A Sign of Affection

Let's start with the goods:

• The characters design who actually look like grown up, (pretty grown up;).
• The setting: in college. I want to see more stories that set place there, enough with the HS drama.
• The opening and the animation are also nice.

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Now for the bad:__

___Yuki_. Hear me out, she was the reason I even started this show. I'm always excited to see disabled characters espacially when they have the main role.__

Yuki is a 20 yo student college who happens to be deaf. At first, the story digs a little into her past. How she grew up in school that was for deaf students only and from that one episode, you can tell she wants to see more. And that's about it. We know nothing more about Yuki even after 8 episodes. She's cute, deaf, wants to see more of the world and in love.

What I love about slice of life show is that they allow us to see more of the characters, they're supposed to be characaters driven stories but this show is not. It's romance driven, in a very puerile way. It's all about Yuki and her crush for Itsuomi: how she can't look at him without blushing, can't stay alone with him in the same room etc...Mind you, she's 19. What's the point of making a show with characters who are supposed to be young adults if you make them act like middle school characters?
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Just like, what's the point of having a lead character who is deaf if you're not going to explore it?__
Her being deaf serves more her love interest Itsuomi, than her.
Itsuomi had to learn sign languages and through her disability, gained a new perspective on life (how shes' "pure" because she can't ear nasty things people said...that's was weird for him to say but anyway). The show barely touches upon about the basic : Yuki. For instance, her being deaf - how it tooks her away from the "real" world when she had to go to a school for deaf students only. How her own parents don't know sign language, how she couldn't find a job because of her disability, yet we never see how it affects her. Surely her own family not making an effort to learn sign language when her neighbor did, had to have some impact on her, right? I guess we'll never find out because it was never brought up. It only serve Itsuomi character - cause he's gonna learn it for her which makes him looks even more perfect for the audience.

The characters looked good, but have zero indivualities, or plots that allow them to grow which is so frustrating because the ideas are brought up by the writers - they just chose to ignore them. (I still can't believe we didn't see how not getting a job had mentally shaken Yuki?!). Instead of building characters and the romance, the show is only about flat characters and a rushed romance, which it makes it boring very quickly and worst is that they used disability as a prop for the male lead.