Story
Ore Monogatari!! is different from your run of the mill romcom, in that it cuts to the chase immediately and we are taken on a new and fresh journey. At the core, it's a light-hearted, hilarious, and enjoyable love story.
The story starts off by introducing the main characters, Gouda Takeo, Sunakawa Makoto, and Yamato Rinko. Takeo, due to his ape like stature, has never had success with girls, whereas his best friend, Suna, easily picks up flocks of them. The two are riding the train when they witness a girl, Yamato, being harassed on the train. Gouda intervenes, saving Yamato, and the three quickly begin a fruitful friendship.
This all takes place in the first three episodes of the season, leaving loads of room for the silly endeavours that the three partake in. While one can say that it is essentially the same thing happening over and over again, Ore Monogatari!! does it in a perfect way, with the right balances of humour and seriousness. All of the content was very feel-good, even all the way to the ending, when Gouda faces off against Ichinose.
Everything was displayed and done with expertise, and it is this that really helped make Ore Monogatari!! great. I thoroughly enjoyed watching a love blossom between Gouda and Yamato, and I was also glad to see a bunch of side characters who each had depth and interesting features.
Characters
All of the characters are plain lovable. While you have a pretty good idea of what archetypes Gouda, Suna, and Yamato fit into, there are also subtle hints and clues along the season that help guide you. Each of them get a great amount of development and focus (as is the case with most longer seasons), but what I found extremely impressive was the amount of depth that I got from the side characters (notably Suna's sister, and the white-hair who liked Suna).
Sound
Let's start off with the opening and ending themes. The OP and ED remains consistent throughout the season, and I think that was a good choice. Both pieces work with the mood and theme of the show very well; a poppy and energetic OP, with a more soulful and nice ED.
There was nothing super notable about the rest of the soundtrack (i.e. whatever played in the background), or at least nothing that jumps out at me. That's not to say that it was bad, I'm simply the type of guy who doesn't really recall BG music.
The style of art and it's presentation is pretty much top-notch (when it comes to me). I especially liked the emotional moments, where translucent abstract shapes would fill the scene and engulf the characters. Thought that was a super cool form of displaying intense emotion, and it was the first I had seen of it.
Everything has a very light theme to it, and it makes sense, as Ore Monogatari!! is a light-hearted romantic comedy.
Personal Enjoyment
If you couldn't tell by now, I absolutely adore Ore Monogatari!! Few shows like this pop up every year, let alone something like a romcom. While I have sung nothing but praises for Ore Monogatari!!, it lacks the extra mile to go all the way. It's not that the anime is missing something, not at all. I'm very happy with the way that it ended. However there wasn't the big event that made me go, "Oh I'm going to hate it when this anime ends."
Nevertheless, Ore Monogatari!! ends off it's beautiful run with a (very respectable and relatively high) final score of 8.4/10.
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