YMMV / My Love Story!!

• Adorkable: Much humor is derived from Takeo's awkwardness or responses to situations. Yamato often acts like this when she's around Takeo, as he is capable of leaving her flustered very easily. This often makes scenes of the two together both adorable and amusing.
• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Suna's complete lack of interest in girls (or boys for that matter) has resulted in theorizing that he could be asexual.
  • There's a popular fan theory that Suna is secretly in love with Takeo. Some fans have claimed that the movie makes this more obvious.
• Angst? What Angst?:
  • Takeo is an incredibly nice and genuine person but his fearsome appearance means most everyone is afraid of him. He's so used to this that even the idea that a girl would be interested in him romantically is so alien that he doesn't get it until it's explicitly spelled out. Despite this, he never complains and keeps a steady and cheerful outlook on life even before he starts dating Yamato.
  • Seemingly played straight at first but ultimately subverted with Suna dealing with his father's surgery. For a while he seems to be holding up just fine...until Takeo goes to him and the hospital and he almost breaks down completely.
• Catharsis Factor: Takeo punching the crap out the man that molested Yamato. Damn, was that cathartic!
• Fridge Brilliance: Suna has read a crapton of shojo manga. How else would he know all the typical sources of romance drama and know how to nip it in the bud?
• Ho Yay: Between Suna and Takeo. Takeo tries to practice kissing with Suna (albeit with plastic wrap between them) and the two are completely inseparable with Suna often being forced to be there when Yamato and Takeo have their dates. Suna also doesn't seem to have any interest in dating or girls and refuses to deal with people who badmouth Takeo.
  • The author states that the perfect girl for Suna would be a girl that has Takeo's personality.
  • In the King Kong parody in the opening, it's Suna in Takeo's hand, not Yamato.
  • In the manga, a flashback chapter has Suna and Takeo in middle school. Suna practically ogles Takeo when he realizes how muscular he's gotten.
• LGBT Fanbase:
  • The series is about a tall, muscular gonk of a boy who falls for a cute girl. Takeo's design is borderline bara-esque and Yamato has more than a few scenes cooing over his muscular physique and full lips. Even in-series Takeo caused this reaction when he began working at a gay cafe.
  • There are also many fans who see Takeo's best friend, Suna, as asexual.
• Moe: Yamato, sometimes a Cute Clumsy Girl, who other times takes a lot of courage to be assertive in her relationship with Takeo.
• Narm Charm: This could easily be called ''Narm Charm: The Anime". The story is incredibly cheesy, the characters are often complete goofballs, the situations tend to get over the top, and Takeo and Rinko's relationship often outsaps the sappiest Disney has to offer. But damn it! It's so delightfully earnest, genuinely hilarious, and above all, heart warming on a regular basis, you love every second of it!
• OT3: Takeo/Yamato/Suna, for obvious reasons. The show prioritizes Takeo's true bromance with Suna every bit as much as his cute romance with Yamato.
• Questionable Casting: Some fans were sceptical that Takuya Eguchi got the role of Takeo, due to Eguchi's previous roles. However, once they listened to his Takeo voice, they are positively surprised that Eguchi is able to use a baritone.
• Retroactive Recognition: Chapter 34.5, a bonus story featuring Ai using the KonMari method of tidying up, released in the US in 2017, a year or so before Marie Kondo gained massive popularity in the states.
• Superlative Dubbing: The English dub does very well with its casting. Andrew Love captures Takeo's soft-spoken, romantic moments and his booming overreactions with perfection. Tia Ballard is appropriately adorable for Rinko, and Austin Tindle, although mostly monotone for Suna's The Stoic personality, can also pull off his Only Sane Man nature without a hitch.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: Played up humorously. Whenever Takeo and Yamato interact, expect lots of pink, lots of sparkles and lots of highlights in their eyes.
• Ugly Cute:
  • Takeo. An enormous, hulking beast of a teenager with Gag Lips? Yes. Absolutely adorable? Yes.
  • His cake topper from the opening counts as well.
• Unpopular Popular Character: A running gag is Takeo mentioning how unpopular he is with the girls at his school (not with boys, however). Strangers don't take to him easily either, with most people trying to avoid him because he looks so scary. He's well beloved by the fanbase however.
  Crunchyroll commenter: Takeo isn't popular with girls, he's popular with women!
• The Woobie:
  • Suna, who blames himself for his father's hospitalization because he came home late from school the day he collapsed. He also has to deal with it alone because due to bad luck his mother and sister are in another country when it happens.
  • Ai when she finds out Takeo has a girlfriend. She's been in love with him since they were children but had been holding off her confession until he'd graduated because of their age difference. Unfortunately, Takeo meets and becomes smitten with Yamato. So Ai decides to let them be because she can see how perfect they are for each other and how happy being with Yamato makes Takeo. It breaks her heart, but she does it anyway.

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