Yukino Miyazawa is the perfect student: smart, kind, athletic, everything comes to her easily and without strain. But that"s just a façade— in reality Yukino leads a double life, regularly turning into a bore and an overbearing chatterbox at home. You can"t keep up the hypocrisy forever, and Yukino"s armor cracks when a new rival appears in high school: Soytaro Arima—a boy even more talented and close to the ideal. Once the rival gets too close, Soytaro discovers Yukino"s secret, and having gained power over her, he overwhelms her with work in the student council. Yet the "unwilling servant" soon realizes that Arima is not a monster, but another hypocrite like herself; only life has beaten him harder. Gradually understanding gives rise to friendship, and from friendship comes love; one fine day the protagonists decide to drop their masks and show themselves to the world as they truly are. Things don"t always go smoothly, but step by step the boy and girl stop being slaves to circumstances and find something worth living for. Their efforts were not in vain— in the end, it became one of the best romantic anime!
J.C. Staff 
GAINAX Japan