Ao's entire personality is built on avoiding boys because of her father's reputation, then she meets someone who treats her like a person instead of a punchline, and the show actually earns every moment of chemistry between them. The comedy works because it's built on real misunderstandings and character specifics, not just generic fanservice beats. What starts as a girl running from her circumstances becomes a girl learning to stop running.
Ao Horie has a problem: her father writes pornography for a living, and she's convinced that anyone who finds out will judge her by association. Her solution is simple: avoid people entirely and focus on academics. She plans to escape to a distant university, leaving her embarrassing family legacy behind. That plan is thrown off when Takumi Kijima, a friendly and popular classmate, suddenly confesses that he loves her. He refuses to take the hint no matter how hard she tries to shake him off, and his attention keeps flooding her mind with thoughts she desperately wants to suppress. Kijima's intentions are innocent, but Ao keeps reading something racier into them. The result is a short-episode ecchi romantic comedy about two teenagers talking past each other. Ao wants solitude and perfect grades. Takumi wants her company. The humor comes from the collision between Ao's repression and the chaos that follows whenever Takumi is around.
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