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This anime is a solid romance story. It had a good pace and characters that fit together. The conflict was a genuine challenge for the main characters and didn't feel forced. And they didn't overdo the drama.
To get the negatives out of the way, I'll start with those. The age gap is not that big of a problem but Ichika is underage, which the show acknowledges is a major problem. The voice actors were mumbling for the most part and the art wasn't the best though I kind of liked it. Also, this isn't what you'd call super exciting.
That aside, the story was done ... properly. It had a natural flow which made it kind of relaxing. Character development was well-done and captured the personalities of each character. Ryou was a salaryman who was popular with woman which ended up giving him a shallow personality with love long forgotten and Ichika was a straightforward high school girl with not much charm or existing love life. It kind of feel's like The Ancient Magus's Bride in how the two interact, get to know each other, and build a relationship.
This wasn't based on a fetish as most people think it is with the older guy and high school girl relation. One thing that I saw was that it took a cliché like visiting your crush who is sick, and, instead of doing something perverted, it made it feel like the story actually called for the situation and used it to resolve a conflict.
I liked it. Though I like a lot of weird things. I'd say give it a try, if the first episode doesn't do it for you, than it won't get much better later on.

At first, I thought it would be an interesting show. I didn't mind the fan service that much and planned to keep an open mind about a high-school girl living with a grown up guy. But it gets so boring. About 4 out of 5 percent of the time we are just listening to conversations with generic statements and advice you'd expect kid Naruto to spout. The characters are all flat and the animation feels as it were cut outs. The pace of the story is awful. 6 episodes in and nothing that truly provoked change happens. Well, there was a little hint for a ... little progression in the story... but there was no progression. Keeping in mind that this is a 12 or 13 episodes long anime.
Going into more details on the characters - may contain spoilers - the producers are hinting that Sayu has some very distressing experience which made her run away from home and work as an unofficial prostitute but so far we got half a person for a flashback and she seems perfectly fine after getting scolded by Yoshida and hugged by Gotou-san. Yup, wasn't troublesome enough to get therapy and we won't bother visiting the police station because police are going to get in the middle of a love triangle with a complex geometric shape. As for Yoshida, he is sort of like your generic dense harem protagonists that responds to a confession with wt* look on his face and is all depressed when he gets rejected. He is like a less comedic version of Raku from Nisekoi. Super nice and boring. None of the other characters are worth mentioning because I was making coffee when they started reciting the script. Kind of feels like the gospel of romance clichés.
The story hasn't gotten anywhere but it looks like we're headed toward a rushed ending. Kind of like Black Bullet. It might get better, I will watch till the end holding on to hope.
The art (a long pause) … the characters move as if they got the joints of robots. It is just so stiff. Especially to me since I watch sports and watch athletes' movements very closely.
That's my opinion of this anime. It is one of the more popular anime this season so I was pretty disappointed. It might work for you. I don't know. And it might get better. The world is full of disappointments... I mean surprises. Thank you for wasting your time reading my review.