3D Kanojo: Real Girl

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Anime Information

Title:

🇯🇵 3D Kanojo: Real Girl

🇬🇧 Real Girl

Adaption from: Manga

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Relation

TitleEpisodesRelease dateRelease season
Season 13D Kanojo: Real Girl1204. April 2018 ‑ 20. June 2018Spring 2018
Season 23D Kanojo: Real Girl (2019)1209. January 2019 ‑ 27. March 2019Winter 2019

Spoilers


General facts

Hikari Tsutsui

⇒⇒ 💖

💖

Iroha Igarashi

The relationship between Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi starts already in the first episode, but begins quite unromatic.

Hikari Tsutsui is known in school as a pitiful otaku.
Iroha Igarashi is known as a promiscuous girl who does it with every boy.
And it’s exactly this trait that the author of the anime decides to use for the begin of the relationship.

When Iroha Igarashi namely is caught cheating, Hikari Tsutsui intervenes to protect her.
After being beaten up, Iroha Igarashi kisses, the injured lying on the floor, Hikari Tsutsui.

Of course, he doesn’t really take the kiss seriously, since Iroha Igarashi is the well-known promiscuous girl who does such things with every guy.
Understandable after such a scene!


How romantic yawn… No seriously now, a relationship cannot begin more unromantic.

It all starts with Hikari Tsutsui having to clean the school swimming pool with Iroha Igarashi.

Hikari Tsutsui can’t stand Iroha Igarashi because of his personal reasons, and because she is so depraved and the well-known promiscuous girl.
But Iroha Igarashi doesn’t really care.

When both accidentally fall into the pool and then come out again, Iroha Igarashi takes off her wet shirt (has a undershirt underneath).

Hikari Tsutsui is visibly shocked by her insensitivity, and Iroha Igarashi even teases Hikari Tsutsui and his virginity a bit.


In the afternoon in the café, two girls make fun of the two otakus, Hikari Tsutsui and Yuuto Itou.
Iroha Igarashi suddenly appears and defends the two otakus.

And Hikari Tsutsui is starting to get a more positive picture of Iroha Igarashi here.


Then later again, at school, Hikari Tsutsui accidentally observes Iroha Igarashi, how she is kissing a boy in the school hallway.
But while Iroha Igarashi kisses boy1, boy2 catches her and accuses her of being unfaithful again.
Thereupon boy 1 flees. Boy2 chastises Iroha Igarashi with a slap in the face.

Hikari Tsutsui had so far only observed everything silently in the background, but intervened when she was slapped.
But since Hikari Tsutsui isn’t the strongest and boy2 is also in the karate club, Hikari Tsutsui has no chance against him.
The next moment he lays unconscious on the floor.

Then when he wakes up, boy2 has disappeared and Hikari Tsutsui is being kissed by Iroha Igarashi.
Meanwhile, Hikari Tsutsui only has befor his eyes, how Iroha Igarashi kissed Boy1 just a few seconds ago.

Hikari Tsutsui asks Iroha Igarashi to go.
He probably thinks, how easy and unimportant it is, for a promiscuous girl like her, to give something special like a kiss.
So Hikari Tsutsui lies on the floor, confused by his feelings and cries.


One day later, Iroha Igarashi comes into Hikari Tsutsui’s school class and asks him in front of the whole class if he wants to go out with her.
Of course there are immediately rowdy judgments from the class, because of ‘Iroha Igarashi the promiscuous girl’.

And Hikari Tsutsui too feels being screwed at by her, because he has his pride and is not one of her many playboys.
He rejects her, whereupon she then leaves.


The next day, Hikari Tsutsui is outdoors and discovers Iroha Igarashi.
Hikari Tsutsui now decides to run after her and stalk her.
So long, until at some point Iroha Igarashi is again being accused and Hikari Tsutsui needs to protect her once more.

Afterwards, the two talk under a canopy of a café, since it is raining.
Hikari Tsutsui borrows Iroha Igarashi his umbrella so she won’t get wet when she goes home, with the excuse that he doesn’t need the umbrella because he lives nearby.


And yet, Hikari Tsutsui catches a cold the next day.
At school Iroha Igarashi notices it and kisses Hikari Tsutsui to take him of the cold because it is her fault.
Iroha Igarashi leaves and Hikari Tsutsui is stunned.

He cannot grasp it, but now he realizes that he has fallen in love with Iroha Igarashi.
And then he admits to himself that it’s okay:
To lose his pride, and being played around, manipulated and beaten up.
(Uhm… what ??)

Hikari Tsutsui now asks Iroha Igarashi if she would like to go out with him.
Of course she is happy about it and they hug .. or kiss each other?
(I don’t know, it was pretty unclear.)


Now comes the big plot twist.

Their relationship can only last for 6 months, since Iroha Igarashi then namely “has to change schools”.

Changing schools is only half the truth.
Iroha Igarashi is namely suffering from some kind of serious brain illness.
She has to have it operated and for that she has to move to another country.

(For more information ➜ Amnesia)



And so their relationship begins.
So in the next episodes the 6 months will pass.

Besides many ‘misunderstandings’, ‘Love triangle drama’, ‘Headache on why Hikari Tsutsui is such a intense coward sometimes’, ‘Confusion about whether Iroha Igarashi sometimes speaks the truth or not’ and, the relationships of the other protagonists, in-between there then is still some romance to be seen between Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi.


At the end of the anime as well, it becomes very unromantic again and to that also runs at a pretty fast pace.
(For more information ➜ Ending)


Yuuto Itou

⇒? 💖 ?⇐

?

💖

?

Sumie Ayado

The relationship between Yuuto Itou and Sumie Ayado is a bit complicated.

It has a very bumpy start and will also unfortunately finish at some point… although in the end it may be possible that they will come back together?

Before Sumie Ayado and Yuuto Itou come together, Sumie Ayado first falls in love with Hikari Tsutsui.

And thanks to the hard scatterbrained main character Hikari Tsutsui, there is of course a lot of love triangle drama.
6 episodes long!

At the same time Yuuto Itou is always by Sumie Ayado’s side to help or comfort her.
(For more information ➜ Love Triangle).

(Here is the point from which you should understand that Yuuto Itou plays a rather unimportant role in Sumie Ayado’s love life.)

So after a long back and forth, Sumie Ayados is finally rejected by Hikari Tsutsui.
Yuuto Itou is there, of course, to comfort her, and so the relationship slowly takes its course.

First, it begins rather one-sidedly from Yuuto Itou, since Sumie Ayado has just been rejected.
But Yuuto Itou does not give up and approaches Sumie Ayado more and more, until it eventually works.

And so, this relationship also finally starts…

Sumie Ayado

⇒⇒ 💔 ⇐⇐

💔

Unknown


After the big time skip, it will be revealed in the last episode, that Yuuto Itou and Sumie Ayado are no longer together.
Sumie Ayado married someone else.

Then, after the smaller time skip in turn, Sumie Ayado tells the group of friends that she divorced.

Whereupon Yuuto Itou saw this as his second chance with Sumie Ayado and he immediately invited her to a dinner.
It is unclear whether she will accept the invitation because the scene then changes suddenly.


Arisa Ishino

⇒⇒ 💖

💖

Mitsuya Takanashi

It passes some time in the anime for the relationship between Arisa Ishino and Mitsuya Takanashi to really get serious.

Initially Arisa Ishino hasn’t it easy to find a boyfriend.
She always got into the wrong guys who only wanted to take advantage of Arisa Ishino afterwards.

And although she later then learns from her mistakes, she still tries to win Mitsuya Takanashi, who is known as Playboy.
But she’s out of luck, because he repeatedly keeps rejecting her.

Only much later in the anime, after Mitsuya Takanashi decided to ease off, that he suggested a date to Arisa Ishino, which of course she doesn’t refuse.
The date doesn’t proceed quite as planned, so Mitsuya Takanashi invites Arisa Ishino on another date.

Now from here on things get a bit annoying with Mitsuya Takanashi.
Another date with Arisa Ishino is indeed pending, but Mitsuya Takanashi doesn’t really take it seriously and Arisa Ishino is getting fed up and is slowly giving up hope.

The relationship will therefore continue on a friendly basis.

Now a good friend of Mitsuya Takanashi starts flirting with Arisa Ishino.
He wants to be friends with her and also invites her to a meal. What she initially rejects because she doesn’t trust him.

She is skeptical whether he is serious or she will ultimately be exploited again.
This good friend even asks Mitsuya Takanashi if he agrees that his good friend can try to approach Arisa Ishino.

Which Mitsuya Takanashi sees as no problem.
Even when his good friend, with Mitsuya Takanashi’s presence, says to Arisa Ishino that they are going to eat something together, Mitsuya Takanashi behaves uncaring.

So he furthermore remains stubborn and tells himself that he has no feelings for Arisa Ishino.
And since Mitsuya Takanashi reacts so uncaring, Arisa Ishino also doesn’t try any more with him.


When Arisa Ishino later asks Mitsuya Takanashi if he needs help, Mitsuya Takanashi snootily refuses, to which she finally reacts and she finally tells him her opinion.

Mitsuya Takanashi takes the help afterwards, and from here Mitsuya Takanashi also stops being annoying and the romance can finally take its course.

Season 2, episode 6-8


Kaoru Tsutsui

⇒⇒ 💖

💖

Anzu Takanashi

Kaoru Tsutsui is the little brother of Hikari Tsutsui and Anzu Takanashi is the little sister of Mitsuya Takanashi.

Their relationship is a rather minor love story and is only brought to the fore in one episode with some drama.

Kaoru Tsutsui and Anzu Takanashi want to elope together because Mitsuya Takanashi disagrees with their relationship.

Season 2, episode 6

There is a time skip in the last episode.

You have to pay close attention now.
At about 19:15 minutes, you can see Kaoru Tsutsui and Anzu Takanashi for 3 seconds.

They are now grown up and still together, and have a date in the aquarium.

No

Yes

Big Time skip:
7 years

Little Time skip:
I guess about 1 ~ 2 years (Couldn’t find exact details)

Big Time skip:
From the middle of episode 23.

Little Time skip:
In episode 24 between 2 events.

Wedding

Arisa Ishino and Mitsuya Takanashis (Offscreen)
Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashis (Last scene)

Yes – Weak

Sex (Offscreen)

Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi

Season 2, episode 8


Yuuto Itou and Sumie Ayado

Season 2, episode 10


Sexual harassment

Yuuto Itou gets dressed up as a female maid at the school festival.

Later, when he is serving a boy, he is briefly getting touched by him.
But what quickly backfires, and the boy is then reprimanded by Hikari Tsutsui.

Season 2, episode 2


Romance facts

No

Yes

Yuuto Itou

♥ ⇒⇒⇒

Sumie Ayado

♥ ⇒⇒⇒

Hikari Tsutsui

In the beginning, Sumie Ayado and Hikari Tsutsui accidentally run into each other.
This is how they get to know each other, and after Sumie Ayado finds out that Hikari Tsutsui is an otaku, she slowly starts to get interested in Hikari Tsutsui because she is also an otaku.

After many misunderstandings on the part of Hikari Tsutsui, because he often does not keep the necessary distance from Sumie Ayado (and he doesn’t know better than sometimes just holding his hands by him, and thinking about Iroha Igarashi and standing by her).. Sumie Ayado naturally begins to develop feelings for Hikari Tsutsui.

Meanwhile, Yuuto Itou just stands by and just watches.
He also slowly develops feelings for Sumie Ayado.

Season 1, episode 5-7


Until it gets a little out of control on a camping trip.

Hikari Tsutsui comes too close to Sumie Ayado again, this time in the presence of Yuuto Itou and Iroha Igarashi.

When Sumie Ayado and Iroha Igarashi are briefly alone, Sumie Ayado tells Iroha Igarashi that she is in love with Hikari Tsutsui.
Which leads to Iroha Igarashi and Hikari Tsutsui arguing and Iroha Igarashi fleeing outside into the forest.

After everything has calmed down a bit, Sumie Ayado says goodbye the next day and takes the train to the hospital.
Yuuto Itou accompanies her.
On the train, Sumie Ayado then tells him that she will confess her love to Hikari Tsutsui.

Season 1, episode 8-9

When Sumie Ayado sometime later becomes healthy again, she talks to Hikari Tsutsui at school and confesses her love to him, whereupon Hikari Tsutsui runs away and lets her sit …..

But after Hikari Tsutsui was scolded by his friends and thought a lot, he finally manages to grow some balls in his pants (if only for a short time).

A day later, he then sincerely rejects her.

Season 1, episode 9-10


Now that the Love-Polygon has been dissolved, Yuuto Itou can now try his luck with Sumie Ayado.
(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ Sidecouples)


Arisa Ishino

♥ ⇒⇒⇒

Mitsuya Takanashi

♥ ⇒⇒⇒

Iroha Igarashi

Before Arisa Ishino meets the Playboy Mitsuya Takanashi, Mitsuya Takanashi is yet in love with Itsuki Hashima.
But since Iroha Igarashi is together with Hikari Tsutsui, Mitsuya Takanashi becomes very jealous.

Mitsuya Takanashi confronts Hikari Tsutsui and beats him up.
He even goes so far as to spread bad rumors about Hikari Tsutsui.

But what backfires, because Iroha Igarashi is now completely dumping him.
She avoids him and won’t forgive him so easily.

Season 1, episode 4


On the camping trip, this Love-Polygon will then almost be resolved.

On the camping trip, Arisa Ishino tries to approach Mitsuya Takanashi, but that didn’t work.
Mitsuya Takanashi tells Arisa Ishino that she is not his type and also counts a few negative characteristics of her.

When Mitsuya Takanashi later then does briefly the dishes alone with Iroha Igarashi, he asks her if she hates him.
Whereupon she confirms that.
She despises him wholeheartedly for doing these bad things to Hikari Tsutsui.

Mitsuya Takanashi tries to apologize.
But Iroha Igarashi still can’t forgive him.

Season 1, episode 8

Even after the camping trip, Mitsuya Takanashi briefly tries his chances with Iroha Igarashi again, but she immediately rejects him again with thanks.

Season 1, episode 9


Thus, the Love-Polygon is now dissolved, and after a little eternity it finally begins to sparkle between Mitsuya Takanashi and Arisa Ishino too.
(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ Side couples)


Chika Igarashi

♥ ⇒⇒⇒

Iroha Igarashi

Chika Igarashi has been Iroha Igarashi’s (not blood-related) little brother since she was 5 years old.
Even if he’s just her little brother, he always looks after her and cares a lot about her, sometimes more than Iroha Igarashi likes.

He doesn’t like Hikari Tsutsui and disapproves of the relationship between Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi.
The reason for this is very likely because Chika Igarashi is in love with Iroha Igarashi and he is jealous of Hikari Tsutsui.

Yes

Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi

Hikari Tsutsui’s mother accidentally storms into his room.

Season 1, episode 2


(Hikari Tsutsui’s mother and brother observe Hikari Tsutsui in his room while he is hugging Iroha Igarashi. Maybe there would have been a kiss here.)

Season 1, episode 4


Kaoru Tsutsui storms into his room.

Season 1, episode 5


Yes

Iroha Igarashi asks Hikari Tsutsui if he wants to go out with her.

Hikari Tsutsui rejects Iroha Igarashi because he thinks that he is just one of many for her.

… Hikari Tsutsui then changes his mind a short time later and asks Iroha Igarashi if she would like to go out with him. What she then accepts.

Season 1, episode 1


(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ Main couple)


Sumie Ayado makes a Love confession to Hikari Tsutsui.

Hikari Tsutsui runs away because he can’t deal with the situation. In the next episode, however, he decently rejects her.

Season 1, episode 9 + 10


Iroha Igarashi and Unknown Guys
(Memory of love confessions that many men/boys have already made her)

Season 1, episode 10


Yuuto Itou makes a Love confession to Sumie Ayado.

Sumie Ayado rejects Yuuto Itou because she has just been rejected by Hikari Tsutsui and her feelings are still playing crazy.

Season 2, episode 1

… later at the school festival, Yuuto Itou tries again to approach Sumie Ayado, but without much luck.
So he gives up and keeps his distance to her.

In return, however, she then realizes that it is causing her pain.
Which leads to HER ultimately asking him if she can continue to be part of Yuuto Itou’s life.

Yuuto Itou naturally accepts this somewhat different, weakly expressed kind of Love confession.
Whereby Sumie Ayado expresses herself more clearly at the end of the episode and reveals her feelings correctly.

Season 2, episode 5


(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ Side couples ➜ Couple 1)


Arisa Ishino often reveals her feelings to Mitsuya Takanashi.

But Mitsuya Takanashi always rejects Arisa Ishino.

… after a bit of annoying drama on the part of Mitsuya Takanashi, he then finally asks Arisa Ishino if she would like to be his girlfriend.
Which of course she accepts.

Season 2, episode 8


(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ Side couples ➜ Couple 2)


Chika Igarashi makes a love confession to Iroha Igarashi and asks if she wants to continue living with him.

Her answer is rather weak.

She indeed doesn’t return his love, but since they have been together since childhood, it doesn’t bother her to continue living with him together.

And since Iroha Igarashi cannot remember Hikari Tsutsui at the time, it will probably be enough for Chika Igarashi.

(For more information ➜ Amnesia)

Season 2, episode 11

Yes

Iroha Igarashi and Unknown Guys

Season 1, episode 1.
(Before she dates Hikari Tsutsui.)


Season 1, episode 10.
(Iroha Igarashi’s memory of her first kiss.)


Iroha Igarashi and Hikari Tsutsui

  • 2 times in season 1, episode 1
  • Season 1, episode 2
  • Season 1, episode 6
  • Season 1, episode 10
  • Season 1, episode 12
  • Season 2, episode 5
  • 2 times in season 2, episode 10.

Yuuto Itou and Sumie Ayado

Season 2, episode 5 + 8


Arisa Ishino and Mitsuya Takanashi

Season 2, episode 8

Yes

Iroha Igarashi and Hikari Tsutsui

Season 1, episode 1


Yuuto Itou and Sumie Ayado

Season 2, episode 5


Arisa Ishino and Mitsuya Takanashi

Season 2, episode 8


Kaoru Tsutsui and Anzu Takanashi already were a couple from the start.
(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ Side couples ➜ Couple 3)

No, not everyone.

Iroha Igarashi and Hikari Tsutsui

Season 2, episode 10

Yes

Season 2, episode 12


Yuuto Itou and Sumie Ayado

Between season 2, episode 10-11
(During the time skip. Exactly when and why is not told.)

Unsure, but very likely yes.

Season 2, episode 12


(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ ……. ➜ Details)

Yes – Weak …and pretty ridiculous.

So if you think Hikari Tsutsui is a weakling, then you can now look forward to his father.
The NTR story part in 3D Kanojo was namely assigned to Hikari Tsutsui’s parents.

Hikari Tsutsui’s father (Mitsuru Tsutsui) often meets with a younger female work colleague in the café.
Until one day Hikari Tsutsui caughts him with her.

As a result, Hikari Tsutsui’s mother (Kie Tsutsui) wants a divorce and Hikari Tsutsui’s father simply accepts it just like that, without defending himself and without discussing and clarifying the situation.
Family drama starts.

… everything was just a misunderstanding.

The female work colleague wanted to be with Mitsuru Tsutsui, but he rejected her right from the start.
But she didn’t want to give up.

And because Mitsuru Tsutsui couldn’t say no, they had several dinners together, but nothing more happened.

Then the love story of Hikari Tsutsui’s parents will be briefly told.
It’s a little sweet story, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Then Mitsuru Tsutsui clears up the misunderstanding with Kie Tsutsui, and everything returns back to normal.


Why is that NTR?

Well, fact is, that Mitsuru Tsutsui often met with a younger female colleague behind Kie Tsutsui’s back without even mentioning her.

Season 2, episode 3 + 4


Besides that, there is also an NTR scene directly in the first episode.
Whether this is significant or not, I leave it up to you.

Iroha Igarashi

Before Iroha Igarashi dates Hikari Tsutsui, she already has some kind of relationship with another boy (boy1).

However, she then meets another boy (boy2) in the school hallway and also kisses him.
And shortly after, she gets caught by boy1 and Iroha Igarashi is in trouble.

All of this happens while Hikari Tsutsui is quietly and secretly watching in the background.

(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ Main couple ➜ Relationship ➜ Details)

Season 1, episode 1

Yes – Weak and rather insignificant

Hikari Tsutsui

Hikari Tsutsui often comes closer to Sumie Ayado than he actually should.

First when Hikari Tsutsui is chatting with Sumie Ayado.
Iroha Igarashi notices them and that makes her jealous and sad.

Season 1, episode 6


Then, when Hikari Tsutsui wants to take something out of Sumie Ayado hair.

Season 1, episode 7


And finally again, when Sumie Ayado burns her hand and Hikari Tsutsui then cools her hand, which Iroha Igarashi also has to observe.

Season 1, episode 8



Iroha Igarashi

ATTENTION!!

This spoiler is WRONG because I accidentally mixed up two characters!

Iroha Igarashi and Hikari Tsutsui agreed to go on a date.
However, he does not appear and leaves her waiting.

Like, he doesn’t care at all.
No message or call of him, on why he walked out on the date.
(Reason? No idea, it also won’t be further explained in the anime).

But in return Mitsuya Takanashi suddenly appears and invites Iroha Igarashi to eat something.
At first she refuses, but because she is so angry with Hikari Tsutsui (rightly so), she decides to eat with Mitsuya Takanashi.

That’s it with the date.
There is no further mention in the anime about it.
Somehow meaningless and unnecessary.

It just raises more questions that the anime will never answer.

Season 1, episode 11



An attentive reader discovered the error in the spoiler and wrote to me anonymously.

I have looked at this scene again and must now correct and clarify the following:

Here’s what happens in season 1, episode 11:

From minute 4:30 you can see Iroha Igarashi and Hikari Tsutsui walking together.
And they talk about their next date.
A Movie-date.

Then you see Arisa Ishino standing on a side street watching from afar as Iroha Igarashi and Hikari Tsutsui are walking together.
Suddenly an old ex of hers shows up and asks her if she has time on a Sunday and wants to hang out.

Here is already my first misunderstanding:

Arisa Ishino does not agree, but does not disagree either.
She was just surprised.

And right after that follows my second misunderstanding:

Immediately on the following scene you see a character waiting for a date.


My assumption now was that it was Iroha Igarashi waiting for Hikari Tsutsui, since they were talking about a movie date a few scenes before.

BUT I WAS COMPLETELY WRONG!

You are not seeing Iroha Igarashi here, but Arisa Ishino.

It seems she did agree to hang out with her ex after all.

And due to the fact that Arisa Ishino changed her hairstyle for the meeting, I completely mistook her for Iroha Igarashi!
Because they look practically identical to each other:

Arisa Ishino
(Appearance at the meeting)

Risk of confusion!

Iroha Igarashi


Of course, this changes a lot for the next scenes… and that to the positive!

So Arisa Ishino waits for her ex-boyfriend, who also shows up eventually.
But what is not shown in the anime.

You just see Arisa Ishino complaining about him afterwards because he just begged for money and then just stood her up.

Saddened, she now stands there, alone at the meeting place, and just wants to go home.
But then, by a happy coincidence, Mitsuya Takanashi shows up and invites her to dinner.

Thus, the two go to eat ramen together.
They spend time together and Arisa Ishino mood improves.
Lovely 🙂



At this point, I would like to briefly thank the attentive visitor again for pointing out this error to me.

And also I want to apologize for this big mistake of mine!
I hope you can forgive me.

And maybe some of you made the same mistake as I did and mixed up the characters while watching.
Therefore, I could now also enlighten you 🙂

No

Yes

Iroha Igarashi

Iroha Igarashi suffers from some kind of serious brain illness.
She has to move to Los Angeles at some point because she has to undergo surgery there.

After the operation, she forgets all the memories she made with Hikari Tsutsui and the friends.

Season 2, episode 11

Yes, after she meets Hikari Tsutsui again and she recognizes a keychain.

Season 2, episode 12


(What about all the cell phone messages between Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi, or the photos they took together (season 2, episode 9)?

No idea, again no mention in the anime.

My guess: It could be possible that Chika Igarashi might have hidden everything, since he is of course in love with Iroha Igarashi and didn’t want her to remember.)

Romantic happy ending

Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi are getting married.

Well.. for me it was more of a bad ending, disguised as a “romantic happy ending”.

Why? In the next spoiler, I’ll rant about the end of 3D Kanojo: Real Girl.
To be exact, it’s about the last 3 episodes.

Please read at your own risk.
You may won’t like my opinion.

I will also tell you quite detailed what happens in the episodes.
So if you don’t want to know the last 3 episodes, you should skip this first.

Yup, this isn’t a good romantic happy ending, but most people probably won’t see it that way because they don’t ask any further questions and just leave it at that.

The ending (like most in this anime) is full of open questions and logical mistakes.

So, the drama starts in the second half of the 3rd last episode (season 2, episode 10).

Hikari Tsutsui wants to speak to Iroha Igarashi again before her moving out.

When Hikari Tsutsui asks her where she was going, she didn’t gave him an answer.
She just tells him, that she never would had thought, that she would love him so much in the end.

Iroha Igarashi then goes on and tells Hikari Tsutsui about her condition.
She has to undergo a brain surgery that either kills her or causes her memories to be lost.

After Hikari Tsutsui has learned the condition of Iroha Igarashis, Iroha Igarashi says her farewell to Hikari Tsutsui in the last scene.
And that was it.

Then, in the first half of the second last episode, we see Hikari Tsutsui and how he’s trying to deal with his problems.

But nothing about Iroha Igarashi.
She will temporarily no longer show up.
Without explanations. Just like that.

We will neither see her move to Los Angeles, nor will we see anything of her surgery.


Now the questions begin.
Why can’t he be with her when the surgery takes place?

  • Where was the romance in here? I thought I was watching a romance show!
    The person you love has to undergo a surgery, and you just let her go, without asking any further questions?
  • Did she want to fence off herself from him, so as not to hurt him any more, in case she dies or loses her memories?
    Well, isn’t that somehow selfish of her and a little bit to late, to think about it now?
    Which is actually the only believable explanation for me, that would make the most sense in this situation.
    This would also explain why they just broke off any kind of communication between them.
    No phone calls, sms, emails or letters. Really now?
  • Was it because Chika Igarashi somehow blocked Iroha Igarashi or Hikari Tsutsui because he had feelings for her?
  • Or was it because of her last promise?
    (She wanted him to forget her. A promise he could never keep)


Questions over questions that we will unfortunately never get answered.

I mean, come on.
That’s not how a relationship even works, so this was complete bullshit to me.
You discuss things and if there are problems, they will be solved “together”!

Well, are you still with me?
Because it will only get worse.

So, in the second half of the second last episode, the anime decides to make a time skip.
7 years later to be precise.

Hikari Tsutsui now has a job and is a successful businessman.
He is still friends with his former classmates and is still single.

Yuuto Itou is also single.
He and Sumie Ayado ended their relationship.
(What happened, Why and When? Again questions that we will never get answered.)

Arisa Ishino is pregnant with Mitsuya Takanashi’s child and they decide to get married soon.
(That’s the only actual real happy thing, that we get to see in this ending.)

And then Iroha Igarashi appears.

She is back from Los Angeles with Chika Igarashi, to visit their old home and decide whether to stay or return back to Los Angeles.

Now guess what.. she doesn’t remember anything.

Just a few minutes later and out of nowhere, Chika Igarashi confesses his love to her.

She doesn’t give a really confirmative answer to him.
She just agrees with it, since he was always there for her and always helped her out.

And since she had a new life in Los Angeles, made new friends and new funny memories, she decides to return back to Los Angeles after the visit.

Did you notice, that I made the font of “Los Angeles” and “funny memoriers” bold?

Well, we are not sure of what Iroha Igarashi did in Los Angeles.
But since the anime doesn’t answer many questions anyway, we can just make assumptions.
Perhaps you can guess it by yourself now too.

If not.. do you remember the first episode?
She was known for being “a wild girl/promiscuous”.

Which later in the episode is also kind of proven (not in sexual regards) when she is Two Timing.
She had met with a boy and was then caught by another boy with whom she also had some kind of relationship.

Or when, in season 1 episode 10:
Of the experiences Iroha Igarashi had already made with many men (also here, not in sexual regards), was shown.


So, if she lost all of her memories of Hikari Tsutsui, did she turn back into being the kind of girl she was before she met Hikari Tsutsui?

Did she made a lot of funny and “wild” memories in Los Angeles?

It pains me to just think about it like that, but … Los Angeles guys … Los Angeles.
Without going to much into it now, let’s just say that, i don’t believe Los Angeles is that much of a romantic place.

From what I have heard, there are either a lot of poor people on the street, or it’s a big party city where you can make lots of funny and “wild” memories.

And she was there for 7 whole years.
Well, maybe not the whole 7 years because she had to recover after the surgery.

But after that … and I quote:

The last seven years, I made friends in Los Angeles, and I’ve made a lot of really fun memories.

– Iroha Igarashi

Now, after these catastrophic episodes, let’s move on to the last episode.

And here the “happy” things finally happen.
Really fast. Really really fast.
No seriously, the pace in this last episode has gotten out of control.

Chika Igarashi suddenly had a change of heart and took her to meet Hikari Tsutsui.
Did she remember Hikari Tsutsui when she met him? Not immediately.

But after she spotted the keychain, that they both have bought eachother 7 years ago, of course she did.
Now this anime decides to be romantic again 😒

Mitsuya Takanashi and Arisa Ishino are getting married, and everyone meets Iroha Igarashi again, except Sumie Ayado.

Sumie Ayado is not at the wedding.
She is married to someone else and no longer cares about the friend group anymore.

Iroha Igarashi of course now decides not to return to Los Angeles and stays with Hikari Tsutsui.


Another timeskip.
I think a year or two later.

Be attentive and watch closely now, because otherwise you will miss the five seconds of the other little happy endings.

First you see that the baby of Mitsuya Takanashi and Arisa Ishino is born and then …

Kaoru Tsutsui and Anzu Takanashi are still together. Wonderful.
To bad you just see them two seconds. But better than nothing.

You never know with this anime.
You either get no answers or suddenly you see how couples are separated.


The wedding of Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi then follows.

Oh, and look who appears now.
It’s Sumie Ayado.

She apologizes to Arisa Ishino for not being able to come to their wedding, but without providing further explanations.

Also, she is divorced now.
A reason to talk now with Yuuto Itou again.
Compliments him on his anime and acts in being all curious and stuff.

Yuuto Itou (also known as the second choice in the life of Sumie Ayado) can’t miss this opportunity now, can he?
So, without wasting much time, he invites Sumie Ayado to dinner.

But we won’t see Sumie Ayado’s response to his invitation, as the scene changes immediately.
Will this resume their relationship?
(I don’t know, but Probably. It’s just another question that we’ll never get answered.)

And finally the episode ends with the wedding of Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi.

Conclusion:

The last three episodes just didn’t make any sense to me anymore.
In my eyes, they were only made to prolong the anime with nonsensical drama, which in the end only added more unresolved questions.

It would have been more logical for me if the anime had shown that Hikari Tsutsui was there while Iroha Igarashi had the operation in the hospital.
And then showing, how he supports and cares for her after the operation.

Would have been a cool positive message at the end.
Like, to have a loving partner at your side who can help you in difficult times and make your life a little easier.
Thus, making the difficult times more bearable and somewhat easier to overcome.
With the power of love and compassion.

The whole amnesia drama could also have been solved much faster this way.
And we would have seen more heartwarming and romantic scenes of how they solved the problem together.

Well, luckily the anime didn’t decide for the bad outcome.
And it didn’t just end up completely depressing and sad.
Like it happened in “You Lie In April”…..
(Not watched yet. Probably never will)
Or let it end like in Konbini Kareshi Konbini Kareshi.


Congratulation. You made it to the end of my rant.
Thank you for hearing me out 😊

For your patience and understanding, I have a little reparation here.
At last, a small but important event that the anime has not shown for inexplicable reasons.

Bonus spoiler from the manga:

Iroha Igarashi becomes pregnant a year after the wedding with Hikari Tsutsui’s child.

Why not showing this as last scene?
Maybe even as an after-credit scene?

Well, like I already said at the beginning of this rant, this anime is full of open questions and logical mistakes.
And if you’ve made it until here, you probably know that an answer is no where to be found.


My opinion

Moments:

In the romance anime ‘3D Kanojo: Real Girl’, there are several couples, but mostly it’s about the relationship between Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi.

There is a lot of bad drama and the pace is too fast in some places.
Moreover, prepare for lot of moments that are illogical, confusing, unexplained, meaningless and often just embarrassing.

But if you look beyond all of this, you can look forward to some sweet romantic and heartwarming moments.
(Often well-made scenes)

Animation:

The animation is rather mediocre.

Characters:

Hikari Tsutsui and Iroha Igarashi:

Hikari Tsutsui is the main character and a little chicken.
Sometimes he acts so cowardly, that while watching, you yourself start to feel ashamed

Whenever he finally overcomes himself to solve a problem and you think that he has finally become a little braver, in the next episode he becomes a chicken again with the next problem.

In addition, he also likes to cause a lot of misunderstandings because he has no idea how to behave in certain situations or because he often simply just doesn’t speak out.


Iroha Igarashi, unlike Hikari Tsutsui, is a bit more adult and direct.
She can indeed also cause misunderstandings, and also takes a little time to speak out, but it is nowhere near as bad as with Hikari Tsutsui’s.

In school she is known as a promiscuous girl.
But that’s no wonder.
If you watch the first episode, you will see how she deals with boys.
In a later episode you can also see that she already had something with several guys, but never anything serious.

However, when she meets Hikari Tsutsui, she changes.
She is striving for a serious romantic relationship with Hikari Tsutsui because she sees in him more, as her previous lovers, who were together with her only because of Iroha Igarashi’s looks.

In addition, Iroha Igarashi is a very confusing girl.
You never really know if she’s telling the truth or not.

A crucial question, for example, is whether Iroha Igarashi is a virgin.
Though, there is no exact answer to this.

As I already said, Iroha Igarashi is a very confusing girl.

In season 1, episode 1, she yet makes a little bit fun about Hikari Tsutsui’s virginity.

In season 1, episode 2, however, she goes to a hotel with him.
As she sits on the bed, she tells Hikari Tsutsui that it is her first time.

Hikari Tsutsui uses common sense here and tells her that they should first of all get to know each other better before they have sex.
Furthermore, he thinks it’s strange that she doesn’t valuate her first time that much.
(Whether she had meant it seriously here, is incomprehensible for me)

Later in the episode, she than lies to Hikari Tsutsui.
She tells him that the doctor is her “boyfriend” and that she is not at all a virgin anymore.

When she says that, she looks into Hikari Tsutsui’s disappointed eyes and is dismayed.
She then tells him that she lied again and that her “boyfriend” is only her doctor because she suffers from a serious illness.
(Whether she means here, that she is no longer a virgin anymore, is also lie, is incomprehensible for me.)


In season 1, episode 9, Iroha Igarashi justifies a statement by Mitsuya Takanashi with “He can only think like this because he has a lot of experience with others”.

To which Mitsuya Takanashi then namely replies and points out to Iroha Igarashi that “she doesn’t exactly lack of experience as well”.
Which she then also doesn’t deny.
(What kind of experience they are talking about is not explained further.)


In season 2, episode 10, Iroha Igarashi expresses the wish (in a certain way) that they both sleep together.
(Whether Iroha Igarashi just simply wanted to sleep with him together normally, or she was looking for more than that to happen, is again incomprehensible for me.)

But of course that’s exactly what happens and the two then have sex.
And both are not showing themself really scared or embarrassed in this scene.
Actually even very grown up.

Therefore I can’t make any further guesses from here.



Yuuto Itou and Sumie Ayado:

Yuuto Itou is Hikari Tsutsui’s best friend and, like him, a little chicken as well.
But only at the beginning.
His character is developing a little faster and better in the anime.

The only thing sad thing about him is that although he is always there for Sumie Ayado, in the end he however only plays the second choice in Sumie Ayado’s life.
(In addition, he dresses up (or gets dressed up??) as a maid in one episode … Well, since I’m not a fan of traps, this made me cringe.)


Sumie Ayado is a cunning snake in my eyes.
Pretends to be innocent but plays with the feelings of Iroha Igarashi and Yuuto Itou.

And at the end of the anime, she then also shows herself rather uninterested towards her old school friends.



Arisa Ishino and Mitsuya Takanashi

Arisa Ishino is initially rather naive when it comes to boys and lets herself always get take advantage of.
She often gets easily tricked and persuaded by these boys.

What experience she has already gained and how far she has gone with boys is not explained.
However, the anime highly indicates that she has already a bit more relationship experience, including sexually.

But other than that, I found that she was the coolest and most down-to-earth character in the anime.
Always has advice ready for her friends, and if something doesn’t suit her, then she says it too.

The only thing that maybe can be a bit annoying at sonme point is her weakness to Mitsuya Takanashi.


Mitsuya Takanashi is initially the annoying Playboy Character.
Also with him, as with Arisa Ishino, the anime highly indicates that he has already gained a bit more relationship experience, including sexually.

He also has a weakness for Iroha Igarashi in the beginning, but since Hikari Tsutsui is in his way, he tries to put Hikari Tsutsui in a bad light with more extreme methods.



Kaoru Tsutsui and Anzu Takanashi:

They are already together from the start, but are barely shown.
They are indeed just children, but their behavior is already quite mature.
Actually even more mature than some characters in this anime

Well, except for one episode where there is some drama that is actually too grown up for a relationship that is run by two children.
(For more information ➜ Couple/s? ➜ Side couples ➜ Couple 3)

Ending:

To the frustrating ending of ‘3D Kanojo: Real Girl’, I have expressed my annoyance enough.
(For more information ➜ Ending)


Short version and without spoilers:

‘3D Kanojo: Real Girl’ ends (at least for me) with a bad ending, disguised as a “romantic happy ending”.

In the end, so many questions remain unanswered and so many things made zero sense.

And it upsets me so much, that I consider this anime as a waste of time.
I regret watching this anime.
And that I spent way too much time for this post.

Episode Rating:

Season 2, episode 8, I rated best because it is an episode with the most positive events.

Otherwise, it always swings between a good and romantic episode and a rather weak dramatic episode.
Sometimes even episodes with just simply everyday stories with rather little or no romance.


PositivNegativ
Love confessionsKiss interruptions
Meetings and DatesOne couple separates
Sweet and heartwarming momentsNTR (ridiculous)
KissNTR-Vibes
…Love polygon will be resolved later.
Love-Polygon…
…Memories come back.
Amnesia…
“Romantic happy ending” …
Bad ending in truth
(“Romantic happy ending” is just a disguise)
Romance rating:

Click on the three dots (…) to complete the sentence with the opposite argument.

Positiv
Love confessions
Meetings and Dates
Sweet and heartwarming moments
Kiss
Negativ: Love-Polygon, …
Love polygon will be resolved later.
Negativ: Amnesia, …
Memories come back.
“Romantic happy ending”
Negativ: …, Bad ending in truth
(“Romantic happy ending” is just a disguise)
Negativ
Kiss interruptions
One couple separates
NTR (ridiculous)
NTR-Vibes
Love-Polygon
Positiv: …, Love polygon will be resolved later.
Amnesia
Positiv: …, Memories come back.
Bad ending in truth
(“Romantic happy ending” is just a disguise)
Romance rating:

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I have not read the manga about 3D Kanojo: Real Girl yet. Probably never will.
But I have found a few manga spoilers on the Internet and inserted them in some places.