Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman

[neflight86]

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"* Based on a romantic comedy manga by Kanamaru Yuki.

Yakuin Jirou, a third-year high school student, gets saddled with his gyaru classmate Watanabe Akari for the class's "marriage training" project about practicing to be a married couple. Jirou is the complete opposite of Akari, but the two know that if they do well they will be able to switch partners to end up with their respective crushes, and so they force themselves to act like the perfect married couple.

Source: ANN"

Genre(s): Romance, Comedy, Drama

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Well, if this isn't the most schizophrenic rom-com I've seen in living memory...

To even begin to engage with this, you need to hand-wave the absurd contrivance that is the 'marriage training' portion of this show; it's really dumb and also what the entire plot is predicated on. To explain, students are paired up as married couples, live in a dorm (with separate bedrooms, of course) and are constantly graded via camera and other sensors that pick up on, evaluate, and grade their marital bond. The couples are awarded points that give them a letter ranking in comparison to their peers, with the highest rank getting the optional 'privilege' of changing assigned partners... among other couples in the top range. That feeling in your head right now is a stroke forming because you are trying to reconcile how that makes any sense. Stop doing that.

Once you make peace with the premise and realize it cannot/will not come under any scrutiny by the show, what we have is a serviceable 'bonding' rom-com where the main couple, by virtue of forced proximity, catch glimpses of each other's charming points via varied interactions until they realize they are more in love with that jerk/bimbo than their obligatory 'starter' crushes. Its a formula we know all too well, and the only thing that stands out, aside from the pastelle color pallet, is the wild tonal changes the we are bombarded with each episode. Expect jarring transitions from coy teasing banter to ecchi to full on heart-throb in a matter of seconds; so fast your eyes will get whiplash. Luckily, I'm on a gyaru kick right now, so Ill continue watching, but there's really not much here.

[David75]

Blue-balling taken to the extreme.

[neflight86]

Ah, so this is what y'all were talking about in seasonal thread. Missed that.

[David75]

You made me realize I'm repeating myself haha.
I guess that show is to get some kind of fanservice without hentaï or even too much echiness

[shinta|hikari]

[David75]

Waki fetish plus Ultra !

[KrayZ33]

Welp, I completed this just now.

It's one of these shows that just makes you feel heartbroken for whomever would be losing the "battle".
It was kinda sweet to watch though.

The setup of the whole show was complete bullshit, obviously, but it just shows how easily you can ignore stuff like that and how unimportant that all is.
It could've been aliens that secretely took over the world and demanded coupling so they can steal children or whatever and it would've mattered all the same.
No... actually, that would've given the whole show another twist.

[neflight86]

What I thought was just going to be another fanservice vehicle became the most schizophrenic show I've seen in a while. It was constantly jarring how often emotions (and tone) jolted back and forth between solemn, doki-doki, sparse comedy, and ecchi. The color palate was nice and the character designs were fine, but the animation overall was weak and Akari only barely made it worth watching.

Run of the mill rom-com, and according to this thread, not much to discuss or dissect, but it can waste a few hours just fine.

The setup was kind of a boon, in my opinion, in that it skipped an entire season's worth of contrivances to get the main pairs intimately housed off the bat so we could get to the domestic awkwardness before the end of episode 1. It also had a minimum of overhead. Aliens or whatnot might have distracted from what little of the carefree 'vibe' it had going on.