Yuu

If you enjoy couples that banter, playfully tease back and forth, this is your show as this couple pair does a lot of that. No overly sweet talk, just teasing and casual banter that I really enjoy.

The acting for of the cast is really good - ranging from the rich, confident King Toga, Ayaka's comedian-looking dad, to the evil mother-in-law with a mole under her eye always wearing yukata always appearing to have more than meets the eye.

I also like the contrast between the family of Ayaka's and the family of Togo's although, I wish to have seen more of Ayaka's family besides the scenes where Ayaka eats with them or sleeps over with them, it doesn't feel like any of Ayaka's siblings have a real relationship with her except for Riku, the oldest, the other siblings are just there to set the atmosphere of a large family. Which is disappointing, would be fun to see Ayaka bring them out with the money she earned or take them out to play, and build more character development rather than just characters that we acknowledge but don't really know much about. Granted, I'm expecting too much of such a romance show to cater to the sibling-family side of things like Yonkyoudai... And the show is constrained by it's source material, the manga anyway.

Throughout the show, I wished Ayaka had shown more guts, especially with Kamiyama Kento, to slap him across the face or do something against the evil step-mother by her own accord, instead of simply being protected. The resolution was also a bit disappointing that the stepmother simply just folds over, and the biggest plot loophole it seemed to me was why didn't she simply just voice her opinions at the start when she met Ayaka as a bride-to-be. If she was so objected to it, why couldn't she stop it? And also it doesn't show very clearly that the stepmother simply didn't want Togo to be able to be with someone he liked as it would be deemed as just abandoning her? or was it because she wanted Togo to suffer the same fate as her? I'm still not sure exactly why she did what she did and why she came around to it at the last episode...

I also am still not sure how Ayaka fell for Togo at this point, I thought that her strong belief at the start that wedding is just a fake dream, to let people dream once, and then suffer in marriage for the rest of the lives, it would be cool for her to acknowledge how her views might have changed since falling in love.

There's also no clue how the contract got leaked, and no mention that it's a fake contract it seems, compared the actual contract that we were shown to have the seals at each statement of the contract. Maybe there was some cut-out material that was meant to be included about that in the show...

Despite these points, the acting is so good, and the music just comes around at the round moment to set the right feels.
I will definitely be watching the spin-off and hoping good and some characters from this show recurs there as well.