I’ve been beating around the bush for a bit when it comes to writing this review. To be honest, it took me longer than it should have to watch this anime. Some of it is due to watching other anime that’s currently airing, but most of it is due to laziness. I didn’t have much motivation to finish this anime. Not that it’s bad or anything, it’s just kind of boring to me. I’m not the target audience for Kimi ni Todoke. With that being said, I’m still going to review the show.

Kimi ni Todoke follows Sawako, a girl who is cursed to look like Sadako from The Ring. At the beginning of the anime, she is friendless. That changes when Kazehaya, her classmate and most popular guy in her grade, goes out of his way to talk and become friends with her. She also befriends ‘delinquents’ Yano and Chizuru, along with the absent-minded Ryu. As with any shoujo series (or anything in the general direction of romance), the plot of the anime advances by misunderstandings forming and being resolved.

Watching Kimi ni Todoke felt like I was watching someone else’s dream. While the anime doesn’t have any metaphysical properties, it imitates it with how slow Sawako speaks and thinks. It makes it seem like we’re in a world of her creation, while in fact, we’re just seeing her interpretation of the world around her. Her naivety turns a world that has been very harsh to her into one where she’s constantly misunderstood. While Kazehaya and the girls becoming friends with her helps to turn around the rumors about her, they also start up other ones.

Kimi ni Todoke suffers from the same problem that most other romance anime does--it’s stuck in neutral most of the anime. While I know why it’s like this, it still annoys me that I have to watch two people fumble around with their feelings for 25 episodes. Good thing is that Kimi ni Todoke is not just about Sawako’s romantic mishaps. The anime also explores Yano’s and Chizuru’s romantic life, which honestly is more interesting than Sawako’s. There’s some good comedy in there also, especially any scene with Sawako trying to talk to someone who doesn’t know her. I should be fair though, the misunderstandings that make Sawako’s love life go nowhere aren’t THAT frustrating, it’s just annoying from time to time.

I think the worst thing about Kimi ni Todoke was that it was boring to watch. I took my time finishing this anime since I didn’t have any drive to watch more than one episode a day on most days. While watching several airing anime can take some time I would have to watch this away, it still was at the bottom of my list to watch. Like I said at the beginning, maybe this anime isn’t meant for someone like me. Kimi ni Todoke isn’t bad--it can be quite funny and the characters are charming. It just isn’t something that pulls me in and gets me to watch episode after episode. I would only recommend it if you’re into shoujo anime, otherwise, you might find it a drag to watch.