Another slice of life drama I've been watching is called You and Me, based on the manga Kimi to Boku (Which I'm also reading. I did not get my name from this Japanese word, I'm not nearly that clever. I also wish this had been around when I first started watching anime, back then in order to watch anime with a mixed group you almost always watched something with crazy martial arts, giant mecca, or a harem fantasy. The first two don't really interest me, but are okay. The last one is kinda ick (I should do a rant as to why I'm anti-harem shows someday....).
Anyway this show is about boys, and it's for boys. It was first serialized in a shonen magazine, which is usually all the above kinds of anime, but also can carry sports and violence and cars now that more stuff comes across to North America. Don't get me wrong, those are all great things and if you have a young male or my sister on your hands those things will keep them happy and occupied. I just think that there should also be more that those little boxes of things for guys to watch, and while this one doesn't strongly scream masculine pursuits, it was made for the boys so...
The plot centers around four high school boys; twins Yuki and Yuta who are both laid back types but with subtle differences, Shun who is the girly sweet heart of the group, and Kaname who is the glasses wearing head of class type. Part way through the first season they are joined by Chizuru, who is half German and a bit of a class clown. While all of the boys are kind of stereotypes or tropes I think it's the way the show plays with that that really makes it good. Each one goes through their days pretty averagely, but it's the friendship between them that makes their days special.
Edit: I should note that most of the emotional elements are shown in cut away scenes where the characters are represented by cats. I don't know why they do this, but it's kind of awesome.
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