Audience reviews
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BadGuyBoog
A lot disappointed me about this show. This is a really bland and uninteresting cast. I was really disappointed by the main character Nasa because in his first couple scenes, he seemed like a really interesting character. He was kind of a narcissistic cocky asshole who would do anything to get what he wanted. I mean it’s not a good trait but at least it’s something I haven’t seen before in a romcom protagonist so I was interested. But it turns out he’s just another dumbass nervous shy goody-two-shoes. Tsukasa is just a bunch of anime cliches but it also always seems like she’s hiding something so it’s hard not to be speculative of her personality. The maids were pointless and cliche, Chitose was annoying but I’m sure she’ll be explained. Aya was enjoyable but the one person who really fuck…
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If you have extreme opinions about Tonikawa: Over the Moon For You, I suggest you do not read this review; it may make you angry.
I will fully admit I am not the target audience of this anime. Even though it made me want to die, I finished it so you don't have to.
One cold winter night, a high school student named Nasa gets hit by a truck. Lucky for him, a girl intervenes and saves his life. It's love at first sight. He instantly confesses his love for her. The girl, Tsukasa, agrees to become his girlfriend, but only if they get married first because of unknown reasons. You will quickly find that she does not act like a normal human being. Nasa agrees to her terms, but then she mysteriously disappears into the night.
For the next two years, he obsesses over Tsukasa. He desperately tries…
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PLOT
It is pretty barebones. Guy sees girl, instantly falls in love, girl reciprocates the feelings for whatever reason, they marry and from there onwards, it is a mind-numbing slice of life anime. The premise is void of any logic and the execution is just as senseless. The show goes through a checklist of situations for both characters without any love for detail or complexity. Given, a simple narrative can be enjoyable but not if it is a complete snoozefest. Furthermore, they use a lot of comedy to try and make things entertaining, which is a fair concept, but the show's humor did not work for me at all. This comedic style only makes me roll my eyes.
CHARACTERS
Let's focus on the two main characters since the side cast is absolutely forgettable.
Our main guy is Nasa Yuzaki and he has a…
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I just want to leave a short review on why I only gave a 6/10.
While I do love romance anime and like the feel-good aspect of a lot of SoL anime, I didn't quite get the same from Tonikaku.
In my opinion, the best aspect of romance anime is when the two people you ship are unsure about how the other one feels, with a romantic finale of them getting together. I also don't mind a story where the characters are already a couple.
The problem I saw with Tonikaku is, that there is not really a story. I can pretty much tell the whole story in less than 5 minutes. Also, while the first episodes were cute as hell, it got repetitive really fast.
Another problem is that there aren't really memorable locations other than the ones the whole anime plays in. There also weren't astonishing animatio…
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I was going to review Rose of Versailles, but I decided to binge this somewhat polarizing series on a whim. Most of the reviews I've read are either super positive and in the 8-10 range or super negative in the 2-3 range. I personally came down somewhere in the middle. I don't think this show is good by any means, but I also don't think it's offensively bad. It's just frustrating because it had so much untapped potential.
How many beloved anime couples are actually married? Really think about it. I guess Holo and Lawrence from Spice and Wolf get married in the last chapter of the Light Novel, but it sure as hell doesn't happen in the anime. Mamoru and Usagi from Sailor Moon do get married but it's in the future and we never see much of what their marriage is like. Several Dragonball chara…
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Can't understand what is so good about this anime for those who say it was the best title in 2020...
It was boring as hell. The story was lame and pretty much pointless.
0 character developement either.
Overused "omg she's changing I shouldn't look..." bull$hit.
I watched the whole thing but couldn't find any enjoyable moment at all.
The ending was pointless as the story led to nowhere.
But the most positive thing about this... that I finally have an anime that I could give a 1 rating from the bottom of my heart.
The house fire was something that had potential to move the story forward but it didn't.
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In Nasa and Tsukasa's new lives as a married couple, there is no drama and there are no high stakes. There are no drawn-out misunderstandings nor are there frustrating love triangles. Tonikaku Kawaii is twelve episodes of unwaveringly cute and inconsequential romance.
The art style is very reminiscent of the anime style of the mid 2000s with its most obvious comparison being Hayate no Gotoku from the same creator. Like the anime itself, the art and animation are inoffensive, simple, and consistent. The opening song "Koi no Uta" by Yunomi is a modern bop of this decade that contrasts with the previously mentioned mid 2000s art style. The sweet and sentimental sounding ending song "Tsuki to Hoshizora" by KanoeRana often pleasantly transitioned at the end of each episode. The voice acting p…
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There are people out there that wish for an anime like this. An anime that disregards the fundamental notion of a relationship. These anime were written to appeal to people who have no idea or concept of romance between two characters and how they’re explored, developed, and executed. All they care about is the end goal that satisfies their inner fantasies. If you’re the type of person that’s mature and wants a fulfilling romance comedy anime, then please avoid this trite, and quite frankly, boring show. Exert all of your wills to suppress your desire to click and potentially watch this anime because it’s not worth it.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I prefer romance anime that gives me a sense of progression. The most important aspect of a romance anime that provides this is the charac…
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I don't know why people like this show, it was one of the most bland uninteresting and boring shows of 2020. Everything about this show comes from somewhere else and when the show is doing something new it is uninteresting.
The main character is the same perfect yet perverted protagonist we see in so many rom coms and the lead girl is a hand made made perfect girl made to appeal to the majority no matter who you are who is strong and fierce but also is easily embarrassed and has a cute side, as well as being underage, all the things anime fans just seem to love.
They go through the usual slice of life setlist including bathing episode, trip episode and summer festival episode. Disappointingly for many fans, there is no beach episode so they couldn't see their underage female in a swimsuit.…
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Tonikaku Kawaii is essentially a story about the lack of familiarity involving love at first sight, and ends up discussing what does it exactly mean to fall in love, as well as all the emotions that come with it. It's a story about the irrationality falling for someone can do to people, leaving them waiting endlessly for a happy ending that may or may not ever come. The opening episode is a perfect example of this, showing Nasa falling for Tsukasa's strength at saving him while also setting up the abnormality between both characters - one who due to his obsession with success has no idea what moderation is, and is willing to go so far as to confess to someone who caught his eye, and the other for striving desperately to find a place to belong after being lost for her whole life without fin…
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tl;dr: A very poorly executed generic romantic "comedy" with a unique twist that doesn't deliver and makes itself indistinguishable from others like it.
"Onee-chan! Why did you fall in love with a loser like him?" - Kaginoji Chitose
Good question Chitose, can we talk about it?
But first, can people stop praising this anime for being a romantic masterpiece? Because it's really not.
I get that people like how this romance anime brings something new to the table of being the relationship between a married couple rather than your generic harem-esque tsundere moe girl/ dense guy relationship you see in many other romance anime. Still, at the same time, the anime is basically your generic harem-esque tsundere moe girl/ dense guy relationship you see in many other romance anime, but this tim…
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At the risk of sounding jaded, this anime is not as “wholesome” as everyone claims.
This was an anime that I was somewhat intrigued by when it was starting to air, but that intrigue decreased the more episodes that I watched. It offers a different premise in modern romance anime with the couple getting married instantly, but I quickly realized that this is nothing we haven’t seen before.
While the couple (Nasa and Tsukasa) gets married right away, this anime, like many others in the genre, just follows the same formula of watching as they fall in love with each other. Only in this case, there is no “will they, won’t they” teasing throughout the episodes.
Instead, this anime’s version of “will they, won’t they” takes the form of the couple doing anything sexual whatsoever. Whenever any…
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"You don't get married because you've proven you're in love... You get married so you can prove it." - Yuzaki Nasa
First, one thing I want to make clear is that if you don't like simple romance with no drama, then you need to stay away from Tonikawa, because it's definitely not for you. Anime like OreGairu will suit you better.
The beauty of Tonikawa lies in it's simplicity. It's not just another wholesome fluffy rom-com, it's much more than that. What I think makes Tonikawa the perfect rom-com for me is that how the romance isn't dragged out, there is little to no drama, which is perfect for people like me. Not that I hate it, but I find it overwhelming, drama isn't something I'd watch every time, anime like OreGairu is good, but exhausting at the same time. On the other hand, we have…
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Story 3.5/10: Basically, Tsukasa (the female MC) and Nasa (the male MC) decide to get married after she saves him from getting hit by a car. Thus starts their marriage life. The whole anime is a rom-com of the newlywed’s beginning marriage lives and the obstacles of it: romance/relationship development, learning one another’s hobbies/interests, going on trips, shopping and cooking together, sharing a house, and meeting family members/friends. Sounds cute and simple, right? The thing is, coming into this anime, I never realized how childish it would turn out to be. Almost every other line that comes out of Nasa’s mouth is going on and on about praising Tsukasa on how perfect she is. “My wife is so cute.” “This is my wife, the cutest girl in the universe!” “She’s so cute!” Ok we get it Nasa,…
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How would you describe a HAPPY marriage in three words?
- LOVE, HONESTY, PERSEVERANCE
- RESPECT, PATIENCE, UNDERSTANDING
Instead of the usual things, these three words can be used to describe Tonikaku Kawaii:
- HAND HOLDING BUFFET
- TSUKASA DELAYS F……
- MOON GETS MARRIED Have your insulin syringe ready and follow the life of our happy and wholesome couple:
JUST TOO CUTE.
STORY:
Have you ever dreamed of how nice it would be to be isekai'd by truck-kun and wake up in a world that is much better than your current one? Sure, this is a dream of all of us.
That happened ALMOST to our main protagonist, Nasa, when he saw a cute girl on the other side of the street and therefore wanted to cross it. But instead of losing his life in this world, the sweet girl saved his life. Before he was final…
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This year, 2020, had a strange phenomenon of rom-coms. We had ‘Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It’ at the beginning of the year, where the idea of romance became an experiment as part of its storyteller. Spring dropped us into a fantasy world of reverse harem and otome tropes with My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Led to Doom. And of course, let’s not forget Summer 2020 that gave us ‘Kanojo, Okarishmasu’ a rom-com with relationships based on lies. Fall 2020 decided to give us a truthful romantic comedy of a married couple, and by marriage, I mean commitment and a lot of romance. Isn’t this just a strange year?
Kenjirou Hata isn’t known for being a masterpiece storywriter. Most of his works often deal with romantic comedy elements and among them is Hayate the Combat Butler…
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I don’t understand the praise for this.
Tonikaku tries to be different and yet it falls short. Actually, scratch that. It falls FAR from being any different from any rom-com that I’ve seen. It attempted to mix up the order of a cliche and yet it still is the cliche. The show doesn’t know what it wants to be itself and there is near to nothing redeemable about the show. I have plenty of reasons why, as well. Let's dive in, shall we?
TL;DR at the bottom
Story
One look at the plot reveals that there’s nothing special. In summary, the protagonist, Nasa, gets really smart and later sees a girl he likes and is too scared to confess. Hmmm, I’ve never seen this before. But wait! There’s Truck-Kun to save the day! Truck-Kun hits poor Nasa while he’s crossing the road! But fortunately for him, t…
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"If you marry me, I'll go out with you." - The (Princess Kaguya-ish) waifu material, Tsukasa Tsukuyomi: The modern-day sequel story of "The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter's Wife".
"Yes!! With pleasure!!" - The simp (that's not so simp) husbando material, Nasa Yuzaki: The man who'll achieve the speed of light faster than NASA!
That's the only story plot "full of love and dreams" you need to know, an overnight done deal, and truly "faster than the speed of light".
If you're wondering what Tonikaku Kawaii is all about, this is Hata Kenjirou (Hayate the Combat Butler!) flexing his marriage to Asano Mayumi (Sore ga Seiyuu!) in early 2018, that birthed the start of this amazing rom-com manga (right-smack on Valentine's Day in the same year, no less), and has finally come around to this anime adaptat…
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"It is a small step for man, a big leap for humanity". Neil Armstrong spoke these beautiful words in 1969, when he crewed his first trip to the moon. 51 years later, an anime for the first time the astronomical victory of mankind to create one of the coolest anime of 2020. And guess what? The small step is a wedding and the big leap is for a recent, sudden, but sincere and quite comical love.
Once upon a time, a meeting between a simple studious boy and a genuinely beautiful girl. The boy fell in love at the first look, instinctively running towards her. However, a problem occurs: the young person is close to having an accident. Everything seemed to be disappearing in his eyes, as if death awaited him, until the girl saved his life at the last second. The boy then declares himself for his…
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Do you like cute things? I like cute things. When someone I follow sends a selfie with their pet, I instinctively leave a heart. I enjoy petting tame doggos, and instinctively "aww" whenever my infant relatives burp. There! Now that that's out of the way, let it be known to the jury that OP isn't a soulless loser who's incapable of enjoying cute things at surface level. I feel it's kinda necessary to point this out, as it seems that any discussion surrounding Tonikaku starts and ends with these three words: "It's so cute!" If this was seen as pure fluff and nothing more, I wouldn't bat an eye. Instead, we're dealing with what is supposedly the SOL blockbuster of the season, and I'm not content with ending my observations by stating the obvious. So without further ado, let's figure out wher…
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