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REVIEW: I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class Anime Series Reeview

Finished this one, and Jeremy's being a little kind on the writing side. While the series did have its funny moments (especially the little sister squabble!), I honestly found any of the other three girls to be a better match for Saito than Akane, and in my book that's a damning flaw for a title like this. Overall, though, I did agree with most of the positive and negative comments he made.

I will give this show a bit of credit: rather than being the typical dense harem potato, Saito does have some personality and good reasons for not responding to the girls thrown into his life (Akane verbally and physically abuses him, Shisei is family to him, breaking his engagement with Akane for Himari would have put him in the poorhouse and no one would have taken Maho up on her offer but the creep that Maho regarded him as). spoiler[But how does the guy with the alleged photographic memory not remember Akane from the party that Akane fell in love with him at?] Well, that massive plot hole takes all the credit back and then some. That and Akane's utter failure to at any time, including after they got engaged, spoiler[talk to Saito about it.]

I heard a lot of flack for Akane's character and while she's a pretty hardcore tsundere I feel like Hinaki Yano did a great job portraying her mood swings and making her likeable and entertaining despite them, especially when we got more of her Dere side.

Maho ... I found her antics entertaining, but I understand why others wouldn't.

That being said I feel like Best Girl is neck-and-neck between Shise who is an absolute, divine, presence that cannot be questioned and Himari who is so earnest, sincere, loving, and sweet that you almost forget she's trying to be a homewrecker (but she's doing it because she cares).

Worst romcom grandparents of all time though.

kaiju3 wrote:

spoiler[But how does the guy with the alleged photographic memory not remember Akane from the party that Akane fell in love with him at?]

I'm convinced it's because she spoiler[cut her hair.]

Shonen romcoms with only one named male character but a bunch of gorgeous females will inevitably devolve into harem cliches, so avoid them. I bypassed this rule for this show hoping that it would be different, but it only confirmed it.

Also spent some time catching up on Class no Daikirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta. speaking of worse out there this season... I've mentioned this before but the primary love interest comes off as shallow and abit of a b*tch. She does warm upto the MC as the series progresses, but personally I still don't see any reason they ship together. But such is the way of JP romcoms.. Her friend is the better choice, and its telling from a characters integrity standpoint how she treats her friend. These last few episodes introduced Akane's little sister and that got creepy really fast. As of episode 9 I'd rate this 3/10.

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Shonen romcoms with only one named male character but a bunch of gorgeous females will inevitably devolve into harem cliches, so avoid them. I bypassed this rule for this show hoping that it would be different, but it only confirmed it.

This so much this. If it wanted to be a harem, fine, I'm cool with that as well. However, without another male character (other than grandpa), it felt like I was watching the worse harem conceived, which is saying something. Acting as if it were above being an harem. Other male characters ground the main one, and makes him look like he has an actual life. Maybe the magnaka worried that other male characters would need to be paired up with one of the female characters...but that isn't the case. It just fleshes out the show to be far less of a straight male fantasy (tbh mine would not include someone like Akane).
The conflict between Himari and Akane was resolved so politely and quickly it was a slap in the face to the viewer. In fact, Himari should have slapped Akane in the face. That would have given this show at least a solitary highlight.