Many might turn away when they discover that this is a yuri anime although deep inside the plot, yuri isn't its main focus. I am not skilled enough to write a review without revealing some spoilers but I will try to keep the spoilers as minimal as possible and even if I do spoil some of it I'll try to spoil stuff that happened during the first episode
Adachi Sakura is a delinquent. She often skips class and hangs out at the 2nd floor of her school's gym. One time Shimamura Hougetsu got bored of class so she decided to skip it, be it fate or not she goes to the 2nd floor of the gym as well. This is Adachi and Shimamura's first encounter with each other, its also the beginning of their relationship
Unlike many other yuri animes, this anime doesn't start the yuri at the start of the anime. Adachi and Shimamura started to hang out more often in the gym, they would hide from the teachers during gym period, play ping pong together, eat lunch and sometimes sleep on each other's thighs. Slowly Adachi starts to develop feelings for Shimamura. Since Adachi wasn't a sociable person, Shimamura was her only friend, or rather the only person she feels the most comfortable to talk with. Adachi has a mom but I don't know about her dad because they never told about Adachi's past but I can have a good idea of why she would be cold even to her mother. Going back, Adachi slowly starts to develop feelings towards Shimamura. At first she denies her romantic feelings and just tricks her mind into thinking that it was normal and that she was just feeling like any normal friend would, but she starts to get bolder and bolder throughout the episodes. After some time she realizes that her feelings are, without a doubt, the feelings of love
What I love about the anime is how they tell the story. The way they do it is that something would happen and they would show how the characters feel through their perspectives. For an example, let's say Adachi started to ignore Shimamura, they would show us how Shimamura feels by using her perspective and her understanding of Adachi. The same goes for Adachi but since Adachi feels more affection towards Shimamura than Shimamura feels towards her, naturally her thoughts will be clouded with illogical or crazy ideas just like any guy would when a girl he likes gives him chocolates out of the blue during valentines day. It is refreshing and fun to see the 2 different perspectives on a situation, most of the time I feel sorry for them but a lot of times I would find myself physically cheering for them or physically showing that I am happy when they made up
This isn't a romance anime where everything is cliche, this is a realistic anime where it shows how an introvert shows their affection towards an extrovert.
Below contains spoilers, there are some things that I want explained because I didn't read the manga. So if any manga readers are reading this please tell me what happens
2) Do they end up together?
There was a love rival, well I don't think she's a rival since Shimamura shows no interest of her. She's called Tarumi and she is Shimamura's childhood friend
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