Anime Review: Suzuka

Oh ok, Suzuka, a romance/sport show that fails to hit its goal at many levels.

Lets get pass the good things about this anime show first since there are many negatives things about this:
1- Character designs, all of them are cutely designed with a nice 'realistic' feeling as well, also the school uniforms were nice looking as well.
2 - The 'premise' of the story was ok, though cliched, its certainly not a bad one.
3 - The side characters, in particular Hashiba and Yamato's friend

Ok, bad things:
1 - Suzuka and Yamato: Suzuka is officially my worst female protagonist in a romance anime, she is god-awful in every single aspect i can think of. One day, she likes Yamato, the other day she hates him, the other day she acts crazy and stupid, this is one stupid character who can't stick with one consistency and really muddled up the romance aspect of this show. Yamato is a bit dense sometimes but he improved later on, he knew how to deal with things smartly and know how to deal with that so called woman called Suzuka. Sure, Suzuka may have mixed emotions due to her past friend's accident but it stays inconsistent, the days when she enjoys being with Yamato neglects the fact that she still has feelings for Tsuda. Inconcsistency, crappy personality for Suzuka and really a totally unspectacular romance. Full of angst and so much confusion, it was literally a terrible romance from both sides, with Yamato being the better side of it and Suzuka being the totally angsty other side.
2 - Far.. too.. many..episodes!! 26 dammit, with the whole story, i could easily use 12 episodes and still produce the same effect, there were far too many useless episodes in this show and it stayed the same slow,progressive pace which totally ruiend the show.
3 - Sports aspect.. was it needed???!! Aside form the fact it connects Suzuka and Yamato, there really was no need for the whole track and field aspect aside form a little plot device that serves very little in the whole main story of thigns. It could have been much better, if thigns concentrated on the sports abit more than things might be better, but no, i guess a concentration of the romance might be what they were aiming for, but unfortunately it wasn't that good honest.

Overall, 3 good points, 3 bad points, with many more bad points that i could have listed. In fact, Suzuka wa s awaste of time for me, there are much better romantic 'real-life' animes out there, Suzuka is really not one that fits that bill.

4.5/10
Grade: E