Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?
There's something so frustrating with a story like this. Early on I felt annoyed watching them interact and then have internal monologues about how much they like each other, but assumed the other didn't like them. I know we all went through this, and it is semi relatable, but to have this go on for 3 of 12 episodes was frustrating. Bringing in Enomoto as well sorta throws the story in a 'pick a girl' direction, which comes with love triangles, again this is fine! However, where it gets super annoying is that for so long Himari hides how she truly feels, you end up hoping Enomoto just wins because why would you ever want Himari to win when she doesn't put in any effort! You are young, and you don't really understand your feelings, that can be understood, but Enomoto understands she likes Yuu, and is trying her hardest to win him over, and Himari just sorta rolls over and takes it for so long until she finally snaps - and in this moment you are thinking HEY FINALLY WE ARE GONNA GET SOME FIGHT BACK, but instead she just try's to turn everything back - Its progression of the relationship that I feel is probably my main annoyance. If you take ep 1 Himari and ep 10 Himari you wouldn't hardly know the difference. The blitz to the finish line just didn't stick with me.
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You have 12 episodes to build up 3 characters and make me fall in love with them, instead I feel like I was strung along waiting for this WOW moment to finally come, but at every turn we are just met with BWA-HA!! There are cute moments in this anime, and there are moments I really enjoyed, it just felt so dull trying to cheer on Himari since she just permanently wants to not accept her own reality.
The side characters were really good, Shinji is a W instigator, and Hibari was an awesome older brother - I found his moments always leaving a smile on my face. There was potential for a really great story here, I just feel like it was masked by a lot of misunderstandings and BWA-HA moments brushing off the could be really good dialogue to replace it with funny gag moments. I didn't think it was bad, just felt like it was off the mark for me.
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Yuu's business as well was a heavy focus this entire anime, I really enjoyed watching him work, I wish we could have had an episode dedicated to him making these items, and sharing the process with us. We had a lot of small moments of him working, but I feel like we could have benefited from him and Enomoto creating the items, and spending the day doing it, episodes given to losing heroines always get me in the feels later in a story.
