Anzu plays video games while a wizard forces handsome guys into her life, and she genuinely does not care. The show's real gift is that it never pretends romance is the point, it's the setup for comedy that actually lands, where every trope gets dismantled by someone more interested in her next snack than in being saved. By the time you realize these guys have actual depth, she's already won by refusing to play along.
Anzu Hoshino has perfected the art of total disengagement. Unlike other high school girls, she cares nothing for romance or fashion and is content with her trinity of joy: video games, chocolate, and cats. Then Riri crashes into her life, a flying wizard who drafts Anzu into a real-life dating simulation whether she likes it or not. She becomes the first test subject in the Magical World's project to halt population decline. To make her focus on love, Riri takes away her favorite things. What unfolds is equal parts chaotic and hilarious. Riri stages clumsy accidents and romantic clichés that push Anzu toward a string of handsome boys: Tsukasa Kazuki, a painfully popular boy at her school, a clean-cut, athletic childhood friend, and a wealthy young man who knows little of the outside world. Anzu refuses to play along and fights the setup at every turn. Yet as the contrived scenarios keep coming, she slowly warms to Tsukasa, and the boys themselves begin to change after meeting her.
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