Romance anime may be incredibly popular, but such series and films are too often geared toward teenage audiences. In fact, high school students and the classroom setting are practically synonymous with this particular branch of anime. Kowloon Generic Romance stands out as the anime adaptation of Jun Mayuzuki's manga of the same name is an adult romance that begins in the workplace.

Kowloon Generic Romance has a strange and arguably surreal twist to it. Without spoiling too much, there's a lot more to Reiko Kujirai and Hajime Kudou than what their first impressions give. Their budding romance has many layers that will unfold in time, and they each have secrets that they're in no rush to reveal. Kowloon Generic Romance Episode 1 includes all this and more, making it the strangest yet most relaxing romance anime of the Spring 2025 anime season.

At first glance, it's easy to dismiss Kowloon Generic Romance as yet another anime about a workplace romance. After all, this kind of anime became quite popular shortly after Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku all but birthed the workplace romance subgenre when it took the anime community by storm in 2018. However, the very first few minutes of this anime put any concerns about a lack of originality or a fealty to rom-com formula to rest.