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I'm marking it as not recommended, simply because I personally find it as dull as dish water. I can appreciate that Japan being magpies love to adopt other cultural aspects, but being British, there is nothing so dull as reading about the class system in this country.

So far, there has been no real protagonist, just a collection of snooty people sat around drinking tea. No other story has presented itself as yet. Japan may well be fascinated about etiquette and manners and may well lap this up, but if you are obsessed with this topic, it may be right up your street, but for ... me... it is a hard pass.

My word this is dire. For the first 15 chapters, this is just meh clichés and worn out tropes with very little to keep it together. then between chapters 16 and 20 we have the worst abomination of a story idea that the writer spends so much effort trying to hide his big reveal, that he reduces the IQ of everyone reading it by 50 points. Like so many others in Japanese pop-culture writing Tao Noritaka makes some desperately stupid choices to try and build up to what I assume was supposed to be a big impressive reveal, by making the MC ask stupid and ... pointless questions, while having him not ask the bloody obvious and searching questions we all want to ask, driving readers mad with the apparent uninterested and stupid trash MC. Then when we get to the reveal the MC apparently turns into Sherlock Holmes, by deducing all sorts of facts that were not even hinted at in the previous chapters. Then we get another horrible trait in Japanese pop-culture, in leaving no room for ambiguity in how evil the bad guy is, by having him trying to rape the FMC and get a bi-sexual fellow gang member to rape the MC??? What??? Yes, none of it makes any sense. The bad guy is obsessed with the FMC after she saved him in a fight, but that turns into drugging her, possibly raping her and trying to destroy her reputation, and now trying to gag rape her again? I'd hate to see what he would want to do to people he didn't like? Then we get told that all the bad guys threats were empty? So he wasn't going to gang rape the FMC and the MC if the police hadn't turned up at the most clichéd moment?

Other than that there are countless other continental sized plot holes/total lack of effort to make a cohesive story, like how the MC became an otaku who is only into eroge adult games because three girls had prank confessed to him and totally destroyed his life to the point were he will only consider virgin 2D game characters????? Like having sex is some massive red flag that makes all girls into absolute bitches???

In much the same way the FMC's origin story is equally paper thin and pathetic. Her dad left, taking her sister and her mum got ill, so FMC turns into a crazed MMA fighter who can wipe the floor with anyone despite not having had any training. But because she loses all her friends for breaking a window and shoplifting, she now beats up anyone who looks at her funny????

To think this is up to 17 volumes and over 120 chapters, shows the power of a bit of fan service, because intelligent writing this is not. I'll be dropping it here, as I don't appreciated being taken for an idiot by woeful writing and cartoon tits.

A show so bad, they decided to slip in a "blink and you'll miss it" bit of nudity to try and lure in an audience. The titular blacksmith even admits that our FMC is "A sorry excuse for a knight" in the first episode, and while you may feel generous enough to label her "plucky" or "earnest", if you are smitten by her perky breastplate, she is hapless and useless. She is in constant need of rescue by the blacksmith, who makes single use swords in between his sulking and griping and failing to be an edgelord. I can't remember if they tried to explain ... why he is the way he is in any great detail, as the finer points left my memory as quickly as they had arrived. Other than that, I think there is something masquerading as a plot, some boo-hiss bad guys, some paper thin supporting characters and a half-baked resolution that makes you wish for the return of the part of your life you just wasted watching this. I assume this was intended as Shōjo, but I may be insulting young girls with that assumption.

The half decent animation by Manglobe is sadly wated on this. Please call the vet to put this sorry project out of its misery.

This is a real love it or hate it series. The plot centres on a collage circle club called Euphoria, and it you know your hentai, the name is probably an easter egg and also prophetic in relation to that show. But this club is just a front for a hook-up meet and greet, which in turn is a front for the exploitation of young girls. So it is R18+ and has an awful lot of sexual violence, but as the story goes on, you lose any sympathy for anyone involved, especially the girls who turn up, get raped and then come back again the ... next day!?!? The core of the series is the pornography. It is largely vanilla, with couples performing basic foreplay and vaginal sex, but there is lots of it. People wave the NTR tag about, but it is more the case of anyone and everyone just banging away. The closest thing to NTR is the relationship between the MC and the FMC, who is willing to offer put her body on the line to get information about her missing sister. But don't feel bad for the MC, since he is having the time of his life with lots of other girls. Once you lose all sense of empathy for any of the characters, I have to admit the pressurised deflowering of innocent girls is is very erotic, but only because you know they will be back the next night to go again. So with it being devoid of reality, I view that aspect as roleplay, since no one is getting hurt and everyone is lining back up to do it again. If there were in-story consequences to the violence I would have a different opinion altogether. That being said, it is absolute trash, there is no denying that, but if you want some titillation and you are not shy about fantasy sexual violence, you may enjoy it in passing

I feel that the author mainly wanted to explore Okinawa and the romance was a bolted on plot device they didn't really care about. The story simply plucks random and unrelated situations that can lead to explaining an aspect of Okinawan culture. On to this there is a mildest sprinkling of bashful flirting. However, there is absolutely no character development, our MC is a carboard cut out that is a bit dense and gormless, while very amiable, he has no personality. We have never come to know anything of his internal workings, other than the fact that he likes this one girl, but we don't ... know why he likes her.. Is it just physical attraction? Is it because she is a fire cracker, brimming with enthusiasm? We have no clue. The rest are the same surface deep interchangeable anybodys. The only relationship we delve into is the one between the childhood friend girls, but even that is only used to reenforce the understanding of the cultural reference. For me, the only character with any real motivation is Yae Agena, who wants to help her friend find love, but again, she must only have about 5 minutes of screentime throughout the entire series. I think my point is proven by the fact that the character with the biggest screentime is the mascot Shiisa that explains the cultural references. In the manga, it is fine, because the reference is usually explained within one panel, but in the anime, the cultural explanations can take over half the episode.
To enjoy this you really have to fill in so many details yourself, and maybe there is something to the expression of less is more, as your mind does so much of the work, but for me, there are far too man holes for my imagination to fill in the gaping gaps. As for the cultural references... I don't really care. from word plays and misunderstandings to the natural history of the island, I am so "meh" I am not here to be educated. The title points to human relationships and romance, not the culture, so we are cheated of our expectations.

This is a weird one. I give it 8/10 but I have to categorise it as mixed feelings, since I love it, but it is flawed.
Where to begin? I love the story. He pushes and pushes and she blocks and parries his advances. Then "because... reasons..." He stops and pulls back. He stops calling her by her first name, which all throws her for a loop. However because of his ceasefire, she has time to contemplate the MC shaped hole in her life and even identifies how his harassment helped change her for the better. She concludes that she misses him and starts her own ... faltering pursuit of him. In a world where most ideas get recycled to death, I've not come across another one like this. Yes there are other break-up and get back together stories, but this one has that unique angle of not breaking up, because they were never together.

I really like the entire female cast of the English dub, but Gabriel Regojo, who voices our MC often irks me with his over annunciation of small grunts and groans. Is it his choices, or is it the script? I don't know, but the overall effect is that he sounds like he has Tourette's minus the swearing. I like his actual voice and he otherwise gives a very rich and interesting performance. Also, the dub often rewrites the story. The plot of him stopping using her first name is gone completely, he just calls her Aika throughout the whole show. Other times phrases are changed, which deflects the narrative away from the original. So watching both subs and the dub will result in different experiences. I find myself cherry picking from both and creating a unique story of my own.

I don't like the execution of the story. At the beginning he stops pursuing her. He starts attracting other women and she starts getting jealous and wants him back at the end, but the 12 episodes this story is spread across is filled with some weird and random plots. While I would not call it a harem, he does, for one reason or another start to draw in other girls, but these relationships are never filled out or explored to any real depth. With many of them, the idea of them actually being interested in him romantically is all very ambiguous. There is also a disparity between the age of the characters and some of their dialogue. With Sajou psychoanalysing some situations like a professional psychologist and certainly not a 17 year old young man. I know this is a common issue with many stories be they WN, LN, manga or anime. Many writers fail to make their dialogue age related, so nothing new here.

As I said at the start, in the absence of any other show doing this story but better, I often rewatch this flawed work and I really enjoy it.

Oh Japan, why do you do this? We have a cookie-cutter, off the shelf MC, who is rather basic and mid, and then we have two separate arcs that would have each made good stories. A. a run of the mill high school romance, which could have fluffed out 60 chapters by either keeping it sweet, or by cycling through all the old classics of yore that we have seen in countless high school romances. Fireworks News year's temple, valentines... etc... Or B. the far more interesting childhood friend arc, with her stalker-esque pursuit of the boy she lost. Which would have been far ... more interesting to follow and explore. But no, this is Japan, so we have both smashed together to bring chaos to our MCs life, with a blob of siscon/loli on top. Japan has two real issues with their pop culture fiction, an absolute lack of subtlety and a total unawareness of the adage "less is more"
Add to this noisy mess, there is another story of why their extended family loath his father and his marriage to his mother and the strained relationship with their auntie. Which could be a good counter story to either A or B. But to have it layered on top of both is just noisy. Additionally, all these threads are in our face and it is all very break-neck pacing.

Overall it seems well planned out and the mysteries are building and there are several interesting characters who I want to know more about, I just wished the pace was dialled back and we had time to breathe.

Hating on this is like hating a small puppy. It's cute and harmless, even if it has peed on the floor and chewed your newspaper. Depending on your personal mood, you can enjoy this pointless fluff, or you can hate it for being a waste of time, energy and effort. This show will be a mirror to your soul in that moment. Let's be honest, this show is slim pickings and you are only going to get out of it what you put in. Like food, not every meal you eat will fill you with joy or change your view on the world, some meals ... simply fill you up and give you the energy to go on about your day.

As a production, the animation, soundtrack and vocal performances are all slightly above average. The characters are cliché off the shelf, cookie cutter, stereotypes. The story is woefully paper thin and often ridiculous. Like when the house's actual owner comes out of an underground bunker and demands that our pair act out scenes to stimulate her writing creativity, which is just plain bonkers. The series is made up of such pointless, ill thought out vignettes, but at the heart of it is our fledgeling couple, and while it is difficult to plot progression through such an incoherent episodic season, it is just nice to see them getting to know each other.

I can't put my finger on why I like them. She is just your typical mousey, small and quiet soul with not much character going on, but she is sweet and endearing in her own way, while he is a brash, confident recluse who hates the injustice of Charlotte's life and can't help saving her against her will. Look at it like a childhood cartoon like Scooby Doo. There is never any character development over all the decades it has been on TV, but you still have characters you like for reasons you don't know. These two just fit together. Each is what the other needs and that alone feeds my soul and brings me back once in a while to visit old friends. But I am a hopeless romantic and my opinion is probably skewed, but I am what I am. :-)

I'm going to recommend this one, but only just. My issues are not serious enough to claim I have mixed feelings over it. It is a harmless run of the mill harem show and it does what it says on the tin. What I like about it is the way Natsukawa keeps dipping into Eita's notebook and his unending embarrassment as she reads from it. (I'm a simple man)...
I'm not a fan of the art style. I think Natsukawa in particular doesn't look very human and as such it distracts me. If you told me she was actually a mermaid for example, I'd believe that. ... This flaw also makes her far less emotive than other characters, which detracts from the story. Is she meant to be a cold fish? The overarching story is not very good, but it makes up for it with the details and emotions of individual scenes. Plus we also have the fall-out of it being a harem, and having the majority of viewers being disappointed with who the MC chooses, but that never seems to stop Japan using this trope, so they obviously don't care about the outcome. Overall, watch it, enjoy it, tick it off your list and move on.

It's totally daft, this is not high art, it is a harem with fan service. The wit is sparkling and it had me chuckling many times over. Our MC is no beta simp. While he may look away out of courtesy, he doesn't get nose bleeds or faints. He is happy to look at the female form but he is not pervy about it, so he is quite refreshing. His harem of four (maybe five) is small by modern standards. They are all uniquely different. so pick your fave and place your bets (mine is Karen). So it gets points for not being crude and ... obvious with the fan service, with most of the "smut" being suggestive dialog that makes you giggle. For me it is a show with two sides, a warm hearted romance with the harem with the very witty side of the culture shock of the school girls learning about the commoner's world. it is all handled deftly and I really enjoyed it.