The nerd met the gangster
But how can any love be great when it’s not held on and fought for with every fiber of your being and with any bone in your body?
That love isn’t great. That love is an excuse.
A greater love story
She’s Dating the Gangster is clearly no work of Shakespeare, nor does it aspire to be. But while loose comparisons can be drawn between She’s Dating the Gangster and Romeo and Juliet, the lovers in the latter at least stood for love until life itself was robbed from the young lovers’ very lungs. But it turns out that Kenji and Athena are made of less hardy stuff. When challenged, their love bends, then folds, but ultimately breaks.