Considering the experiment within the show is also manipulating these characters' feelings, the romance doesn't just feel lacklustre- it feels artificial. It is extremely difficult to care about their feelings for one another when most of these feelings (particularly surrounding Tenga) have been seldom explored and revealed only one episode beforehand, without so much as an explanation- or heck, even a hint- for why they like each other in the first place. They get angry, scream and beat each other up when they find out the one they love is being treated poorly by one of the other Kiznaivers, only for another person to get upset in return, and another and another, it raining and dramatic music blasting all the while like the world is on fire and ready to explode. With eight main characters and only twelve episodes, you can have a pretty good guess of how well these romances are handled. Every character is attracted to someone else, and often the one they love is interested in someone else entirely. It would be one thing if these feelings were long-term, but for everyone excluding Chidori, they have had these crushes for a few weeks, tops.Kiznaiver tries to create an absurdly complex set of romances. Give it a couple months and it will barely even cross their mind again.
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