I went in with such high expectations for Domestic Girlfriend, just for it to be a complete and total shit show, dumpster fire, etc. This show was trash and belongs in a landfill. I need you all to know not to waste your time watching it. I watched it because I had heard good things and it has an amazing opening song (which happens to be the only amazing thing about it🙃).
Epsiode 1 wasn't as bad as it was odd, but I never drop a show after the first episode so I kept going, and oh do I regret it. As the episodes went on it got more and more weird and confusing and the plot was all over the place. To my utter dismay, as I continued to watch, it got increasingly worse instead of better. Don’t even ask me why I sat through it all and watched it, because I cannot give you an answer. There were multiple times I thought to myself “Why don’t you just drop this now before it gets worse?”, but I kept convincing myself that it would eventually improve and redeem itself. Was I wrong about that? Yes… very… this show is the reason why I no longer have any optimism🤩
I remember I saw a comment about the show on Youtube that said, it's an anime with a hentai plot, and they were so right. That’s basically all it is, and that wouldn’t have even been such an issue except for the fact that the show was so all over the place. Almost none of it even made sense! It gave me a headache to sit through all 20 something minutes of each episode. It seemed as though they were introducing random new issues for no reason and then just decided to end it... like wtf...
Regarding the cast, 2 of the main characters (Natsuo & Hina) were unbearable; they were both so childish and dumb it hurt to see. The other main character, Rui, was cool enough though. The one tolerable part of the show was the character Masaki Kobayashi (Marie). He was funny and blunt and the scenes that he was in were the best parts of the show. Oh and I guess the animation was pretty nice, so there was that too, but that's all the good I have to say about it :/ My favorite part of the episodes was when the opening and/or ending songs came on... I wish I was kidding.
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This wasn't originally included because I forgot about it, but the incest... oh and the pedophilia! It's funny that the show was just so stupid and bad, I completely forgot about 2 of the worst factors in the show💀 I mean the whole step siblings thing was whatever, weird and cringey but manageable, cuz it wasn't even close to the worst thing in the show. The pedophilia with the teacher to student relationship wasn't it at all though. She might have been a young teacher but he was 16... c'mon now, that's just not right... but by the end they really tried to convince us it was all a part of a regular little love story that pulls on your heartstrings... like no.Overall, the show is a disgrace to the romance, ecchi, comedy, & drama genres and to anime in general. I had to rant cuz it was just an awful show, if I could unwatch it and get my 4 hours of wasted time back I happily would.
Thank you for the beautiful review by @yxckson which inspired me to make this, my very first review here (also you guys should go check theirs out^ it's a great, high quality read).
also enjoy this collage of Domestic Girlfriend slander I made a while ago due to how annoyed I was with seeing people praise the show!
