All romance series this season will have to compete with the all-timer that was Dangers in My Heart, along with the pretty solid Sign of Affection from Winter. Like Sign, a girl who has never fallen in love has the attention of a hottie. Like Dangers, there’s the visual mismatch in terms of height and looks, only with the sexes reversed.
While Kyoutarou is a lot more emo about it, this show’s lead Hinase Hotaru is similar in that she’s content with a life without romance, because like Kyou deep down, she doesn’t think there’s any chance she’ll ever experience it. It’s less a matter of her thinking she’s deficient, just different. Not made for love.
I’ve heard some rumblings about Hananoi Saki being problematic and more than a little pushy when it comes to pursuing Hotaru. That’s fair; after all, Hotaru politely declines and he begins doing everything he can to make her like him, things she never asked for.
But he does, eventually, apologize say he’ll stop bothering her. At that point, he’s cut his hair for her, bought her a delicious pork bun, nearly caught his death of cold looking for her missing hairpin. While in Hananoi’s orbit, Hotaru can’t deny she’s thinking about him more, and feeling new feelings. Heck, she even yells at him out in the snow, and she is not a yeller!
When Hananoi is ready to walk away, Hotaru grabs his sleeve, and says she never thought she didn’t like him, and asks if it’s possible for “someone like her” to learn what it means to love someone special. Hananoi, clearly the bigger romantic of the two, assures her she will, so she takes him up on his offer to go out with each other.
One could say Hananoi “wore down” Hotaru, but I see it more as him piquing her interest in something she doesn’t know anything about but wants to learn. Similarly, Hananoi has a lot to learn too, like about how far is too far for someone else’s sake. His idea of love and hers are very different, but I think the ideal place for both of them is somewhere in the middle.
While visually not as impressive as Danger or Sign, it gets the job done just fine. The OP is a legit bop, the ED is also a nice vibe, and most importantly, the immortal Hanazawa Kana brings her A-game to the effortlessly charming Hotaru’s voice. Even in this Spring of Restraint (we’re trying to focus on no more than 10-11 shows and more concise writeups) this one has a good chance of staying on my list.
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