
Supporting characters are more memorable than most other romance animes, they stand out with their personalities and designs. The animation, sound, character design are all ok. Even though I have read the manga, I am surprised seeing the subtle growth of Ichi and his seemingly impossible social problems he has to get over. I watched Tomo-chan, Kaguya, all the big ones.

This anime has been one of the most refreshing romance stories in anime in a while.

But my expectations are pretty low at this point Give Anna some actual standards instead of just falling for the only guy who's remotely nice to her. Redeem the normie chad characters who are douchebags to women. Like, make the girl realize he's been stalking her for weeks and get creeped out, break her trust in him and force him to earn it back honestly. Now, it COULD redeem itself if it actually holds its protagonist to task for ANY of this. It's going to make them get a restraining order Do not get your dating advice from this show: following girls around and looking for opportunities to "help" them, making big sacrifices to help them when they didn't ask for it, and generally obsessing over them is not going to make them like you. Just wish-fulfillment for the "nice guys" of the world who think they know what's best for women and who want to get a pretty girlfriend without actually just talking to them like a normal person. It's either that, or some act of martyrdom where he makes some big sacrifice in front of everyone just to help her in some small way - except, he's always IMMEDIATELY rewarded for it because she instantly recognizes that he's doing it for her and he doesn't end up having to sacrificing anything anyway. Almost every example of him making progress in their relationship is a result of him stalking her, like when he helps her with her work after watching her from behind a bookshelf, or when he's following her home and attempts to assault a boy that's hitting on her. There's just this really creepy, consent-ignoring aspect to the show, where the main character is constantly learning things about his crush and catching peeks of her, without her ever knowing about it. Other men are aggressive chad normies who don't respect women like you do, and you must protect her from them. It's pretty gross honestly, the show is constantly glorifying creepy, niceguy behavior like obsessing over pretty girls you've never spoken to and deciding to "protect" them from a distance, even if it means secretly following

From then on, it's just a straightforward story about a niceguy protagonist who totally knows what's best for the hot girl in his class that he's stalking, as she slowly falls in love with him because he's so fucking nice and caring. The anime drops its "crazy edgelord chuuni MC who wants to kill everyone" act, the entire gimmick of the series, about 5 minutes into the first episode.
