Ahh Its annoying living with a woman whos not your girlfriend What the hell was this show? What the hell was this show about? What the hell is there to say about this show? These are all questions I asked myself once I had finished the final episode and these are all questions I will aim to answer here. Firstly I will give some context. I was recommended this show about 2 years ago after I had finished a reasonably sad show I cant remember which and this was supposedly a light romance that was going to help cheer me up. Having finally watched it this is most definitely not a light romance. Senryuu Shoujohttps://anilist.co/anime/106051/SenryuuShoujo/ is a light romance. This is something that borderlines on romance. The line that qualifies a show as a romance is here and this show is about 5 steps into it. Maybe 10. Baby steps. Here are the 4 elements that I think makes this show qualify for the romance tag: Aka... Exhibit 1: The 2 main characters have sex in the first episode. Sex is usually an action performed by 2 persons romantically interested in eachother. Therefore this classifies as an act of romance. However this is ironic because in this case these two people have known eachother for under 24 hours. In fact the only previous interactions they had to this point was watching a movie together coincidentally not planned and eating dinner together. So its not that they had sex because they shared romantic feelings towards eachother but rather because a horny salaryman took advantage of a younger girl whos current mental state was literally a battlefield as a result of her home recently burning down in a fire. Its a good thing SJWs dont watch anime because if they did they would certainly get on our main characters case for something like having raped this girl and whatnot. I have a line what I want to say now. Exhibit 2: A bond forms between the 2 main characters. People in a romantic relationship usually share a deep bond with eachother one filled with trust and joy. Therefore this classifies as an act of romance. You see our heroine is actually a 20 year old aspiring voice actress. She aims to one day become as big as her favourite voice actor Audrey Hepburn. However at the moment she is nothing more than the newest recruit at her office. She actually just graduated from their inhouse voice acting school recently. And as a result her career is not exactly booming. So simply put shes looking for work. On the other hand our hero is a 26 year old runofthemill officeworking salaryman working in the marketing department for a candy promotion? company. The show does not cover if hes new there or not but assuming by the way his boss and colleagues treats him hes no newbie to this sort of thing. Despite this not one of his marketing ideas have been accepted yet. Not one. How pathetic right? Both of those things change today. In the early hours of the morning Fumihiko Matsumarus apartment door was both simultaneously opened and closed without him knowing. What happened? Was he robbed? A break in? Did he leave his door open and a drunk local hottie happened to stumble in? Unfortunately no no and he wishes. It was nothing less than the act of our heroine Aka Onda leaving his apartment. Of course not before she had written and left a note. Common courtesy right? Well is this it? Is this the end of their relationship? Did it end up being a one night stand in the end? No no and lucky for him no. Basically the company Fumihiko works for has finally decided to accept his marketing campaign for their new product Ha and its about as poor as the crispcandyleaf mixture products name. Better yet theyre looking for a VA for the campaign. Which movie? Exhibit 3: The bond between the 2 main characters breaks. No matter how deep a bond can always be broken. People in a romantic relationship will usually experience the bond they had built up with the other person eventually break. The reason can be attributed to something trivial such as a wrong word or phrase said to something more serious as an arbitrary complete overhaul change of feelings. Either way no bond is unbreakable and people who have healed either their bond or from the bond being broken know this best. Therefore this classifies as an act of romance. Our two characters meet at the candy companys auditions for the VA behind the new mascot Nekoki Half cat half tree 100 cute voice acting Coincidence? Fate? Who can say for sure. All that matters is a mere one night stand is not enough to fulfill a mans horniness so our hero goes in for a second round. Aka eventually gets the job. This goes without saying right? Afterall the show is 9 episodes long not 2. And as her home had recently undergone a fire she has nowhere to go but the very same place she left earlier this morning. So that wasnt a goodbye note after all Fumihiko is jumping for joy Something is finally going his way After being held up by Tanaka from accounting for a dude 10x his size hes finally found a woman he can use take out all his manly desires on. Or... not? Predictably he tries it again. But this time Aka is not happy. You know what they say everything heals with time well I guess all it took to heal Akas mental battlefield was about a day because she was not having it this time. She expressed to our hero that yesterday she was simply too shocked to think straight and he shouldnt even think about trying something like that again because shes just a woman living with him and not his girlfriend. This is where Fumihiko realises he cant push around girls as he likes that they contrary to his belief are not sexual robots designed to fulfill manly pleasure but actually beings with a head of their own and can choose if they want to partake in certain actions or not. He seems to be let down by his new discovery but whatever. Better a life without a criminal record than one with right? Quit while youre ahead ones plenty and all of that. They eventually start living together as more normal people and their feelings starts growing deeper but alas a turn of events await ahead By gods will or rather her panties long live manly pleasures Aka finally starts landing jobs. Her schedule grows and grows and she simply becomes too busy to be a onoff stayathome maid for Fumihiko. Doing nothing but welcoming him home wishing him safe journeys preparing food and the such. Not only does she have a mind of her own but also a life of her own This amongst other stuff finally leads to Fumihiko breaking. They have an argument and Aka says shell leave as soon as she saves up enough money to do so. I dont know about you but a blind man with a fish eye lens could have seen this predicament from 5 nautical miles away. A climax was going to happen sooner than later so this development was not exactly surprising. My original. Exhibit 4: The bond between the 2 main characters is healed. Bonds get broken. This information is nothing new to anybody. Chemistry has been showing us this since the start of time. People get emotionally hurt. Again a fact of nature. What matters especially in a romantic relationship is the rebound. usually. Therefore this classifies as an act of romance. But what will you do about your broken heart? Will you let it fall to shards broken fragments of what once was? Letting your once loved love get away? Or will you Wilt Chamberlain the hell out of that bitch? After their argument Aka spends her nights sleeping at the office. She refuses to go back to Fumihikos apartment. He thinks shes ignoring him. She is. Giving him the silent treatment would be an understatement. She is not just treating him to silence. This is not treatment. This is 10000 per session silent therapy. In awkward situations like these neither party wants to see the other. Or maybe that was just my experience. Unfortunately what unfortunate event is this? 4th? work forces our hero and heroine to meet again. The train journey to the hot springs is awkward. Theyre sitting opposite eachother but none decide to even bat an eye at eachother for the duration of the journey. At one point Fumihiko is staring out the window and Akas reflection shows up showing to the audience that she also was looking at the window and that prompts both characters reflexes and both start looking at the floor. In an embarrassing fashion. This was probably my favourite moment in the show because of the little details. They eventually arrive at the hot springs and a couple of drinks later Aka heads to the hot baths. Eventually so does Fumihiko. They eventually meet because get this plot dictates that after 10pm it becomes mixed bathing and Fumihiko just happened to have seen the sign that Aka missed. They finally speak to eachother. For the first time in a long time. A while later Akas manager persuades Fumihiko to speak to her. She had received an awesome new job that meant that she would no longer be able to work for Fumihikos sweet company so she wouldnt get the chance to see him again if she takes the job. Holy shit Aka is the most lowkey tsundere I have ever seen. All this time she was using work as an excuse to see Fumihiko rather than just seeing him. This sly sly 10000 therapeutic tsundere. So how do our favourite hero and heroine arrive at a resolution to this tragic problem? They make up. What a surprise. Aka can carry on pursuing her new career as a voice actor and he can carry on seeing her without needing some childish excuse. And getting welcomed home. And getting wished a safe journey. Every day. At least when shes not working late. ... I know it probably seems like Ive been attacking Fumihiko throughout this review but it really hasnt been my intention to. Everything was meant in goodhearted satire and I dont actually think hes too bad of a guy beyond maybe overflowing horniness and a bit of childish attitude towards Aka at times. With that said here is some other things I wanted to mention about the show that couldnt fit in my prolonged evaluation of the events that concerned the romance between Aka and Fumihiko. This show is the anime incarnate of Japanese work culture. The amount of lets do our best todays in this show were literally uncountable. It portrays workers as being literal trash at the feet of their employer being told to dont make excuses for yourself just apologise upon the corporate equivalent of being called into the principals office. The audience sees Fumihikos surprised reaction to being told his market campaign was accepted to the point that after a thousand unwarranted Im sorrys he still cant believe his work got accepted. Im sure he could have worked his whole life at the company not once got any of his ideas accepted and not have complained or spent a single second wondering what he was working for. In fact Japanese work culture is literally personified through Akas manager. She tells her that a job is a job upon being presented with Akas uneasiness doing VA work for an HGame. Basically putting aside Akas personal ethical views in order to make money for her company. She also invites Aka to sleep in the office. Was this really free bedding or was it a motive to work overtime at the office? This point gets defeated by the fact that Akas job is literally a VA so theres not much she can do regarding paperwork but the very idea that work is so demanding there is a possibility to sleep at the office to minimise all time in a persons day which is spent not working will come as a heavy surprise to the majority of the Western culture. In addition she also basically makes Aka hold up her restaurant date in order to get introduced to some awardwinning director so she could potentially star as the lead role in his new movie. A major job vacancy? Sure. Also totally ruining what Akas plans that evening and could have been sorted out tomorrow? Yes again. Yet another part where she disregards her very own talents personal life for the sake of business. If this does not accurately portray Japanese work culture I dont know what does. The funniest thing I found in all of this is how ironically attending work though maybe indirectly fixes Akas and Fumihikos relationship Even though Akas manager own motto is to keep personal life and work seperate. lol. The show shows us a scene from school days presumably just after graduation of both the main characters and repeats them later on. Im not too sure what the point in this was. However in this scene we see Akas friends basically cheering her on and telling they want to hear Akas voice on TV soon compared to Fumihikos friends which tell him that Tokyo has a lot of hot girls which prompt Fumihiko to literally drool at the idea. Maybe these two scenes comes to mind once before developing genuine feelings for a girl and once after? Portraying Aka as the hot girl in Tokyo that he didnt of her as originally but now does? I dont know. Its just something I wanted to mention. This whole show was very meh to me so maybe Im picking at straws here trying to find any small and discrete details the animators may have thrown in. Be my girlfriend.