Review of Kiss Him, Not Me!
Review Text Let me start off by stating this is not a Boy Love anime. It's about a closet otaku girl that loves BL mangas. So all you peeps out there freaking out because you don't want to see boy on boy action rest assured. The beggining of the series is about how shallow we all were back in school days. Lets be honest we all tried our best to get along with the popular guys, or the good looking people. If you managed to find mutual interests and or had good chemistry you'll tag along for the rest of your Junior High or high school period.If there's no compatibility or you just get treated like dirt you move on to a different circle. Having stated it, yes, a couple of the guys didn't treat Kae with proper respect due to her appearance, and that completely changes when she becomes slim and noticeable. The good thing is that once Kae gains weight, all of the guys try to help her get back for her own sake, but also find out that they love kae no matter her appearance. No, the series isn't going to win the best humanitarian message award, it's not so bad is it? afterall it's a very light romance/friendship kind of series.
The characters are simple and likeable, non of them are complex or entireable relatable, in fact some of them are archtypes of other romance/comedy series. Again, that's not bad at all, since it's a light romance/comedy series.
We got Kae, the Fujoshi otaku closet girl, who is very shy when it comes to speaking to guys even after she gets her change appareance. Igarashi the though decisive athletic guy. Nanashima or Nana, the hothead. Mutsumi the mild kind hearted guy and Shino the younger nicer guy. And there's also Shima the boyish looking girl who can do pretty much anything. Yep all 5 of them will try to win Kae's hearth by trampling each other. I said earlier that all of the characters were pretty likeable, but I'll have to be honest and say that Misha is just ludicrous as it is, being a rich girl, fashion oriented, straight forward, profesional self published mangaka.
The art is very faithful to the manga, and that's a good thing. It goes almost by the book to the old shojo manga designs, girls with big bright eyes, long eyelashes, lovely pinkish lips, and slender figure. Although it's kinda odd that Kae managed to get a bigger bust size compared to the rest of the girls in the series, mostly for comic relief on the cliched stumble jokes. The guys are pretty much what girls like, slender and a tad muscular on most of them.
The backgrounds are pretty plain and single colored, not so bad since most of the plot happens in school grounds.
The weakest point could be music is almost non existant or at least nothing remarkable.
The fun factor is probably it's best asset, you'll always want to see Misha and Kae taunting the boys and pulling pictures of them in awkward BL situations wich they don't enjoy at all.
If you enjoy like light romance/comedy series, no brainer required, this is one you should watch.