Wow, I’m really hitting the jackpot here. First Nyan Koi, then Needless, now Sasameki Koto. Granted, I did pick up Nyan Koi right away, so it was more of a lucky find at the start of the Fall season, but still something I wasn’t expecting to be any good at all. Anyway, initially I wrote Sasameki Koto off as being boring as shit yuri melodrama. Sorry Zyl (and many others who like the genre), but for as awesome as it sounds, yuri stories seem exceedingly boring to me or are filled with completely over the top melodrama. Or both, and then some.
I know, Sumika! But out of boredom, I decided to randomly check out Divine’s post on Sasameko Koto and found myself laughing at some of the hilarious expressions and such. In the first line of his post, he even said:
It’s a shame more people don’t check out other genres of anime and see what they have to offer as this episode of Sasameki Koto was absolute gold.
So, I figured… what the hell? I may as well try it out. I’d already read Day’s post about it, and had heard spoilers here and there (as in, I knew that Akemiya was a trap), so I was prepared for what was in store. Whether that was good or bad, I’m not sure, but after watching it I certainly see where Day was coming from, Ushio really is the worst kind of person in romance. But then I came to a realization, Ushio is to this story what most useless male harem leads are in any given random harem anime. Completely oblivious to any and all advances, instead going after a random ‘love at first sight’ fling, or even not having any explicit love interest at all.
