In the realm that is the romcom genre there is a lot of trash, and when I read the synopsis of Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu I was sure it was going to be another one of those, like, it looked absolutely ridiculous, but after watching the first episode I could gladly say that I was wrong, the series was actually funny and even endearing.

It is pretty impressive how well this series manages to show the feelings that some teenagers have during their years on school, loving a person and feeling as if the world revolved around that other person and how innocently one can love when you are young showcasing how naturally love can form during that age, sure, you can argue that a “10/10 girl won’t fall for a “3/10” boy, which may be kinda true, but the point is how this gets developed and it is done very well, going slowly from Ichikawa feeling that he is just misunderstanding what he feels about Yamada until accepting it and even telling it to another person even if he is embarrassed about it comes out pretty naturally. This has multiple misunderstandings like many romcoms, however, here they actually talk about them and fix them like normal people and not stretching it out until it gets tiresome. Also, the romance actually advances even if little by little, so you don’t have to wait a lot to see them going on something akin to date that isn’t related to some kind of festival, this doesn’t try to hide how Ichikawa feels almost every time even including lewd thoughts, so you get to see every side of him. It is also nice to see Yamada, despite still being this incredibly beautiful girl, she behaves airheaded and she shows that a lot of times, she can mess up but always tries her best with people, she can be awkward at times with the way of her eating habits, it is actually kind of funny when she gave the candy wrappers to Ichikawa for him to put in the trash, that kind of stuff actually happens.

My biggest problem with the series is that the art sometimes looks like a Cloverwoks’ series halfway through the season with all those blurry backgrounds, sometimes it gets irritating, otherwise it is nothing special to talk about. But what I’m surprised the most is Kensuke Ushio’s participation in this, and let me tell you, the music turns out great with him on board, I really love when the title card with “karte” appears on screen because the music fits really well.

It is pretty surprising how the series seems like it is going to be a cringefest with how edgy Ichikawa was during the first episode, but not only that didn’t happen, but it turned out to be an actually good romcom to watch.

Thank you for reading.