A dissertation/research project are the most time-consuming things a student can do and as you have the chance is chose the topic for yourself often you should try to do something that require very little to do. This lot researched love a very time-consuming subject matter so I appreciate that effort.

Fundamentally the story is setting out to see if love can be quantified into a number or data and while that is okay from an overarching plot point of view the whole time is spent quantify anything. Don’t forget about the first part of that sentence the overall plot is about quantify love and in order to do that they need to subject themselves (and others for better results) to finding out about love and this is done especially well making the whole story feel like one solid piece which is great. But the story gets a little bit carried away with this and quantifies and explains nearly everything and it’s mostly completely unnecessary. For example one explained every single detail of what happened in the episode before, while insightful it explained normal things that you would pick up in any other romance-comedy and then explain the exact same thing at least three more times (this make me feel a little stupid). During the show, a skit featuring a character ‘Rikehuma’ who is a bear takes charge and explains the science behind some of the terms (jargon) and scientific theories used in the show (shout out to Momo Asakura for some great voice acting for Rikehuma). This is a nice feature overwise a lot of the ideas the story is using is lost and an already hard to understand story would be even harder to understand (there is a couple of moments I would question whether it’s using a real theory or making it up, there are grey areas). This need to quantify everything does work as it’s building to a larger picture, but I would like it to focus more on that than stop in the middle of a episode to explain to me some random scientific theory that would be used again. I think this part of the story is nicely thought out but is done too many times during the series that dampens any final conclusion.

As it’s romantic comedy you need for the show to be funny and/or romantic while this has that is not funny and/or romantic all the time. This some from the fact is story mostly uses the same setup in both the comedy aspect by having a character perform (mainly) one gag each and they all serve a purpose in the romantic aspect too but again only a single part is used. A different way to think about it would be if a chef only cooked the same meal over and over again, they would be really good at cooking that meal but after a while you would get fed up with it. The show is the same as the ideas is uses are nice, but they just go stale or nowhere. The start is good, and the end of the show is good but it’s largely the middle is little dry. That said overall is not bad if you don’t mind a few repeated jokes and a slow romantic build-up (very slow) as the start sets up the whole show and the end takes everything in the past episodes and uses all of it to make a nice last episode. The humour is a little hard to understand as it’s using a workplace humour that given the setting (scientists) very few are going to understand it (que the explanations) that while it can be funny I think to would be better if it was toned down just a little bit. The humour biggest problem is that there is a lot of set up of a joke meaning a lot of time is spent on something with little payoff and the romance has similar problems too. When something new or different appears is really well though out (much like the whole story) but you get to a point you get to see that again and then again, which can make the more stronger moments for the romance feel lost and without and impact where in fact they had a strong impact on the whole story at large. Although the romantic elements of the show happen but oddly the show doesn’t really highlight it you have to pay attention to little things in the series to see that, so the romantic aspect is fairly solid because of that but it’s not that obvious. It’s just that while something might be good it’s unlikely to still be good after repeating it several times, but it is well thought out.

It properly goes with saying but all the main cast are scientists at Saitama University all studying in various fields all in science when one day randomly they set out to see if they could prove love. As stated above all the characters have a single gag and a role to play as the characters mainly don’t really move on from there but it works. It’s only sticks in its own world, again nothing wrong with that but during parts of the story when they are outside their own world it feels a little stereotypical (one character is presented as a villain for no reason at all). Characters play their part well but after a while they can become a bit boring and annoying, but again much like in the last section while you have is issue, they are still very well thought out and theirs some good character design.

Despite all that the series really isn’t that bad. It doesn’t standout for either the comedy or the romance (as explained above) nor it did anything differently. Due to that is a fairly solid show for every bad point there is a good point for it and because it doesn’t standout from being that different (in essence all series are different even if they are the same overall) with a solid main plot, a nice opening and ending sequence, a set of strong well-crafted characters and well thought out story and humour. It’s become a very enjoyable show to watch. But due to respective nature that starts from the first episode and it could do with a bit more romance and self-restraint when using jargon it’s a bit lost. Overall it’s a good show but not without faults.