Ookami — How To Confess [01]

“I like you, your man­li­ness, your bravery, and your feet!”

Young love, eh? Are you cur­rently crush­ing on some­body hard that you have the urge to con­fess to them? Are you a lonely per­son who needs someone spe­cial in your life? Well, read­ing this prob­ably won’t help much as your crush may end up with a concussion.

Step 1 — Find Your Crush

First off, guys, you need to stalk her. Noth­ing turns a woman on like being stalked; take Twi­light for example! In fact, if she’s attacked, don’t save her and just keep hid­ing. Then, I want you to hide as you con­fess, speak­ing loud enough for her to hear. Now, some­times, she may ask why the hell do you like her. Tell her you love her because she’s manly. What, she’s gone? Can she not take a com­pli­ment when someone gives her one?

Girls, you should ask per­mis­sion before going to watch your crush every­day. It’s com­mon courtesy.

Step 2 — Find the Problem

You need to find out what’s wrong with the situ­ation at hand. What, she says you’re a loser for not help­ing her when she was attacked? Do some­thing heroic for her. Wait, stop scream­ing and whin­ing when people look at you. Just…stop.

Girls, your prob­lem may be is that he’s think­ing about quit­ting, let’s say, the ten­nis club. You have to stop him.

Step 3 — Attack

Guys, have you failed at everything you tried so far? Don’t worry, she’s being attacked. Go to beat up those guys for her! Wait, move! Do some­thing with your arms and legs. Oh, now you’re going down…The effort counts, and she approves.

Girls, KICK HIM IN THE FACE AND TAKE HIS RESIGNATION FORM! RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN! Noth­ing says “I love you” more than a kick in the face. Look, now he’s search­ing for you because your kick was that good. Aw, that masochist.

Thoughts

This was a fun first epis­ode. Ryouko just seems to be a ordin­ary tsun­dere though, noth­ing too spe­cial besides she has the cutest gloves I’ve seen used to punch someone’s lights out. Ringo also seems like the gen­eric, cute best friend of the female lead who sup­ports the two main char­ac­ters as a couple. Ryoushi, on the other hand, actu­ally does have a per­son­al­ity that sets him apart from the other char­ac­ters mostly fueled by his pho­bia. At times, he is a bit…tiring to watch? I get it, you’re scared of being seen, but can you at least do some­thing right? Weren’t you some mas­ter stalker or some­thing? I do hope that he even­tu­ally becomes a braver char­ac­ter as the series goes on.

The nar­rator is unne­ces­sary. Her jokes were a bit funny at first, but after a while, I just wanted her gone. I have eyes, and I can see he looks suspicious. Capitan Obvi­ous, much? Kakari and the Prince of Ten­nis were cute, and I liked how they mixed in some Cinder­ella in here. Though, ser­i­ously, kick­ing him? It was funny, but the fact that he liked it made it a bit weird. To go through all those girls kick­ing him and then Kakari kick­ing him in the face sev­eral times, I’m sur­prised he didn’t have to go the school nurse. Oh, rules of anime.

The jokes are funny, but they aren’t laugh-out-loud kind of funny. How­ever, most sit­coms I watch are never as funny as they usu­ally are in pilots, so I’m stick­ing around for the humor to get bet­ter. The char­ac­ters seem to like the break the fourth wall here, which bugs my because I feel the only time you can break the fourth wall and make it work it when you’re about halfway through the series. Not in the first episode.

I thought it was an okay first epis­ode, and I’ll make sure to see the next one.