So, what is this about?
Middle school girls with bodies of able-bodied 20 year old women falling in love. Not with each other, or at least for now. It's all straight male-female puppy love first romance kitch. If you think you've seen it before, you probably have.
There is no twist, tho. There is no parallel universe. There are no giant robots. There are no dueling academies, aliens, spaceships, demons, futanari, or miko. There are also no harems, thankfully. What there is, is unrequited love, awkward moments, and lots of cameltoe, boob shots, and other ecchi scenarios with characters who look like adult women, but, um, aren't.
It's all pretty bland with the familiar situations of unrequited love, lost love, nerdy boys, shy girls with big tits, brother-sister incest, that kind of stuff. The animation is top notch. The characters and backgrounds are beautiful, especially during the Christmas episode.
But there are only a limited amount of times you can see a little girl drop kicking a big guy and laughing or two teenagers blushing about what to do next (put it in).
And that probably got out of your system a decade ago, or more than a decade for me.
The girls aren't very personable, either. They're flat characters with little distinguishing factors, save for the ecchi conventions: shy girl with big tits (Meguru), brother complex girl (Koyoi), aloof ravenhair (Yamamoto), ditz (Arihara) etc. Each has their own "unique" design, but that just amounts to hair color and breast size, not personality.
Strangely, the more engaging side arc was a love between Enomoto (a self-absorbed girl) who fell in love with a boy she called "kappa (imp) face." It actually felt genuine for a while, but then it was nothing more than a teenage romance, and immature at best. Two people see in each other more than what's on the surface. We all do that, but so what?
This is what happens when slice of life goes bad. The ecchi angle doesn't carry the series. There aren't any good story arcs.
It's just a slice of someone's mediocre life.
We've all been there, but most of us have forgotten it, because it wasn't that memorable.
