Review of Nisekoi: False Love

I really wish 0.5 scores were a thing, then this could be at least a 6.5. Sadly, it's not. Going over the rating criteria now based on season 1 of the anime ONLY -- Story: The summary's premise makes this seem good. Then I checked it out and found out it's just another romance tale where the love interests pretty much get nowhere for the whole duration of the show for whatever contrived reason. I don't mind this so much if there's another, more otherworldly plot going on to sort of fill in for the slow romance advancement, but there isn't really. You're just left with the painfullyobvious conclusion by several episodes in who will be winning the love triangle. About 70% of the episodes in, they introduce a third love interest but let's be honest here, given the late introduction and the fact that one of the first two girls were already written to eventually win (probably with some time skip typical to purely romance plots in the manga), the third love interest served to do nothing more than pad the artificial tension with annoyingly clingy gimmicks.

Characters:
Given the way the main plot failed for this anime, the characters really would be the only thing that could still bump this anime's enjoyment up. Sadly, they failed. Kosaki is a stereotypical anime shy girl. Chitoge is effectively a classic tsundere with the belligerent sexual tension so belligerent that it fails to appeal. Kosaki's friend served as an annoyance to try to undo the painfully thick romance-plot armor of Chitoge. Marika is basically the trope that jumps in as an aggressive romantic rival doomed to fail by the makers of the show. The worst part is the fact that almost everyone involved in the promise ten years ago seems to have amnesia but there's no explanation for it. At least if all characters involved were blind as children or something, it would be easy to believe why all of them forgot what each other looked like. But no.

Art:
The best part of this show.

Sound:
Meh. Nothing special.

Enjoyment:
Since there's no in-universe concerts or anything to enjoy, and the visuals are only good for it's genre but can't compare to more sleek titles like Fate Zero, there's really only the story and characters to consider for this show. And both of that is pretty mediocre. The overly frequent exaggerated faces of the cast made it harder to enjoy this show.

Who's this for:
-Shoujo fans (who haven't seen *gasp* Ouran, Maid-sama, etc)
-Slice of Life fans
-Someone looking for something reeeeeally light-hearted, not even trying to have the humor make sense

Who's this not for:
-Someone who wants an epic or emotional story
-Someone who wants a work with unique concepts or at least rare romantic tropes
-Someone who wants something serious