


It’s the kind of mudslinging politics that America is known far and wide for having, but with a lot more chances for actual bodily harm. In KoiChoco, student council elections are serious fucking business. Oh but episode 1 starts off with a girl from the journalism club being run over by a car after witnessing a shady deal with the Public Affairs Commission and landing in a coma afterwards. Now, you’re probably thinking: a student council election? Really, that sounds boring. To sum up the last six episodes, we have Oojima Yuuki (Yuuichi Nakamura) and his Food Research Club threatened by disbandment as part of a sweeping reform proposal by Shinonome Satsuki (Yuu Asakawa), a candidate to be the next student council president. Perhaps KoiChoco’s biggest strength is how unpredictable it can be and how it can adapt very quickly to those unpredictable changes. It’s been a bumpy ride with this show: there’s a lot of scenes that make you go “so cliche”, and then wham something surprising comes out of nowhere.
