Review of Tonagura!

*May contain spoilers* Idk honestly :p Tonagura! is a comedic romance anime about 4 childhood friends. The story follows Yuuji Kagura and his little sister as well as Kazuki Arisaka and her older sister. The story was good but I feel a lot of it's viewers at first won't really see the bigger picture to it. They'll probably think that Kazuki is on the right side of things while Yuuji is in the wrong. I personally feel that boys his age will behave that way because that's when hormones begin to pump and they tend to be very unbalanced when we are all young. (boys andgirls included) So the idea that Yuuji isn't what Kazuki had imagined to me isn't quite accurate. She expects him to behave like this shining knight from her fantasies and doesn't realize or notice how the other boys their age around them act. (That or she's totally blind) I think she just got this idea stuck in her head and since he didn't fit the mold she instead of facing reality she refused to accept it for what it really was and maintained that her fantasy should have been the correct outcome.

I feel like the message in this anime is to take reality for what it is and don't get your hopes too high for what you could or should expect from other people, especially the ones you are closest to.

Overall I liked the story, It had a good message in my opinion and it can be light hearted and funny.

The music to me isn't really noticeable as other anime I've watched but some may like it.

The art is on par to what I like. I dislike old school anime art and i prefer a more realistic/moe type style.

The character development was good over all. I was a bit displeased with the ending though. It didn't feel like Kazuki learned very much in the end, nor did Yuuji or his sister. I feel like the only character who really developed yet was already pretty well developed was Hatsune, Kazuki's older sister.

To say the least I enjoyed this anime and I would recommend it to others. I just wish I could watch one where the girl isn't so ready to beat the crap out of the male MC because of accidental moments or the like. I'm kinda tired of seeing an "accidental ecchi moment" cliche turn into a blood bath that never gets resolved the appropriate way. Granted the ecchi moments in this anime weren't all accidents, the latter could still apply to some degree I'd think?

8/10