Konbini Kareshi

I am expecting there to be a Season 2 to this anime since it felt awfully incomplete. You can't introduce six couples at the beginning and then focus only on two of them. The young people in this show were painfully awkward when trying to express their feelings to their intended crushes. It made me lose patience with them.

Art was pleasing to the eye and the characters were people I grew to care about. Other than that it doesn't feel like a well-thought out anime. I am sure it continues the storyline in manga form eventually, but I ... need a little more storyline to make it worth investing more time.

Konbini Kareshi was an average romance story at best and for most of the time was frustrating to watch. The attempts at adding tension to the buildup of the romance for the two main pairs of couples of the anime were wasted as the end result wasn't fulfilling in both cases.
The art was mediocre and the art style doesn't do much to help either. I thought the soundtrack was nice and fit this type of anime nicely. The characters aren't terrible but the actions some of the characters decide to take are so frustrating to watch. A special mention goes to Haruki who is the ... biggest culprit of this.
I''d recommend that if you're looking for a romance to watch, it would be best to skip this one and try to find another one. Konbini Kareshi isn't wort the time unfortunately.

Konbini Kareshi feels more like a hostage situation than an anime. The initial action sucks you in and then spends the majority of the series teasing you until the last few episodes where things really start getting emotionally impactful and interesting. Leading to the final wrap up episode which left things... as nicely concluded as they could be with the main groups, but left alot of the secondary characters empty.

If you go into that understanding you're going to get sucked in and then held hostage for a really slow burn slow pace series... and left somewhat unfulfilled then it will be an enjoyable if ... "okay" series. The musical score is solid and so is the art, it's the rest that's severely lacking sadly.

In short, this series is frustrating in the end but okay.

I was on board with the idea of a sorta random anime about the romance of characters at a konbini. But... I was left disappointed.

The story was incredibly typical, which isn't so bad. My problem was that the "main" story with Haruki-kun was pretty much absent and lackluster. In fact, the side story with Towa-kun was much more enjoyable and I preferred it. He had guts. Haruki-kun did not. I ended up having this anime as background noise.

There was little character development, so very subtle. Which is a shame, because they all had room for improvement.

My biggest issue was the introduction of characters that don't ... get screen-time. As in, they could have provided so much more detail to the story... but they're just background characters. Like those blob characters who don't contribute much but comedy in other anime, except these people have actual detail to their faces. They're even in the OP!! You grow more attached to the background characters than the main characters.

I debated dropping this so many times. Honestly, this is a good anime to practice your Japanese listening skills, as they do not speak very quickly. I wouldn't say it's worth sitting down to watch though.

I had low expectations from this anime given its score but was somehow still let down. This is typical high school romance anime, which in itself isn’t bad, but the issue is very little happens in 12 episodes and you find yourself falling asleep every so often. Still, it’s not complete garbage.

Let’s start with the good points. The art and scenery are absolutely beautiful, which gives the anime a very relaxing feel. The animation is clearly cheap and full of still moments but I don’t mind it as much because I have even watched copic animation before, as long as art and story is ... good, I can forgive this type of animation. Sound was great and pretty much all characters were likeable to at least some degree except the lead couple.

Now this is where the problem begins. I don’t think I have ever seen a character as gyrating on nerves as Haruki. He is as likeable as the sound of chalk screeching on black board. This guy along with his chick are dunce couple no 1 of the show. Towards the end of the show at least the girl redeems herself by showing some complex emotions but Haruki remains a cardboard cutout until the very end. He is supposedly in love with this girl since childhood but one thousand opportunities later he still hasn’t proposed to her even when the girl is dropping all the hints. This would be fine for couple of episodes but literally an entire series based on this is overkill. I feel like if Haruki didn’t exist or get so much screen time, this show would have scored two more points. Only saving grace were Towa and his taicho, who also follow a very used formula of outgoing popular guy falls for uncutesy loner, but despite the boring trope they were enjoyable to watch.

I can’t really recommend this anime but I don’t hate it either. It’s a fairly average time pass with some great eye catching scenery and some cute moments and that’s about it.

I've never write a review for an anime, but I feel I need to at least do something with the time I invested watching this one.

Being honest, I watched it because of a clip I found on YouTube of a fanny moment and I thought "oh it seems good"... But it wasn't.

Let me start. Since the beginning I felt the story was a bit off. I felt the expressions of the characters were not complete, they didn't match with what was happening or what they were saying. I know some animes like to keep the viewer thinking and making you infer what the characters ... is thinking rather than explaining it to you. But half of the time with this story I was like totally lost. Or it could be just my ADHD making me lose focus but I just got lost SO many times because I didn't understood what was happening.

Part of the problem for me also, was that on the opening they show you like six couples and we end up stuck with just the 2 that are the more predictable ones. I really wanted to see how the story of the other couples was going to be developed, but it never happened.

It was so inconclusive in so many aspects. The only episode I got really excited was when they explain the title of the series, and I got there just because I didn't wanted to have another anime dropped on my list, it wasn't like they had build up enough excitement for me to be looking for that moment.
Even the most important thing of the story was ruined by the most cliche thing in romance/drama anime!!

They had such good things to work with, but I feel they didn't developed the couples and characters properly. It could have been a great series.

To finish my review, I have to say I was just so disappointed with the ending, that I thought there was an episode 13.

The first thing that caught my eye was obviously the art. I didn't care what the plot was about and thus didn't bother reading the synopsis while being prepared for the typical romcom cliches. I was really disappointed..

Animation and direction was lacking and often times just weird and awkward with long pauses, silent situations, random scenes that made no sense and/or came out of nowhere.
The plot was really boring (often times) and misleading from what we are first introduced to as viewers.
We are also introduced to what seems like 6 possible love interests (couples) but really only follow the two main and confirmed ... ones.
It was a shame to introduce such a cast and not explore them or develop them.

That first scene running over to the convenience store to supposedly "start everything" really got me but it wasn't what I was expecting and just went downhill from there. We don't actually get to see them develop from there but instead the story decides to take us a step (but really way before they even meet) back.
First off; we barely follow (at least until the end of the anime) the couple we are introduced to in the first scene.
Secondly; we lose the focal point of the important of a convenience store until around episode 10.
Lastly; there doesn't seem to be much character development (or is really shallow) which doesn't make you relate much even though the topics of interest should be simple enough.
Overall production is below average 4/10.

BUT

I fell for the art at first glance and really need to give props to that. The animation didn't bring out the fullest potential of it but it was still a blast to see the different outfits and facial expressions of the characters (nice choice of fashion Oo) +1
The story was obviously really cliche but that's what made it too cute and easily approachable +1

All in all, it was easy to follow along because of the youthful romance but I really didn't feel like understanding and even less following their story.

I still think it's worth a watch but will not recommend. 6/10

Truth be told, I did not like the anime.
It has really poor animation when there's any animation on screen, bad pacing and a character that dows not speak ever, but are show often as if we were supposed to care for them.

the MC is bland and his love interest is blander still. The interesting parts are with the secondary couple, and the anime follows them more often than the main couple.

The thing is, it's a strong premise - it has a great idea but couldn't handle it. The drama between the two MCs is strong and should have been front and center - I ... would love to watch an anime that actually ran with that idea and did it right.

As it is, it's mediocre and barely watchable. It's predictable, it's downright ugly to watch sometimes. But it had SO MUCH potential, so many great concepts that were awfully executed.

I put this anime on hold so many times until I finally told myself "Let's finish it we are in ep 7/8 so we might as well finish it" NOPE! Can't do this, and don't want to!!! SUPER SLOW and BORING! Some of the characters aren't even lovable and nothing but frustrating, it has PLENTY of quiet moments (with music playing in the background) that honestly could have been cut off and gotten to the point. Instead they drag out plenty of unnecessary scenes and half of the characters are just boring. They also tried to add so many couples that it kept throwing ... you off at first, they don't get to cover everything and instead leave you bored. It could have been something if they focused on at least a maximum of 3 couples and actually gave us more background story and answered other questions they currently hadn't as of ep 10 (Again dropped it on ep 10)

So time to watch more anime and what do I find this trash that I need to take out. cause this is the most mediocre romance/slice of life anime I have ever seen plus the story,characters, romance, enjoyment, and just the whole experience makes me want to throw my damn monitor in a lake surrounded by fricking snakes and toxic weebs.so I recommend you to not watch it if you don't want to waste your time but otherwise go ahead and experience the most dreadful and frustrating experience of your entire damn pointless life.

I hate the class rep(For some reason) i really dont know why