Romantic Killer

 So, the next anime me and Noshi watched is one of those "we found this by accident on Netflix" ones.

Which I don`t mind at all, it might be fun, it might be rubbish, let's find out!

Anzu is not your average high school girl.  Not intrested in romance at all, she lives a happy singles life filled with video games, chocolate and her beloved cat.  But one day, as she tries out a new game, a wizard called Riri emerges from the game, telling her she became Test Subject 1, and that she must face romance as her life is turned into an Otome game.  

Taking away her three beloved things, and her parents suddenly moving to the USA for a few years, she becomes caught in a series of set-up events made by Riri to let her experience romantic encounters.  Adamant to resist, she keeps running into a boy called Tsukasa, the most popular boy at school.  When she is forced to have him sleep over during a freak rainstorm, Riri learns that Anzu might be a tough nut to crack though as she remains hardheaded in resisting temptations.

A series of strange circumstances cause him to move in with her for a month, but when he tells her he isn`t about dating eitherm Riri interferes.  Suddenly she is picked up for school by Junta, who is her so-called youthfriend, only does she not remember him.  Instead, he has been "fabricated" by Riri and both he and Tsukasa want to find out about the other.

Riri takes human form as a so-called niece of Anzu, and makes it happen that Junta also moves in with them.  Tsukasa takes her out shopping for clothes not with cat prints, but as Anzu starts getting in her comfort zone with the situation, Riri throws in another challenger.  Hijiri is a rich and egocentric boy, who wants to make her Cinderella for a date with him, but as he gets rejected he wants to try ever harder.

When she meets Arisa, Tsukasa's elder sister, they both admit seperatly that they feel comforted by each others presence.  Riri wants to understand romance better though, so takes the form of a young man instead to go on a date with Anzu and see what it is all about.  When she meets up with some old lower grade friends for a reunion, she finds out she did know Junta when they where younger, and that he is gebuine in love with her as Riri tells her she is not allowed to magically change feelings of people, or she would have done so with Anzu in the first place.

Her friend Saki doesn`t date either, but for her the reasons are a trauma from the past.  When she faces her ghosts during a summer festival the whole gang goes to together, Tsukasa's best friend steps in for her.  But when a girl named Kishi approaches Anzu, claiming she is Tsukasa's girlfriend.  He tells Anzu she is a stalker of the worst sort and the reason he moved cities to get away from her.  Blaming Anzu, she wants her out of Tsukasa's life, going as far as sending thugs after her and even attacking her with a knife.

Tsukasa saves Anzu, and Kishi gets arrested.  Riri appears to her in jail, wiping her memories from the past years so she doesn't remember Tsukasa and the events.  When the dust settles, Anzu gets her basic necessities back as well as a new personal wizard, Kate.  Riri is seemingly fobidden to return to the human world as a result of her interventions, but using a lure Anzu makes it happed she can return, to end up living with her as well.

So, a romcom intentionally full of stereotypes, this was some very fun stuff, that suddenly in the final two episodes got dead serious.  That for certain was a very unexpected twist, but doesn't take away from this overall funny and highly enjoyable series!