Koi to Uso / Love and Lies

If you haven’t seen the anime pleased be advised that ***SPOILERS*** will be below

Characters

Yukari

At the beginning of this anime I felt sympathy for him. He was young and been in love with the same girl for 5 years, who he couldn’t be with because of the government notice of marriage. When he finally confessed his feelings to Misaki and she reciprocates it was cute, and it felt like this might end up being a really cute anime, until seconds later when he gets his notice and his assigned wife is not Misaki but rather Ririna.

I’m not a big fan of Yukari, I understand he has feelings for both girls but he kinda plays them both which is kinda an ass move. Kissing this girl then the other. I just wish he had picked one of them. At the end when he said he loved them both I face palmed so hard I gave myself a bruise, this is why I hate harems!!!!

Ririna

She was my favourite female character. She was very sweet and was completely into romance stories which relates to me a lot because I’m a complete romantic. At the beginning when Yukari and her first meet and she finds out Yukari is in love and wants to hear their love story I was laughing. She’s meeting her assigned husband and she wants to help him and Misaki get together, who does that. As the anime goes on she starts to develop feelings for Yukari and is between a rock and a hard place. She’s fallen in love with Yukari but knows that he loves Misaki and doesn’t know if she should go through with the marriage. She ends up deciding that Yukari and Miasaki should be together and finds a way that they can get out of the arranged marriage without repercussions. It was such a selfless act even though she lets her emotions get the best of her and asks for a kiss from Yukari at the end.

Misaki

I really really dislike this character. I’ll admit when she and Yukari admitted their feelings for each other it was sweet but I always felt she was hiding something. The whole show I felt she was leading Yukari on. One minute saying they can’t be together then the next kissing him out of the blue and then apologizing and saying this was wrong your engaged we can’t be together. She was the queen of mixed signals. I understand that she was emotional because Yukari was going to marry someone else but either you fight for him and your love or you let it go and move on.

Nisaka

He is my favourite male character, he is quiet and a mystery most of the show but he really does love Yukari as a best friend and more if it were in the cards. I feel for him, constantly watching Yukari from the background crushing on two girls knowing a romantic relationship can never happen between them but still showing and giving Yukari advise and support none the less.

 

Ships

Ririna and Yukari

I really did want this couple to be end game because I thought their relationship would be true. They would grow up together, fall in love and love each other for who they are. Yukari also said during the anime that Ririna was the only one who would listen to his dreams of the burial mounds and understood. I loved how they both gave each other a small statue as a gift it was really sweet.

 

Misaki and Yukari

Don’t like this pairing, I don’t believe their relationship would last. Misaki is constantly lying and being deceitful with Yukari, how can you have a relationship with no trust. She’s too indecisive about their relationship and they only just started speaking to each other recently, so I feel like Yukari started to like Misaki because he thought she was hot and that might still be the main reason he likes her. I feel like it’s more lust then love between them to be honest.

Nisaka and Yukari

If these two ended up together I would’ve been happy, they a have an interesting relationship. Nisaka the bad boy and Yukari the shy scared best friend. I don’t like how they didn’t explore their relationship more. And I also wish that Yukari found out that Nisaka liked him and had even kissed him once, it would’ve been interesting to see how Yukari reacted to it.

 

Final Thoughts

All in all I would give this anime a 5/10 it was okay but I’m not a fan of harems. I wish he would’ve picked a girl in the end. I also found the kissing scenes to be quite intense for 16 year olds but I guess it’s the hormones lol. If they made a second season I would watch it, only to see if Yukari actually picked a girl.

 

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