While it can often be frustrating when it is drug out with silly misunderstandings and character cockblocks at least by then we have a clear understanding why they both love each other.

The typical format is 99% courting with the eventual payoff at the end when our little lovebirds finally realize their mutual affections. For the most part our lead characters are in a relationship together from the beginning to the end of the series. Now here is where Suki na yo is a bit different from its other romance cousins. However this is sadly mostly wasted over the course of the story. The girl Mei, and the boy Yamato, both have some interesting personality issues on the surface and despite the silliness of their meeting there was some enormous amount of potential in their relationship. The beginnings of true and lasting love if I ever saw it. Suki na yo is no different, with the unlikely story of the hot and most popular guy in school falling for a shy, friendless loner who kicked him down the stairs because she mistakenly thought he flipped her skirt. It’s hard for me to be too hard on the romance anime plot premise, I mean they have pretty much already all been done before and But as the series winds down I found myself lamenting what could have been. It really is a shame, because Suki na yo had a tremendous amount of potential and gave us some things we don’t often get to see in the romance genre. but I just can’t because you’re a flat two dimensional romance that just didn’t live up to my expectations. Oh how I wanted to say, I love you to Sukitte Ii na yo. Throughout misunderstandings of their new relationship, each other, and the attentions of other girls, Mei and Yamato slowly grow closer and learn the true meaning of those three little words: 'I love you.' Mei, however, finds it very hard to adapt to this new lifestyle, especially in expressing her true feelings towards Yamato. On the heels of her discovery that their feelings are mutual, they start dating and she gains not only a boyfriend, but friends as well. But when a dangerous situation ends with Yamato kissing Mei to save her from the unwanted attention of a stalker, Mei begins to develop feelings for him. Yamato finds her intriguing and insists on being her friend, even though Mei wants nothing to do with him.

However, Mei's life begins to change drastically when a misunderstanding in high school causes her to encounter popular student Yamato Kurosawa.

Since then, she has stayed away from people in order to avoid ever being hurt again.

Friends will only let you down-that is the sad truth Mei Tachibana lives with, ever since she was wrongfully blamed for the death of a class pet by her so-called friends in grade school.

好きっていいなよ。1 by Kanae Hazuki