We've
all done it. Whether we want to admit it or not, but we
have all done it before in the past. What am speaking of?
Putting up a front. A facade, an image, a false identity...
But
in the case of our heroine, Yukino Miyazawa... it became
an art.
To your
left, is Yukino Miyazawa.
To your right... is Yukino Miyazawa.
Left
is Yukino at school... beautiful, graceful, intelligent,
and proper in every conceivably ladylike way.
Right
is Yukino at home, where she grooms herself to be the Yukino
at school, by intensive all-night studying, training, and
perfecting her mask to show to the rest of the world. When
she's not doing that, she's being lazy, slovenly, and doing
things that the school Yukino would never conceive of.
Obsessed
with being admired and adored by her fellow students, she
rises to the top of her class. She's done it everywhere
else, grade school, middle school, why should high school
be any different?
Enter
Arima.
A classmate
who appears to be as perfect as Yukino is.. good looking,
smart, athletic, popular, and if she's Perfection, than
he's Perfection +1.
Since
the beginning of high school, Arima took over, becoming
class representative, getting the highest scores on tests,
and being the object of everyone's admiration.
Could
things get any worse for our heroine? Well what if someone
were to discover about the "real" Yukino..? And
what if that someone were also the last person alive you
would want to see the "real" Yukino..? Well, this
is anime folks, and it happens. Upon discovering the "real"
Yukino, Arima has something over her that she will never
be able to recover from.
Now
explain a romance that blooms between the two stars, throw
in an eccentric family, impoverished childhoods, a strange
mix of classmates, jealous rivalries, and the side stories
for everyone else, with the music of Shiro Sagisu and Great
Composers playing in the background, and you have a great
26-episode television series.