This anime is different from most shojo... It does great with the weird and spontaneity of the characters; specially with Yano the male lead. At the beginning Takahashi is just as refreshing in her out of the blue; but unfortunately when the plot gets more anxiously intricate she becomes more and more serious and plain... And the pace of the telling is sometimes awfully slow... Nevertheless it is something to watch; and the more-more intricate is gripping in the way it is told; not because of the events described by themselves (which are a bit too soap-opera like...) but because of the way they are depicted, the way they affect the characters and their relationship; It is very realistic; you get the feeling you are witnessing a real relationship between real people with its great amount of problems and ups and downs. Therefore its sometimes hard to watch (others funny and engaging) but correlatively interesting.