Seasonal Anime Reviews: Winter 2025

I don't think I ended up writing up on the previous season, nor did I care too much about any of the shows. These reviews I tried to write more verbosely, but lost wind half-way through them all, sorry for any inconvenience.

I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class

“What if a teenage boy was forced to marry a girl he hates in his class?” is the question this show tries to answer. Through an arranged marriage for family business reasons, the two characters’ grandparents put together a house for these two archnemeses to copulate in, in hopes of closer family ties, for business reasons. The two eventually agree to this, for business reasons, and move in with each other, keeping it a secret from their classmates. The show does not take its ridiculous plot too seriously, as opposed to some other marriage-for-the-sake-of-the-family-business anime (Amagami sisters), so it makes for an easy watch, though don’t expect anything too substantial from it besides light entertainment. For the seasoned anime watcher, this is great harem slop to put on in the background while doing other tasks (my preferred way to watch it), not much happens in this show…

FINAL RATING: 7/10

Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She's Saying

In the face of an recent increasing trend of fetishizing "exotic" and foreign women in the romcom genre (see Nagatoro, Alya-san, and even Hokkaido gals), Okitsura, or Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsurasugiru (I fell in love with an okinawan girl) seems to present itself as one of these shows, a romcom with the fetishized exotic girl as the love interest, but instead this acts as clickbait to get people to watch a family friendly (relatively) show about Okinawa, Okinawan cultural quirks, and the Okinawan language, complete with vocab lessons and other grammar school tips. The ending is beautiful, I love this show.

FINAL RATING: 9/10

Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister