Mysterious Girlfriend X Recap: The Strangest Bond in Romance

This Mysterious Girlfriend X recap covers the romance famous for making everyone who describes it sound like they are inventing it. Transfer student Mikoto Urabe sleeps at her desk, cuts paper into impossible shapes with scissors kept in her underwear and speaks to no one.

Tsubaki falls for her anyway, and their relationship forms through a bond the show treats with total sincerity: a shared, almost psychic connection that lets each feel what the other feels. Nazo no Kanojo X is strange on purpose, and underneath the strangeness is one of the most old fashioned, faithful courtships in anime.

The recap covers the first meeting, the daily after school ritual, the tests of jealousy and trust and the way two teenagers build private rules for a connection nobody else would understand.

For a quieter strange girl story, read the Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible recap, or browse our anime recaps hub. Series details are on Wikipedia.