Domestic na Kanojo

After having watched too much Shonen, I decided to watch domestic girlfriend. And what would you know? it cured my depression that comes when you only watch Shonen like all the noob anime fans. For 5 million years , we humans have been waiting for the day when god blessed our souls with the show called domestic na Kanajo aka domestic girlfriend. In short, our main character Natsuo bangs a random girl named Rui but his true love is his teacher Hina. Then he finds out that his dad is getting remarried and now Natsuo has 2 step sis : his teacher and Rui. Now, how the fuck does he get out of this situation? you may ask. Well in this situation, does Natsuo try to forget his love for Hina or still try to go out with her? In this show no matter what decision the main character makes, there will still be no happy ending(or is it? no spoilers). what i like about this show are the main/important characters, Rui, Natsuo and Hina. the characters don't hide their feelings and expresses it instead of holding themselves back from the person they love whereas in most romance shows, we barely get a hand holding scene after 3 seasons. this show is definitely entertaining even if you don't like it and will definitely keep you at the edge of your seat for the entirety of its ride. side note : the opening is a fucking banger (no pun intended).

Q: What the hell is this show? A: No answer. Q: Why does it exist? A: I don't know, ask the horny sicko who made this abomination. Q: Why did I start watching this? A: A friend reccomended me it, I didn't know what it was about, and I was too dumb at the time to stop watching. Q: Why did I finish this? A: Wait, I finished this? Q: Why am I writing a review for this? A: Oh, just you wait... Welcome to Domestic Girlfriend, where every plot point is a question and every plot point is never answered. Domestic Girlfriend was written by a horny prepubescent doofus who snorted a little too much nequick chocolate milk powder and got such a high that it can only be described as "exotic", and decided to make this absolute catastrophe. Honestly, if you've seen the show and didn't know who made it, you probably wouldn't be surprised if that was true. How in the actual hell did someone come up with this? No seriously, this is some impressive garbage. Garbage, but it's so garbage that I can't even begin to comprehend how this man/woman thinks. This dumpster fire makes Naruto filler and Orange Is the New Black look like modern masterpieces. In as short as I can possibly summarize the "plot" of this show, it's about this scumbag named Nastuo who has "deep feelings" for his teacher named Hina (for what reason; I have no clue), and then sleeps with this chick named Rui (who is the only slightly tolerable character in this show yet gets treated like garbage on a stick). Then Natsuo's dad announces that he is getting remarried to a woman named Tsukiko. Why specifically these three names? Well let's see the last names' of all three of these characters. Hina Tachibana Rui Tachibana Tsukiko Tachibana OHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOO... Yep, this show is about stone-cold incest and parents so clueless that it should win them both an Oscar. And if that wasn't bad enough, let's get into the flaws of this nuclear wasteland that some people actually call "entertainment". Other than the god awful plot, there is really just three main problems. Natsuo Lopsidedness Hina Natsuo Fujii is the worst main character I have ever seen. This man is an utter piece of garbage, he knows that, he doesn't careabout that, his character design is as generic as can be, and his personality is so bad words can't even describe it. Let's see, Natsuo is boring, clueless, lustful, annoying, bitchy, a dumbass, and an asshole. That's all I gotta say bout him, there are literally no pros to this scumbag. It should be obvious why he's my personal least favorite character of all-time. Lopsidedness may be an understatement. As if this show couldn't get any worse, it does. Even though Rui is a complete suck-up (calling her a simp would be an understatement) to Natsuo in every manner and is the most loyal chick on the planet (who also has the worst taste), Natsuo treats her like a tool and a sandwich maker, and nothing else. Rui is literally one of the only reasons this show was slightly tolerable, yet she gets used like a maid without pay. INSTEAD, scumbag sucks-up to his TEACHER, yes, TEACHER, Hina, even though there is literally nothing special about her and he has zero reason to what actually makes her so special other than "he he, she's hot". Due to this lackluster decision by Natsuo, Rui get's treated like a punching bag for the rest of show (I mean ALL OF IT), while Natsuo continues to show off to the world why he is the scumiest man alive, and continues to simp like a loyal Pokimane donor after his, again, T E A C H E R (and stepsister I should add again). Natsuo would literally cut off his pp with a saw and sell his liver to the black market just to be with this uninspired slut (which she actually is, I'm not just trying to be offensive). Hina. Man, Hina. Not only is Natsuo my least favorite character of all-time, Hina is one of my least favorite female characters of all-time. Yes, Hina is the textbook definition of a slut. Not only does she scold Rui for trying to make moves on Natsuo, while also making advances on him herself, she is also HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH A MARRIED MAN. Yeah, I rest my case. Now period, Natsuo should just move on and find someone outside his family to date like a normal human being, but remember this was written by a even bigger lust-filled idiot than Natsuo himself, so that option has been off the table for a while because in the words of Rui Tachibana, herself: "It's not like we're related by blood or anything". This show isn't just appalling because of the plot, it's also just a horrible romance, drama, and comedy. Even if you removed the god awful incest element, you would still get a horrid show that doesn't know what it is and strives off it's shock factor-filled plot. Mom, Dad, I am so sorry I watched this, please forgive my year younger self. I've learned not to watch stuff like this anymore. Should you watch this? Absolutely not. Bye.

I bealive for me personally 10/10 without a doubt It's THE BEST anime i have ever seen and the score is that only because of his decent<bad ending. The Story Goes Like That: We Begin with our main character who loves his sensei but hasn't told her.After that we have a girl in his age which just met him and wants to have sex with him just for fun and nothing else (He does bang her :0).After we meet our character and the 2 girls his father tells him he wants to marry a new women and make a new family after his mother's death.He accepts and the women which his father chose has 2 daugters the teacher and the girl he bang (Rui) Which they deside to live together in a house.The Main Character still loves the teacher and Rui slowly falls in love with him I bealive the anime has really good story line and personally deserves the no1 place as the best anime i have ever seen.The story has some missanderstands insinde which if you are a begginer anime watcher or even you have watched some you won't get but after all it's really good and i really will say Watch It

Domestic Girlfriend is a show where the more I think about it, the more it confuses me. Not in the sense that any aspect of it is particularly arcane of difficult to understand, but in the sense that I’m not sure how anyone looked at the complete set of choices that went into writing this story and adapting it for animation and thought “Yeah, this is the best possible direction to go in.” It’s a show with a horribly mangled sense of self, a steamy, smutty piece of junky melodrama being forced into the mold of a contemplative, lofty "art house” piece for no discernible reason. I have no idea what possessed the production team to adapt this story in a way so fundamentally at odds with itself, but I do know that the end result is a potentially interesting story wasted on one of the most dull, wrong-headed productions in recent memory. How people can call this wet blanket of a show “spicy” makes no sense to me. Devilman Crybaby was spicy; this barely registers at bell pepper levels on the Scoville Scale. At the very least, Domestic Girlfriend is spicy in concept: a guy loses his virginity to a girl he’s just met despite having a crush on his teacher, only to find out that thanks to his dad’s unexpected remarriage, both the girl he slept with and the teacher he’s in love with are now his step-sisters. It’s a situation straight out of a hentai, only with an admirable grounding in more realistic human interaction. There’s a welcome attention to detail in the writing that plays fair with everyone’s various emotional complexes and does a decent job keeping them all balanced. Sex is treated with a degree of nuance and respect, with the characters able to fumble their way decently around an erotic situation without descending into dysfunctional piles of hormones like so many other anime characters. It’s still smut, to be sure, with no shortage of scenes of walking in on someone naked and tantalizing trysts, but it’s smut with a brain in its head. And had Domestic Girlfriend been willing to capitalize more on its sleazy-but-smart aspects, I think it could have made for a uniquely compelling piece of indulgent fun. Unfortunately, someone somewhere in the production team decided that for whatever reason, this kind of story would be best treated as a Serious Adult Drama(tm) that people should watch with a glass of their most expensive wine in hand. So instead of cleverly entertaining erotic scenarios, everything is instead sanded down and trussed up in its best expensive tuxedo, all morose piano music and dull, underplayed performances. It feels like it’s trying to capture the same sense of reality that Rakugo Shinju was aiming for, which is possibly the worst fit for this material I could imagine. This is a show in which the main character at one point must shove a suppository up his sister’s ass in a one-off beat that never comes up again, and the discordance between moments like that and its sub-Oscar-Bait presentation make it feel like someone spliced a porno into Midnight in Paris and tried to present that freakish amalgamation as a complete product. And then it can’t even do the self-seriousness right; the entire production is so soul-deadeningly boring from start to finish. It’s not so much janky as it is nonexistent, with only the most standard and unpurposeful of camera and editing techniques used. There’s no energy to any scene, no good animation to speak of, no interesting direction, the blandest possible background art, and it all ends up feeling so... empty. Not empty in a purposeful way, but empty like a blank piece of paper that got drenched in the rain and is currently floppy and squishy like pulp. And it’s so blisteringly obvious that this wasn’t how the story was intended to be told, because there are little moments of just sheer wackiness peppered throughout that brace against its supposedly realistic portrayal. Certain expressions, reactions, conversations and side characters are clearly designed to fit an overall goofier, un-self-serious tone. Natsuo and Rui, the protagonist and his sex friend/sister, have a moment in episode 2 where he tries to coach her in how to talk to people, and their ensuing conversation spirals so out of control that I was reminded of nothing less than the best non-sequiter verbal sparring matches in Gintama. And speaking of Gintama, two characters literally stake out a third while comically munching on anpan at one point. It’s in these bizarre little moments of incongruent wackiness that Domestic Girlfriend comes alive and you see the show it could have- and SHOULD have- been. How did anyone think this was supposed to be taken entirely seriously? There’s a Bad Engrish transfer student AND a camp gay bartender, for crying out loud. Whoever thought that kind of source material deserved this kind of flavorless pasteboard treatment should be fired on the spot. I could honestly keep complaining; the pacing of the final act is absurdly rushed, there’s a character who’s given a whole episode of introduction, build-up and closure before never being relevant to the plot again, but I figure it’s best to leave it here. Domestic Girlfriend is just boring, with occasional moments of intrigue and enjoyment when the show it should have been peeks through. It doesn’t deserve any more consideration than that.

Honestly, I feel most people who dislike this anime as much as they do just cannot relate to the type of romantic struggles the characters are going through. I would not recommend it to the younger audience if they do not have the empathy to watch it unbiased. It's honestly a really good adult anime, and you can tell the author of the manga expressed herself through the story. I've watched a lot of romance anime and it's one of the more mature, down to earth adult romance anime series I've come across. There are numerous times where somebody said something or made a choice I felt was extremely mature and unlike other conversations in other anime. Do you have the awareness to stop a kiss when you sense they are uncomfortable? Or step away when dependency is occurring rather than romance? The symbolism and topics here are deeper than RomCom anime, and the choices made are meant to be hard, and maybe not make sense to some (but love doesn't always make sense, does it?) Do you make the realistic, long-term choice even if it leads to sadness? Or do you opt to accept how things are to enjoy a moment of happiness even if it isn't realistic.. It's worth watching to find out.

Ill keep it under 200 words. "100% Spoiler free" Domestic na Kanojo is definitely a "R+ - Mild Nudity" anime, and there will be enough fanservice for those who are looking for it. But still, it strives to tell "an actual story" and let its characters evolve, mess up, think and react, as capable sentient beings (wich is a true rarity this days, specially in this genere) who will doubth, regret and let themselves be happy accordingly. This anime will appeal to you if like me, you like lewd animes, but not dumb ones were nothing matters and every action is temporal, also were the story is just a filler between lewd scenes. now, you might be asking, why give it an over all "8"? well, that's because I´m striving to be fair, and if you pay attention, you can see where the budget was an issue while making this anime. still this is the most enjoyable 8 I´ve given. If i had to describe Domestic na Kanojo in the fewest words possible, it'd be. "a surprise for sure, but a welcome one".

This is probably going to be the only anime I ever review on this site. I am leaving this review because how utterly terrible this is as an anime. I personally don't see how a single soul could like it. I may have been slightly fine with it when I was 15, but as an adult, it is vile. The amount of awkward shots that last for 10 seconds and have no audio at all is pain inducing. The predictability of the plot is boring. There was a multitude of times where I wanted to stop watching because of the combination of the last two points, but I had to force myself to to finish it. The way the characters treat each other is absolutely insane. From what I've heard, the pacing is terrible. I can't get behind this show at all, and I enjoyed kiss x sis when I watched it (tho that was about 4 years ago). The MC is one of the most disgusting people I've ever seen with no consideration for others and more eccentricity than any other romance MC I know of. The only reason I gave a single point to this abysmal show is because of Rui. She deserves justics. Also the OP is an absolute banger.

This show is the ultimate paradox. It’s a 10 because it’s a 1. It throws rating convention out the window. It sacrifices everything that makes a normal show good for raw entertainment value. Everyone calls it a dumpster fire, but let’s be clear, here - Franxx is a dumpster fire. This is a dumpster conflagration, a blaze so large and so bright that it somehow becomes beautiful again. If you inhale just deeply enough, really allowing the fumes to fill your lungs – trust me, you can get a pretty good high off this thing. There are a great number of criticisms, both superficial and reasonable, that you can levy against it. Almost every single decision the protagonist makes is the wrong one. All of the characters, really, do things that defy explanation. The twists and turns are wild. You HAVE to have a sense of humor – It’s so excruciatingly messy that if you don’t laugh, you’ll just be uncomfortable. Your level of satisfaction will be 100% based on the mindset you enter it with. If you hold the story accountable for how utterly nonsensical it is, you’re not gonna enjoy it. If you choose to simply accept the experience and see where it takes you, you might. There’s no 'right' answer, but the second way is a hell of a lot more fun. Oh yeah, and the OP actually slaps. Easily in my top 3 of all time. So if you live in a prison of your own mind to the degree that fictional depictions of mild taboo absolutely sicken you, then yes, stay away. But if you have a sense of humor, an appreciation for absurdity, and a healthy relationship with your morals, I can't recommend this enough. For all its flaws, it is legitimately one of the most entertaining shows I've ever seen - and if you're in for more, may just lead you to a manga that defies your expectations. There's no guarantee you'll enjoy it as much as I did, but I implore you to consider all the boring, uninspired anime you’ve ever watched that you can no longer even remember – and know that, at the very least, this won’t be one of them.

No spoilers. Oh god my eyes, it burns, help me, oh god the incest, make it stop. I was searching for a nice romance anime to watch... but I stumbled onto this monstrosity that Satan himself would turn his eyes away from. There are so many things bad about this show but here are the main things. The Good: The op was ok and the animation was alright. The Bad: Really gross, tons of step-incest, barely got through it without puking, most of the story is bad romance cliches. The Ugly: Pre-marital sex and incestual cuckholding. In short: Poorly written and extremely gross.

ONLY HONEST REVIEW--------------------------------------- The show is pretty bad, terrible and lazy animation, bad character development or lack of. but it gets a 10/10 for having one of the greatest openings and closings in anime history. The story in the OP is better than the main story in the show, the music is beautiful and very emotional. all the main anime story characters are dumb and it relies on cliche and tropes instead of subverting anything or having good writing. may as well be domestic isekai without power fantasy. There's no full sex scenes and any other adult moments like the original materiel its just implied or time skipped. character is dumb blank slate male with no redeeming qualities.

TL;DR Review This anime deserves every single award I can think of. "Biggest Disappointment of the Season Award." "The Biggest Waste of Time Award." The Most Unromantic Romantic Anime of the Season Award." The list could go on! The point is, this was a massive disappointment. The way the main character approaches and solves his problem is poorly done and super repetitive. 1. Finds Problem. 2. Confronts Person. 3. Yell. 4. Kiss Step Sister. 5. Repeat. Every single time, no kidding. I saw Instagram posts about this anime for so long, and I waited 12 weeks to binge watch this garbage... Really? 80% incest, 15% love, 5% what the actual fuck... - Spacecraft555 UwU

Romance is one of the genres that will become successful if the audiences could feel the characters and emotion linked to one another towards the story. Combined it with drama then the important element of pacing and the story placement are number one that needs to be well created. When characters already exist, despite good or bad the concept is, it won’t work without emotion at all. It goes the same as the drama genre. In a worse case, it definitely won’t get better when it doesn't have both elements mentioned before. And that’s just what happened in Domestic na Kanojo. The story is nothing but rubbish as same as how the main characters and the others ( or not so important characters that actually don’t need to explain or even created in this series) frankly speaking about their life problem to get any solution. But it didn’t give any good impact at all. The good concept about forbidden love that they put in through this series is just only good as a synopsis, nothing more. With no clarity of how the story will go by the confused state of the characters, it just leaves more depressing feeling to the audiences from start to the end of the series. The ending itself is still questionable with no explanation. It all feels just like when someone wants to go to the theater but ends up in a funhouse anyway. And not all of the funhouse was even “funny”. Some of the characters in this series are uniquely annoying in their own way. And some others popped suddenly before the audience got full definition and learn the intention of another character. There’s just one character in this series that truly steady but the rest are horrible. Much unimportant dialogue content that doesn’t need to be expand showed in a more longer time than focus on their main problem. Diomedea staff needs to know that no matter how much they want to make a different way to tell their “own romance story” they can’t just blankly put dialogue into a character that could ruin their first impression by the audiences like pushing a big plate of chicken into little child’s mouth. It will get stuck and gave an unpleasant moment for them. The distribution between the main role and the support one are not evenly balanced. How they solve their conflict are just unnatural and felt like affectation just to fit the condition of the story. Two aspects that may become the hero of the series is their art and music. But still, both of the sections still got a mistake in the process. When someone realizes that they already watch this anime and felt unimpressed by the presentation in the middle but didn’t want to drop it just to see how the story will end, then at that time they would be able to found any fault there’s available in the series, even the little one. For example, the art was fine but they often used frozen animation which limits the movement of the characters. It well received and tolerable though as long as it didn’t ruin the story. On the other hand, the music or sound section is the best part, the opening and ending are beautiful but again there’s a time when they put a little touch to background music that did not turn well. They cannot put a light-hearted melody when there are serious events that showed in. It messed up the atmosphere and could stop the audience to feel the character’s emotion more. The biggest enjoyment of this show is how “funny” the characters behave towards the story. In the end, the drama and romance that becomes the main genre were not satisfying at all. Not even make feel the audience touched or relate to the character to understand them better. Other than waifus, the audience won’t get beautiful with meaningful story, they won’t get the feeling the emotion of mainly all of the character’s side and point of view just like any drama genre and they won’t get a nice ending either. But instead, they will get a big hole of DISAPPOINTMENT. And that is why “Domestic na Kanojo, one of the failed example of anime drama romance genre that ever aired.”

Domestic na Kanojo starts really well with beautiful art and decent animations, attractive story line and characters. Story starts with a student who falls in love with his teacher but realizes that she might have not any feelings for him, so he does a one night stand with a random girl. 2 episodes in and the story gets easily predictable and cringy, but spiced up with half hentai scenes. The enjoyment is there, but those moments when what you thought of would happen and you have to see it uncomfortably takes away the fun. Main 3 Characters were presented in a good way and you could feel their emotions, but understandably others were w/o decent backstory or screen time. Overall, the anime can keep you going to see what is going to happen. But unfortunately no satisfying end to a first weak season.

There are not many anime that have love stories like Domestic na Kanojo. It takes the theme of a melancholic teen love story about unrequited and forbidden love, and quickly turns into something full of conflict in it. Most of the Domestic na Kanojo actors consist of hypocrites who are upset with the fate of their love. Two sisters with opposing personalities live in the same house as the male protagonist. Sometimes they act unreasonably, and can change their attitude to willingness, surrender to love. After all, love is a difficult thing, and teenagers are at the most confusing stage of their lives. But it becomes a question if what they feel is love in the first place when they can easily find someone else instead, sleeping with anyone who shows them even a little love. It's very possible that Rui and Natsuo might just fall in love with things like strangers. Because they were the first people to give them that love. While a woman like Hina is undoubtedly possessed by a very twisted worldview, it becomes a wonder how she can even fulfill her duties as a teacher. She thinks that being an adult will always act wisely but in fact isn't. She finally reached the point where she ignored his principles so far and decided to become a person who thinks rationally. Each of the three main gets their turn to tell on many occasions, which are not good for explaining their motivations and feelings and for making them feel like the right protagonists rather than mere accessories for slaughter, even if some receive less significant characterizations. From the other. Just showing two characters having sex or making out one another is not nearly the same as when accompanied by narration. When arranged with the anime's emotional soundtrack, some dialogues almost feel enthralling, and kisses can bring strength, even if it is between two people who really have no business kissing each other in the first place. It's quite unfortunate to have anime that isn't brave enough to draw sex in an honest way. I will admit that I am very interested in Domestic na Kanojo. This is not because this is a bad anime, but because it aims to convey how true love is, which only contains pain and tears. Domestic na Kanojo is about as far as anime is as fun as possible, and it never really aims to fill that gap with a lot of substance or meaning. The starting and ending points are the same. Indeed, the industry of anime is now soaring in every time one of them is Diomedea, after producing extraordinary works they are now increasingly improving their quality from time to time. Domestic na Kanojo has amazing animation quality, ranging from details in the background to extraordinary ligthing effects and camera angles that help bring the atmosphere of the scene to a different level than the others. But besides that this is a visual pleasure that surpasses almost everything I've ever experienced. Most of them are also getting better in the sound quality section starting from the opening theme, background, and closing themes. Rock songs, melancholy, etc. are in this series. But the highlight is the opening theme which has reportedly been rising since the series's premiere. Love is blind, as the saying goes, but in this case they also have to be blind in the literal sense. Maybe they want to feel bad. Maybe they just want to feel emotions, any emotions. But I will make sure you feel something.

story was fine, character motives were appalling, ending of the manga sucks worse than a Hoover. Only way to watch this show is to get to the bottom of the bottle with friends. watch at your own risk natsuo is a loose cannon, teacher-san is bad news, Rui hachimura is like one of the few redeemable characters. The fruity bar tender is kinda funny you will only enjoy this series if you cant remember it (please use ANY methods of inebriation to help get you there) teacher san needs to find God or something, smoke some weed more information to help filler: me and my friends made fake show called "I got reincarnated as my mom? what the hell" following a reincarnation of the MC as his own mom and he finally learns about his mom's crazy work schedule

When i first saw this anime, i was still an innocent wee man and.. hell, this sh*t for real traumatised me! i started to hate japanese R+ anime from that day forward. I still cant cope with that and im afraid of rewatching this anime again although im kinda interested to rewatch because a lot of people talk about this anime in particular. Now, i just watch iyashikei, CDGCT(Cute Girls Doing Cute Things) and some LGBT(GL, Genderbend, BL and so on) anime. Thanks, Domestic Girlfriend. Its basically kinda like incest.. but not because its a step siblings(its plural because.. iykyk) but.. Also, i cant remember the story and just fraction, i dont know if this feelings are real or just exaggeration but i really cant bring myself to rewatch it so i cant really tell.

Idk why ppl giving it such low ratings. In my opinion Domestic Girlfriend is a 10 out of 10 modern masterpiece. Every episode has you at the edge of your seat, every minute that passes gets increasingly more "Spicy". It's just the peak of enterntainment. An undefeatable beauty of an anime. 10/10 would recomend, best anime ever made. Nah but for real, as ridiculous as the premise is, It's pretty fucking enterteining, there is no denying that, and at the end that's what matters the most to me. I will defenetly rewatch it, It's just that good. I get that this type of entertaining may not be for everyone but for me it's a perfet 10 out 10.

I know this might sound ridiculous to some people but " Domestic Girlfriend" is my favorite romance anime of all time. I have enjoyed anime since i was a freshman in high school and had no friends (just kidding). Me and my classmates were falling for a teachers all the time and some were even successful. Domestic Girlfriend was spot on in portraying the essence of a teenager going through romantic and domestic challenges. The character of Natsuo was not just a generic nice guy, he had a lot of flaws which made him relatable but nothing compared to Rui. To me Rui was the real star, she reminded me of my cousin who was the glue that holds the family together. She also didn't like to socialize until meeting people who were not offended by her. Rui is also a force to be wreck en with when she is strong and extremely vulnerable when she is week. All in all shortest and best review you will read about this anime because most people aren't a fan of incest, well they aren't related by blood so get over it because it happens more in reality that it does on tv and it just makes the anime more realistic if you ask me.

[spoiler free] Wow Where to begin with this mess of a show... For starters Domestic Girlfriend follows the story of a young high school boy who develops romantic interest in his relatively young teacher which then ends up becoming his sister in law, something of a unique story in of itself but surprisingly normal coming from the anime/manga spectrum. At first i was skeptical about watching this show but as i didint rly have anything to watch at the time i decided just to go for it. Turns out that decision is something i wont regret. The unique story was able to play with elements you normally arent able to get from other romance shows which created this mega guilty pleasure for me which ended throughout the entire season. Each and every moment was sparkled with this pleasure making the most basic "touching scenes" a stream of enjoyment, and the basic bright art-style complimented that. I dont think this is something you should watch if you're new to anime but this is definitely something i recommend those that have watched romance for a relatively decent time as i would call it a MUST-WATCH for those.

I started writing the script for this review within the first 2 hours I started watching this anime, it now being 1:30 in the morning. And all I can say about this anime is how gut wrenching it is. It’s not blood, gore or any sort of horror that’s made me feel this way. But rather it’s a heart issue. Issues of love; the characters coming to understand that emotion. And the feeling of that love being unrequited is making my heart ache, as I can’t help but empathise with the male protagonist. We continue to watch this anime yearning for a peaceful ending. Resolution and reconciliation between characters. And it’s my hope that comes in time as I continue to watch the anime. At this point this anime has had no issue manifesting an array of emotions inside me. I’ve felt sad to the point of tears, angry to the point of screaming, and a dull ache where my heart strings are being pulled that I can only attribute to feelings of jealousy. Only 6 episodes into this anime, while not a masterpiece, has had the power to move me. And after thinking long about how this anime is able to invoke so many emotions in the viewer.. I came to a simple conclusion... This anime, unlike many other romance anime out there, portrays a realistic view of romance and the brokenness of human relationships. It’s romance in the real world where not everything is straight forward. An anime where romance isn’t like fairytales or the princess and prince. But rather a story filled with unrequited love and love triangles, and then, along with that, jealousy, lust, adultery, unfulfilled desire and awkwardness as the cast navigate their way through their own sexuality. It’ll only be another 24 hours until I finish the anime that I can reflect on these feelings I’ve put on paper and properly review the anime. I’ve resumed the script for this review at 1am the next day, having now fully completed the anime. And now, after full absorbing this series I can say that I haven’t been moved by an anime in this way since I saw Re:Zero or Mysterious Girlfriend X. While not a masterpiece there are so many great features to this anime that I’ll look at following our standard review pattern with story, characters, art and sound. The story revolves around a boy named Natsuo Fuji who falls in love with his teacher named Hina. His father ends up marrying Hina’s mother, and so they begin cohabitation. The story explores the relationship between Natsuo, Hina and Hina’s sister called Rui. The focal point of the anime story is around romance, and as I’ve mentioned earlier this is done in a way that I didn’t expect. You see this anime depicted the reality of what some romance turn out to be. The challenge of being with someone, and the despair of rejection is something that many people can empathise with. So because the anime is this way, the story was mainly driven by the characters and developed as they continued to interact with one another. A key aspect of the story and of the character relationships that honestly isn’t for everyone, is the taboo being openly explored. In this anime you’ll see relationships build between a child and adult, and between a brother and sister. And I feel there are people who, for them, this turns them away from the anime. But for me, it wasn’t something that fazed me. Perhaps because it’s a common occurrence in anime, that the boundaries are often pushed. Or maybe it’s because I’ve seen it in anime before that I was desensitised to the idea. But at the core of this anime is romance, sweet, sad and real. And upon reflection it could possibly be that the very fact the anime pushes these boundaries makes it so engaging. The viewer is kept on the edge of seat in fear for the protagonists, are they going to be found out? Or will she reciprocate his feelings? We are left in heart ache wanting the best outcome for the characters and that’s part of what makes the story so engaging. The story ends on a what seems like cliffhanger. With a little resolution.. Leaving the viewer in shock and yearning to see more. A perfect strategy to sell sequel volumes of the manga. The characters in this anime were great in a sense that they were relatable. But if I could say there was a let down anywhere in the anime I would say the characters weren’t at their peak. I honestly just felt like they weren’t developed enough. And for a romance anime this is key. We didn’t know much about Natsuo, just the fact that he simply loved Hina and is an aspiring novelist. Rui was made out to be someone who also loved books, but that passion was rarely a bonding point between Natsuo and Rui. And Hina was just a teacher that looked cute. There was so much focus on the drama that we lost some character development when it was clearly needed. Regardless I still loved the characters, they were drawn well, had amazing voice actors behind them and were relatable. So as for the art and sound. In terms of the art, I think it was done well. It was clean, and with the combination of the amazing voice acting and art, the characters emotions were brought forth so powerfully. It was so easy to see their anguish, their feelings of hopelessness, and even when they succumbed to their libido and desires. The sound and art apart from this were done to a high standard, and while it honestly wasn’t something I noticed. Upon reflection I can see the effect it had on the viewer. So finally, while not a masterpiece this anime was powerful. It moved me, made me feel what the characters were feeling, and I got sucked into the world desperate to see resolution. Hence why I’m still awake at 1:45 typing this review. This anime is great for anyone who wants to see a romance anime that is real, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who hates taboo topics or romance that pushes the boundaries. Domestic Girlfriend is an anime that is truely unique in its own way and will leave you wanting more. A perfect strategy to sell sequel volumes of the manga.