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