“Love through a prism” This anime is undoubtedly one of the best romantic animes of all time! The slow burn relationship, the plot, the animation?!

I fell in love with England, London while watching this..

This anime made me rethink of many things...

1. How deep connections with friends and family help us build our lives.
2. How important our dreams are, and that we should always go for it.
3. It's prove me that's Love has many forms and True love can wait.

I fell in love with this anime because of dynamic slow burn relationship Kit Church and Lily Ichijoin have~!

The music plays an important role as well. The soundtrack is subtle yet beautiful, supporting emotional moments without ever feeling intrusive, and it fits the tone of the story very well.

The voice acting deserves special mention. Atsumi Tanezaki and Koki Uchiyama give sincere and amazing performances that bring authenticity to their characters. Their acting, especially toward the later episodes, adds emotional weight and made many scenes feel genuinely moving.

First, the story is genuinely unique. It’s a coming-of-age romance set in early 20th-century England, which already sets it apart from the usual high-school romance formula. The characters are mature, layered, and refreshingly not the typical 16-year-old protagonists. The emotional conflicts feel grounded, and the drama is portrayed with subtlety and... the concept alone is gorgeous. Love isn’t just a feeling here, it’s refracted, distorted, intensified. Every relationship feels like light hitting glass at a different angle. Some bonds glow warm and steady. Others scatter into sharp, blinding fragments.

Lili (our Japanese exchange student who has to be top of her class or get dragged back home for an arranged marriage) and Kit (the classic cold, talented rich boy, who slowly melts) simply "just work" (don't fix something that's not broken type of dynamic). Their relationship builds through paintbrushes, late-night sketching sessions, awkward silences that turn into meaningful ones, and tiny moments where you can literally feel the shift. No screaming confessions in the rain. Just two people slowly figuring out they can't live without each other while also chasing their art dreams. It's refreshing as hell.

When we look at a painting, without knowing who the artist is or his story we have the power to decide what the subject is, for who the painting was aimed, and the reasons behind it. Taking aside our creativity we can also just pay attention to the techniques, that's what Lili did with Kit Church painting initially. After getting to know him, she (and us) began to swim in his painting, searching for answers (same questions that Kit kept reflecting in his art, desperately) and finding the missing freedom (obviously art isn't static so the way we can perceive it and the way it's expressed can change and that's what makes it more captivating in the end).
Not only in the course of events the paintings had a drastic and necessary change, they were also pure containers of human emotions. And knowing the life behind those brush strokes made them more powerful, impactful for the story.
Attention. Not only paintings, sculptures too. And obviously we cannot forget to mention the London environment. The pleasant chaos of the city, the lovely silence of outskirts, the sounds of people moving, the music of the boots touching the flour, the classic music, the shapes of the sky, the beauty of nature and its time. The art explodes into the gestures, the words, the glances of the characters.