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“Old-fashioned top student Hibino clashes with delinquent Kyouta, her new classmate with the same last name.”
Today We Start Our Love
今日、恋をはじめます
6.44
8,081 rank · 34,694 viewers · 96 favorites
Romance
School
Shoujo
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Synopsis
Old-fashioned top student Hibino clashes with delinquent Kyouta, her new classmate with the same last name.
Hibino Tsubaki is a shy, kind, and slightly old-fashioned girl who has always been the top student in her class. She always did everything her parents wanted her to do. She loved to do other girls' hair in trendy and cute styles, despite always wearing plain braids herself. On her first day of high school at the opening ceremony, she is astonished to see that the top student giving the opening speech is not only somebody else, but also the rudest boy she has ever seen. This delinquent turns out to be her new classmate, Kyouta Tsubaki. Kyouta teases Hibino, drawing attention to their similar last names. The two are both top of their class, but are different in every other way. Even though it seems that they cannot stand each other, fate has something else in store for them…
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 15 sampled reviews
5.9
/10
What 15 viewers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 5
σ 1.98
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.98 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.8 pts
Recommenders 7.8 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↑ 3.93
Running avg · Jul 2010 → Sep 2015
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “A hardcore fan of the manga will probably be disappointed. It's has the “overflowing cattle with boiling water” effect that Hollywood so called blockbusters have, when the director tries to squish...”
- 8 “The two-episode format executes the romance perfectly, making every step of their growing relationship engaging and sweet. While I would have liked more fluid animation, the careful framing of each...”
- 8 “I agree also to what ppl been saying i believe that the anime really pushed too much ahead n put fragmentation scenes together to create the first ova. I loved the manga it was very interesting n...”
Verbosity
Short · 53%
Medium · 40%
Long · 7%
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A Ova Production
J.C.Staff.- Format 2 × 20′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 40m all episodes
- Aired Jun 2010 – Oct 2010
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-5414 catalog