Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It

理系が恋に落ちたので証明してみた。 (Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita.)

7.3(165,641)

MAL Score

Ranked #2946

Popularity #690

Comedy
Romance
Adult Cast

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Jan 11, 2020 to Mar 28, 2020
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

At Saitama University, two sharp-minded researchers decide to tackle a question that stubbornly resists formulas: love. When Ayame Himuro calmly announces that she has fallen for her colleague Shinya Yukimura, the confession doesn’t lead to a typical romance—it sparks a problem to be solved.

Yukimura, honest about his lack of romantic experience, can’t accept the claim without evidence and starts questioning what “being in love” even means. Equally inexperienced, Himuro joins him in turning their feelings into data, running meticulous experiments on themselves and examining the behaviors that might prove whether what they share can be scientifically defined—with a little help from those around them.

Otaku Consensus

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It lands as a sharply packaged adult-cast romcom whose best asset is its disciplined commitment to academic logic as a comedy engine, with Tooru Kitahata’s direction and Rintarou Ikeda’s series composition keeping the 12-episode run brisk and digestible. Its MAL score of 7.34 and AniList score of 72 reflect a well-liked niche favorite rather than a consensus classic; the recurring complaint is that the experiment-of-the-week structure can feel formulaic when the central gag repeats instead of escalating.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want a romantic comedy about graduate-level awkwardness without the high-school melodrama that dominates the genre. It scratches a similar itch to Kaguya-sama: Love Is War in the way it turns intimacy into a mental contest, but its flavor is closer to Wotakoi’s adult social space: colleagues, nerd habits, and people old enough to overthink everything professionally. The appeal is not “will they confess?” but watching analytical people weaponize charts, definitions, and procedures against feelings they clearly cannot spreadsheet into submission. Zero-G keeps the presentation clean and readable, which matters because the jokes often depend on timing, diagrams, and deadpan reactions rather than spectacle. At 12 episodes, it is compact enough to work as a fast, brainy palate cleanser.

Key Characters

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Ayame Himuro
Ayame stands out because her elegance and emotional bluntness are constantly filtered through a researcher’s need to quantify what most romance leads would simply feel.
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Shinya Yukimura
Shinya is the kind of male lead fans remember for being intellectually fearless and romantically under-equipped, turning sincerity into a sequence of overdesigned tests.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The series is built around a primarily adult cast and college setting, reflected in AniList’s high tags for Adult Cast at 92% and College at 89%, which separates it from the school-confession template common to anime romcoms.
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Its educational identity is not incidental: AniList tags it Educational at 81%, and the comedy repeatedly comes from applying research language, definitions, and measurement habits to romantic behavior.
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The 12-episode Winter 2020 run favors an episodic rhythm, matching AniList’s Episodic tag at 58%; that structure makes the show easy to sample but also explains why viewers sensitive to repeated joke patterns may feel diminishing returns.
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Zero-G’s production approach prioritizes crisp character acting, clean lab-room staging, and readable visual information over action-heavy animation, a sensible match for a comedy driven by reactions and analytical props.
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The show’s database footprint is stronger than its rank suggests: it sits at MAL Popularity #687 with 164,870 votes, indicating broad exposure for a niche college romcom despite a mid-7 critical average.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime aired as a completed 12-episode Winter 2020 series from January 11 to March 28, 2020, giving it a compact single-cour structure rather than a long-running romantic comedy format.
Fun fact 2: Arihred Yamamoto is credited as the original creator, while the anime adaptation was directed by Tooru Kitahata with Kenta Oonishi as assistant director.
Fun fact 3: Series composition was handled by Rintarou Ikeda, a key role for a comedy whose pacing depends on turning repeated scientific setups into distinct episode beats.
Fun fact 4: The production credits include Mahiru Shinya on prop design, an unusually relevant department for a series that leans on research tools, data displays, and lab-context visual gags.
Fun fact 5: Across major anime databases, reception is notably consistent: MAL lists it at 7.34/10, while AniList lists it at 72/100 with 1,839 favourites.