Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It is an amusing rom-com anime series that has returned in the spring 2022 season for another round of science lab antics. This anime is the story of how fellow grad student scientists Himuro Ayame and Yukimura Shinya use science to determine if they are really in love, and recently, they took some big steps together.

At the start of Season 2, Ayame and Shinya consider themselves an official couple, even if they aren't yet done using the scientific method to determine the validity of their romance. Interestingly, these science-slinging lovebirds got together not because of the perfect experiment or a foolproof formula but because of the storybook romance of the world around them. Not everything has to be calculated to be perfect.

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How Ayame & Shinya Stumbled Into the Perfect Experiment

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New fans of Science Fell in Love or returning fans who forgot the events of Season 1 will want to know exactly how the science-inclined Ayame and the aloof kuudere Shinya could have possibly become a real couple, and the season finale of Season 1 has the answers. At the time, Shinya, Ayame and their scientist friends went on an all-expenses-paid trip to Okinawa to attend a science conference.

Along the way, Ayame and Shinya continued running experiments on their potential romance, and once again, they were getting inconclusive results, which frustrated both of them. Then, a misunderstanding sparked Ayame's misplaced anger, and she started a feud with Shinya until she cooled off and decided to make amends. Ayame made a calculated move and bought a fragile but fancy glasses case for Shinya and went to deliver it.

The heel of Ayame's shoe snapped and she fell, which broke the fragile glasses case. Distraught, Ayame ran off into the night without her cell phone, and she ended up lost and alone, unhappier than ever. Her and Shinya's plans had all failed, and Ayame became convinced that a true romance with Shinya was impossible. She huddled up on a bridge for hours until the early morning light, when Shinya finally found her, and they quickly made up with one another.

More importantly, the perfect conditions for a romantic kiss were all met, from the lovely lighting to the isolation and quiet ambiance, and they shared their first real kiss. But they did more than lock lips -- they ironically disproved their methods without realizing it. This will have symbolic importance in Season 2.

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How Ayame & Shinya Sabotaged Their Methods in Season 1

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At that moment on the Okinawa bridge, Ayame and Shina gained something, but at the sacrifice of something else, which made this a mixed victory for the Saitama University lovebirds. On the plus side, sharing their first real romantic kiss helped them become a real couple at last, and they are now boyfriend and girlfriend in the early episodes of Season 2. By any standard, that's a huge milestone for any new couple, and their friends are happy for them too. However, this came at a cost of ideology that Shinya and Ayame are just now starting to pay.

Shinya and Ayame had been convinced that they could use formal experimentation, data collection/analysis and more to concretely prove if their love is real or not, and they spent all of Season 1 doing just that, only to get no satisfactory results. Then, during the season's climax, they became a real couple by doing the opposite of their preferred method. They didn't calculate or plan anything -- they let their emotions, the scenery and unspoken desire take control, acting like more traditional lovers who simply listen to their hearts and let things happen as they may.

That is an abstract and subjective approach, and ordinarily, Ayame and Shinya reject such things. They don't do things by feel -- they need hard data and lab equipment. But they proved their own method wrong by doing the opposite during that Okinawa kiss scene, and early in Season 2, the sadodere scientist Fujiwara Suiu and her boyfriend Chris Florette only reinforced the subjective method.

Suiu and Chris both become a couple using the subjective "I know it when I feel it" method, and they doubt the validity of Ayame and Shinya's science-based approach to romance. And it seems that deep down, Ayame and Shinya secretly agree, no matter what they actually say. This should provide some intriguing drama and plot twists in Season 2.