NO SMOKING ON THE BRIDGE

It’s a sort of adventure thing.

It stars a DFC tsundere who wears boots and solves mysteries. She has a short fuse but mostly keeps it in check, sometimes by releasing pent-up aggression at the boxing gym.

She seems to have some sexual abuse in her past, and that colors her relationships in the present.

She’s straight, but she’s been known to kiss girls.

She’s not too honest about her feelings. Although she falls for a male comrade, she has such a hard time admitting these feelings to herself that she has no choice but to distance herself from him and even cause him abuse and pain.

Can she be true to herself and learn to love?

And will he come to her rescue when she needs him?

Ookami-san and Seven Companions? or Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy?

It’s about a lovable loser. He’s shy, and not that interesting. But he somehow winds up in the company of a hot — and flawed but fundamentally pure — girl.

Occasionally, “H” things happen between them.

Fanservice here and there.

Along the way, there are a lot of laughs. Interlopers and misunderstandings as well, but love is the real truth, not passing flare-ups of the heart.

In the heartwarming end— although the story was ostensibly sexy, or funny, or raunchy — traditional ideas of love, relationships, and gender roles are conservatively reinforced.

New anime series? Or new Judd Apatow movie?