Drama digest:
It is a story of the protagonist dating two women simultaneously and the hilarious and confusing events that follow.
The feel-good factor:
The live-in relationship story is of modern ideology hence promoting open-mindedness. Despite being a complex story, the characters encourage and live in each other’s happiness. As Nagisa and Saki become girlfriends to the same man, the audience would expect them to hate each other, but that isn’t true. Both of them become best friends and accept each other wholeheartedly. The show tries to maintain wholesomeness as much as it can.
The disappointing factor:
Even after a complete consensual love-triangle relationship, the show keeps pondering Naoya guilty for loving two people. The main issue of the show is it badly shames its characters for making the choices of their choice. Even though the main characters try to communicate effectively and make the relationship work healthily, it never seems enough for the other people on the show. Despite the mutual decision the three make, they’re scared to tell their parents and closest friends or can’t even do the simplest things like having lunch together at school because of the peer pressure of society.
In-depth analysis:
Naoya Mukai and Saki Saki are childhood friends. Naoya, an honest young guy, has always had romantic feelings for Saki. He always wanted to make Saki his girlfriend, but she never accepted any of his proposals. He had made many efforts, like proposing to her every month, but to no avail. After a few years, Saki finally accepts Naoya’s proposal, which makes him extremely happy. After dating for a few days, another girl named Nagisa Minase proposes to Naoya. Nagisa is his classmate. She is a shy and introverted girl who gets inspired to try new things after falling in love with Naoya. At first, Naoya softly and respectfully rejects Nagisa. But later, as much as he sees Nagisa, he is charmed by her beauty. He gets attracted towards Nagisa as well, even after Saki was already his girlfriend. As he can’t decide whom to choose out of the two, he decides to date both the girls simultaneously. As Naoya lives alone, his parents live elsewhere because of their jobs, and Nagisa and Saki decide to live with him. The series follows their daily school life, at home, and the incidents that follow their love-triangle relationship. Somewhere in the series, another girl named Rika Hoshizaki is introduced who aims to be Naoya’s third girlfriend.
Star power:
The abstract star of the show would be the healthy love-triangle relationship between Naoya, Saki, and Nagisa.
Overall opinion:
Despite the cringe it serves, it is highly hilarious. It is not the best series for everyone to watch because not everyone would support a Harem relationship, but it’s still a nice one to watch.
