Review of Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms

I wanted to like this. I really did. I went in thinking it’d be another quirky rom-com with decent banter and maybe a cute moment or two. But Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms? Yeah… it ended up being just another filler anime I’ll forget I even watched. The title basically spoils the entire plot. Mona tries everything under the sun to make Medaka fall for her, and Medaka—bless his emotionally constipated soul—just… doesn’t. That’s it. That’s the show. For 12 straight episodes. At first, Mona’s antics were kinda amusing. She’s all beauty, no chill. But the gag gets old fast. Every episode is a remixof the same joke: she tries, he ignores, she sulks, rinse and repeat. There’s zero progress, no emotional payoff, and definitely no real romance. It’s like trying to microwave popcorn that never pops.

Medaka isn’t a bad guy per se, but he has the emotional range of a vending machine. And I get it—he’s disciplined, focused, a monk or whatever. But watching a romantic comedy where one character is just a stone wall the whole time? Yeah, not fun.

The rest of the cast? I genuinely can’t remember their names. That's how forgettable they were. Not a single subplot, not a single moment that made me care.

I’m giving it a 5/10 just because the animation was clean and there were a couple of moments that made me grin. But otherwise, it’s the kind of show you finish and immediately wonder, “Why did I spend time on this?”