Kai Byoui Ramune

Kai Byoui Ramune" is an anime that blends elements of the supernatural with medical themes, featuring a mysterious doctor named Ramune who specializes in curing supernatural illnesses. The episodic nature of the series, with each episode focusing on a different case, allows for a variety of creative and unique scenarios.

The anime has been both praised and criticized. Some viewers appreciated the imaginative and unconventional approach to medical cases, as well as the exploration of emotional aspects tied to these supernatural illnesses. On the other hand, some criticism was directed towards inconsistent storytelling, varying quality in cases, and subjective preferences for character designs and animation.

Ultimately, whether ... someone enjoys "Kai Byoui Ramune" would depend on their individual tastes and preferences in anime. If you're intrigued by the combination of supernatural elements and medical themes, and enjoy episodic storytelling with unique cases, it might be worth giving the anime a try.

Kai Byoui Ramune's put simply, an episodic anime that features a "supernatural mysterious disease of the week." it's decent if you want to pass time, but it's just a bit too simple.
The character dynamic between the doctor and the assistant get really stale, and the character with the "disease of the week" really don't have much of a unique personality. There's a clear understanding by the doctor as to why they are afflicted with the disease. Basically, the afflicted person always has this one large mental problem with their personal lives that they have to solve and Ramune essentially gives them the push and resolve ... to do so. The problem I have with this format is that the "problem" is so obvious and there isn't much of any analysis into a person's psyche. It's just, someone's doing something wrong, and their mysterious disease gives them a hint as to what they're doing wrong, and they have to resolve this issue before it gets out of hand.
I wish that each case was more complicated, and instead of one case per episode, to build up a case, why not have 2-3 episodes dedicated to one disease so that we can actually have a more in depth analysis on any given person? Instead, we're given just enough information about any given patient and have them go through the cycle of gathering the resolve to fix their own situation, which of course, is also quite formulaic.
It's not a particularly "dark" show as far as I'm aware, as there's only good resolutions for the most part. It would be much more satisfying and give a more layer of mysteriousness so that the conclusion isn't always a peaceful resolution. I can't for the life of me remember the name the manga this was, but I read a very similar episodic manga, where people were given supernatural items with drawbacks, just like in this show. However, in that manga, the ending wasn't always good for the people receiving the item. Rather, it was dependent on their moral scale and decisions as to degree of the end result. If they chose bad decisions, they could die. Other times, they chose correctly, and nothing happened to them.
I'm not saying that this show has to adopt my suggestion, but there definitely has to be something that gives it the "oomph" that it unfortunately lacks for me to consider watching this particular episodic anime.

A show where everything is overdramatized. The male lead is always smiling in a way that's supposed to be either cheeky or cool or whatever but only comes off as completely cringe every time - i can't imagine anyone above 14 watching this anime without cringing every 5 minutes

To be honest, the basis of the story sounded pretty appealing but the writing and execution was just terrible. The comedy is bad, the main characters aren't memorable, the side characters always scream for no reason, like they're in some sort of low budget reality tv drama

*slight spoiler alert* Episode 2 is what completely ruined any chances ... for this show. The take-home message of episode 2 is basically: if a guy cheats on you with other 7 girls, as long as he apologizes, it's all cool. Bro, have some common sense - if a person is cheating on you with 7 other freaking people, then get the f*ck out of that relationship and completely remove him from your life. What's up with this immature vision of romance?

To sum up this anime: immature and cringe