There are many ways a show can go about hitting a chord in the jolly nerve. Some do it through pure originality. And some do it by using normal jokes in a wholly different and unfamiliar context to mix things up. Some use an excess amount of a certain character feature. Nisekoi is sort of like the latter. It’s filled with an unbeknownst amount of goofyness and naivity in it’s characters. Personally, I desipise this form of comedy. It most of the time feels like the writers were just too lazy to come up with something unique so they used a formula that works. Personally I don’t even enjoy loose plots. One’s that deviate so far from reality or a coherent structure to make the characters just ploys to keep the whole story going, even if the world building is a mess of a thing. Then there’s the harem. I don’t even want to talk about those.
Even then. I continued to watch Nisekoi nonetheless. You won’t belive how glad I am at myself for pushing through. I don’t regret it in the least. This honestly is new for me. Usually, I consider these type of shows to only be cringe worthy. Although, I try my best to steer off these kinds of shows. It’s the plot of Nisekoi that simply kept me at it. Watching a harem develop one screwy at a time is probably the hardest thing in the world. A whole cast of girls chasing behind one main or vice-versa in essence always manages to get a chucle or a cringe out of me. This show is no exception. It really made me reflect on how much I hate romance harems and made me go through a whole mental deepdive of why that is. However, even though, the show is pretty much a harem extravaganza. When it was time to get serious. The show really got serious. Like in the arc where Raku went to work for Chitoge’s mom, as absurd as it is when you look at it critically. The show really managed to make it emotional and not blow the whole thing up. It really was very very good character development. And I have to appreciate that.
Although the whole anime is littered with stupid plot points. Every now and then, you come across a scene that’s superbly orchestrated. It’s those rare moments where the anime really shined to me. The delicate but elegant ways it moved it’s plot forward. Like how it handled the finale’s Shakespearian drama. It’s both damn funny and serious at the same time. It’s scenes like that that made me enjoy the show. Even if I were just a yawn away for most of the plot.
I can’t believe how much season 2 disgusted me. With… Aliens… Like what the actual fuck? The moment I saw those… those… hellions. I simply couldn’t even look at the sequel again.