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I've been watching Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You... but then I rage-quit halfway through episode nine of the second season and I don't think I have it in me to go back.

The first season was really good but... my god, this is one of the worst cases I've ever seen of an anime turning to complete dogshit in the second season. Like this is legitimately some of the crappiest, most forced drama I've ever seen. The number of times the two main characters almost had a moment together only for some clueless friend to stumble into the scene going "HEY GUYS WHAT'S UP???" has me thinking the author is just outright trolling the audience at this point. I wouldn't have even thought it was possible for two sentient beings to have some of the misunderstandings Sawako and Kazehaya are having. My fucking god, how can they both confess to each other in the most direct way the Japanese have and somehow both walk away from that conversation thinking the other rejected them. And then, weeks later, Sawako finally musters the courage to confess again and they almost have a moment again only for some douchebag faceless friend to stumble into the scene and ruin it again and Sawako runs away from the conversation thinking she was rejected again even though Kazehaya was literally hugging her and about to kiss her a second ago is just ughhhhh...

I really did like the first season. Sawako was great and cute. I liked how people thought she was strange but she was just such a sweet girl that it didn't get her down and it always worked out in the end. Kazehaya was a good dude doing his best to get close to her, and they even avoided the dumb misunderstandings that would usually cripple a romance anime. Ayane, Chizuru, and Ryu, they were all great too. Then in the second season the main couple took approximately a thousand steps back for the most contrived reasons ever, and the entire supporting cast seemingly only exists to express frustration at how lame everything has become. Like all of them know exactly what the misunderstandings are and they never, ever try to step in and actually fix things. It's infuriating.

I started watching this because I thought it was neat that an old anime is getting a surprise third season over a decade later, but even if I muster up the courage to finish season two, I really don't want to find out what the eventual season three might have in store...