Shikimori's not just a cutie

 Time for another RomCom anime this season, and miss Shikimori might become the Marin of the spring season.

And this is about a girl that looks like the perfect girlfriend on the outside, but has a dark twist if things don't go her way...

 

Yuu Izumi is a guy who looks to draw bad luck to himself, tripping constantly, getting birdpoop on his head, ...  and boyfriend of Micchon Shikimori.  As misfortune keeps befalling him, she always has his back and protects him.  But on a movie date, he convinces her she should choose for once, and ends up meeting his parents.

After their exams, they go for a holiday outing to the river and have a barbeque, where it turns out that Izumi is actually good at cooking, one thing he is actually better at then Shikimori.  He saves a little girl in the river drifting off, but as his leg cramps Shikomori saves him in his turn.  After returning home, he is suffering from sunburn, but never the less wants to go to the fireworks festival.

But Shikimori can be very jealous as well, for example with Kamiya, volleyball club ace and librarian co-worker of Izumi, in whome he confides how he got together with Shikimori.  Kamiya confesses her feelings to Shikimori though, who forgives her.  When Izumi calls in sick and asks Shuu to take notes, Shikimori even sees him as a rival though.  But a shopping trip with Nekozaki and Kamiya seems to open her up more to friendship instead of rivalry with others, while Kamiya seems to become less distanced from people.

The friends are teamed up in the mixed relay of the school athletic competition, forcing both Izumi and shut in Hatchimitsu to grow above themselves, showing all to each other how serious they actually take their friendship and the lenghts they want to go for it.  We also learn in an episode from Shikimori's youth that she became so protective in love due to the influence of a manga she read when younger, and that she wanted to become a kawaii girlfriend while being actually a tomboy.

 

Izumi takes her for christmas to an amusement park created for people you love, they have a nice date.  When the power fails, they find themselves alone in a little boat, declaring their eternal love to each other.

A fun little rom-com, perhaps not as big as the hype pre-spring season was giving it to be, but never the less it was nice to watch every week.

Fun fact: the classmate that looks like Bakugo of My Hero Academia, Shuu ... is voiced by the same Seiyu.