A Sign of Affection

I did not enjoy this anime unfortunately. The characters both leads and side had no depth whatsoever. They were all shallow with no personalities in my opinion.

It seemed like all the characters life revolved around love, I know that this show is supposed to be romantic but there was literally just love nothing else to it. No plot. The female lead falls in love with the male lead after meeting each other two times only. Which I don't understand at all. The fl might've fell because of his looks because there is no way you could get to know a person only in two days. As for the male lead I wondered on whether he would've been interested in her if she was not deaf? Since that is what most of what they talk about and hint at when they meet up, it has basically become her whole personality.

The male leads personality can be summed up by acting nonchalant for no reason and not even smiling for most of the show even though it seems to me that he's enjoying life by traveling and achieving his dream, idk is it supposed to make him look cool?.

The show overall gave me unnecessary depressing energy as well. In my opinion, it was the kind of show you feel down after watching it. And it's not like they were discussing heavy topics but acted as if the plot they had going on was heavy. Not my cup of tea.

This romantic shojo series is centred on Yuki Itose, a deaf university student. She can lip read but also communicates using Japanese Sign Language and text. One day, on a train, she meets Itsuomi Nagi, a well-travelled fellow student, and they form a friendship that quickly blossoms into a romance as she helps him learn how to sign. Some drama is added to proceedings by Oshi, a childhood friend of Yuki's who has strong feelings for her and doesn't approve of Itsoumi.

I thought this was a really sweet series. It is very different from most anime series I've watched. It is rare to have a deaf character in any film or series let alone something animated. The story feels very real; there is little or no real danger and it is firmly grounded in the real world. While there are amusing moments there aren't obvious gags. The character designs are good as is the animation. The latter is particularly important as sign language requires far more work to animate that the lip flaps of spoken dialogue. Overall I'd recommend tthis to anime fans looking for something a bit different.

These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.

I'm only 3 episodes in so far, but this is really good. It's nice to see a wholesome romance that's not In high school. Assuming this review is still up when the series finishes, my opinion stands.

Anyway, it's so cute. It's already up there with my favorites.

The art is very nice, and the show does a good job with allowing us to understand the sign language.

My only nitpick this the use of the "overprotective childhood best friend" trope, but it seems like that could be solved soon.

Back to positives, the character design is great, and it's not super fanservicey.

TLDR: it's super wholesome and pretty, give it a shot.

I watched entire 1st season it is fantastic its not just slapped together I swear entire time I watched it I smiled please check it out if you want good story telling and to feel good and smile all day. It has handsome lead men and beautiful your girls it's not a bunch of screaming kids or magic no super heroes just great story with young college people going about daily lives it has a different take on young love friendships. I like how beautiful lead man is all the characters are quite handsome I fell in love myself but main character just like my husband and I recall how I met him how cute my hubby was.

Do you like a male character who touches the head of a woman he meets for the first time? You seem to like men who ignore distance and come closer to you. Authorship.

I hate series like this that don't make the drama more difficult. Then, details on the animation. The lip movements and the beautician's hand movements are excellent. Then I wonder why this was made into an animation!

There is none... Is it because there are more people watching the animation than the live-action version? Rival strength? Who is the enemy? If you want some drama in your sign language, I recommend the animated movie "koe no katachi."