A high school boy decides to befriend the second-cutest girl in his class, and what starts as a calculated move becomes something genuinely messy and real. The chemistry between Haruki Ishiya's character and Manaka Iwami's girl plays out with actual awkwardness and humor — neither of them quite knows what they're doing, and that's the whole appeal. It's the kind of anime rom-com that doesn't rely on contrived misunderstandings or magical nonsense, just two people figuring each other out. If you liked Kaguya-sama: Love Is War or My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, this scratches that same itch of watching characters be genuinely bad at expressing what they feel.