Review of Rumbling Hearts

I put off watching this for a few years, and I only watched it for completion sake, I thought I would hate it but found myself liking it far more than I expected, so maybe low expectations are the way forward. The story does have plot holes and major contrivances and the time skip that is episode 3 is so jarring you wonder if you're watching the right episode or if you've actually missed something. Aside from the big contrivance that is the set-up and drama for much of the series, the story beyond that does kind of work and feel honest especially with regards how themajority of the characters deal with the situations they are in, and only once did once character feel like he was acting out of character.

I say majority of the characters, as I liked most of them, and I thought they were really well written, however there was one character I hated, and that is the worthless waste of space Takayuki, this of cause meant that I found myself hoping for the ending I wasn't going to get where he would be dumped by both of them and with the girls moving on and growing stronger having cast him out of their lives.

Mild spoilers ahead

Nobody would act the way he does in the series, Suzumiya's parents pretty much call him pitiful and pathetic, he best friend says pretty much the same thing, and yet Hayase still falls for him and then is surprised by how weak willed and pathetic he is later on, even his best friend seems to have forgotten just how pathetic he had been and then gets angry with him later when he shows that he's just as pathetic and apathetic as ever.
You could argue that his behavior is some kind of PTSD, I've seen some make that argument, but he's being going to visit her in the hospital every day for a year and they don't pick up on that? If they thought he had PTSD they would have given him therapy and drugs like a certain different character does in their other series.
He deserved Homura Manami.

His character is why I have a love hate relationship with the series and found it hard to watch

8/10, if it had a better main character that was actually likable, I would have scored it higher