I watched this as a joke because I saw the plot, and I had to see how bad this was. I was bored okay? It's quarantine... Essentially in the first episode our main character, Natsuo, who is barely developed, finds a random girl, Rui, who asks him to have sex with her... Already a completely contrived and unrealistic moment for forced hentai. Our protagonist feels bad about it because he has a crush on his teacher, Hina... Somehow it's going to get worse.
Moving along the rest of the pilot, this is mostly cliched and mediocre side characters and school scenes that have no thought put into them and are incredibly boring. None of the humor hits, unless it was unintentional from the terribly storyline. Probably 90% of this series is filler. There's nothing original, nothing good, literally everything is mediocre to bad. There is no direction, boring character designs, still shots, minimal movement, except the hentai scenes of course...
The big twist comes, and it turns out that Natsuo's dad is getting married to the mother of Hina and Rui... This is the teacher student threesome incest harem anime.
The characters are actually so bad I can barely describe them. Natsuo has no characters traits except he wants to be a novelist, and likes Hani. Rui is the quiet girl, if it wasn't evident by her dark hair and monotonous voice. In the second episode she makes Natsuo go to the bathroom while they're both naked because the episode needed some hentai material! Hani is just a teacher, she's nicer and lighter, but with a dark secret. It turns out she's having an affair with a married guy. There's some scenes that are supposed to be sad, at least I think because of the generic sad piano music in the background... just bad melodrama. There are other characters too, but mostly useless and indescribable. There's the parents which could've been explored seeing their children being in a relationship, but nope. There is the offensive gay stereotype character who is used for unfunny jokes. He has some yakuza backstory that doesn't matter. We also have one of Natsuo's friends, Fumiya, who is literally just there for exposition.
In the third episode our protagonist finds out about Hina's affair and confronts her about it, and then assaults her with a kiss, so she slaps him, which seems like the only reasonable action done by any of the characters. Just kidding cause then she starts making out with him... The episode ends setting up Natsuo and Rui trying to stop Hina's affair. Then there's one of the stupidest most forced moments of melodrama ever... So basically these geniuses Natsuo and Rui were gone for 2 days, so their parents were about to get divorced, and Hina is sad an apologizes. There's the cliche piano music, crying, and stupid writing you'd come to expect from this anime so far.
Episode 4 begins with these characters trying to do their plan, the idiotic plan being calling the guy pretending to be Hina to break up. We get forced shower scene with Hina for the horny people. Plot twist! While Rui, Natsuo, and Fumiya discuss the plan in a bar, Hina and her boyfriend arrive! Here we go with more contrived melodrama. They discuss everything, while they get served some pasta with sausages eerily cut to seem like cocks... I can't make this up. They argue with the sad piano music, Rui throws water on the guy, and everyone leaves. This is probably the best episode so far because there's actual development given, with Hina's relationship, but there's also this useless flashbacks to Natsuo's mother that don't really do anything. The episode ends with Hina breaking up with her boyfriend, and it's like it never happened... basically it was pointless.
The next episode introduced us to Momo, yet another useless character. She's just the nice ignorant character. Apparently she's been in 30 relationships. That's all what we know about her. Now there's tension because Rui has to compete with Momo for Natsuo's affection... Rui is sick, so Natsuo has to take care of her, and there's more sexual tension built, they really want you to keep watching with the incest baiting. Then we get the greatest scene in the series, where Natsuo has to put a suppository in Rui's bum... I knew this show would be weird, but I wasn't expecting this... I was laughing throughout and then when Rui said "wrong one" when he tried to put it in I lost it. Then we get a conversation between Momo and Natsuo which almost leads to sex. We get the obligatory tiddy shot, but then Natsuo notices cuts on her wrists! Is this show going to have depth?! Nope, Momo is literally forgotten for the rest of the series.
The next episode we get introduced to Miu who is another one or none dimensional character. She's useless. In addition to Reiji, who is a teacher. At least he helps out with Natsuo's goal later. This episode was just boring, nothing really happens, I guess he kisses Miu, but it means nothing.
Episode 7 shows Hina explaining why she got together with the guy in an affair. Coincidentally he was her teacher. Natsuo confesses his feelings for Hina at a beach, so she takes him into the water to commit double suicide... I really can't make this up. They actually tried to give Hina more characterization with her father being getting divorced, but it's just so shallow and thoughtless. Then Rui comes and she wants to kiss Natsuo... so they do. To end the episode for no reason we get Hina pleasuring herself and of course Natsuo watches. So far the only sexual stuff that had plot relevance was in the pilot and that was already forced. It's all filler. I should've dropped this series.
Episode 8 just has this random blonde guy and Natsuo stopping this underwear thief, and then some conflict between Rui and Natsuo because he was apparently trying to set her up with the blonde guy, which leads them to kiss and then Hina walks in of course. This causes Hina to move out.
This next episode brings back Hina's ex, but for no real reason. More melodrama with the characters missing Hina. Hina gives Natsuo a key to her new house, so he goes, they kiss. If it seems like I'm skipping a lot from these episodes, it's because I am. The rest of the scenes are more garbage filler.
We're in the last 3 episodes. Natsuo and Hina are actually fully pursuing this relationship. He breaks his leg, which causes them to be apart. Oh no! Now Rui is glad she can spend more time with him. We get another obligatory bath scene with Rui and Natsuo to help him with his broken leg. Natsuo says he's going to a friend's house, but it's actually Hina's house. Then we almost get another bath scene with Natsuo and Hina! They decide not to but they almost have sex. Plot twist! Rui comes and sees Natsuo is at Hina's home and runs off crying. This is the brilliant storytelling and character development ive come to expect. Everything is basically revealed now. More melodrama, more contrivances, more filler... just wonderful character development.
This is the big episode. Rui is depressed for obvious reasons, so the best way to show her depressed is in a bathtub! Also Rui is "going to make an effort to dislike" Natsuo. Natsuo get's some tiny characterization since he wants to become an author. Now there's a school trip so there's an excuse to have all the female characters in bikinis. Hina wants to break up for Rui, but Natsuo wants to get serious. Guess what happens? Epic hentai time... Plot twist! While fireworks were going on someone conveniently managed to take a picture of them kissing in their apartment!
The finale. Somehow you think it couldn't possibly get worse... Hina is decides to leave the school after her relationship with Natsuo is discovered by the principal. She meets with one of the teachers, and they even try to justify the relationship because love... Natsuo goes to Hina's house but she's gone and leaves a note explaining that she needed to leave to keep them secret and that he should move on and become a novelist. Top 10 saddest anime moments! One of my favorite moments, we see Natsuo go outside and scream. It was literally a still frame, and some screeching. I burst out laughing. Natsuo is depressed. We get one of the only decent scenes where his friend tells him to stop wallowing and move on because she did it so he can follow his dream. Depressed Natsuo decides to write a novel. Once he goes he gives it to his teacher, Reiji secretly submits it for literary awards. Can you guess what happens? He gets the first prize of the amateur division. He gets 300k yen. Then he goes home and it seems PLOT TWIST! Hina is back, but it's just Rui with a wig for no reason. So now how do we end this brilliant series? With Rui and Natsuo about to have sex...
In conclusion this anime made me feel something I wasn't expecting. Pain that someone wrote this, animated this, etc. and are getting paid. Apparently the manga is better, but there's no way im checking it out. I only feel pain and regret. I wasted like 5 hours of my life. This is essentially marketable hentai. To be fair there were a few funny moments... like the suppository scene... oh god. There's really nothing good about this series. Everything is horrible. I have nothing else to say, I don't want to waste more time. I understand some people enjoying this, but I actually watch Anime for the storytelling and characters. I'm not watching for a teacher student threesome incest harem. This is a 2/10 because technically speaking it could've been worse, but this is definitely the worst anime I've watched thus far.
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