Review of Ao-chan Can't Study!

Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai started like a BANG for me but finished airing on a very different atmosphere. Without summing up the plot, let's just say it presents a kind of forbidden love story between 2 teenagers. It was honestly closer to real situations than I expected so it is fair to claim that the fiction caught up reality. I absolutely need to cover one major point : the first episode clearly features a kind of ecchi show, which makes you think that the whole anime will be some sort of cute & perverted comedy with a background of love story. It won't...unfortunately the love story takes the role of major element while the sexual/pervert thema gets relegated to the very secondary elements. So basically if you wanted to watch it for all the sexual allusions or the perverted situations, please think twice.

Though Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai is not a complete love story show, it keeps the tiny ecchi mood and leaves some embarrassing situations or misunderstandings. But they all serve a purpose : demonstrating how it is easy to figure out things in your head while the reality in much more different.

It somehow proves that your mind aren't as strong as your heart, despite all your efforts to restrain what you think is right for yourself.

I honestly recognize that the love story meets a satisfying ending for the viewer but it still leaves me a taste of frustation. Indeed, most episodes are quite similar in their progress, with Ao-chan (the female protagonist) refusing that Takumi dates her despite his very positive aspects (a patient person, really heartful, honest etc). Claiming studies are her priority, she always rejects him & then regrets or hesitates about her own actions or feelings.

The ending was really expected but the whole show always makes you wondering "when do they finally kiss each other". I mean, you know from the start that it's going to happen, but during 11 episodes you see Ao-chan denying the reality, hiding her true feelings, claiming her high-school studies are more important that real life events... I have met people like that and their lives looked so blank despite the studies. It is respectful to desire a very great & hard job that requires to be within the best, but it doesn't mean you should entirely close yourself to everything external.