Name: I hoped for a good Boys Love Anime, and what I got is a teenage Boy, obsessed with BL, thinking about Love.
Item: Sasaki and Miyano
Rating: 58
Author: tillundja

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I hoped for a good Boys Love Anime, and what I got is a teenage Boy, obsessed with BL, thinking about Love. · Waifora

It was Last Years November, when i saw that one of the best rated Yaoi Mangas is going to get an adaption as an anime. I was hyped, because the number of good boys love anime is limited. I thought this anime could be the next "given". But all I've got is a Teenage Boy, obsessed with BL and with a trauma of calling his face feminine, thinking about Love. 12 Episodes along.

Story: 6/10
In my opinion, this anime had no special story. And especially no revolutionary romance story. What I think makes RomComs like Toradora! so good is the well done pacing. Sasaki no Miyano seems like it has a good pacing because it's very slow, but no. Toradora! for example, shows how Ryuuji and Taiga fall in love step by step and you've got many emotional peeks on that journey, like the pool scene (if you haven't seen Toradora yet and you are okay with getting spoliered: I mean this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFVprR6MiI ). But Sasaki no Miyano skips all those emotional peeks with characters coming closer to each other, and shows the love confession in Episode 4. Only this fact is not really what's bad about it, RomComs like Horimiya showed how to do an early love confession. But this anime lets us wait, Miyano wants to overthink it, and you know what that means: never-ending monolouges of thought, boring to watch, unrealistic and with no real conclusion at the end.

Characters: 5/10
I didn't care about the Characters, I liked the idea of Miyano having a trauma of people calling his face feminine. Miyano is a good written character in my opinnion, I just don't care about him. And Sasaki goes down as a character with no character, the essence of Slice of Live anime is to build up and focus on their characters. But Sasakis only character is having Miyano as a love interest and to find him cute, it feels a bit like Bella from Twilight.

Visuals: 6/10
I didn't like the drawing style, animations are good but I don't like this drawing style. And aslong this here is a subjective review, I give them a 6/10, they are okay.

Soundtrack: 7/10
I liked it. It was one of the better RomCom soundtracks, I also liked the opening. Good job.

Enjoyment: 5/10
It was a boring experience, I started in the show with euphoria and liked the set up. I like how the show sometimes makes fun of Yaoi clichés when the main character says things like "this is like in one of my BL mangas". I got this as a funny meta joke about the show itself. The biggest problem the show has are the elongated thought monolouges, being completely boring to watch, with no real conclusion at the end. All in all a boring and somtimes even an annoying show to watch. It is sadly dissapointing to see this show because i was really hyped about this anime.