u/FalseStevenMcCroskey

So many rom-com animes I've seen love to have their cake and eat it too. Every single time the dude crushes on the popular girl, the popular girl has a moment where she admits she's never even been kissed before, even if she makes fun of the protag for being so naive about love.

If the girl has had a boyfriend before, it's either a nothing-burger relationship that ended after a day OR he's usually an antagonist that turns out he forced himself on her or something, and it's up to the noble protag to look past that as if it's a flaw she has.

I would love it if there was a scenario where the love interest is a girl that happens to have more relationship experience AND it's not even seen as a big deal. I could be wrong, but I think the only anime I've ever seen do this so far is a brand new one called 'Marriage x Toxin" and that's like kinda cheating cause the chick isn't even really a girl. (not a spoiler that's like the synopsis of the show and first episode)

On my quest to find an anime like this I've watched:
"Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro"
"More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers"
"Watari-kun's ****** is about to explode"
"You and I are polar opposites"

Of which I think "You and I are Polar Opposites" was best because even though the couple lacks experience on both ends, the girl at least has a line to herself about "Doesn't matter if I slept with no guys or 100, my love for my boyfriend now is pure". Feels a little cheat-y to just have a character say that vs actually making a story that tells it, but better than nothing.

I almost watched an anime called "The inexperienced me and the experienced you" because I read that title and thought: "oh perfect! This is exactly what I'm looking for!" But then I Read the summary and in the first paragraph it says "actually the girl is just as inexperienced, everyone just thinks she get around because she's popular" ....

I'm just tired of seeing innocence get fetishized. As if that has anything to do with love.

Doesn't have to be a slice-of-life anime, just that most rom-coms typically are. Any reccs?

So what the heck is going on with Tenjin? He has to sister-zone Akari because he's pinning after his own step mom or something? But he doesn't even explain that, they just do a weird flashback and keeps it vague. And then that never came up again in the show. It felt really really random, and honestly with the way he was acting it would've made a thousand percent more sense if he just said he was gay. Like... what was the point of trauma dumping like that if it's ONLY to the audience and has no merit on the story yet? Is there even going to be a season 2? & if so would we even care what Tenjin's deal is? He's such a background character anyways, why go and give him some kinda incestuous milf fetish just out of the blue when there's way easier ways to explain why a guy wasn't interested in dating the girls in his class.

And it's weird that on the other side of the spectrum they setup that Hamano is gay for Shiori so seemed like an obvious everybody-can-be-happy type ending there if Shiori showed any interest back but instead we get this ending where they try to bait us into thinking it might still be a tossup between Shiori and Akari, when the answer is obviously Akari.

Also just feel like the whole premise of the show is being ignored how extremely oppressive and dystopian it is. School kids of the opposite sex are forced to live together & are monitored to tell how well they get along? Regardless of sexual preference, pre-existing relationships, and the privacy of the children? Under a skilled author this would be an excellent allegory for societies expectations on it's children, but the way it's presented here feels like a lonely man's barely disguised fantasy.