Riku is genuinely kind in ways that feel rare for a harem protagonist, which means the romance moments actually land instead of feeling like checkbox completions. The humor swings wildly between dead-on and exhausting, but when it connects it's because the show trusts you to laugh at the chaos instead of explaining the joke. Every girl has a personality that extends past her gimmick, and the show knows that's what separates a romance that matters from one you forget by next season.

Aoba Riku's transfer to a new high school, prompted by his father's work, arrives with a shock: nothing about this place follows normal rules. The headmaster's secretary quietly runs everything while preaching academic freedom, the teachers are odder than usual, and about half the student body wears animal ears. On his first day, Riku lands at the center of the student council's newest event and ends up running for his life. On top of that come the usual pressures of school life: popularity contests, crushes and homework. With comedy and romance mixed together, the open question is whether Riku can survive his strange new school at all.