neflight86
Wed, 10-18-2023, 09:00 AM
2053
"* Based on a romantic comedy light novel series written by Nagaoka Makiko and illustrated by Magako.
Kashima Ryuuto is a gloomy social outcast, and Shirakawa Runa is a popular girl at school. Their relationship begins when Ryuuto has to ask Runa out as part of losing a game, and she ends up going out with him after saying "Well, I'm free right now, after all." They have completely different social circles, and completely different hobbies, but as they hang out with each other, they begin recognizing and even accepting those differences as something to bond over."
Genre(s): Romance, comedy
Research (https://subsplease.org/shows/kimizero/)
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Before this invariably converges with the path all anime rom-coms must follow, the hook of the premise is that the Gal, who is rumored to be quite sexually active with her litany of boyfriends is... actually quite that. Before our main beta male confesses to her as a (friends) punishment and scores a lovely girlfriend, he hears rumors that she puts out easily, and once they are dating, those rumors are validated almost immediately. I dunno; it is such a rarity in (non seinen/josei) anime for the heroine to not be a virgin maiden that it was interesting. What followed was this eerie uncanny valley of a girlfriend who was so... subservient and naïve about relationships that it's a wonder she hasn't been hurt or traumatized by her past boyfriends who 'got bored' of her... She has no personality to speak of yet other than 'ideal girlfriend'.
This will probably loose its traction fast now that the goal has been established as a slow burning, 'learn about each other' relationship with no carnality, as usual, but until then, I'm on board.
"* Based on a romantic comedy light novel series written by Nagaoka Makiko and illustrated by Magako.
Kashima Ryuuto is a gloomy social outcast, and Shirakawa Runa is a popular girl at school. Their relationship begins when Ryuuto has to ask Runa out as part of losing a game, and she ends up going out with him after saying "Well, I'm free right now, after all." They have completely different social circles, and completely different hobbies, but as they hang out with each other, they begin recognizing and even accepting those differences as something to bond over."
Genre(s): Romance, comedy
Research (https://subsplease.org/shows/kimizero/)
__________
1-2
Before this invariably converges with the path all anime rom-coms must follow, the hook of the premise is that the Gal, who is rumored to be quite sexually active with her litany of boyfriends is... actually quite that. Before our main beta male confesses to her as a (friends) punishment and scores a lovely girlfriend, he hears rumors that she puts out easily, and once they are dating, those rumors are validated almost immediately. I dunno; it is such a rarity in (non seinen/josei) anime for the heroine to not be a virgin maiden that it was interesting. What followed was this eerie uncanny valley of a girlfriend who was so... subservient and naïve about relationships that it's a wonder she hasn't been hurt or traumatized by her past boyfriends who 'got bored' of her... She has no personality to speak of yet other than 'ideal girlfriend'.
This will probably loose its traction fast now that the goal has been established as a slow burning, 'learn about each other' relationship with no carnality, as usual, but until then, I'm on board.