Completed?: My Little Monster

*checks it's listing on MAL* hm... it sais the show is 13 episodes.... so if nothing else this season is done.... but the show may or may not go one further.... i honestly don't know.

Also minor plot point spoilers, i did try to keep it to a minimum but when describing a short show like this it's really hard to not spoil anything. 

So.... first thing first... i'm so glad this finished a week earlier then Say "i love you" because i will be referencing this show a lot in that review.... but it doesn't finish till next week so yeah... gotta wait a bit.

Anyways as the little blurb above suggests i watched two similar but very different Romance anime this season.... one a Slice of life rom com.... one just slice of life...

Neither show is good..... but one is passable while the other will send me into a rage.

so lets find out which one this is.

My Little Monster (aka Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun ) is a romantic comedy slice of life show about a studious girl and a carefree/extremly violent guy and how their relationship grows and wavers and trying to figure out how to balance everything.
there is a surprisingly large cast for a show like this and there are many love triangles and lots of unrequited love and standard romance fare.
However this seems to be a backnote to the fact that Shizuku is being forced to be more social and see that studying isn't the end all be all to life and Haru is being forced to think about how maybe violence isn't always the answer.

that sounds great..... in theory..... however.... neither of them ever actually learn their repective lessons.
Shizuku would still rather study then be anywhere near her boyfriend/friends (not that theres anything wrong with that but the show has been leading up to her finding a way to balance school and a somewhat social life and she never actually finds the balance... cause she doesn't care....)
and Haru still lashes out violently.... often at shizuku's expense.... honestly if i ever knew someone who acts like him i would get away cause his violent tendancies are terrifying. He's also a needy whiny little man baby and i'm tired of that character type being glorified.

"But Kat!" i hear my real life friends shout at their screen. "you have no right to judge other peoples social lives.... if you could spend all day in your room painting you would, you are probably the most anti-social person we know"
yeah...... you're right.....
...
i don't see anything wrong with that...

ok all kidding aside i think shizuku annoys me so much because she will actually sluff off events she is already present for while i, the most anti-social person my friends probably know, try really hard to be social despite the fact that i'm not happy in situation with lots of people... i at least attempt to have a good time and make the most of it.... especially if i haven't seen people for a long time... so yeah.... she irks me because she doesn't even try.

the things i do like about her though is that she is strong, she never wavers when she knows she is right and she doesn't let haru begging and pleading and down right harassment change her mind about how she feels towards him. And haru acknowledges that no means no.... but oh my god does he bitch about it.

however.... as i mentioned before a few times... Haruh is violent and pushy... so i just couldn't find myself liking his character despite the sweet moments... there is a scene where it looks like he's goign to push someone off a railing because he likes Shizuku as well...
Japan.... i know we've had this talk before.... but seriously? not cool....
when you have your character have a murderous look in his eye over jealousy.... and for him to go as far as to tell her to stay away from him? no.... seriously that is not a character i can get behind.

The guy who i felt was threatened was a much better match for her.  he didn't like her just cause she was the first person who ever talked to him nicely (unlike haru who says he likes her pretty much the same day he meets her, then clafifies that he actually just likes her in a sexual way.... yeah.... great way to make me root for him...) He never pressures her and although he is constantly trying to buy her food he never actually tries to forcefully steal her away. He was sweet and although he had a bit of an ego he was constantly shown as flawed an a goof (unlike haru who is strong handsom and the closets thing to have a flaw is being cooky and really violent...)

My point is... the show isn't terrible.... but it isn't any good either because the main characters suck.... the side romance once again is the better romance and a plot threat about Shizuku's friend and Haru caretaker seems to have a lot more thought and heart put in.

i guess what i'm saying is the show would be better if Haru weren't in it.... hm....

oh well... the show has some chuckle worth moments and the animationg is pretty good... and the song it uses for the slow moments are actually quite touching...

i know i sound like i'm bashing it but thats just cause it could have been a whole lot better then it ended up being...

BUT don't worry i will be praising this show a whole lot more once i finish watchign the final episode of Say "I love you" because wow.... unless the last episode is brilliant.... there is going to be one hell of a long rant.... probably longer then my SAO rant....
the shows this season need to stop doing stupid stuff.... i like being positive about thing...


ANYWAYS
Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New year.
I'm off to go do our one christmas eve tradtion which is going to a family friends house and watching The REF... which is a really funny and pretty twisted take on a 'holiday' story.... but next to die hard it's probably one of my fav Christmas movies (and of course a christmas carol and It's a wonderful life...... i'm not THAT twisted.)