OMG I JUST CHECKED THE RATING OF THIS ANIME AND IT'S LITERALLY RATED R OML PLEASE DON'T WATCH THIS IF YOU'RE A CHILD
Honestly the only reason I watched this in one sitting is because in my dorm the floors alternate gender, but last night our RA put on an event inviting guys to our floor and they were all gathered in the lounge. That would've been fine except for the fact that everyone stayed in there for over 5 hours and the lounge is on the way to the bathroom and you know your girl isn't about walking around in front of boys in her robe. No way. So I was trapped in my room, unable to take my shower...for the second day in a row. I want to slam someone through a wall.
{Spoilers}
So, as I was saying before, this show is definitely marketed towards an older demographic. It revolves around this girl Hanabi and at first she seems pretty normal. She has a crush on this older guy who happens to be her neighbor, family friend, and teacher, Kanai-sensei. And Kanai-sensei unfortunately likes the music teacher Minagawa-sensei who is an actual snake. She has no remorse or empathy for any other person and has her own harem at her disposal just because she can. The BS at the end that she changed for Kanai-sensei is a complete and utter lie because he even said himself that she doesn't have to change her ways, that she could continue cheating on him and he wouldn't mind. And the only reason he liked her in the first place is because she has long hair like his mom. Oedipus complex anyone? And that's not even the most wild part because it's hinted at that he might like Hanabi too because when he and Minagawa went out for drinks, when Minagawa fell he said "Hana-chan" not Akane's name. But when Hanabi confessed he politely turned her down because he's a decent human being, at least compared to Minagawa.
If you thought that that whole thing was a mess, so was Hanabi's relationship with actually everyone. She was so weak. She found self-worth and "happiness" through the validation of other people and when she lacked that and companionship she fell into a downward spiral of depression. Please try and defend her to me. Sure she's just an ordinary high school girl who succumbed to her weaknesses and couldn't find help for her psychological issues, probably stemming from her daddy issues, just kidding that was a total shot in the dark don't kill me, and that led to this whole attention craving thing. That mixed with her lack of relationship experience which led her to believe that whatever was happening between her and Mugi was alright and the fact that Minagawa stole her first love from her all led to a wonderful mental breakdown in which she took advantage of her only friend Ecchan's love for her because she was lonely. She comes to a kind of realization when she is asked for relationship advice by two girls in her class in which it's revealed that she does have a somewhat moral compass and believes in the power of love. But this is negated when she starts going out with one of Minagawa's toy for some sort of self-validation even though Mugi said that they could actually go out. If you can't follow what I'm saying it's because I can't really believe what I've just watched.
Don't get me started on Mugi. Mugi is just a hot mess. He can see through Minagawa's complex spiderweb but still lets himself get trapped in it because she's his first real love. There was that senpai in middle school that stole his adolescence and I think that's what really messed him up. He saw physical contact as the level of intimacy people should be on, not necessarily using words. That's why he took advantage of Noriko, because he thought that all people wanted from him was just his looks and his body (Thank god Noriko woke up from her daydream though).
After 11 episodes or so, Hanabi and Mugi actually have a conversation instead of trying to get into one another's pants. They could've done that from the beginning, but really they were just dumb teenagers who both had psychological trauma and coped with it as best they could. They certainly didn't do it well and both of them have a long way to go, but at least they both know that they were looking for real love the whole time. Honestly the ED was a little misleading because it was about parallel lines, but parallel lines never intersect. It was more along the lines of intersecting lines that meet once, but never again. Or maybe the message here was about how they never did intersect because of their psychological issues.
Overall I think if you can get past the ecchi and how stupid all of them are, it's hypocritical I know because I'm just a bystander, it's a pretty good watch. It's especially fun if you like watching snakes. But the snakes don't improve and they continue being snakes. Everyone's still trying to figure out who they are. There's not really a happy, clean ending. The art was overexposed to the point where it hurt my eyes, so turn down your brightness if you watch it. This won't really make you happy watching because all you're doing is playing audience to someone else's suffering. And the storyline isn't very straightforward. And it's easy to tell that it's a manga adaptation. And their eyes usually look like they're dead, but maybe that was purposeful. I don't know, it was an interesting watch, but also a painful one. I just want to lay this one to rest.
This was such an obvious lie it brings me so much pain because it was such a toxic relationship, but that was the best they could manage? Ugh.
They're so unhealthy, but don't they look so cute? Like the couple where if you didn't know anything about them you'd say they made a good couple?
The awakening of a snake!!!
Ecchan tried her hardest :(
yEAH we could tell you've got a lot of problems
Here's some nice art that deceived me into thinking this would be pure and beautiful *bitter laughter*
Yeah, it turned out to be a mess.
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