The show is very creative, the music is really good, and it is well animated for its time. I am sure it is one of the top romcoms, but it does not deserve the amount of praise it gets, it's purely emotional rather than having a balanced amount philosophical and/or logical traits. The main and support characters made some dumb decisions, even taking into account that the characters are supposed to resemble high school teenagers, they were pretty irrational, many times even contradicting their actions with their own words; an example of this would be
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how Minorin Kushieda lent all her savings to the couple, just as she was saying that she did not agree to their actions and that she would not support them. Although this doesn't affect the quality of the show a lot, it does affect how logical the story is, which is something vital to every immersive tale. Now I will describe a couple of characters, take into account that these are personal preferences based on my personal views on life and humans. The character which ended up being my favorite was Ami Kawashima. Although she was spoiled and arrogant, she was quite realistic and mature, she was able to tell what was going through everybody's mind and caught up quickly in most situations, and despite the appearances, she wanted to make everyone around her happy and content. The character I disliked the most was one of the main characters, Ryuji Takasu. He was indecisive and insecure very often, something which contradicted his dependable, responsible, hard-working, and sentimental nature. Furthermore, he chose the worst girl out of the bunch, the most childish, the one with the most problems, the most irrational, the most selfish, Taiga Aisaka. I would call their romance nothing more than infatuation if it were not for the progressive nature of their relationship, it is rather a "puppy love"; the love between a young couple within a few weeks of getting together, not really true love, more blind affection, immature young love. In conclusion, one cannot help but loving the show since it's so creative and unique, but the nature of some of the characters is unbearable, and it just so happens that these characters are the main characters. This show certainly deserves the popularity but the too often acclaimed characters certainly do not.
