One Room

I say that this Anime is a mixed bag of feelings.
Not the most innovative or the best but it does what it seeks out. Comes in a POV format that took getting used to. Basically 3 comfort stories mixed into one series, all about love. The anime speed runs 3 relationships 4 epidsodes each running at 4 minutes so a total of 16 minutes per story so it isn't the most fully fleshed out of all with developments that feel rushed and skipping through many points that often make romance work in anime.

However do understand that it is an experimental medium so it could use ... more polish.
Recommend to view once, is an experience to say the least. What is gathered from it just depends, worst case you lost 48 minutes of your life.

Scenes give fanservice that may make you aroused and story isn’t that bad but it may derail any expectation of realism you may have. It may be a copy paste harem show shown in pov and the mc may be an ass at times but my enjoyment of it has not been hurt watching it as my expectation of a bad anime made the group laugh at the cringe and shallow story-writing of this show.

I remember watching this together in the osu! discord server made for r/place during 2022 with like 50+ others and it was one of the most enjoyable one or two ... hours of that year. definetly recommend watching it with a bunch of other horndogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id9Q3qREtfQ

its funny because its stupid.

The basic premise seems decent, supposedly being a "first-person" anime where characters talk to you about their day. The series however, fails at its most basic conceit before even getting to its other issues. First and foremost, the camera changes angles frequently, sometimes jumping behind the character and back to their front within seconds. Other times there are conventional establishing shots, shots where the viewer is clearly higher than they should be (one even being high up outside a window before teleporting back into the room). Not only does the show frequently violate the 180 degree rule, but half the time the camera appears to ... be handheld like some kind of Dogme film, which is funny since Dogme clearly forbids temporal and geographical alienation.

The show's inconsistent visual language may have been forgivable if the other aspects were decent, but alas, the writing is dreck and the art never rises above anything standard. This could have been a cute, wholesome slice-of-life short series with a unique twist, but it's weirdly leering in ways that feel much worse than the usual anime fanservice. I don't mind fanservice or raunch, but the second arc is about your little sister coming over and the protagonist (who again, is supposed to be *you*) seems to perv on her the same way he does the other characters which just feels wrong.

There was however, one husk of value that I was able to extract form the show, and that was halfway decent listening practice if you're studying Japanese. Since the dialogue is at least somewhat slow and being spoken directly to "you" I was able to mostly follow the episodes. What's the opposite of collateral damage? Serendipity? Who knows, but there was at least something worthwhile even if the show wasn't very good. The concept deserves to be re-tried with a more capable writing team and more consistent direction.