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| This season finale got the most romance shoujo episode possible. Also, Serina really did become such a good friend for Uka. Happy that she is able to grow out of her timid self since the start of the series. Uka and Kai had their moment together one last time. Tears just came pouring down Uka's face like pouring rice. An emotional finale but well delivered imo. So much emotions all around. |
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| Yeah, you know things are serious when we get that name drop... in the first minute of the FINAL episode. I mean, as if things weren't already serious after that cliffhanger last episode lol. Confession and kiss all in less than a minute. Yeah, Uka's not wrong for thinking it was a dream... Because on TOP of all that, SHE ALSO GOT A FUCKING LOVE LETTER??? Being someone who's still in the process of going through her first love, it'd make sense why she'd be confused and not know what to do. Thankfully, while Serina is her rival, she's still willing to help out her fellow friend whenever she needs it. Uka's blessed to have friends like her now... truly. And it gives her the courage to ask Kai it once more... to which, this time, he's the one who say's it first.. "I like you". Those words, no matter what romance it is, will always make me kick my feet in the air. And Uka being embarrassed the day after when the meet.. yeah. But... somehow Uka thinks they aren't dating yet LOL. Don't worry though, because if Uka thought they weren't dating, well, now the whole school know that they ARE dating <3 And thus, ends the show like that. Couldn't have asked for a better finale to finally solidify my final thoughts that, yeah, I loved this show from start to end. Few iffy episodes here and there, but the great ones overshadow them, by a lot. There was clearly production issues here, it's JC Staff we're talking about, if even their golden child, Danmachi, experienced the production issues of hell, this was gonna experience some as well. But if with those, there were episodes in this show that managed to do the most they could with the production issues, and those episodes were easily some of the greatest this season. Makes you think that with time, how much better this show really could've been. Not that, it wasn't great already. Don't even get me started on that soundtrack as well.. actually godlike. Gives me major Silent Voice vibes, as well at the whole show gave me those vibes. Really hate the anti-shoujo bias on this website. It's unrealstic sometimes, yeah, but I mean, this is fiction, it dosen't have to realstic all the time. |
IzanaSolosMar 26, 9:36 AM
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| Uka's true feelings from her heart to Miura, it's not a dream with her confession and his kiss. Even the next day, Uka finding herself rejecting her own feelings towards Miura, as the others hear from Uka about her confession. But to think that she would receive a bouquet of flowers from the Senpais whom Kai tolerated, the love letter certainly was out of touch since she wasn't ready to date yet. Still, Uka thinking that she would be a liability to Kai, to which he has proven otherwise time and time again thanks to Kanna getting her point straight to her, though she still needs some time to process her feelings. Miura meeting Uka privately to settle her feelings and make things clear of the 8 months that he has got to know and fall in love with her, Uka clearly is a girl in love whose feelings just want to shout out from her heart that she's dating him, which Kai can respond easily that he is, but that Uka still can't get that point across...until the morning assembly that finally, makes their relationship official. Ending in the most traditional Shoujo way possible, only Honey Lemon Soda can pull this off. It's kind of trash Shoujo, but the good trash. |
KANLen09Mar 26, 10:54 AM
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| “Honey lemon soda, all that time I was searching for you” AHHHHHH. A CONFESSION AND KISS AND DATING??!! I won. I’m over here covering my face and blushing lol. This episode was a rapid fire burst of emotions, but you can’t ask for a better finale to a romance anime. They left nothing out and perfectly set us up to want to read more!! I’m going to miss Uka and Kai so much 😭 I’m so proud of Uka. It’s a night and day difference between her now and at the start of the show and the coolest part of this episode was that it was HER taking the initiative to change things in her life. For so long, she’s let things be dictated to her whether it was her dad or bullies or the world in general. She stood up for herself today and said forget waiting, I’m gonna get the guy of my dreams and I love that for her! That kiss is giving me so much life too 😩 Doubling down on the confession and then not being ok with the status quo, but directly asking Kai to go out with her was soooo cute. The animation during that scene was so good too. They really cooked up with the production values at the end here! Wish we could’ve started that way. F’s in the chat for Marin though lmao poor thing got rejected last week and then loses Kai for good this week. Tough “Something is beginning” indeed! This is really just the start of Uka’s new life with Kai. So many things she’s missed out on because of her social anxiety and not having friends, and now she’ll get that chance to just be a normal high schooler. We will be reading for more! |
Marinate1016Mar 26, 11:37 AM
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| The anime ended with a bang. And it ended with a relationship they way it's should. I wonder how the couple will progress from here tho and i wonder if there will be another anime. Guess i have to pick up the manga and see. |
| From a stone unnoticed by anyone to a gemstone precious enough for Kai to show off to the world. Couldn't have asked for a happier conclusion for Uka. Also, I'm sorry, I don't even particularly dislike Marin but her dramatic post-"speech" breakdown cracked me up hard enough to almost overshadow the sweetness of the moment LOL |
| Fantastic Finale Miura and Uka just seem so perfect for each other and are always cute together. |
| however boring the early episodes were, the last few episode were good and the finale too, I'm happy with how the whole confession spanned over the entire last episode and it wasn't just a single huge moment of fireworks etc. |
| T-T I'm so proud and happy of Uka-chi, I loved this show, it wasn't over dramatic and that final episode was lovely. Now how long until we get Ayumi's spin off where she also find her happiness with Satoru. |
| Strange to say, but Uka sticking her head in the her locker was inexplicably cute. Best girl Ayumi flipping out over Uka's romance was very cute. "Ishimori, please date me. Everyone please refrain from talking during the assembly." What a goddamn troll, LMAO, and tip o' the hat Bro. Overall season: Decent story, but not remarkable. Shy, bullied, depressed, frightened girl meet handsome, assholier than thou yet also kind, reserved boy. She has a lot of character development in a 3 steps forward 1 step back cycle of progress. He has a bit of character development. They fall in love and forthrightly confess. Animation mid to mediocre. Too much inner dialogue leaving not enough space for interaction and dialogue between characters. I liked A Condition Called Love last year better. 7 |
| Lord Cruelty V "But my Dreams they're not as empty, as my conscience seems to be" |
| Wasn't blown away by it but it wasn't half bad Wonder if it's gonna get a second season tbh |
  "When the time is yours, the future is waiting, The person you become, and the people you're creating." |
| And so we end with a beginning...of dating...made public in the flashiest way imaginable!!! XD Damn, accidentally voted 5/5 instead of 4/5 as I meant to in the poll. Oh well. My thoughts on this show are pretty basic. On the whole it was nothing special, but it scratched that generic shoujo fluffy love itch well enough. For a bit there I thought it might rise above it and be something special, but then that father arc left a bad taste in my mouth and that was the end of that. But hey, sometimes you just want some standard genre junk food, ya know? And as I smiled during that over the top date request scene I knew full well my hunger had been fed, and adequately. 7/10 Also, that ending theme was pretty catchy, maybe a dark horse for Top 5 of the winter season. The animation to go with it was cute too, but Kai's licking upwards always felt so creepy to me. Maybe not as much as his actually smiling in that last scene though lol. Awww who am I kidding? It was cute. And I'd watch more if we got it, assuming there's more source material left of course. |
| What an amazing evolution of Uka: from being bullied, seen as a stone and too shy to express herself, to finally coming out of her shell. With Kai's arrival and Uka's own efforts, everything changed. It was a great ending, with a kiss and both of them fully acknowledging their feelings. It may not be the best romance anime out there, but it still brought a few tears to my eyes. I hope it continues with another season. |
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| This was a good wrap up to the show which served to finally bring Kai and Uka together. I think Kai properly confessing on stage was cute and very funny. Overall I think this show is very good it has a strong cast of characters but some pretty poor background characters but I mean that don't matter that much. Definitely a lot left to be desired such as not getting really any real background on Kai, Not getting much on tomoya either. I think though Kai, Uka, Serina especially, Ayumi and somewhat Tomoya were all very good characters I just whish we got more depth to Kai and Tomoya. I think comparing this to the anime "Say I love you" generally I think Say I love you done it better but in a sense I think Uka had a better representation of a character such as her. Overall a good show but fell short in a few aspects 8/10 |
| yeah cute, we need season 2. 6/10 |
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| definetly got better as the show progressed, but i still feel strange rating this any higher than a 7. its mainly just a personal gripe, but so many times during the show i had to pause for a little bit because it felt so awkward. |
| I've been thinking a lot how I feel about this anime and I still haven't fully decided. I think the reason is that I believe the story is excellent (8/10) but the presentation is awful (3/10). It also doesn't help that there are two episodes, 6 and 11, that are truly 3/10 with how they presented the content they adapted. On the other hand, many episodes are incredible, easy 8/10, and a typical episode is 6 to 7. The best way I can think of to resolve this issue and decide on a score is to try rating the show as if it was an original series. Through this lens, I would call the anime average to bad, for trying something unique but not managing to make it work. This is the hardest series for me to rate that I have ever watched and I can easily see me giving this anything from 3 to 8. Today's score will be 4.75/10... I guess... |
| great ep once again it was beautiful Kai,him again knows better what is good for her, hummm can't wait to see a second 2 8/10 |
| if you hated this episode/chapter, just watch/read something else... IG (https://www.instagram.com/otakuweek?igsh=em5kY3Q4NTVtNXlh) Discord (https://discord.gg/vbZrk64uH7) |
| I have two questions. Why do 90% of the girls in their school look like kogal and why are the girls the ones happy that Kai got a girlfriend while the guys look annoyed, lmao? |
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| Good finale. Gotta hand it to Uka in the previous episode when she didn't ask Kai to date her, but instead spoke from her heart about her true feelings saying she'd like to be his girlfriend instead. They seem somewhat similar, and they are, yet a bit different. And then when he kissed her, she thought it was a dream, turned out it was reality, so the next step is for any of the 2 to actually ask the other to date him/her. Kai then just asked her to date him after Uka just asked him to date her? The frig? Like, is that your way of saying "sure, let's date"? Cuz i think i just said how the answer is supposed to be, i would've just preferred if any of the parties, you know, asked the other & the other actually directly answered, but that was not the case, instead you get 2 lovey-dovey Uka & Kai just casually asking the same question to each other without any of the 2 actually answering the other, haha. But i guess whatever, it is what it is, i hope for a season 2 although i was a bit upset that i did not receive any notifications for a 2nd season, so this might be a forgotten one in the future, yet i hope not. I hope it gets renewed for a 2nd season, if there actually is a continuation of the manga, but if there ain't and this is just it, then good show, was a fun ride while it lasted. |
SkuvanMar 26, 2:59 PM
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@Skuvan Just read the manga
| @SoulReaper85 Easier said than done. I have many mangas & manhwas on my list before i get to this one cuz i'm currently reading Onimai, but sure, i might one day. |
| Miura is the CHAD! Confess his love to her IN FRONT OF EVERYONE! If there is a male vote this year again, I am voting for Miura. ^__^ |
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| Well this was just some pure sweetness of a finale, they kinda had us for a bit that Uka might retract her boldness when she was delirious, there was even the love letter which seemed like it might cause issue, but nope Uka doubled down and Kai responded in full, the classroom scene between the two of them was amazing stuff, I never knew so much tears could be produced by such a small girl lol. And even after that it seemed like Uka might fall back, but again she doubled down and asked Kai out in front of everyone at the morning assembly, and what does Kai do? Bro takes full advantage and sets things in stone before everyone, that’s gonna make for hell of a “how I met your mother” story lol. That was absolutely golden tho, such a good way to end the show, even if there’s more manga from here it really does make for a good stopping point, of course I’d love to see more but I feel very satisfied after seeing that. And that was it for the soda that is honey and lemon flavored, I’m not the biggest shoujo guy and haven’t seen many of them, but what I have seen has been really good, and I think this show sits right up there with them, I really enjoyed it. Uka is by far one of the cutest female MCs I’ve seen in any anime, she’s so damn sweet and I loved her journey from being someone that could barely speak to making her own decisions for herself by the end, Kai complimented her very nicely too, even if there were times where he seemed not so trustworthy lol. And the ost man, that really took this show to a different level, what it didn’t do in animation and at times pacing, it did in artwork and music, there were a few times where I felt the ost went on a bit too long but it was so good that I didn’t really mind it, it’s definitely an anime ost I’ll return to frequently, same with the bops that were the OP and ED. It would be really nice if this got another season one day, but as I said before, I’m fine with it ending here too, but I’ll never turn down more Uka and Kai content if it were to come around! |
| Miura, the madlad, had the balls to go up to address the whole school at the assembly and asked Uka out right then and there before walking off the stage. The initial reaction to that, along with many broken hearts from the other girls, was pretty funny, I have to admit! XD Still, I'm glad that, despite the many setbacks and hesitation, Uka and Miura are now dating, which was a fitting way to end the last episode of the anime. This series has been rather intriguing with how it developed the main cast. It's not the best that I've seen, but I found it pretty enjoyable for the most part. The animation quality was good, with the previous episode's quirky style being my highlight, while the music was consistently impressive all-throughout. Ayumi will be my favourite girl for how supportive she has been for Uka, adding to her kind personality. Overall, I'll settle for a 7/10. |
| Miura, my man, you're the BOSS. In front of everyone, with a mic, what a chad. I'm so happy for Uka. She's a sweet girl that never deserved anything bad, and now she's finally getting the happiness she always wanted. I loved this anime, I hope we get a second season sometime, that new teacher at the end was a bit suspicious, I'm curious |
  Imouto suki Tsundere-Chuuni-Imoutos save me...   |
| This was painfully average, like, there's nothing remarkable about it. |
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| as a shoujo enjoyer, this was one of the worst shoujos i've seen. |
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| Great shoujo, the ending is great.None of the main characters are annoying, but rather appealing to sympathy and that goes for the secondary characters as well. Hopefully there will be a second season at some point. |
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