One thing that certainly made this rating so high is the character development. Mainly of the side characters, Nicole and Yuusuke. Nicole might have seemed a little overdramatic at the first glance, and as unpleasing as it might have looked like, going further and further into the story just showed how much she actually cares for Runa, and her behaviour and prejudice was caused by her experience with the ex-boyfriends which have already hurt Runa. She ended up getting along with Ryuuto pretty well and realizing he is indeed the one Runa was looking for, for such a long time. What should have been more fleshed out though is the relationship between Yuusuke and Akari. With the story being heavily focused on the main characters after Yuusuke's rejected confession in episode 10 at the school festival, it would be nice to have some elaboration on it, after seeing how Akari adored Yuusuke when he got over his depression, started working out and came back to school in a considerably more masculine shape. It reminded Akari of a popular K-pop singer, and ended up falling for him. Ren on the other hand ended up being the least prominent character of the nerd trio. Throughout the 12 episodes he got nowhere with his romance life, which has been seen to be demolished after he chased Nicole and saw her getting back to his ex-boyfriend, Shuugo. One character I didn't like getting so much screen time was Maria. She seemed like a nice girl when she first introduced herself in episode 3 (teased at the end of episode 2), but it only went downhill after she exposed that she's actually a twin sister of Runa's. Maria ended up being the main cause of the series' misunderstandings, which only hurt Ryuuto and Runa's blossoming relationship, what got even worse with her miserable and cheap excuses for the disgusting actions towards Ryuuto. The rock-bottom and the reason why she quickly ended up on my "Hated" list is when she tried to have sex with Ryuuto by dressing up as Runa, and not even denying it and keeping to persuade Ryuuto to do it with her long after he exposed her.
Runa ended up being my most favourite character of the series, by far. Her heartbreaking moments of realizing that she finally found a decent and love-worthy boyfriend were amazing and really tried to make me cry. It was really sad, seeing Runa's distorted point of view of a healthy relationship, especially when she invited Ryuuto to have sex with her, the day they started dating, because she thought it was normal.
I'm not judging the animation of these types of romance anime (or any SoL series, really) strictly. It was just average, but good enough to the point it didn't affect my watching experience. The character designs by Yousuke Itou ended up very cute. A few specific mention-worthy moments are the scenes where characters get really overwhelmed with the amount of information they receive, this was initially seen from Ryuuto's side to Runa, since as a true nerd, when a topic he knew a lot about came up, his mouth couldn't stop running. Later in the series, in episode 8, this could be seen at the restaurant between Nicole, Akari, Runa, Yuusuke, Ren and Ryuuto.
Another scene was in episode 12, when Ryuuto was training his introduction speech to Runa's father, on a statue. When Runa suddenly came, she scared Ryuuto to the point...he became a scarecrow (lol).
I found the eyecatch illustrations really cute and fitting. One of my most favorite ones was in episode 12.
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