Based on a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mogusu, ‘Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui’ or ‘It’s Disgusting to Call This Love’ or simply ‘Koikimo’ is an age-gap romance anime.
Based on a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mogusu, ‘Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui’ or ‘It’s Disgusting to Call This Love’ or simply ‘Koikimo’ is an age-gap romance anime. The story revolves around the ever-changing relationship between 20-something womanizer Ryou Amakusa and 17-year-old high school student Ichika Arima.
‘Koi to Yobu ni wa’ season 1 premiered on March 29, 2021, on streaming platforms such as Crunchyroll, VRV, Amazon Prime (Japan) and concluded after airing 12 episodes on June 14, 2021. It began airing on Japanese TV a week after its digital premiere, on April 5, 2021.
The story revolves around the ever-changing relationship between 20-something womanizer Ryou Amakusa and 17-year-old high school student Ichika Arima. They meet when Ichika saves Ryou by preventing him from falling down the stairs.
Koi to Yobu ni wa could come out of OVA in the future that could illustrate the chapters of the manga that the anime could have jumped or show the relationship between Ryou and adult Ichika. However, a Koikimo Season 2 seems very unlikely in the future.
12Koikimo恋と呼ぶには気持ち悪いLicensed byCrunchyrollOriginal networkAT-X, Tokyo MX, UHB, MRT, GTV, GYT, BS FujiOriginal runApril 5, 2021 – June 21, 2021Episodes1216 more rows
He keeps calling her every night just to hear her voice and sent her one flower sometimes to express his love for Ichika. She does eventually fall in love with Ryō and they confess to each other at train station in Episode 12 of the anime and Ryō promises to wait for her until she becomes an adult.
TLDR: Koikimo, controversy aside, is still a bad anime. Comedy falls flat, the entire cast except for 2 characters are hugely uninteresting and boring, and the plot/story is horribly paced and designed. There's not much of a story. In fact, we don't see any progress whatsoever in the main duo of Ryo and Ichika.
Ichika is a 17 (Salnorabo) high school student with short brown that reaches below her cheeks.
It's an easy answer: Ryō ends up with Ichika and possibly, if we ever get a second season, we might have the story of how Ryō would wait for Ichika until she is an adult. A happy ending for Ichika and Ryō, indeed.
Despite Ryō being pursued by Arie and even when Arie tried to convince him that their age gap might matter, Ryō still goes to pursue Ichika. In the season finale, we might finally see who Ichika ends up with and marry so stick around on Crunchyroll where you can find the 12 episodes of Koikimo online.
A total womanizer and handsome man, and a high school nerdy girl. She saves his life once, he falls for her, becoming her stalker. They do not match, but what will happen between them?
The story revolves around the ever-changing relationship between 20-something womanizer Ryou Amakusa and 17-year-old high school student Ichika Arima. They meet when Ichika saves Ryou by preventing him from falling down the stairs. He later learns that she is the best friend of his sister, Rio. Ryou almost instantly develops a crush on Ichika, which the latter initially finds disturbing. But as the series progresses, and Ichika gets to know Ryou, she starts to reciprocate his feelings.
‘Koi to Yobu ni wa’ season 1 premiered on March 29, 2021, on streaming platforms such as Crunchyroll, VRV, Amazon Prime (Japan) and concluded after airing 12 episodes on June 14, 2021. It began airing on Japanese TV a week after its digital premiere, on April 5, 2021. Studio Nomad (‘Dropkick on My Devil!’) developed the series, with Shunsuke Saitou serving as the producer. Naomi Nakayama helmed the directorial team while Yuuko Kakihara led the writing staff. As for the sophomore season, this is what we know.
The story revolves around the ever-changing relationship between 20-something womanizer Ryou Amakusa and 17-year-old high school student Ichika Arima. They meet when Ichika saves Ryou by preventing him from falling down the stairs.
The final episode of the anime adapts some of the last chapters of the manga. Ichika is worried because she has stopped receiving calls from Ryou. When she tries to speak to Rio about it, her friend tells her to call Ryou instead. When Ichika tries to do so, Ryou seems cold and distant.
As for the sophomore season, this is what we know. The source material concluded after publishing 8 volumes between January 25, 2015, and March 25, 2021. As of early 2021, the manga series has sold over a million copies worldwide.
They both confess their love for each other. Ryou kisses Ichika and promises her that he will wait until she is an adult. ‘Koi to Yobu ni wa’ might release original video animations or OVAs in the future that can depict the manga chapters that the anime might have skipped or show Ryou and an adult Ichika’s relationship.
He later learns that she is the best friend of his sister, Rio. Ryou almost instantly develops a crush on Ichika, which the latter initially finds disturbing. But as the series progresses, and Ichika gets to know Ryou, she starts to reciprocate his feelings.
One rainy day, salaryman Amakusa Ryo is saved by a high school girl he doesn’t know at the station. He later finds out that the girl is Arima Ichika. Ryo is somewhat of a womanizer and to repay her for saving him, he suggests giving her a kiss or going out on a date with her, in which Ichika tells him he’s creepy.
Koikimo Finale is finally out! Things almost got out of hand from the previous episode. Ichika almost tells Ryo what she really feels. However, Ryo noticed it, which results in a change in his actions in this episode.
People fall in love in the most mysterious of ways. This statement seems to be especially true for the affluent genius playboy Ryou Amakusa. When he nearly falls off the stairs one rainy morning, a girl named Ichika Arima saves him.
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After watching episode 5, whom do you think Ichika should/ would end up with?