https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcigAiYTnbY
My mom hates love stories and prefers horror or historical films over a romance any day. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of love dramas, because most of them just get too convoluted and the characters often become extremely annoying with all the author-manufactured conflict. However, I do love a good romance story, although I’m rather picky about it, and few tales of love impress me. I’m sharing all this to build up to the fact that when I say this anime My Little Monster is a good love story, I don’t say it lightly.
The main character is bookworm Shizuku, and the story starts out with her bringing homework papers to a delinquent boy classmate named Haru. Shizuku’s not doing it out of the kindness of her heart but to get an expensive new study guide from her teacher who asked her to carry out the odious task that no one else wanted to touch. Shizuku finds that deliquent Haru is extremely eccentric, violent, and aggressive, until she discovers that he’s also a coward who is terrified of school and extremely kindhearted. Not to mention he actually scores higher on all the tests than the studious Shizuku. Talk about a complicated character.
Shizuku is all about studying and working hard towards a bright and stable financial future, and Haru seems like the village idiot to her, someone who defies all the rules of the world she’s come to understand, and yet there’s an intelligence in him that she can’t ignore. Aside from the fun antics of their budding romance, I think main reason I like this romance is that it expresses a definition of love that I can relate to, that true love is something that changes you, expands your world, and matures you into the full bloom human being you were meant to be.
That and I like Haru’s pet chicken, Nagoya. I had a pet chicken when I was a kid, too.
