Izumi and Shikimori are a typical lovey-dovey high school couple, that is until Izumi clumsily falls into trouble due to some “bad luck” that’s made him super accident-prone. Then Shikimori turns into a very cool heroine that makes everyone’s heartbeat.On the technical side, Ryota Itoh directed the series, with Shōhei Yamanaka serving as assistant director, Yoshimi Narita overseeing the series’ scripts, Ai Kikuchi designing the characters, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi composing the music. The opening theme song is “Honey Jet Coaster” by Nasuo☆, while the ending theme song is “Route BLUE” by Yuki Nakashima.The premise, in a nutshell, is quite simple; an extremely unlucky high school kid has an extremely cute girlfriend who can switch to “cool” mode which turns her into a hyper-capable badass whenever his bad luck strikes again and a group of friends who they both hang out and do mundane things with. It’s nothing groundbreaking. There is no depth to it. Its whole purpose is to give you a dose of fluff. At the very least it breaks the “will they?/won’t they?” tropes most anime is infamously known for by having begun with them as an established couple rather than building it up. The closest to something similar is “Tonikawa” only Shikimori didn’t involve the male lead arranging a marriage with a stranger and building a wholesome plot around it. Usually, there’s this antiquated and cliched dynamic of the guy being the strong one and the woman being the prototypical “damsel”, but we as a society have come a long way from that in recent decades. Izumi the male romantic lead who among fans of the show has become the subject of contention at one point or another who’s only flaw is that he comes across as being effeminate but it’s weirdly balanced with Shikimori’s tomboyish nature. You could say that this is a gender-reversed rom-com, but that’d be mostly wrong Shikimori herself is just as feminine 90% of the time, when she’s not protecting Izumi from whatever wacky final-destination-like occurrence that attempts to kill him that day. Other than that, he’s just a regular, social dude with a small circle of friends that includes his girlfriend. There strangely also wasn’t a single bad side character either, and the tone was always wonderfully uplifting. There was a clear main theme of not judging a person based on a first impression and although every character might look like it at first glance, these are actual characters and not flat archetypes. Some Shikimori situations felt forced and pretentious to the viewer. And the series included tropes that were unnecessary, for example, a love triangle, which by the way was poorly executed and tried so hard to not offend anyone.Overall, this series was not that bad and some episodes range from decent, to wacky to occasionally wholesome. The only problem was how it tried so hard to meet the expectations of its Manga fanbase which had mixed reactions to the proceedings yet had little ambition in the long run for a casual viewer to invest in. It had some decent episodes here and there, but most of this show was more or less meh for me. In a way, it’s also such a rare romance anime where absolutely nothing lewd happened. The show’s a gem, that needs a lot of polishing to shine.