Anime: Tokimeki Memorial: Only Love 41206

A 25 parts anime, circulating of Aoba Riku, a transfer student.... Its a loser's school romance comedy plot with a guy being the centre of attraction (yet again.. do we really need this kinda plot over and over again?)...

The development of the story is pretty impressive though. The first 15 or so series, is so god damn boring, I nearly dozed off after watching every 2nd part each night... Story develops slowly... with the main guy and the other females.... and every night without fail, I struggled to complete 2 parts..... it was until the 3rd quarter of the anime, things started to heat up. A love triangle or a square? Viola! Spicy and surely hots up the story.. A lil' bit of 100% Ichigo (I still hate 100% Ichigo's ending though)

3 girls falling for you, who would you choose?
1. A shy natured girl... (Mina)
2. A bold forefronting girl..(Kasuga)
and lastly
3. A popular girl with a bit of everything
(Amamiya)

Thats all bout the loser's story, but I kinda like the series running from the 3rd quarter onwards. =) It gotten slightly complicated, I've broken cold sweats over it. One needs to be reminded that its a loser's plot and that otakuS need to stop dreaming and be real (I will choose kasuga, though the story is otherwise ^^)

Ha!
If you can pull urself thru the series into the third quarter-ending, u will enjoy it I thinkk...

starting is bout 2 stars.... and slowly... 2.5 stars... and then 3 stars... and.... then 4 stars.... and then (I self hypnotized) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I won't elaborate on the animations, story, sound.... so on so forth. You can read unl3a5h's post, he did an excellent job. I'm just giving another perspective on the anime. For those that feel that the story character development are essential should definitely not watch this anime. This anime is purely for those who want to burn time, which was what I was aiming for. If you just want to see a harem anime that has good animation quality, then tokimeki memorial only love is a suitable choice. However, this anime lacks a lot of plot and character development, so there will not be any dramatic outbursts or twists in plot. This anime flows very smoothly without much climax to hold critical viewers. I enjoyed this anime because I have been watching too many anime series when the female characters grow unexpectedly sadistic and attempt to win the love of the protagonist through brutual force and conspiracy. If you want a switch to the opposite side of the spectrum, where everything is lovey dovey, then you can try out this series.

Another Horrible Romantic School Comedy to add to my list...

Animation
The shining point of this entire anime. Everything moves smoothly. The characters are cute, as they should be, given thats one of the only reasons I watched it.

Sound
The opening and ending themes are fitting for this type of anime, but not memorable. The voicing for the characters are also fitting for each individual.

Story
Another anime with a complete loser protagonist, who for some reason attracts all the beautiful girls around him. The main character, Aoba Riku transfers to a new high school. For no apparent reason, the student council president decides to use Aoba as the source of every students attention. Basically, everyday is a contest, catch Aoba and you win something rare. Between all the wackiness, he meets up with different girls, who end up falling in love with him. To sum up the entire show, here's what happens in almost every episode.
- Aoba gets chased by a bunch of male students (contest).
- Aoba meets and talks to 1 of the 3 main girls.
- Girls fall more and more in love with Aoba.
In between 1 of these events, some drama is thrown in and he has to try and resolve it.

Characters
This has to be the one and only anime I have ever watched, that i hated almost every character there was. I'll start with the most hated to the least.

Aoba - Main male character. He has to be my most hated character in anime history (except the male protagonist from School Days... I FU**IN' HATE that guy). His character development... oh wait, he doesn't have one. He is, in one word, the definition of a loser. If you was to look in the dictionary, you would see his picture under the word. His voice, sounds like a little b*tch. His face, you just wanna gouge his eyes out. His personally, oh, I don't even wanna go there. I believe he was orginally a shy girl, who went though a sex change, because that's how he acts. He looks like he could cry at any given moment. No man in the real world can possibly act like him, and to top it off, he even gets the attention of all the girls, no, not some, ALL... ALL!!! First of all, no girl in the entire world could be attacted to a b*tch like him. Not masculine in any way. He makes dorks, nerds, geeks, etc. look like a prince in shining armor. There is a endless list of negative things to say about him. In all honestly, I can't think of a single thing good about this guy. ok... enough with this guy, lets move on to the next character. One more thing, to anyone who can relate to Aoba: **** you! No human can relate to him.

Mina - First year student, in the swimming club. Relation to Aoba - helps her develop her swimming skills. She is cute, the shy girl of the anime. At first, I didn't dislike her, but as the show goes on, I began to hate her. Why? Because she is pathetic. During episodes 18-20, he cries constantly over Aoba. Why? Because he turned her down? no! Aoba goes on a school trip and forgets to charge his mobile phone. So during these 3 painful episodes, she cries about, "why hasn't he called or messaged me". "I'm so lonely" and all that bullsh*t. Damn girl! It's only been like 3 days, chill out. Have you ever thought maybe he left his phone at home? There is so many reasons why he may not be answering back, but she choose to take the most unlikely reason. "He hates me now, thats why he isn't answering". Are you freakin serious? I guess the writers wanted us to feel pity for her. I'll tell you what, (saying to the writers) if she killed herself because of it, maybe I would simpithize with you, if not shut that bit*h up. Don't mean to be cold hearted, but girls in real life, that act like her, only ends up with husbands who beat them constantly.

Kasuga - Sporty girl. Relation to Aoba - Falls in love with him, when they accidently bump into each other?! The aggressive girl of the anime. I only have one question for this girl... How in the world do you fall in love like that? Because of that accident, she aggressively follows Aoba everywhere he goes, and tries and make him fall in love with her. Being the loser Aoba is, he never really makes a move on her. Let me tell you, if it was me, I woulda fu*ked her already. Hey, blame her!, she's the one seducing me. These are the girls in real life, who you wanna get away from. The way too clingy ones. I pity them, because they are usually the ones guys get their way with, and then leave, cause I know I would.....stupid wh***.

Amamiya - Main girl character. Idol and role model. Relation to Aoba - Classmate, both have a crush on each other. Ah, finally, the only girl that fits into real society. Every male student in the school wants a piece of her, but oddly enough, Aoba is the only person she develops any romantic feelings for. Why? Because writers want to give pathetic losers like Aoba, hopes of getting girls like this. Reality check... girls like this usually ends up with guys that are great at socializing, not shy as* feminine guys like Aoba. If I was Amamiya, I would spit in his face, if I saw him in school. There isn't anything negative I can say about her, because she is the one and only character I do not dislike in this anime. Only thing I wanna ask is "What's Aoba's appeal?".

Overrall, the cast of characters were, in one word, Horrible...Terrible... any negative -ible word.

Value
I beg who ever is reading this, to not believe this can actually happen in real life. I'm pretty sure you guys already know that much though. There is no value in this anime, and please don't take any values it may offer. Maybe just the be friendly aspect of it, because no body likes an as*hole.

Enjoyment
Only enjoyment I got out of this anime, was it's animation and it's cute characters. Besides that, I had to force my way though this anime (Don't like leaving animes unfinished). Every episode I watched episode 15, i was moaning in agony. Don't waste your time on this anime, because there are so many others in the same category that are way better than this. If you need a recommendation, try Honey and Clover. Take if from somebody who has watched every anime that has the tag -comedy and -romance put on it in anidb.telechargertorrent.org, this is by far, the worst one. Please do not this anime in anyway, because if you do, that means I would have to watch another sh*tty a*s anime.