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I wish she had actually spit on him.

Impressions:

This started losing me pretty fast. Between the flashbacks, the flowery/sparkly splash backgrounds, and the main character whose only personality traits seemed to be crying, being insecure, and emitting shrill noises, I wouldn’t call what I was feeling ‘enjoyment.’ And her sadness, her bleak despair, her cutting pain of almost certainly mistaken belief that her crush asked someone else out has transcended the world of man and touched the gods. Yeah, I can get that. I stubbed my toe once and accidentally summoned a djinn. But cliffhanger! Her crush is absent from class! And the day before the big game!

I’d call it banal, but I’m afraid Sonico and Wake Up Girls have already staked their claim on that word for the season with fifteen foot metal spikes. She learns an insipid lesson on being herself due to misunderstanding misunderstandings over misunderstandings fueled by childish angst fueled by not sharing her feeeeelings and is therefore granted the magical power to not be herself. Huzzah. It’s hard to say that she actually even learned anything though. She just blankly stared, narrating what was going on right in front of her, why it supposedly mattered, and then ran off. She didn’t actually do a bloody thing but cry. This is not being a protagonist. This is not being the master of your own destiny. This is being obnoxious. And I don’t even want to hear “But that’s what teens are liiiiiiiike,” either. It’s bunk.

This is probably more bile than the show deserves, but I’m in a bad mood now from Maken-ki and a truckload of sad girls who is sad because she’s insecure and incapable of fending for themselves in any way plus the entire yachtload of your standard girly romance visual cliches and a relatively weak budget did not help. There’s nothing surprising or interesting here. Just a girly romance show already filled to the brim with insecurity and misunderstandings with only the weakest attempts at comedy otherwise and lead by a character who does little more than cry. And not a single damn vampire.