Goukon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi

So I recently finished this anime and I have to say it started out strong! I watched it week to week and then eventually it fell off because the story just didnt really go anywhere. Now is it a week to week watch? No. But I could see this anime being a fun binge watch if you are looking for something with extremely low stakes with not much character progression. Now I will admit the romance elements between the 3 main male and female characters is cute but it doesn't really progress much in the anime other than light teasing. Its simple and that's good ... enough for me! It had a very interesting premise about gender roles that was also very unique. It wasn't forceful nor cliche which I have to give it props for. I would have loved to see them speed run some of these episodes as it was extremely slow and I hear it is that way in the manga as well so here's to hoping the MCs EVER get together! It was an average rom com BL? That you could watch in your free time but if you decided to skip it I wouldn't blame you either!

It's ok. I watched the English dub (I often watch english dubbed anime while I work) so it may have been different in the original VA work but I found Hagi to be so grating I put down the anime for extended period of time. It was genuinely difficult to finish the last two episodes due to his grating voice and one note, "Oh no, am I bi? Am I gay? Am I cheating?" character trait. Otherwise it's a very pleasant watch and occasionally funny, I love the other two romantic plots with Suou/Tokiwa and Fuji/Asagi. They don't really flounder much with the idea of ... dating crossdressing women which I appreciate.

I liked the idea of this show, at least what I thought the idea was: a romance where the girls are tomboys. Tomboys rule and aren't usually very well represented, so I thought it could be fun.

Instead what I got was a bunch of tropes and repeated jokes for 12 episodes straight, but now they're "crossdressing themed".

This show accentuates by a lot the problems I have with anime not accepting gay people in our society as something normal. There are ENTIRE EPISODES dedicated to Hagi (this show's most annoying character) just worried if he's gay because he's attracted to a women who cross dresses. He's ... such a good example of how anime thinks how funny a dude being gay is.

Besides all that this is just one more painfully generic show that does not even try to explore characters besides seeing them in slice of life, and for a slice of life show, there are a whole lot better you can do.

Also the show has a non-ending, literally just stops in the middle, and I have my doubts about the existence of a season 2