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Most Popular Guy In School Pretends To Have An Evil Side Just To Spend Time With Me!?!?

plot points, bullet listed, in order of certainty:

* i do everything in private browsing. i must have come across a post, probably on MAL, that contained several anime as recommendations. i opened all of them in new tabs, and started watching the first episode of each to decide whether to bookmark them or just close the tab. i must have been partway through the list, and then Windows Update happened, or a Low Battery Hibernation combo'd into Hibernation File Casts Corrupt Self. * What does that mean? Well, the file probably began to agree with the whole "but she's actually 200 years old so it doesn't count" argument.

Ah, warii. Tonikaku...

* has an anime * none of this is spoilers, because i'm certain all of this is E01 content (maybe E02 as well but extremely unlikely) * is in the (wholesome?) romance category * main character is a girl who does pretty good in school * a guy is an extremely popular, top scoring, very busy, well mannered, softboi personality student * this girl tries to find a weakness in his perfection * something Anime Logical happens and he instead blackmails her into doing some of his work, thus making him less busy * there's a scene where he comes to see her doing his work late at school in an empty class room. this is where they have their first genuine conversation * she feels bad for attacking him/his character when she realizes the titanic workload he has daily (sports, helping other students, studying, homework, clubs, etc.) * the twist is that he's actually an evil person who is pretending to be nice to be popular * the double twist is that he's actually pretending to be evil, because it means that the main character now has a reason to talk to him in private (he sugoi daisukii the main character obviously) * the extra work she does under blackmail is student council work, OR she was already in the student council, OR he is in the student council * there's a scene where she jumps out of the window (on the first floor) and she runs from the guy, but athletics is yet another way that he is superior to her so he catches her. it might be raining. it is definitely dark out. * she hates the guy because he is #1 and she is #2 in grades, OR because she doesn't believe he can do all the things he does and be so effortless about it without having a dark side or dark secret. * the anime might be older. in order of suspected airing decade from most suspected to least: 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 2020s * it begins to bother the main character when she notices a lot of his work is just other people taking his capabilities for granted, and him having a sense of responsibility towards fulfilling expectations

I'm realizing clickbait titles and doujinshi titles have a lot in common, stylistically...

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