Yukino Miyazawa, the perfect student. She's got the looks, the grades - everything any girl could ask for out of a school life. She is envied by all the girls and loved by all the boys, and is #1 in her class. The worst part could be the fact that she knows this and loves it. Her mask was her life, and she lived fine within it.
Enter Soichiro Arima, now the perfect guy. Yukino can't help but notice that Soichiro has been stealing her thunder. Born under a rich name, looks to kill and with grades that equal Yukino's, she can't help but be infuriated by his perfect ways. Day in and day out among her diligent studying, she plots to take down Soichiro, to break him.
Then, Yukino gets a curveball. The midterm results come in, and Soichiro bests Yukino by half a point. Meaning he becomes the #1 student in their class. Yukino, angrier than ever, turns to leave the class, but Soichiro touches her and merely whispers..."I love you."
Thus starts a comical romantic war between the two as they continue to try to get under each other's skin. But they only seem to get closer and close until Soichiro then stumbles upon Yukino's dark secret, and after that, the seeds of romance start to sink in...
Story & Characters
The story seemed pretty good. A two-faced girl is a hard worker at school and is very popular, although at home she is a
completely different studying machine who is trying to be the top. If she doesn't get what she wants, she might
smile at you bottling up the anger inside. This is about all that I like about this anime as I was very curious to see
what would happen to her once
someone cuter and smarter than her shows up at school and steals her glory. At first she hates him, but then eventually
developes feelings.
I believe this is supposed to be comedy, but I found nothing funny about this anime, but rather sad. I hardly laughed at
the so-called "funny" parts, so I guess this anime failed to call itself funny. Some of the funnier things
were supposed to include moments with facefaulting, or Miazawa attacking someone or biting their head off. This
isn't funny, it is stupid. After a while it got really annoying too. Sure, maybe this is appopriate with one or two
episodes or a few seconds in a episode, but half an hour for twenty-six episodes is VERY, VERY annoying and tiring.
Rating: 5
Art
Have you ever had a nightmare and you couldn't wake up? This is mine. Have you ever seen an anime where the
character gets a huge head, fangs and tiny arms? Goofy anime have this, but this show totally killed it. It seemed as if
the creators tried to roll two anime into one here, because the every other second you see stupid faces and bad art. The
other seconds it's nothing but black-and-white outlines of images, so you might as well call this a half
anime-half-manga.
It is very hard t put into words how awful the art is, and in one of the episodes they use cut-out pieces of paper as
the characters so it looks as if a child is doing the "animation".
Rating: 4
Sound
Every other second I either hear "Oh Arima!" or "Oh Miazawa!" Honestly, if you two love each other
so much go rent a room. But if it's not that, you hear piano music always playing in the background. At first it
was nice, but after the first ten episodes this got very annoying. Hardly any speech is involved either, except the one
I told you about the Oh's, from the two main characters. There is also a soap opera between Arima and Miazawa nad
their lives, because Arima is always whining about how he had a bad family life, while Miazawa keeps telling us she
realises that the two of them are meant for each other since they are the same. Please, give me a break will you?
Rating: 4
Presentation
The plot is very original, since this is the first itme I see someone's secret revealed and have that person fall
in love with the other. <3 However, the creators wouldn't know comedy if it hit them on the head. :|
I had to fast-forward all the stupidity so I only got about 10 minutes of the show fully watched rather than the half
hour. What does stupidity include in this show? Apart from the awful sound, poor animation, and personal drama,
everything!
Please, if you can, avoid this time waster at all costs. It is nothing but poorly drawn animated manga and piano music.
I guess the creators were very cheap to have some proper speech and animation. Maybe they themselves did not enjoy
making the anime very much in the poor way it came out.
The other sad thing about this is that there are twenty-six episodes, but I could summarize this in one paragraph. Boy
finds out girl's secret and she falls in love with him. Whin, whine, throw in some piano music and poorly drawn
images and you've described Kare Kano!
Rating: 3
Final Verdict
4.0000 (below average)
Reviewed by daos, Aug 25, 2005