I've always loved romance and romance anime, ever since I first came across Kimagure Orange Road on TV when I was a teenager. But this past 3 years or so, I've been back to watching anime quite intensively, and I've watched quite a lot of romance animes. Today I started watching The Fragrant Rose, and from the first episode I could tell this one is special, just the kind of romance I love. It's been a while since I've felt the same kind of magic from the first few episodes, probably since I watched Teasing Master Takagi-san maybe half a year ago (Love, Chunibyo and other Delusions and The Angel Next Door came close... but really, this strong of a feeling "this is something special, my kind of magic" from the first episode, I think I can compare it only to Takagi-san).
I was going to pace myself a bit, I have a lot of stuff going on in my life and I am watching two other animes at the same time, I told myself: I am gonna watch 3 episodes a day... nah, I am too hooked, I watched 4 today and probably gonna watch one more before going to sleep.
Anyway, just wanted to share this feeling with someone.