Give Sukitte some credit for this: it never misses its cues. My feelings about Megu-tan as summarized in last week’s post: I don’t wish her any ill, but I just don’t care about her very much and and her likely tearful redemption next week seems like an anti-climactic way to […] Read more

Ultimately, I think this is a series that wants to go in predictable directions. There’s nothing wrong with formula that’s executed well, but I confess the last couple of episodes of Sukitte have frustrated me quite a bit.  There wasn’t a whole lot that happened this week that wasn’t by […] Read more

By the immutable laws of shoujo, no episode as full of sunny brightness as this one was for 15 minutes could possibly go unpunished. I like Sukitte quite a bit, but I think it’s fair to say it’s very much playing to type.  This is a shoujo romance manga through […] Read more

That was a difficult episode to watch – mostly (but not entirely) for the right reasons. The contrast between the way the two shoujo romances this season approach their material could hardly be more stark, and while it’s not fair to either series to judge them based on the other, […] Read more

I really only had one problem with this excellent episode, but it’s a fairly big one. Overall, I continue to be impressed with Sukitte Ii na yo as a pretty realistic, unsentimental and sometimes brutal look at teen romance.  It does something few such shows – either shoujo or harem […] Read more

I guess it can’t be a shoujo romance without a serious love rival to deal with. Enter Megu, Kitagawa Megumi (Kotobuki Minako) who may be the designated villain of the piece or a well-meaning distraction on the romantic journey of out two leads.  Megu is a model, quite popular and […] Read more

Episode 5 – shameless, but effective. I liked this episode of Sukitte just as much as the first four, though it felt quite different to me.  Those four eps were appealingly realistic and just a bit raw – not especially polished in terms of presentation but emotionally honest and free […] Read more

In high school, sex is one of the most widely traded forms of currency.  It’s rare to see an anime portray that reality as plainly and openly as Sukitte does. I like how honest Sukitte Ii na yo is in presenting the sometimes ugly reality of teenaged social life without […] Read more

Girls are scary. There’s a funny sort of reversal happening with Sukkite Iinayo.  Usually you have fans of the source material decrying the shortcomings of the adaptation, and how it never manages to capture the magic of the original.  Here, there are seemingly endless “Yeah, the anime seems really good […] Read more