Story and Characters: 9/10 One thing that certainly made this rating so high is the character development. Mainly of the side characters Nicolehttps://anilist.co/character/309664 and Yuusukehttps://anilist.co/character/309666/YuusukeIjichi. Nicole might have seemed a little overdramatic at the first glance and as unpleasing as it might have looked like going further and further into the story just showed how much she actually cares for Runahttps://anilist.co/character/263823 and her behaviour and prejudice was caused by her experience with the exboyfriends which have already hurt Runa. She ended up getting along with Ryuutohttps://anilist.co/character/263824 pretty well and realizing he is indeed the one Runa was looking for for such a long time. What should have been more fleshed out though is the relationship between Yuusuke and Akarihttps://anilist.co/character/309665. With the story being heavily focused on the main characters after Yuusukes rejected confession in episode 10 at the school festival it would be nice to have some elaboration on it after seeing how Akari adored Yuusuke when he got over his depression started working out and came back to school in a considerably more masculine shape. It reminded Akari of a popular Kpop singer and ended up falling for him. Renhttps://anilist.co/character/309667 on the other hand ended up being the least prominent character of the nerd trio. Throughout the 12 episodes he got nowhere with his romance life which has been seen to be demolished after he chased Nicole and saw her getting back to his exboyfriend Shuugohttps://anilist.co/character/309668. One character I didnt like getting so much screen time was Mariahttps://anilist.co/character/309663. She seemed like a nice girl when she first introduced herself in episode 3 teased at the end of episode 2 but it only went downhill after she exposed that shes actually a twin sister of Runas. Maria ended up being the main cause of the series misunderstandings which only hurt Ryuuto and Runas blossoming relationship what got even worse with her miserable and cheap excuses for the disgusting actions towards Ryuuto. The rockbottom and the reason why she quickly ended up on my Hated list is when she tried to have sex with Ryuuto by dressing up as Runa and not even denying it and keeping to persuade Ryuuto to do it with her long after he exposed her. Runa ended up being my most favourite character of the series by far. Her heartbreaking moments of realizing that she finally found a decent and loveworthy boyfriend were amazing and really tried to make me cry. It was really sad seeing Runas distorted point of view of a healthy relationship especially when she invited Ryuuto to have sex with her the day they started dating because she thought it was normal. 660https://files.catbox.moe/aunro9.jpg Animation: 6/10 Im not judging the animation of these types of romance anime or any SoL series really strictly. It was just average but good enough to the point it didnt affect my watching experience. The character designs by Yousuke Itouhttps://anilist.co/staff/177097 ended up very cute. A few specific mentionworthy moments are the scenes where characters get really overwhelmed with the amount of information they receive this was initially seen from Ryuutos side to Runa since as a true nerd when a topic he knew a lot about came up his mouth couldnt stop running. Later in the series in episode 8 this could be seen at the restaurant between Nicole Akari Runa Yuusuke Ren and Ryuuto. 660https://files.catbox.moe/heoits.jpg Another scene was in episode 12 when Ryuuto was training his introduction speech to Runas father on a statue. When Runa suddenly came she scared Ryuuto to the point...he became a scarecrow lol. 660https://files.catbox.moe/ygthrl.jpg I found the eyecatch illustrations really cute and fitting. One of my most favorite ones was in episode 12. 660https://files.catbox.moe/pf5kq2.jpg