Koisuru Asteroid

Koisuru Asteroid is a fairly by-the-numbers entry to the "cute girls doing cute things" genre. This time it's centered around a schools natural science club, and follows a group of friends - including two girls that have reconnected years later, after a chance meeting where they have made a promise to discover and name an asteroid together.

The art style is nice, the characters are cute and the episodes are pretty chill, as is par for the course for this type of anime.

What else is there to say though... Well, for people who enjoy this kind of anime it's serviceable enough and fans of K-On! or ... Non Non Biyori for example, might find more enjoyment here than I did. In my own experience though I found it lacking. It covers a lot of the same ground that shows like those did, but lacks the dry humor of Non Non Biyori, or the character depth and musical hook of K-On to keep me interested. It's talked about, but there's not a lot of emphasis on exploring the science side of things, nor the romantic undertones that are hinted at early on.

The show is just kind of...forgettable. And even now I'm finding it hard to remember any of the character names or anything that happened in the episodes. Not the worst thing I've ever watched, but could have used an injection of comedy, romance or more in-depth use of the natural science plot to make it stand out a little more.

I'm in love with astronomy, so I searched for an anime that will focus on something like that and I found out about this anime. To begin with, I cannot say I didn't enjoy the anime but there's a lot of things lacking. As astronomy lover, I expected a lot of nice landscapes and space scenes, something like Kimi no Na wa, but that was not the case with this anime.

The plot is interesting, but the story development is obviously not that good. I would say that sound was okay, whereas I was not in love with the art style. I don't know, ... but the art style was very strange to me, they had dark purple strokes and some colors were uncommon(I believe I am not used to different stroke colors because black ones are mostly used).

In conclusion, I would recommend this anime, especially to Astronomy lovers! Even though I didn't enjoy the anime at all, it doesn't mean you won't. This is my first review of an anime, so please have a bit of mercy. :)

Life sucks, so let’s just allow ourselves to sink into the soft pillowy embrace of alcoho-er...I mean...cute girl anime.

If its core fanbase wasn’t evidence enough, it’s hard to fuck up a cute girl anime. In the past, I’ve gone on record being fairly lenient towards most low-effort moe anime. With “Koisuru Asteroid”, most of my convictions about cute girl anime have been gravely perturbed.

The term “CGDCT” or “Cute girls doing cute things” is one I’ve never been a fan of, if not for the sole reason that I grew up in the era that encapsulated its inception and persistence. I get the appeal ... because I lived through the majority of this genre’s golden age. I understand why certain fans will come to the defense of even the most niche entries in this genre.

There’s a reason why the term “CGDCT” is used as a pejorative, and that’s because shows like this will rise to the surface every once in a while. Let’s cut to the chase, this show is mind-numbingly boring. Let’s stop kidding ourselves with this shit. Is this show REALLY worth defending? The core audience for this show is insomniacs, frankly, that’s the only type of person I’d ever recommend this show to. Someone so out of sync with their body-clock that conventional methods of conking out just don’t do it anymore.

I’ve been seeing this show unfairly defended as an “iyashikei” anime, but the whole point of iyashikei anime is to heal you, not put you to sleep by the time the opening theme is finished. To me, this show has carved the path towards an entirely new genre of anime, anime so boring and full of grey-matter that it melts your consciousness into a sleep-inducing lull.

What can I say about Koisuru besides the fact that watching it was a blur? None of the characters track. Not a single one of them had new or interesting traits we haven’t seen recycled dozens of times already. The protagonist is your typical bubbly energetic moe-blob joined at the hip with her reserved best-friend, what a genius contrast, you couldn’t make this shit up. There wasn’t a single believable or compelling storyline and most of the side-characters were just there to pad the runtime. The character designs are plain/simple which is an honest rarity for Doga Kobo.

Unless you’ve already cultivated an active interest in the topic at hand (not that it can't be framed in an interesting way) you’d need the goddamn Ludovico Technique to stay awake watching this show. It is utterly bereft of anything worthwhile in a half-decent cute girl anime.

Let’s just end it here, because at the very least I can credit this show with fixing my sleep schedule, thank fuck. Goodnight folks.

Hello people and anyway this is my review of Asteroid in Love ( welp i consider this a weird title for an anime like this ) and since i'm on qurantine i'll investigate some of it's ups and downs ( Note:This is my personal opinion of this anime )

1. Story:

The story of this anime is about astronomy-filled cgdct anime but all i can see is only a few of these astronomy-related stuff that had manged to achieved

2. Art:

In this department not much to say about this but i still respect Doga Kobo for that

... 3. Sound:

Nothing much to say about it

4. Character:

In this section i consider them as 50/50

5. Enjoyment:

I can totally judge this anime as an out-of-place one bcoz it had intimate yuri,small amounts of SoL and severe lack of cuteness,comedy and the astronomy subject that this show promised to deliver is now completely gone unlike the other shows made by the studio itself

6. Overall

Koisuru Asteroid feels like it's own Dieppe Raid were they were liked b4 and then many retreated from watching it and it's characters were forgotten at weeks past and P.S i gave this anime a 4 and i can reccomend this or not but your decision is welcome and i would not judge you if u comply.

Additional Message: if u want a better Doga Kobo made anime to watch than this i suggest that you watch New Game or Tada Never Falls in Love both may not had the luster of Asteroid but i consider these 2 shows were better

I think I definitely came into this show with a bad impression. I used to be neutral with astronomy. That is, before I took college level courses on it. I know MUCH more than this anime had ever touched upon, (I really wish I hadn't, honestly). Like, the fact that I crammed hours learning about Cepheid variable stars, parallax technique, fundamental theorem of the universe, dark matter/energy, etc etc and having to take a final on it definitely made me absolutely hate astronomy. The fact that the introductory episode opens up with Mira being a popular variable star made me cringe.

I learned absolutely nothing new ... in the few episodes I watched, and I really doubt it goes very in depth into astronomy (I mean, it's an anime, come on now). I am absolutely no expert on astronomy, but I know how most things work, so the "learning" aspect of this show was a disaster.


But enough of the negative/extremely biased views. What makes this show terrible, barring my complaints and venomous hate towards astronomy? As for actual characters go, it's your very orthodox CGDCT show. I thought it was going to have some comedy, but no, it's just slice of life CGDCT. Not that this slice of life was terrible or anything, but it certainly isn't worth watching. At all. It's not animated beautifully, the dialogue isn't quite meaningful, the character's are pretty typical, and the story is just what you'd expect from an anime about a school club: club activities and the festival, and some summer camp adventures.

All in all, look somewhere else