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I love it, 10/10. You may notice that this is the second anime in a row that is a romance anime, yes, I love romance anime, there will be more of these, also if you know any good ones please recommend them and where I can find them.

OK, so it’s literally not a joke when I say this has become my comfort anime. My father was in the hospital after having a heart attack when I found this anime I was looking for anything on Netflix to take my mind off the situation and I sound this show.

And despite how tense my home life was on new years, I was genuinely laughing out loud at this anime.

I’ve always sort of hated romcom movies they all have the same plot and premise, average MC, suddenly becomes the apple of the eye of some perfect person in western beauty, storms, and financial status, and they almost get married until the MC changes their mind last minute and goes for the best friend or the annoying person that they lk hated for most of the movie.

But anime Romance is always different, there are some tropes that remain the same matter what, and some episodes that remain the same, no matter what. But there’s an actual story there.

If you want one, that is truly wholesome, I would recommend The Fragrant Flowers Bloom with Dignity, I will most likely make a post about that one soon since I’ve watched it very recently. I just wasn’t doing this series yet.

If you want a romcom, that is genuinely actually funny and you will fucking laugh, Romantic Killer and Monthly girls Nuzaki-kun is the way to go

If you want a romance, that is truly heart, wrenching, and tragic, and will make you cry, the silent voice.

But this one is great. L definitely one of my top three favorite romcoms I can’t pick between Witch watch, Romantic Killer and Monthly girls Nuzaki-kun, they all have a special place in my heart and honestly match for first place. Komi can’t communicate gets second.

What makes this anime so good in my opinion is several things first of all. It’s genuinely funny. There is fantasy and I really love fantasy.

Although I am very picky about it, I love historical fantasy. Pieces do you like some monster fantasy and fiction. But it could go either way I like the concept of werewolves and vampires, but more often than not. It comes out, kind of cringe, especially when you combine those with romance

It gives me twilight war flashbacks

But this show executed well. The four main character boys are all descendants of monsters, but they’re not cringe. They’re just average teenage boys and it’s more like they have superpowers instead of ….twilight ….

I’m also not really into witches, to me when I think of witches I think of history. And culture.. and misogyny.

I don’t really like the concept of magic and fantasy as much as I love it as much as I love a monster as much as I love superpowers and the paranormal and ghost and historical fiction, I don’t really like magic. The reason why I don’t like magic is cause I’m autistic and I feel like the laws of physics are fucking necessary for me to be able to digest a story. I cannot go in to this fictional world, no matter how good your world building is if the laws of physics don’t apply if math does not apply. What are the limitations of these people who can practice magic it makes no sense to me. Where are the limits people???

Luckily, this show does not fall into that most spells have scientific drawbacks, and a lot of things can be dissected, mathematically, as one of the non-magical yet paranormal characters tends to do a lot, we see a lot of scientifically motivated drawbacks from a lot of the spells, and a lot of of them only function for a small period of time, so the fact that there are limit limits means the world feels more real to me, so I can dive deeper into it without feeling overwhelmed.

What I really love about this show is that even if you would think this show is going to fall into the reverse, Harold trope for boys and one girl living together that isn’t really what happens three of the boys are fully 100% aware that the main character likes one of the boys the one boy who doesn’t know is of course the one who the girl is crushing on, and the other three boys are trying to help her, get his attention and get him to like her back. There is no toxic rivalry and fact one of the main female characters finds out that the MC has a crush on the same boy she was sort of crushing on, and because they’ve become so close friends she completely backs off of him. She just gets over the crush like in the span of a few days without even telling anyone that she had a crush at him because she realizes she didn’t like him as much as her friend and she likes her friend enough to get over it. Which is something we rarely see in romance there’s always a romantic rival. 

Now let’s talk about the secondary couple.

Now, if you know, anime romance, you would know that there is always a secondary couple in the show not always in a movie, but in a show, there’s always a secondary couple. And this one has not been confirmed yet, but it is, in my opinion, Keigo and Nemu.

Nemu is a witch who can turn into a cat and Keigo is a werewolf. Is it a little on the nose yes cats and dogs. But it’s also really adorable because in this universe werewolves don’t actually turn into wolves. They just have an alternate personality kind of like dissociative personality disorder. Where this alter ego and ultra persona will take over their brain and body they become more muscular and have more dominant, almost canine personality. Where are their impulses sex fighting dominance, hunger or more raw.

But the main point is, the wolf is not the same person as the guy they just share a body and a lifespan, but they are completely different people.

And Nemu, ends up having crushes on both persona’s, which I think is so beautiful because it means she likes all sides of him and I feel like that’s something. The character really deserves. It would be unfair to him if someone only loved Wolf, but not Keigo or the other way around because whether you like it or not, you get both sides of the coin with this person you end up having two boyfriends, sort of like Sadie Kane from the Kane Chronicles. There’s two boys living in the same body, and you have to love both of them, not one or the other.

Their romance is a little bit more of a slow burn, but I am here for it. I am sad. I am waiting. I am watching.

Also, another aspect that makes this show so good is that in the English dubbing they add a lot of American and English humor in general. There’s one of the characters one of the boys that lives with the whole gang has this habit of doing voices and accents, now I watch dubbed I do not watch anime in Japanese because I have dyslexia and watching subtitles move too fast gives me really bad anxiety, so I don’t know how it is in Japanese, but in the English version that he does a British accent as a joke in a few scenes and a Southerners accent and other scenes. Which is really funny. I already know that I can’t wait for season two and I would probably binge the show all over again if another personal crisis happened and I needed a get up. I love it.