Kao ni Denai Kashiwada-san to Kao ni Deru Oota-kun
Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota
顔に出ない柏田さんと顔に出る太田君
With a smirk, Oota disregards his single-digit test scores and searches for a new source of amusement. He is soon captivated by his classmate Kashiwada, a mysterious student who consistently wears a blank face. Oota conspires to break her placid demeanor through scares and mischievous schemes, though his tactics always seem to backfire. Oota is known as the class clown and is constantly disciplined by his teacher, who claims "his face gives it away." To no fault of his own, he lacks control of his emotions and facial expressions. Kashiwada, on the other hand, seems perpetually emotionless and unreadable—no one knows what she is thinking! Oota and Kashiwada are complete opposites, but that does not stop a unique relationship from developing between them. As they realize their feelings for each other, it raises an important question: do opposites really attract? [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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With a smirk, Oota disregards his single-digit test scores and searches for a new source of amusement. He is soon captivated by his classmate Kashiwada, a mysterious student who consistently wears a blank face. Oota conspires to break her placid demeanor through scares and mischievous schemes, though his tactics always seem to backfire. Oota is known as the class clown and is constantly disciplined by his teacher, who claims "his face gives it away." To no fault of his own, he lacks control of his emotions and facial expressions. Kashiwada, on the other hand, seems perpetually emotionless and unreadable—no one knows what she is thinking! Oota and Kashiwada are complete opposites, but that does not stop a unique relationship from developing between them. As they realize their feelings for each other, it raises an important question: do opposites really attract? [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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BrotherCoa
December 20, 2025
This was one nice and cute romance anime about expressive boy and inexpressive girl, and it was fun ride from 1st to last episode. People say that this is similar to Aharen anime and I must agree on certain points, although boy character is much different than one from Aharen and becasue of that the dynamic is better at least imho. Animation and sound: pretty good. Animation is fluent with no quality drop and music is fine with no noticeable soundtracks. Overall: animation and music are industry standard, not bad and not good. Characters: Main duo are Oota and Kashiwada, their entire dynamic is what makes thisshow good. Oota is a middle school boy who is energetic, prideful and loves challenges. Kashiwada is shy, nice and goodhearted girl. Because of her unique skill to not show any emotion on her face regardless of the situation, Oota made it his life goal to put a reaction on it no matter what it takes. Joining them are Sata and Takodoro, who are Oota's male friends. These two are always by Oota's side, occasionally helping him in some regard but most of the time they exist to comment on his actions. Later we are introduced to Tabuchi-san who is class representative and a gigantic fan of Koshiwada, tryign to "protect" her from Oota. And last, but not least, Odajima-san who joins to crew a little late but is only one that can read Kashiwada's expressions. When you mix all of them together you get expected amount of slice of life enjoyment. Overall: Main duo is entertaining and supporting cast is good addition to spice things up a bit. Story: it's rather simple - a boy is teasing a girl in order to get emotion from her. That's it. Rather than being long arc storyline the episodes cover one chapter short stories from manga. There is no real sense of progress, only different scenes which include all the cliché situations that we have all come to love or hate depending on your taste. I came into this anime expecting nothing more than cute and wholesome moments and I was not disappointed. Overall: story is very simple and it revolves around the main theme of the show, nothing more and nothing less. Overall grade: 8, I gave it a 10 as that how much personally I enjoyed it. But realistic grade is around 7.5 to 8. It is a decent wholesome slice of life show and it plays that card very safely. If you come into that expecting only this then you will have very enjoyable time. In the end I am recommending it, it's one of those shows you watch at once for weekend in order to heal your exhausted soul with much needed positive energy.
