Kimi ni todoke

I really liked the beginning of this one, I wasn't even sure how. I liked the opening and ending themes, I let them play every time. I even liked Sawako's narration at the beginning, I actually liked a lot of things at the beginning, but by the end I was overstuffed with it and I had been watching an episode/week. Too long and slow for what the anime wants to say, plus again it ends with "and if you want to see how they got together, buy/open the manga". It's not a bad anime, you just get sick of it too quickly and then you just watch it out of curiosity to see if it goes anywhere. It doesn’t. Plus Sawako is just too annoying at times. But the manga is supposedly much better. (2010.03.31)

Actually, it's not much different from the first season, and even that was already losing its breath pretty badly towards the end. Here the only difference is that their feelings and insecurities come to the forefront a lot more. Believe it or not, it maddening. Even though the plot is enlivened by the arrival of a new character, it's still that same annoying blond that simply drives everything toward jealousy from Kazehaya’s side. Sawako is as dull and boring as ever (especially for a viewer she has nothing more to offer after season 1). And given that the moments I enjoy most out of the whole series are the ones where Sawako (and that Kazehaya) aren’t in it, there must be something wrong with her being the main character. I'm sorry, but this shōjo from the first quarter of 2011 completely failed to grab me. It gave me nothing. Instead, S+K's behavior just pissed me off (with Sawako infuriating me the most). (2011.02.02)