the messiest romance anime relationship of all time

[@starchild9095]

honestly, what's a classic shoujo without a messy/toxic romance, pseudo or actual incest, numerous love triangles, and casual homophobia

[@DCreed013]

Don't forget the suspicious age gap relationships and/or teachers grooming teenage student relationships.

[@elyselaura9232]

I feel like every 90s shoujo had to have at least one age inappropriate relationship and/or incest. Lucky for us, Marmalade Boy (kinda) has both!

[@sumitsukira]

Get mad at the anime, not the genre. Istfg

[@DiamondsRexpensive]

​@@sumitsukiraUnrelated, who's the character in your pfp?

[@sumitsukira]

@@DiamondsRexpensive just a drawing of my oc I did. She's not in a story tho. Her name is Kirichi

[@pig3292]

Honestly the teacher-student relationship stuck with me way more than the step siblings one in this show. The way it was so normalized/romanticized was unsettling to say the least (but intriguing when I was in highschool lol)

[@JH-no8sy]

They’re both cursed…

[@thatwasmethere3526]

Um... Y'all mf know that they're not even related.. Right? 💀 They're f**king stranger who decided to live with each other!

[@thatwasmethere3526]

Hmm, I don't know I would have chosen an Innocent inexperienced teacher then a dude who f**ked all town women💀 Not to mention the teacher is so young and beautiful He quit he's teaching job so it ended well for me

[@gurl8744]

@@thatwasmethere3526 not you defending a Teacher reletionship. Be so extremely for real right now.

[@Zuginator]

I felt this back when I was in middle school & high school watching it in the 90s.

[@cheyennec5546]

I unironically loved “Marmalade Boy” when I came across the manga in 2000 or so, but it wasn’t until I was watching the anime that my mom, whom I never knew was paying attention, called out the step-siblings who wanted to date each other, all the parents who all swapped spouses with each other after meeting on a vacation, & the Student-Teacher relationship plot and I saw how incredibly messy it all was. Soundtrack slaps tho, I’ll die on that hill.

[@hannah60000]

100% on the soundtrack, especially the opening theme!

[@whovianmaverick6348]

So true, characters may have been messy and well you could argue it made it more entertaining, music is so enchantingly beautiful, it’s definitely the best thing to come out of the Anime

[@giiiizmo]

Yesss. This anime still has one of my most favorite soundtracks. The story is very unusual/messy for my young age to watch back then.. 😂

[@cassiedevereaux-smith3890]

I'm going through Maison Ikkoku right now and when that whole student/teacher history came up....

[@jamjam0409]

The parents knew eachother from college. They are step-siblings that didn't grew up together. The only problem I have is the student-teacher relationship.

[@TheBraedon2]

I need a manga on wtf is going on in the parent's relationships lol, like those kids never had a chance with the absolute messes their parents are

[@Wolfiewolf1234]

Yea are they all poly? I'm so confused.

[@azadalamiq]

@@Wolfiewolf1234 pretty much miki mom and yuu dad, as well as miki dad and yuus mom dated in high school. due to complications and a miscarriage each set of couples broke up. years after that miki's parents got together... then yuus parents got together. only for again another yet of years and they run into each other on vacation and feelings rekindled and mutually decided to divorce and re-marry... and since there no hard feelings live together so each kid has both parents under the same roof rather then traveling between each set of parents.

[@geminicattheinsomniac8408]

@@azadalamiqthe is for the explanation, still crazy but I understand the parents relationship now

[@missstranger7697]

​@@azadalamiqOh my god, everything you described sounds like these parents went through big messes...😂

[@sapphic.flower]

This poor girl is stuck in a house of inbreeding and boys keep just trying to get with her instead of actually being her friend. 😭😭 Let the girl breathe!

[@gurl8744]

Exactly bro😭😭 Tbh tho if I was Miki I would've picked Ginta, Kei or self therapy.😮‍💨 Maybe I'm just not a blonde fan but I loved Ginta and Kei, the rest of the boys can rot ESPECIALLY YUU omg.😭

[@DiamondsRexpensive]

​@@gurl8744You're serious??? Ginta is much worse than Yuu! 😢

[@jamjam0409]

I think you should search for what inbreeding is.

[@sapphic.flower]

@@jamjam0409 you get what I mean, it's still an inappropriate home dynamic to live in 😅

[@jamjam0409]

@@sapphic.flower yeah

[@Berthadied]

watched this series with my bf in 2020 and when I say we were SCREAMING when the teacher got with the student.. AND GOT MARRIED?!?! dumping blue-haired boy who actually respected her.. to be with her groomer??? yeah, what a blast.

[@HannHio-kv1ky]

I mean that's how grooming works?😭 You lose all hope and security so you think the best scenario is dating your pedo teacher

[@gurl8744]

She should've gotten with Satoshi I was beyond mad with this sick brainrot of a show😑☠️ And Miki and Yuu's relationships got so icky.. How are you gonna blame her for losing her charm when Kei literally lied about it and she told you she couldn't find it?? Anyways Stan Kei for acutally maturing And Stan Ginta for being a hot brunette.🙄

[@gurl8744]

@@HannHio-kv1ky I feel so bad for Meiko, someone should've told her it wasn't okay but NOBODY DID not even Her best friend Miki!, but Miki's blind too because she was in love with her Step brother..☠️

[@tp6945]

@@gurl8744honestly i think it was the writer’s plan but it was so messed up she should’ve just been with someone her age not some weird predator 😭

[@gurl8744]

@@tp6945 For real I can't even watch this show without remembering that dumbass teacher🙄😮‍💨 Justice for Meiko. I wish she got with Satoshi and that teacher got prison time I don't like how everyone always defended him like he was pure and innocent.🙄 He literally dated a highschooler.😒⁉️

[@micah459]

The intro of the parents messing with another couple is already crazy

[@Kay-kg6ny]

Right like this is NOT the poly rep we wanted

[@azadalamiq]

@@Kay-kg6ny they are not poly... just 4 friends from high school that dated each other, broke up.. dated each other ex partner only to rekindle the first relationship.

[@missstranger7697]

YES!! THIS!!!

[@leothelion6245]

I'm so gagged by the "chase your love (even if you're siblings) (unless ur gay lol)" thematic core of this..... Thank you for ur service in summarizing this my liege

[@wynchiella]

its literally robert a. heinlein LMAO

[@TheAnimeTea]

The song that plays after ever scandalous revelation is so iconic. Love this in-depth review of the series! It brought back so much nostalgia

[@SnowPhoniex]

I absolutely love your channel ❤

[@madame360]

I agree 🤣

[@TheScientistAndThePainter]

It's called Moment and it lives in my head RENT FREE every day.

[@gurl8744]

@@TheScientistAndThePainter same, it's literally In my playlist

[@ahahangiee]

i genueinly believe the authors parents were swingers and this is thier way of working out their trauma

[@DiaryofDeans]

I swear Miki screamed "Yuuuu!!!" For like 2 minutes straight. As a kid I copied this trying to match her and kept being out of breath 😂

[@jeniii97]

This use to crack me up when i watched it

[@TheScientistAndThePainter]

Then her absolute SHOCK when their parents knew the whole time.

[@kokoro_flow]

I mimicked the Tsukushi's "Arie nai tsu no!" yelling back in the day. That annoyed my family. 😅

[@jamjam0409]

The english dub is horrible.

[@alchemistofsteel8099]

​@jamjam0409 it's good tho. Reminds me of the Inuyasha dub

[@SingingDragons11]

What is with parents in anime getting married before introducing their children to each other? Two teens who don’t know each other being forced in close quarters is never going to cause an issue😂

[@Oukow]

You just made me realize my mom and former step dad did this. And yes. It went terribly. lol.

[@oliviamcnally7030]

I’ve been wanting to write a series about this set up from the parents’ perspective for years! It’s loaded with material that can make for great writing. Like having the parents acknowledge how they acted like dumb teenagers who rushed into things while forgetting the actual teenagers caught in the middle. Or questioning how their relationship can survive when the obligations to their kids and their happiness are brought up.

[@SingingDragons11]

@@oliviamcnally7030 Ghat actually would be very interesting to watch. I also want to see a show from the perspective of the truck driver that keeps hitting people in most Isekai’s

[@bee.5485]

I feel like shojo protagonist nowadays have it easy, old shojo protags had to go through so much😭😭😭 like even the ml and sometimes the fl are kind of red flags. Thank you so much for this

[@tp6945]

fr but in a way it was more interesting i feel like now shoujo is repetitive

[@kriscuit]

​@@tp6945you think this wasn't repetitive with the love triangles? (joking, not trying to be rude lol)

[@nnnn-sc2im]

i mean at least new shojo protagonists aren’t step siblings💀

[@tp6945]

@@kriscuit that still happens in shoujo… lol but i feel like the interest element is gone and it just be corny triangles and no side character storylines

[@tp6945]

@@nnnn-sc2im are you sure about that one i’ve seen a few

[@BrieezySoul]

I hate that we don’t get 70 episode romance anime anymore. I don’t think since NANA we’ve gotten one with such a long run time and invested plot line. 🥺

[@TsubataLately]

Fruits Basket 2019 was close, with 60+ episodes and a movie. With a 3rd season coming, Kimi ni Todoke might match that. But, I agree. I'd love to see another behemoth shojo on the scale of Marmalade Boy. Natsume's Book of Friends is 70+, but it took 9 years and 6 different seasons to get us that far (also not a romance).

[@chanela.7786]

@@TsubataLatelyright, the only time modern anime gets over 24 episodes it seems like it’s either a different genre from a very popular manga(mostly shonen or apocalyptic) such as aot, bnha, Naruto, and fairy tale..

[@taps_lock]

I swear there were a ton of wildy r*pe-y and batshit crazy scenarios in Shoujo Manga of the early 2000s 💀 Moving in with strangers, kissing while sick/falling over/unconscious, abuse, step sibling-relationships up the wazoo… oh the damage this caused us 🥲

[@tp6945]

omg yes this would not be acceptable these days 😭

[@curepinkie1637]

"up the wazoo" HDNDNDNF 😭

[@missstranger7697]

@@tp6945 What if I told you, that this trend never left away even if it is 2024?💀

[@silentluvr]

Yuu wants a different dad SO BAD like how'd he mess that up twice TT

[@gurl8744]

RIGHT

[@azadalamiq]

he felt like he wasn't his dads kid due to a letter from grandma.. grandma died before he was born so never got the context that it was a baby that was before he was born.

[@gurl8744]

@@azadalamiq Lmao I know. I don't blame him tbh because his parents are very strange. So it'd make sense he'd feel that way. I would too if my parents just casually switched partners.☠️

[@missstranger7697]

​@@gurl8744People don't hate Yuu and I don't either. But why people choose actively to hate on Miki, when her parents were just as weird as Yuu's were?💀 Why is her vulnerability disliked by people?

[@missstranger7697]

Miki is also in need of a different father...💀

[@xLadyRaine]

this anime had me clutching my pearls in middle school. Between this and peach girl it has me obsessed with trifling shoujo

[@StrawberryCakeStudiosYT]

Peach girl had me in a chokehold, omg. Including kodocha

[@queencleopatra007]

Omg Peach Girl!!! That was my guilty pleasure in middle school

[@TheGalCantHelpIt]

I couldn't handle living through this kind of chaotic drama trauma - I'm convinced that the creator of Marmalade Boy likes to inflict unnecessary levels of emotional torture on the characters as much as on the readers. Thank you for taking the hit and making this video to save our collective sanity 🙏

[@MK_ULTRA420]

Some women live to see chaotic drama trauma. Every K-drama that's set in the modern era could have been solved with a phone call to clear up misunderstandings in the first episode but that doesn't get good ratings for some reason. My mom gets devastated every time I tell her I don't care about her gossip about people I'll never even meet.

[@animasuperfreakgirl]

Well considering that the author mentioned that she was originally going to make Miki and Yuu turn out to be half siblings and have the ending be sad. Only for her editor say ‘no’. I’m going to say you are right. (I got the info from I believe the last manga volume where the author talked about scraped ideas though it’s been a little bit)

[@tp6945]

@@animasuperfreakgirlthat ending is better than step siblings ending up together

[@OTOOO.MASHI_YUNAAII38n2]

​@@animasuperfreakgirlMETAMORPHOSIS OG ENDING WHO?? THATS GROSS XDD

[@nadieimportante1979]

Does the same melody have to sound everytime something dramatic happens, makes it feel so not serious💀 Edit: I want a sequel were Miki finds someone better than all the shitheads she's encountered so far

[@gurl8744]

Fr I need a sequel like that. AND FREE MEIKO PLEASE.

[@popiwipu]

Me praying to have the sequel called MARMALADE BOY LITTLE made into an anime ASAP so we can see them as adults again LMAO

[@gurl8744]

@@popiwipu I don't even wanna see those SICK people again, it's just gonna be stress after stress. Is Marmalade boy little manga good though? I was gonna read it but Marmalde boy stressed me out as a kid and I'm not ready for more..but I'm curious to see the future of Marmalade boy

[@KittyFAN13]

Honestly, I wish that happens in Soap Operas, it would’ve made them why more entertaining instead of boring.

[@ribbonquest]

I would love to see a side story focused on the swinger parents.

[@giiiizmo]

Same. Would most likely be a hentai tho 💀

[@DoodleDabble]

Can I have that city pop soundtrack play at every dramatic moment of my life?

[@zae73]

Lmao it’s honestly so hilarious 😭😭

[@imateel7116]

It's funny realizing that this anime would be summarized in about 10 episodes if the main characters just sat and talked right after each of those bizarre misunderstanding situations that made then fight/running away/break up

[@joey1723]

Yep! Same with Peach Girl.

[@saffy771]

I do find it funny how they always use the exact same 80s beat whenever something dramatic happens lol

[@mousysaint9143]

Not the ear piercing "yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" at 49:05 waking me up at 3:00am ;(

[@OTOOO.MASHI_YUNAAII38n2]

I CRIED LAUGHINGG XDD

[@jamjam0409]

I watched it when I was 16 yo. I watched the first episode again now at 25 yo and I couldn't stop laughing at how dramatic everything was presented. But you kind of feel like that in highschool.

[@thatkodochagirl]

Thank you for your sacrifice, I could never get through this travesty of a shoujo anime 😅😂 Totally agree with all your takes! So many cringe worthy moments!!!

[@BlancMint]

ur so brave I don’t think I could ever withstand this series for more than two minutes

[@ducky19991]

I randomly found this show on crunchyroll, having never heard of it before and I was hooked. It’s so messy and unintentionally funny, I love the 90s aesthetics and transatlantic voice acting too 🤣

[@sanewitch8036]

I hate soooo much this trope with mean pretty boy who "gets softer for the right girl". This type of behavior tovard your crush is unexcusable period.

[@huntforbigfloptober1333]

It’s kinda wild listening to older dubs and everyone sounds like they’re much older whereas dubs now have so many high pitched voices. I love my dubs but somehow these classic dubs really hit a soft spot for me lol Also what is it with all these aggressive sexual harassment moments in shojo manga? Just like some guy in class calls you a cow and then grabs a handful and makes out with her… and then they’re true loves? 😂

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

The most dumpster fire romance in this series is Miki’s best friend and their teacher!!!!

[@gurl8744]

EXACTLY

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

@@gurl8744that one made me cringe so much

[@gurl8744]

@@ultimatebishoujo29 i wanted Meiko to get with that blue haired boy (Satoshi??) I forgot his name but I was literally ROOTING for them I was so disappointed when they didn't get together, it was either him or nobody I can't believe she got with that DISGUSTING man😑😶

[@ShibaSeshi]

I remember getting sooooo disturbed when they did the whole half sibling plot twist (so glad they didn’t follow through). 🤣 I completely forgot there was a teacher-student aspect. Eek.

[@mellodees3663]

The parents should have just declared polyamory and and it could have been the same.

[@joseyphipps]

I knew nothing about this series before the video, and my jaw was on the floor when they were revealed to be half-siblings. That’s wild as hell-

[@RagamuffinBabyDoll]

A 70 minute video about Marmalade Boy? Yes, please! 😂

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

I know right?!!!!

[@AlexciaWHY]

omggggg you mentioning Peach Girl for the messy mess it was got me seated!! okay! I’m definitely gonna watch this. I watched Peach Girl simply because I loved Momo’s character design and I did not expect what I would see lmaoo. It remains like my favorite anime ever now 😂

[@Elizabeth-mf3dn]

Peach Girl was CRAZY I freaking ate that

[@shortcake.b]

same! i've been trying to find more anime that are just as messy as peach girl ever since i watched it lol

[@wazzupyuwu]

very random thing to mention, but i have covid right now and being able to just listen to a long video like this with such a soft-spoken narrator is really relaxing for me and doesn't make my headache any worse. so thanks for helping me feel a little bit better this evening. your videos are always a treat to interact with

[@abribri3006]

FINALLY someone talking about this fever dream of a manga lol

[@lissylissard]

I don't normally watch shoujo anime, but really enjoyed your narration of this series. It had the same vibe of listening to hot gossip 😂. Looking forward to more videos like this!

[@shaythemoonchild431]

That one song playing in every dramatic moment is the only thing I remember about this anime! 😅

[@rukissketchbook9803]

Such a good video but omg the whiplash I had to experience again going through the biggest mess that's this anime istg- LIKE THE DRAMA, I literally can't... And when you mentioned peach girl and boys over flowers being equally as messy 😭I hate these shows sm but at the same time I can't stop watching cus they're so entertaining;;;; I need more messy shows like these in my life if anyone has recs! This video gave me such a good laugh 💞😔

[@ahyisney]

Istg 2000s shoujo mangas is the reason my sisters got into super toxic relationships thinking it was true love like noooooo 😢😢

[@missstranger7697]

Unfortunately, we live in a world where we cannot escape from childhood trauma, especially girls...🖤💔

[@HiBuddyyyyyy]

I don’t know if this is standard for this genre of anime but I love when the dramatic moments happen and then the energetic upbeat music kicks in.

[@ivyward1393]

the amount of persona 3 voice actors in this show is blowing my mind

[@dianacortes4253]

8:10 he didn't do it just out of embarrassment and to apologize. In Japan there's an old custom to cut your hair when you've been rejected after a love confession, though it's usually girls who do it. Apparently it comes from samurai and it's a symbol of a major life change or a new chapter. So it's actually him accepting that he fd up and stating he was the one being rejected. (Haven't finished the video so idk if this small nuance will come up later)

[@itsbasicboi]

I’m aware of the cultural customs for why Ginta cut his hair, but this video was about Miki & Yuu’s relationship so I purposely didn’t touch on it.

[@mscalifornication88]

omg i'm literally crying right now. i sing this one song from this show to every "anime nerd" i meet and no one has been able to help me remember where it's from. it's from this anime! thank you, this has been bothering me for like 10 years that I couldn't remember what I watched lol

[@YourWaywardDestiny]

I can only imagine the looks on people's faces as you try to describe this one. "I swear, I watched this anime where parents swapped partners and the step siblings fell in love." Saying that out loud, and seeing the alarm and confusion on their faces like... They _had_ to have assumed with a plot set up like that, it was a bizarre hentai you just admitted to watching when you were a kid. It was mostly an innocent show, just a little strange, haha!

[@TokkiSoto]

I can’t believe I’m watching a video essay on marmalade boy. This is so crazy. My middle school self has been waiting for this lol

[@beepysleepy]

The amount of times the main characters (especially Miki) are forced into kisses with other people in this anime is truly mind-boggling

[@Rise_O-te_Phoenix]

THIS WAS MY FIRST LOVE I FOUND ON MY OWN. like sailor moon was my first as a todler, inuyasha was my first as a middleschooler but it was fed to me by CN, this is one i found on my own at 13 and I ATE that shit up 😂 my landlord i lived with was super sweet and supportive and recorded a copy of the last 30 episodes for me since i moved and lost access to comcast on demand

[@Elizabeth-mf3dn]

Omg I was FEASTING 😂

[@kimtaehyungsock]

omg are u me??! i started with sailor moon first then inuyasha and finally marmalade at those exact ages

[@Rise_O-te_Phoenix]

@kimtaehyungsock did you also then become so connected to anime that you had role-play "bebo" accounts where you and a few online strangers had profiles that used fanart to depict the new storyline (I was inuyashas daughter before Yashahime was a thing)

[@mrs.chrispark4907]

I remember I loved the manga when I was in primary school and actually fantasized about step/sister brother relationship plus student/teacher relationship because of it 😭😭 I have to admit that as weird as it was I'm not too bothered by the step sister/brother relationship because they didn't grew up together, like they were already old enough (the line when they started to implied they could have actually really be related was weird tho) but the teacher/student relationship 💀..... And the fact that I was supporting them so much when I was 9yo 😭😭😭

[@gurl8744]

YOU'RE NOT ALONE I SHIPPED MIKI AND YUU SO BAD😭😭

[@blackknight300]

Every time I hear that Music stinger during a dramatic scene I can’t help but die laughing😂

[@vvgirl6173]

I remember watching this as a kid on youtube. I freaking love the opening music and i frequently return to it. The romance though. Drove me nuts.

[@tp6945]

the ending music tho lol

[@SGD2]

It’s literally so funny how often that one riff plays whenever something dramatic happens

[@lalalalaaAa123]

Honestly thank you so much for this video. I must’ve been 11 when my sister and I watched Marmalade Boy via the comcast On Demand section in the 00’s. 😂 So many fun memories of us high-pitched screaming at the Dramatic Plot Twists that seemed to happen at least once per episode!! 😂❤

[@HolicChan]

i would love love a video like this about itazura kiss LOL i would love to hear you say "the nerve of this man" over and over about how insane itazuras male MC is LOL

[@ayasara4427]

Omg i experienced he wildest anime as a child because i used to watch whatever was free on youtube 😂😂

[@MK_ULTRA420]

At least it wasn't Elfen Lied lol

[@suzettelou3290]

Honestly, yuu kind of brought a lot of this thing with his parents on himself had he just been honest with his parents and told him about the baby in the first place practically most of the drama in his life wouldn’t be happening. I mean he really break up with his girlfriend because she thought they were related he should’ve confronted them about it before he did all of that

[@vanillakilla64]

I’m not sure if you done a video on NaNa yet or watched it but I would love your take on it. It’s one of my fave nostalgic anime’s the drama the friendships it was just so good 😭 Also I love your vids, thank you for your work in your content ♥️ ALSO just realized Ginta is Sasuke and PS4/5 Peter Parker 😂

[@courtneys.7113]

i’ve never seen this show before but love your videos. i’ve had a few laugh at loud moments from the clips you showed 😭 this show is CRAZY and the dub voice acting is making it even funnier

[@Kay-kg6ny]

41:00 "you probably encouraged him along somehow" AHHH AHHH AHHH ALERT ALERT THE VICTIM BLAMING IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

[@SteadiestRhyme]

That song that plays at every dramatic scene in the show makes me laugh every time. It's just too much.

[@thewritegrump]

Marmalade Boy was my first manga and it awakened my love for anime as a whole; I owe so much to the series. That being said, god, it's a mess! I kind of love it for that, though. When I saw this pop up in my recommended, I was ecstatic! I never see anyone talking about this show and I'm super excited to watch this video (just finished the intro and I can't wait to hear what you have to say about this chaotic ride of a show/book).

[@Mavisdundundunnnmanston]

Yassss. I'm so down for this. I'd love to know your opinion on Romantic Killer. I grew up with teen romances and Romantic killer was a great way to revisit the genre. Edit: just saw you linked to another creator talking about the show lol. Gonna watch it now!

[@LovingPrinceTamayuki]

When I watched the sleeping kiss I was like, “😱 bruh nah! You can’t do that. That’s battery.“

[@jeniii97]

Marmalade Boy was my first manga and anime. I used to hate the show as an older teen when I ate it up from 10-14. Now, even though the more I watch your videos the more I agree with your points of the messier and problematic side of things (I hated on Miki so much when I was younger but poor girl did not deserve that sometimes) it holds such an amazing place in my heart and now I feel I need to rewatch it again after watching this. This is a great video! 💕

[@gurl8744]

OMG IM SO GLAD YOU DID A VIDEO ON THIS!😂 Marmalade boy has been my guilty pleasure since I was 7. I ate that shit UP. I'm 16 now and tbh I might watch it again. Everyone pissed me off, ESPECIALLY THAT TEACHER GUY MEIKO GOT WITH OMGGGGGG I WAS SO MADDDD. Anyways love the video!

[@Neku628]

Both guys should have no horse in the race after violating Miki's trust like that. Totally uncalled for! 14:56 You could just hit him in the face with all those chocolates he threw out, that would be more ironic.

[@theodoratzanis4253]

Glad u made this bc i never finished marmalade boy. I remember finding it on YT back in the day (i was prob 10). I only made it ab half way thru (right when they exchanged medallions). I was definitely offput by a lot of the arcs/themes and knew i wouldnt make it lol

[@grazia7179]

I can't believe the amount of non-consensual kiss and hugs in this anime 🙃

[@missstranger7697]

Wow, same here....🙃😔

[@abrahamlupis9354]

I don't see the problem

[@mimi5769]

I watched the anime while growing up every once in a while on TV, here it's called "piccoli problemi di cuore" which means "little heart/love problems" and i think the problems are not that little lmao. But i did love it a lot

[@joey1723]

Interesting that they changed the title like that!

[@mimi5769]

@@joey1723 well it's a common practice here :)

[@211animelover]

"My prepubescence self was eating this $$$$ up" So relateable.... i had no ideas what i was getting myself into.... All I know was that there was drama and romance and that the leads have to deal with it😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅 Not sure if anyone else relate but the music doesn't help either....don't know why but it hyped my prepubescence-self.😅

[@erinbrown3744]

I tried watching this anime with my best friend a couple years ago. Three episodes in and we hated everyone. Miki was annoying, Yuu was a shithead, the teacher was a creeper…we started praying that it’d just turn into a slasher and everyone would start getting picked off by an axe murderer except Meiko. Then she’d drive away only for the murderer to pop up out of the car’s backseat before smash cut to black.

[@cceres]

I watched this anime a solid 20 years ago and I've never heard it in English before this, it's destroying a piece of my soul the dubbing is so bad. Your voice is lovely though.

[@cringeyboiceovers9208]

Agreed, the English dub is so dryyyyy! 😩😩😩✖️👎

[@jesszeres]

I'm so happy someone finally talk about this show!!! this whole show has impacted my whole life! I have collected merch over years and honestly i wouldn't want a re-make just because it wouldn't land it right with the 90's vibes retro vibes

[@Elizabeth-mf3dn]

Ginta punching the wall is my fav 😂 Miki should switch to Track with all that running 😂

[@iluv_nana]

Help I love this video omg 😭 all the ‘drama’ scenes are just so hilariously dramatic I can’t help but laugh at them, thank you for showing us this slightly problematic golden mess of a shoujo anime

[@zainmudassir2964]

I like that lot of animation design and color palate of early 2000s anime look like old-school NSFW stuff.

[@Dinume]

Finally someone talks about this MESS of an anime!!! Oh my gosh i haven't heard anyone talk about it in YEARS!! My grandmother got me into it, it was so bad we couldn't stop watching and reading. Noone knew about it around me!!

[@AYSIAMULA]

My favorite shojos are the middle school romance which also follow the characters to high school & adulting because it so so cute seeing their innocent, watching their innocent disappear and trying to find themselves as they get older so Marmalade boy little would probably be in my lane more.

[@anime_chann973]

Thank you soo much for making this video! I watched it in a heartbeat. I reamember watching MB a few years back and wanting to talk to someone about it... i literally serched everywhere and nobody was talking about it anymore. So im really thankful that years later someone made a video about it ❤

[@Vistelia]

I’ve been waiting for this one 🙌

[@Vistelia]

I watched the Marmalade Boy anime after Peach Girl for that drama fix, and I don’t think my blood pressure handled this one well 😭

[@samuellatuffour1584]

Hi, thank you so much for uploading your intake/opinion on Marmalade Boy, Keep up the great work!

[@nosuperwoman79]

Oh, man, just spent my Friday afternoon watching this! Time well spent! I laughed every time you led up to a shocking moment in the show and then that iconic music played. 🤣

[@WallFlower08]

Keep doing similar anime series like this!!! Especially older throwback back ones. I’ve seen a few episodes of Marmalade and read a few of the manga book when I was younger but I never was able to finish it. Even as an adult I get too lazy to watch it lol. But I did like the story from what I could remember. So because of your video detailing the whole series for viewers I can finally know what happened between them! 🥰

[@estrxlatzu]

DUDE WHERE YOU BEEN OMGGG

[@mippa]

Marmalade Boy was ICONIC when it was a recent release in the 90s. It refreshed so many of the 70s/80s shoujo pitfalls. It was messy but SO entertaining~ (Also..hearing Michael Lindsay's voice in your clip samples made me weepy, he was gone too soon. ;w; )

[@mippa]

That said, there was a lot in the anime that was added that wasn't in the manga that made it triple the mess it was originally. XD

[@emilykawaii123]

My favorite manga growing up was Kodocha, which was described as "Marmalade Boy on crack" so I sat down to watch MB and its honestly already on crack

[@aliciamariee93]

Just finished the series and I’m sad it’s over. I WANT MORE

[@salthesalmonshark6849]

Well, the manga has a sequel... where the kids of each mom also fall in love. Yikes.

[@shawnnbits]

At the end of the day there has never been a more accurate portrayal of a taurus man and a gemini man fighting over an aries woman

[@MK_ULTRA420]

As a pisces I'm so glad that we're allowed to not care about astrology at all.

[@inevitablebykymmy]

I remember reading this as a teen… didn’t realise her parents are swingers

[@weebleflufflycakes7238]

*If I'm being SO real, I think if I was in this situation it would push me to a quadruple murder.*

[@anzuklutz]

Have you covered Itazura na kiss? I watched it as a kid but even then I could tell how problematic it was lol

[@maef7026]

11:45 This suddenly turned into a horror movie and then Sailor Moon music. XD

[@demetriusb.7885]

He is soooo innocently Precious ❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 Just Subscribed!!!

[@4risk451]

The sound that plays after every scene gets me every time HAHA

[@AirAnimeAngel]

Marmalade Boy will always have a place in my heart. It`s one of the first shoujo anime I`ve ever seen,the songs just opened up a whole new world for me(no wonder I`m such a City Pop fanatic now) and the aesthetic of it always made me happy. While the stepsiblings plot is kinda worrisome,there are much bigger red flags(Ahem STUDENT TEACHER relationship) in this anime than that. In reality Yuu and Miki actually have some really cute moments together,all things considered,even though when it came to the whole student teacher relationship everyone messed up in terms of the advice they gave to the poor girl. On that note,while I was watching Marmalade Boy,I was also watching Kodocha(or Kodomo no Omocha) and that anime just has the best enemies to lovers to this day and much of it still holds up surprisingly well.

[@camcam794]

I’ve never seen this series, and the way I gasped at 1:12:55!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!

[@onioncultistlordoftheonion8315]

that frickin opening riff to the theme song everytime something crazy happens has me reeling.

[@juzzbean]

I love that you made this video, I’m on ep 30 and couldn’t watch it anymore so immediately looked for a video summary lol

[@SpiderWitch13]

Thank you so much for doing the best essay video. I think us the viewers need to donate to your spa day fund. Causes this a very messy title to cover 😂