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INTRO: Initially, I was a bit scared to start watching this just because I didn’t want to waste away that thing called life I have. Fortunately, I didn’t. Long story short, beginning yesterday, I finally got well acquainted with Kimi No Todoke (From me to you, or Reaching You). I could talk about the art, character development, & that all that crap, but I won’t – that’s boring shit. Just to reiterate, a review is NOT a sumary (at least all the way through), so if you’re used to reading boring shit, I think I’ll be waking you up right about….now.

BACKGROUND INFO: Now it’s Sawako time. How should I introduce this…? Hmmm. Mind you, I haven’t seen that movie, The Ring, or The Grudge, so I don’t quite know everything about it, but this character is modeled off of Sadako. Her classmates even modified her name into Sadako & talk about her melting bitches faces off and stuff. It’s great. Whenever she tries to say hi to someone, they cower in fear, run away, or pee on themselves…not necessarily in that order. Ok, maybe they don’t pee, but they might as well. If you don’t get it already, she’s the one everyone fears. Ok, here’s the kicker: she’s actually a nice girl! She tries to do nice things for everyone and even goes out of her way to help people out, but she’s always being misunderstood. Poor Sawako. This pic above is how she visualizes herself most of the time. After everyone gives her crap, she gets used to it and gets insecure…..That’s NO good at all!

Don’t be INSECURE GURL!!! WwwwwwuuuuuRK that UP-DO!

EPISODE 1: Welllll, at least when she has it up. Anyways, episode 1 gets off to a good pace. Just a sidenote, you’ll notice Sawako in the bathrooms a lot listening in to people’s conversations….does she have a messed up bladder or something..? Like what gives. Moving on, Sawako gets to school and for the most part, wherever she wanders off to, people are muttering something about her one way or the other. Some people are saying things like, “if you meet her gaze for more than 3 seconds, you’ll get sick 7 days later,” while other have even sillier rumors like, “I hear she has supernatural powers!” In a nutshell, that’s the first half of the episode. After a couple minutes of the show, we start seeing more of Kazehaya and how he has a little “thing” for Sawako. It’s not blatant or insanely obvious, but it’d take a dummy to not know something was there.It’s pretty charming actually. After some more shenanigans, Kazehaya asks if she would like to come to this school activity after school. Naturally she does, and plays a ghost. How fucking fitting. To really get into character, she hides in the middle of the school “forest” waiting for people to stumble upon her. And ohhhhhhhh do they stumble. After some time, Shouta comes by and they sit for a short moment and exchange some feelings a little far from everyone’s view. The next day, everyone is talking about how Kaze and Sawako are getting closer. As usual, to not be a burden, she publicly addresses the class and says it’s all false. However, this isn’t before she makes two close friends – Endo & Chin. Those aren’t their formal names, but I really don’ care right now.

EPISODE 2 & 3: When it comes to episodes 2-3, it’s more or less the same crap. Don’t get me wrong when I say crap though; I actually mean the warm fuzzy-make-you-feel-good-slice-of-life kind of stuff. So it’s not filler by any means, but nothing super eventful happens. It starts getting juicy at the end of the 3rd episode. Apparently, the student body’s circulating rumors about Sawako’s 2 new friends. And guess who’s the supposed source of these rumors? Yup, Sawako.

EPISODE 4: The 4th episode consists of the usual antics, then near the halfway point, Endo & Chin spot Sawako talking to a random student about them. The random girl asks if Sawako considers Endo & Chin as her friends, but Sawako stutters, trying to explain she’s not worthy enough. Unfortunately, the 2 girls get dragged away by Pin, their new teacher before they can here the rest of what Sawako has to say. After this, the whole episode is pretty much everyone sulking. Boring.

Episode 5: This starts off with the same thing. Sawako is avoiding everyone and reverting to her old, reserved ways. Only near the end of the show does she reveal her troubles to Kazehaya. Like a pimp, he essentially tells her to stop fucking tripping and just tell her friends what’s poppin. 2 thumbs up.

Episode 6 & 7: Nothing in this episode is important except the ending: the fight between the actual girl who starts these rumors and Sawako. I won’t divulge everything, but Chin and Endo predictably listen in to the words exchanged and save the day from the evil hoe-bag (Yuuka…?). Sorry, but I forget her name. By episode 7, all things are happy and Kaze’s new goal is to get Sawako to himself to talk to her. Sensing this, Chin & Endo purposely cock-block to irritate him. Luckily, by the end of the show, he gets to walk her home. The episode ends with them walking into the distance.

Shiznit I’ve Noticed

1. Enter Shouta Kazehaya: class pimp. I don’t really like using the word pimp a lot  when referring to people, but this just can’t be helped. Though not the main-main character, the show designates him as the object of the story. The girls can’t get off this guy’s junk. I mean jeez, girls flocking from other friggin classes just to say hi & whatnot. He likes long walks on the beach, pina coladas, all that shit. Basically, this guy exudes awesomeness that makes straight guys (in the show) want him too. See? Pimp, just like I said.

2. Sawako is a dummy. A friggin dunce. Always so dainty…like ALL the time. I mean, yes, it’s an endearing trait and is really charming half the time, but the other half…>.> JEEZ. After fighting with the girls who were spreading rumors, where her friends beat the girls up for her, she exclaims, “they finally understand me!” I just don’t get how delusional you can get…whatever.

3. There are 2 kind of Black guys who are generally on TV: the loud, funny one or the laidback, cool one. Ryuu is the ladder. He embodies the Young Joc song, I Know You See It. First giveaway, the hairline. Even though his skin isn’t darker, his hairline is so black it’s not even funny. Second is the attitude. He has this, “it is what it is” kind of thing that’s really fun to see. Especially in this show when everyone else is tripping, and he’s just all like, “what’s wrong with you…?” Gotta love it. In addition, the pic above this paragraph, where he’s glaring at endo (her right?), just priceless. Yeah, he’s a brother from a Japanese mother.

4. Kazehaya is shown almost without ANY faults during the whole span of this series thus far. I don’t believe it for one damn minute. There has to be something. I think we got a little glimpse when Pin, the new homeroom teacher threatened to talk about “his embarassing past” in one of the earlier episodes. Also, in episode 7 I believe, Endo said he was a pervert in middle school. Yeahhhh, that’s what I’m talking about. Yeah, Kaze is a no-good-dirty bitch, and I know he’s hiding something.

4. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS LITTLE DOT!?!?!?!!? I know what it’s for, so you don’t have to tell me, but seriously! Ifthere’s only a small dot, why not just get rid of the whole thing anyways!?!? I don’t know. Again, whatever.

5. Last, but not least, I’m not quite sure if this was an accident or on purpose, but one of the cast’s shirt has “666″ on it…why would anyone do something like that…? I haven’t really looked into what 666 means in Japanese or if it even means anything, but don’t they know that it’s not a universally liked number…? Maybe it was a little joke saying that what’s her face actually wearing it is kind of like the devil or something like that. Whatever it is, I don’t really like it and was definitely like, “WTF.”

PARTING WORDS/CRAZY THOUGHTS: With all the slandering I did, you might be wondering, “why are you even watching the show then…?” You REALLY wanna know why? Because it’s good. A good show doesn’t have “perfect” characters. That’s what makes it so damn great. You have to get mad, sad, disappointed, embarrassed, and all that other stuff to really enjoy it. Hell, Elfen Lied was an emotional rollercoaster, but was SOOO great. After all the trial, there has to be triumph…n’ all that mushy crap.