Those are certainly some faces.
Impressions:
And so we enter the awful part of the Saturday shows, though this one is just harmless dumb shoujo. Most everything in this episode is contrived to the point of ridiculous. He’s intimidating and everybody is terrified of him, and all the local girls are huge jerks except for her because she’s special. Also, his friends, and the employees of his family’s upscale bakery, and all the bakery customers. Aside from all of them, she’s the ony one who can see through his completely generic exterior to his innate goodness, and goddamn it, but she’s going to pick fights with the bullies on the prowl who are out for him because they… *checks episode again* heard people say that he’s a bad dude. You know, as bullies do. And so she needs to apologize to him for causing trouble, and he needs to apologize to her for causing her to cause trouble, which causes her… yada yada recursive apology loop.
Corny at best, to put in mildly, and we’re back to the characters who spend the entire episode sitting in their heads, narrating how they’re too insecure to do anything despite all their claimed reasons for their insecurity not matching what actually happens in the episode, and when they do make an effort, it’s an unconditionally completely positive experience that causes an explosion of sparklies. This one especially half-asses the bully side of the script and cause for insecurity while cranking up the sparklies, but whether male lead or female, the song and dance is the same
