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Overall sweet and watchable, but some big flaws
The story is about the unlucky Kota and lucky Naoya, both seniors at a university, perhaps majoring in psychology. Many small disasters are shown to plague poor Kota in the beginning, and he decides to hang around with the always-lucky Naoya for a cure. Naoya misunderstands Kota's reason for approaching him, and the two start to "date", although they don't go public nor do they have any sexual activity, even proper kissing. The relationship ends not very far from where it started actually, but the characters more open and trusting of each other.
Cons:
1. The shyness of Kota was a pain after a while. For God's sake, all that drama just for a kiss?! They do say that he has never been kissed before, which might be the explanation for the reluctance, but it is still annoying.
2. That weird and unnecessary sub-plot with the hostage taker.
3. Friends not dealt with properly, perhaps because of the shortness of the series (8 episodes x 25 min).
4. Roka's overacting a bit cringey.
5. Relationship doesn't move much, in spite of all sorts of inner revelations they both have. At the end, Roka is still acting frightened + secretly horny, even when he is in the same bed as his professed love.
6. Too much time wasted on flash-backs. But the FF button exists for that.
Pros:
1. Naoya was very charming, especially when he smiles. He was frank about his lust.
2. No toxic exes, temporary breakups, and long drawn-out misunderstandings that are actually resolvable with a short talk.
3. No hint of them living in a society with homophobia. Some of Roka's behavior might stem from internal homophobia, but that was not a given.
4. The psychology lectures were very interesting. Now I want to read the professor's books!
5. The complexity of the concepts of lucky and unlucky handled well. We are reminded how unlucky things can sometimes have very lucky effects also.
6. Pretty much everyone was good-looking.
Cons:
1. The shyness of Kota was a pain after a while. For God's sake, all that drama just for a kiss?! They do say that he has never been kissed before, which might be the explanation for the reluctance, but it is still annoying.
2. That weird and unnecessary sub-plot with the hostage taker.
3. Friends not dealt with properly, perhaps because of the shortness of the series (8 episodes x 25 min).
4. Roka's overacting a bit cringey.
5. Relationship doesn't move much, in spite of all sorts of inner revelations they both have. At the end, Roka is still acting frightened + secretly horny, even when he is in the same bed as his professed love.
6. Too much time wasted on flash-backs. But the FF button exists for that.
Pros:
1. Naoya was very charming, especially when he smiles. He was frank about his lust.
2. No toxic exes, temporary breakups, and long drawn-out misunderstandings that are actually resolvable with a short talk.
3. No hint of them living in a society with homophobia. Some of Roka's behavior might stem from internal homophobia, but that was not a given.
4. The psychology lectures were very interesting. Now I want to read the professor's books!
5. The complexity of the concepts of lucky and unlucky handled well. We are reminded how unlucky things can sometimes have very lucky effects also.
6. Pretty much everyone was good-looking.
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