Itazura na Kiss

I got into this anime through the dorama; if I hadn't seen it I'd never watch this, as I'm very skeptical of the "dumb naive girl falls in love with the smart, handsome, rich, but cool..." thing. I first saw the Taiwanese version of It Started with a Kiss, where the main character was a real dumbass, to the point where I was actually embarrassed for her sometimes, yet the laugh-out-loud moments were more prevalent, and I liked them. There's a Korean version coming out at the moment that's very similar to the anime, and since it's only just coming out I can't watch all the episodes in one go the way I’d like to. So I've picked up the anime to make up for it a bit. That, to start off, makes it clear why I only skimmed through a lot of the episodes (especially the ones at the beginning, when they're still together in high school). It's mostly the episodes that I don't really enjoy, and I'm not really surprised if anyone drops them. It's just that if you endure it, get over it, then you get a pretty nicely arranged cliché on a platter that's a joy to devour. Here too, admittedly, I've skipped a few things occasionally, but basically from about the 15th-16th episode onwards it became rarer (now I don't know if that's a positive :-D) It’s good, engaging. Anyway, I very much appreciate that the anime charts several years of their cohabitation and non-cohabitation together. In the end, I think I like the anime quite a bit, and probably because I like it, I didn't watch the 25th episode, just in case: I'm afraid it would go too wrong, so for me this ended at the 24th episode, nicely, smilingly. Period, and a weak 4 stars. (09.10.2010)