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"* Based on a romantic comedy manga by Kanamaru Yuki.

Yakuin Jirou, a third-year high school student, gets saddled with his gyaru classmate Watanabe Akari for the class's "marriage training" project about practicing to be a married couple. Jirou is the complete opposite of Akari, but the two know that if they do well they will be able to switch partners to end up with their respective crushes, and so they force themselves to act like the perfect married couple.

Source: ANN"

Genre(s): Romance, Comedy, Drama

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Well, if this isn't the most schizophrenic rom-com I've seen in living memory...

To even begin to engage with this, you need to hand-wave the absurd contrivance that is the 'marriage training' portion of this show; it's really dumb and also what the entire plot is predicated on. To explain, students are paired up as married couples, live in a dorm (with separate bedrooms, of course) and are constantly graded via camera and other sensors that pick up on, evaluate, and grade their marital bond. The couples are awarded points that give them a letter ranking in comparison to their peers, with the highest rank getting the optional 'privilege' of changing assigned partners... among other couples in the top range. That feeling in your head right now is a stroke forming because you are trying to reconcile how that makes any sense. Stop doing that.

Once you make peace with the premise and realize it cannot/will not come under any scrutiny by the show, what we have is a serviceable 'bonding' rom-com where the main couple, by virtue of forced proximity, catch glimpses of each other's charming points via varied interactions until they realize they are more in love with that jerk/bimbo than their obligatory 'starter' crushes. Its a formula we know all too well, and the only thing that stands out, aside from the pastelle color pallet, is the wild tonal changes the we are bombarded with each episode. Expect jarring transitions from coy teasing banter to ecchi to full on heart-throb in a matter of seconds; so fast your eyes will get whiplash. Luckily, I'm on a gyaru kick right now, so Ill continue watching, but there's really not much here.