The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Summer break is here, but it’s something that Shizuku just can’t view as something fun. What’s got her dragging pretty hard at this point is that she just got her testing back and came in at a 689. She intended to score higher, though others in her class are just struggling with getting close to 300 for a ...
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Summer break is here, but it’s something that Shizuku just can’t view as something fun. What’s got her dragging pretty hard at this point is that she just got her testing back and came in at a 689. She intended to score higher, though others in her class are just struggling with getting close to 300 for a grade. It paints a pretty clear and simple picture of her view of her school work and why she intends to just double down and focus on studying. But the problem comes in the question that she got wrong, which wasn’t really wrong, but a matter of interpretation about broken hearts. Naturally, that gets her to thinking about Haru again which always leaves her with conflicting feelings.
While she’s gotten to know the real him, he’s still the glaring bad guy of the school. Most of this comes from his demeanor as he’s always glaring, though it turns out he’s not aware he’s doing it. So he takes Shizuku’s advice and stops glaring and starts smiling more, so it doesn’t take long for many of the girls to suddenly fall for him, realizing how handsome he is. It’s all in the power of eye-contact as he discovers, and that just leads to some amusingly uncomfortable moments for Shizuku. And for Haru as well as he’s just not sure how to handle all of it for the most part. His nature hasn’t changed though and we see him get into a minor rough fought with some bullies on the school campus, but when everyone sees this side of him made clear, it erases the goodwill that he had gotten.
Yet even with this, we see that it’s Shizuku that sees through to the real him again as she’s definitely fallen from him. And hard. So when they have a small moment together, it’s enough for him to invite her out to go someplace for summer break. And that means fishing, swimsuits and fun with friends together. Haru’s comical in this in a lot of ways but there’s just a good time had by all with it while including a nice bit of fanservice. The pair have some good fun but the show takes a bit of an odd direction later on when things come up about money extortion and watermelon smashing. But the real fun part of it is that we get Haru and Shizuku together in the darkened streets together for a bit and it’s a chance for them to be honest. Or at least her as Haru is closed mouthed about the things she wants to know about him in regards to his brother.
In Summary:
My Little Monster continues to be a show that just feels a little bit odd in so many ways. I like the basic premise of it and I really like that there’s a fun dance of sorts going on between the two leads since Shizuku realizes that she really likes him but isn’t entirely sure why. It plays more to the way love is just mysterious with how it works. For Haru, he’s having to deal with a lot of stuff and there’s things under the surface that it looks like we’re going to start getting a look at, which is pretty welcome since it seems to revolve around his brother at least at the start here. The show has a fun feel about it even with the awkward flow at times, but it has that kind of capricious nature about it that hits some sweet spots for me and leaves me wanting to see more, flaws and all.
Grade: B
Streamed By: FUNimation
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
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