Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai is one of those romcoms where you know the MC and the main girl will get together at some point, this is something that everyone expects, the thing is the development of how we get from the starting point to that one, since we already know the end the important part is the road, right? Now let’s look at Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai approaching to this.

Simply put, they do it very wrong. See, the relationship between Sakurai and Uzaki can be perceived easily at the start between a kouhai and a senpai, but after watching him for some time, Uzaki arbitrarily decides that Sakurai’s lifestyle is bad and weird so she starts going with him to different places, as it’s the kind of romcom where the girl teases the boy. The point here is that Uzaki in no way sees what Sakurai does as something people should do, and you might argue that living spending time alone and playing videogames isn’t a good kind of way of spending time, but this is what Sakurai wants, and she complains about it and starts to mock him for doing it. I know this is the main gimmick of the series, just like in other series with teasing girls like Nagatoro-san, the thing is, Nagatoro mocks her senpai because she wants him to pay more attention to her, but in here it is because of no more reason than to make this “weirdness of nature” of a person be a “normal” person.

Thing is, I’m not bothered as much about Uzaki being annoying, I’m more bothered by how hypocritical she sounds. I usually take in mind this when watching Uzaki-chan and it’s that in the first season in episode X, where Uzaki starts talking about choco-mints, she starts ranting about how people don’t get choco-mints and mock it as if it was tooth paste and not it’s own thing. This is completely hypocritical, just look at what she is saying there and how she behaves towards Sakurai the whole freaking show, treating what he likes and does as some unnatural thing that must be changed because that “isn’t living life” or something, and during this rang she asks what if someone mocks Sakurai’s favourite game without knowing anything about it, when she knows that this is the same she does, but she won’t stop mocking him at any point about this very thing she posited him as wrong in that rant, because you know it’s fine when she does it I guess?

Taking this into account and how Sakurai seems obviously annoyed about how she acts, it makes their relationship a mess, as Uzaki most definitely doesn’t accept Sakurai for what he is. But this doesn’t end here and continues with other characters, as there is Ami, a co-worker of Sakurai’s, and there is Itsuhito, who is Sakurai’s friend. These two are probably the worst part of the show for me. They believe that Sakurai and Hana’s relationship is basically meant to be and that they should be together, they aren’t the only ones who think that, many others do, but these are the worst offenders of this because they try to push it hard, saying that if they don’t do anything then everything will go extremely slowly, and it makes perfect sense that it would go slowly, after all, these two aren’t compatible at all. Itsuhito even mocks Sakurai about not taking the first step with Uzaki, which is dumb, if he doesn’t see her that way then why would he do anything? He and Ami are basically stalkers to see their relationship work for their own desires. There is this scene in the second season where this fortune teller says they are completely compatible and stuff like that, and it turns out it was basically Ami the one who pushed the idea for the fortune teller to say it for them to feel more forced to be together. This is not how relationships works, this is not how you build them, telling me again and again that they are very compatible doesn’t make them compatible when their actions don’t match said words. Sure, they can spend some time together and have fun, but most of the time they are just fighting and mocking each other.

This is why their relationship feels unearned, after watching two seasons I’m wondering how are they even friends, let alone boyfriend and girlfriend. It was expected that they would be together, and that’s perfectly fine, they way it happened is dumb as their romantic development is forced, not only because it feels rushed, but because the characters are practically forcing them to be together more and more every time.

To not say I just disliked all characters, because I didn’t, as there is also the Uzaki family. I actually quite liked them, even the misunderstandings of Tsuki were funnier than whatever Hana was doing, which isn’t much to say because what Hana does isn’t funny. The father is cool, and despite not having much screen time I found the brother cute.

It doesn’t help that this is jarring to watch animation-wise, I don’t think there was much of a problem with the first season, but then watching the second season it was painful to see stuff like the football match. The sound has never been something special in Uzaki-chan aside from Uzaki’s VA being annoying as all hell, kudos to her for making it work so well, because there aren’t many voices that can annoy me. The songs are just fine at best, I won’t be remembering neither the opening nor ending of this or the previous season.

The first season didn’t make me angry, it was a pretty subpar romcom and nothing much, but this one does things way worse than the first one, as if it was forcing Uzaki’s and Sakurai’s relationship down my throat even more than the characters force it down the MC’s throats. If you want to watch this for fan service, go somewhere else, Uzaki’s boobs are all you’d get.

Thank you for reading.