Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui (2025)

BingerWatcher

Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

Yes, I gotta admit the Ryou's over-the-top wooing can be a bit bizarre. But I'm not complaining cause this is simply too addictive...

This might be like opening the Pandora box amidst the negative reviews but someone has to speak up so here we go. Please stop with the double standards. It's unfair to call this sexual harassment when you're probably still so in love with Jobless Reincarnation and Higehiro. Don't get me wrong, I do like both animes but I just find it frustrating that JR and Higehiro get so much love while Koikimo is being shunned in the corner when it doesn't even ...

AnimeEnjoyer420

Not Recommended

It's easy to be offended by a show with a premise like this, but let's just stipulate from the beginning that this is an age gap romance between an adult man and a high school girl. We all know the deal here from the synopsis. If this sort of a thing is a hard no to you, you probably aren't even reading this review. So, taking Koikimo on its own terms, does it succeed at creating a compelling romance? I will spare you the suspense, the answer is an emphatic no.

Before diving into the meat of what went wrong with this series, I think it's ...

Maru1993

Recommended

Preliminary (11/12 eps)

SO I see most of the comments are negative, but have they really watched it first before leaving those comments? They are just generalizing the fact that this anime includes age-gap. But look deeper into the character itself. His attitude towards the girl he likes, doesn't include any sexually explicit motives or anything like that.

The age gap, yes, I know many people might think this is creepy, but the character itself, Ryo is a gentleman tho. It's not like he did something bad or sexually harassed her. He is a soft guy, he actually get scolded a lot by the girl. He respects the girl ...

anairam9

Not Recommended

Okay, let's get over with this (spoilers ahead, I don't even care):

Story: 2/10
I'm not going into much detail in this aspect because other people already have in other reviews, and I don't have nothing new to add. Yeah, is dreadful, but we all knew what we were going to get. Gotta give the anime credit though, it was really self aware of what it was doing.

Art: 3/10
My sister told me the art looked like a it was from a hentai. Did she lie though?

Sound: 9/10
I'm giving this a 9 solely because of the op. It was the best of the season and you can't change ...

makotoplz

Recommended

idkbrojustmyopin

Not Recommended

Preliminary (1/12 eps)

Jesus Christ what am I supposed to say?

This anime is pretty problematic, for multiple reasons (obviously the age gap). But also the male MC's stalkerish nature and his inability to take "no" for an answer.

The first episode is quite literally titled "he's not entirely bad"

And just the fact that they're going to get together is quite... disturbing

Furthermore, there are people within the show who are encouraging this behavior, including the sister (and possibly the mother).

Besides what's obviously appalling in its nature, everything else is mediocre to bad. The animation is fine.... but the storytelling is quite laughably bad in some scenes. It's very all over ...

FakeUser124

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

I hate it, the guy is a stalker and the anime feels uncomfortable while watching it, I don't know if it gets better or not, but I just couldn't handle it.

If you like to watch how a moron stalker convinces a girl to fall in love with him, this is your anime.

Ichika Arima as a character is OK, nothing too fancy or incredible, but she is a normal girl, she just fell in love with a stalker.

However, the opening is a banger, I love it, the best part of each episode, after that, it all goes downhill.

Lenevalia

Not Recommended

This anime bait and switched me and I'm super, super angry about it.

Full disclaimer, my parents are 13 years apart and they've been happily married for over 20 years. They're still grossly in love with way too much PDA for a couple their age, but I digress. The disclaimer is to show that while age gaps can work, they only work between adults and NOT an adult and a minor (my mom was 25 when she met my dad who was 38).

I've seen reviews that point out how predatory and dangerous this anime is by covering up the premise with cutesy art, an incredibly catchy ...

Ellenwitch

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

It's real hard to really rate this show. Not that it's a bad looking product, far from it. There is a big issue that to some, will make people feel uneasy, to others, it won't matter to them, and they can look past it. But something like it, would be enough to make someone drop it. So I should warn you before going forward, to take it with a pinch of salt, and really think if it'll both you or not before you watch this show.

But as for what I think, and how I feel? Let me explain!

Story and characters
The story is a romance comedy ...

Grayegoose

Recommended

Ksardine

Recommended

Preliminary (7/12 eps)

Ok first of all after reading some reviews it's pretty disappointing how they associate it with real life and not think of it as an anime, so I'm writing this to clear some dirt for the anime.
Summarise:
The story is about a businessman getting saved by a teenage girl in a train station, and she coincidentally his sister friend and that's where the strange but cute love story began.

Story: 8
Ok, I'm not a big of a rom-com guy but I watch a lot of them for the sake of watching it, most of the rom-com anime that I have to watch is pretty generic and VERY ...

ttmeng

Mixed Feelings

This is an otherwise forgettable age gap shoujo where the plot line is a will-they-won't-they. The characters are all pleasant and nice. Rating it lower because it's devoid of a plot that doesn't rely on the romance.

This reminds me of Tamaki and Haruhi dynamic from Ouran High School Host Club but on steroids.

The premise is problematic. Ryo nearly trips from falling down the stairs on the subway and Ichika saves him with her umbrella. She then gives him her bento. They both don't think they'll meet again when they reunite at Rio's house. Rio is his younger sister. From there, Ryo proposes he ...

Maru-sensei

Recommended

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

RedChrome

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

Koi to yobu is one hot stinking garbage of disappointment.

The story is suppose to be a rom-com but is neither funny or romantic, mostly it's filled with poorly written dialogue that makes no sense and cheesy

Character is boring and dull, no chemistry at all between the MC and every moments that show how lovely they are doesn't even have the slightest spark and weird. And the other supporting characters are forgettable

Art and Sound is mediocre at best

I guess if you are REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY bored then you can try give it a try but otherwise don't waste your time

sougo_13

Recommended

afjakandy

Not Recommended

There is so much wrong with this anime that I'm not even sure where to start. Looking at the quality of the anime itself, there isn't much to like: the art is average, the animation is often choppy, and the sound quality is poor.

The technical issues are far from the worst aspect of this anime, though. Plenty of people have already pointed out the flaws in the plot/characters, so I'll get straight to the point: a 27-year-old man pursuing a girl ten years his junior is creepy no matter how you slice it. It's frustrating how self-aware this anime is of its own disgusting ...

Kechio

Mixed Feelings

I'm not a fan of long reviews so I'm going to keep this short and to the point...

Just a generic shoujo aimed at females. Its as generic as generic can get with nothing new to offer other than having a 17 year old girl like a handsome, wealthy 27 year old guy, who happens to be her best friends brother. Despite this huge age gap, the show is self aware of how it is bad, although some characters don't show it. However, the heroine knows its wrong, and later on other characters mention it too as well as guy who likes the heroine. ...

Smarthiz

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

Short version :

No one says " ew he's 27 and trying to seduce a 17 y/o. " (and i'm not one to say what you can ship or not) but the lack of acknowledgement and honestly, the borderline encouragement the dude gets for trying to bang a highschooler is really off putting. ( he litteraly gets the '' yaru ne ! " which is like " wow you sure know how to do it " )

Also the characterization and art isn't all that great.

Longer version :
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ExCluSin90

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

I just watch KoiKimo for happiness... yeah!

One thing I heart about harassment that many people don't like it and give 1/10. I feel the same too but only 1 episode (others have a little)

I recommend looking for comedy when ryou and ichika talking. story have reason why it have age gap however the plot is nothing. I want more character development in 4 ep. art is :l but not ed
Op and Ed is so perfect because it's fit with genres and melodic.

overall I will watch through the end <3 and wait for compare Yesterday wo Utatte! and might change score.

giraffenanime

Recommended

When I found out that this anime finished airing, I decided to binge it... I started watching this yesterday at 7pm and finished it the next day before 1pm... I don't usually binge this hard, but 12 episodes is so easy and the story is JUST SOOOOO CUTE!!! Now, let's get into the anime basics.

Story; Our heroine Ichika Arima, your normal high-schooler, saves the man Ryo Amakusa from falling down a flight of stairs at the train station. Not having any connection whatsoever, they both don't think of each others meeting as anything important... until Ryo comes home to find Ichika on his couch. Little ...