Spoilers This review contains spoilers. Not that theres much to be spoiled but just in case. I never thought my first review would be because of how much I deplored a certain anime but here we are. I am not a professional critic so dont expect too much from this review but I am still trying my best. Note: I always rate anime based completely on enjoyment. But for the sake of this review I will rate each section so you know what I think about it. Keep in mind the final score for this anime is not based off these individual scores but based solely on my enjoyment or lack thereof. Introduction Long story short if you want a forbidden romance anime with better plot better characters better visuals better sound better comedy better ecchi and better everything else I urge you to check out Oreimohttps://anilist.co/anime/8769/Oreimo/ Oreimo isnt even an ecchi and it does ecchi better than this disaster does. Now I will go into slight depth about each of the follow things I just mentioned that Oreimo does better than this anime and why. Sorry in advance for lack of visual images. Maybe in the future I will edit it to include them but currently I have no desire to go back through this anime to find suitable images. All the images used I already know the episode and timestamp of. The Plot: 1.5/10 Ill give you a basic rundown of each episode: Episode 1: Introduction Episode 2: Forgettable isnt every episode though? Episode 3: Cosplays Episode 4: Swimsuit shopping Episode 5: Beach episode AND summer festival episode Episode 6: School culture festival Episode 7: Female mc gets sick and male mc wipes her down in bed Episode 8: Girl spends night in male mcs room Episode 9: Group date to amusement park Episode 10: Group date to amusement park Part 2 As you can see literally every romance / ecchi trope imaginable in a short 10 episodes. Swimsuit shopping cosplay beach summer festival culture festival falling ill amusementpark and more Seems they were too focused on utilizing every one of these tropes instead of the actual plot. The actual plot can be summed up in a single sentence: Male mc is basically the manager for his younger sisters famous novel and soontobe anime. The Characters: 1.0/10 Very basic creatures for a very basic anime down below is a short description of each character and their respective personality: Chikai Towano: The pen name for Suzuka Nagami acted out by Yuu Nagami needed for context. Yuu Nagamihttps://anilist.co/character/128437/YuuNagami: The sole male mc of this anime with a spineless personality and an irritating voice. Suzuka Nagamihttps://anilist.co/character/128436/SuzukaNagami: A tsundere brocon. Shes the best character but also the most basic character with hardly any personality. Ahegao W Peacesenseihttps://anilist.co/character/128438/AhegaoWPeacesensei: A person whos only character trait is being sexual. e.g. Drawing nothing but sexual images working for a sex shop seductively sucking on several food items erotic cosplays literally being called Ahegao Reika Shinozakihttps://anilist.co/character/128444/ReikaShinozaki: Chikai Towanos editor who pops up a few times but like Ahegao W Peacesensei her only character trait is being sexual. Talking to Chikai Towano in the bath tub moaning into the phone putting Towanos hand onto her breast etc. etc. Mai Himurohttps://anilist.co/character/128440/MaiHimuro: A person whos a tsundere who only worries about finding out Chikai Towanos secret to make her manga a better success. Sakura Minazukihttps://anilist.co/character/128443/SakuraMinazuki: A voice actress who is Chikai Towanos biggest fan. She takes on the persona of a clumsy / airheaded person. She gets introduced by tripping over literally nothing and every appearance shes airheaded and just goes with the flow to be with Yuu Nagami. Haruna Kanzakahttps://anilist.co/character/128442/HarunaKanzaka: An annoying brat. Thats it nothing else. Akino Kanzakahttps://anilist.co/character/128441/AkinoKanzaka: The selfappointed pupil of Chikai Towano. She has even less personality than a bag of rocks. Thats literally all the characters in a nutshell. Not a single one of them has any unique personality and some of them have literally no personality at all. Down below I talk more about Yuu Nagami since his character annoys me with every fiber of my being. The Most Annoying Character: Yuu Nagami I dont even have much to say being honest. Ima just show you the images and let them speak for themselves. The Visuals: 1.5/10 Not trying to be rude to the animators but I constantly cringed at the horrid facial expressions constantly displayed by this anime. I have two pretty good photos to sum it up. These arent even the worst of it these are pretty good compared to some other facial expressions. Another thing the anime occasionally decided it would be a good idea to do a sideways shot. I dont know how to explain it so Ill just show you: Most of these are from episode 3 but this happens several times outside of that one episode. That series of 7 images are from 4 seperate episodes so you can see how much it happens. The Sound: 3.0/10 Not gonna lie somewhat decent op and ed even if I only listened to them once. Im a big fan of music and dont usually skip ops / eds but I didnt want to spend any more time in this anime than I had to. Other than that the voice acting was pretty bad wasnt even the VAs fault they just had to play trash characters in a terrible anime so cant blame them. The Comedy: 2.5/10 I did have a few chuckles in this anime but most of the comedic aspects werent well executed. Most of the comedy is simply sexual references or innuendos in an anime where the plot is completely based off ecchi tropes you can imagine how well this went. Here is a perfect example: Warning NSFW: No nudity but just in case it might break the rules The little sister asked: Can you tell me what a panchira is? Of course the male mc freaks out and the audience receives a panchira while the mc freaks out. If you dont know what that means a panchira is basically a panty shot or an upskirt. The panchira used in this comedy isnt even a good one. But just imagine the comedy for the whole anime exactly like this. The Ecchi: 4.5/10 Now Im a fan of ecchi. Its hard for me to complain about ecchi which is why this is the highest rated category but this anime still failed where Im concerned. Obviously I cant provide photo evidence but most of the ecchi was very badly drawn / I felt like the characters were old people anytime they were nude. There were LOTS of boob shots so some are bound to be good but most of them were not. Also lots of bathtub scenes I should have counted. I legitimately felt there was a bathtub scene in every episode there probably is being honest. Not that Im complaining since the bathtub scenes were actually pretty steamy.. ha ha Final Thoughts: 2.0/10 Yeahhh personally I wouldnt recommend this anime to anyone. In fact it was so bad that after watching hundreds of anime I had to write a review just to share my disgust of it. I guess it speaks for itself since the mean score on this anime is in the 40s. Anyways hope my first review wasnt too bad / drawn out / etc. Thanks to whoever read the whole thing and comments / suggestions to improve are always welcomed. : It is much longer than I anticipated. I doubt anyone reads all of this but here are my thoughts on this anime.