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Yosuga no Sora(YnS) starts strong, a solid premise filled with controversy that promises to deliver the drama aspect, set the tone for romance, but very quickly goes downhill in every aspect it could.

This review will contain mild spoilers, as it would be very hard to explain how the show falls flat without doing so.

YnS's first "flaw" comes from it's episodic nature. By eliminating an overarching plot, you need to lay great foundations for a show to work, you will need to pull out all the stops with art, you will need to have a great cast, and mostly, good writing so as to keep the ... episodic nature in check.
YnS fails to do so.

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Story:
The story and entire plot of YnS revolves around our two twins, and how they will adapt to their new environment, more specifically, the show will show various alternative timelines/universes/wathever floats your boat about what could have happened to the twins in the town.

The short timelines last between 4 to 2 episodes. And unfortunately, will not be unique, cliche will be a word very present in most of these short timelines. Except for one of them, who, will, for the most part, be the product of what I believe to be, poor writing.

The overused "ideas" and the "bland" writing of the these mini arcs land the show a poor 3 story wise.

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Art:
Here is where the show will fall flat on it'is face right away. The art, is bland, boring and non-appealing, nothing in it will feel rememberable, as the show chooses to use extremely undetailed rough backgrounds, or showing long and akward still shots.

When animation comes into play, the keyword here is, inconsistency. For the most part, the show barely animates characters, speaks will move to a mostly still frame, and cameras will be paned to force an angle where you may only see movement from the speaker, thus trying to cover it's flaws.

But I did mention inconsistency, so, as you'd expect, there are moments of great animation, let me break it to you, the show will have sex scenes. And here is where they will be beautifully animated, all the budget went here, the movements look fluid, and most of the time natural, hell, I've seen hentai with worser animation than these scenes. These scenes manage to scrap the art to an average of 5.

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Sound:
Similar to the art, but not on such extreme levels, the soundtrack the show uses is fitting, but unmemorable, I finished it 30 minutes ago, and I couldn't tell if a song played in the show if I listened to it right now, the OP works, the soundtrack works, and the ED fits, but where the show does show good work, is on character voicing, yet again, these sex scenes blew the budget, with really adequate voice for the cast.

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Character:
Oh boy, here we go. You know this would happen when you saw Harem in the tags right?
It is here that the show's flaws really start to drag it down, 90% of the cast, are cliche tropes we are used to seeing. The MC is a self-insert , he has no hobbies, passions or dreams, all he seems to care about his wathever girl the mini arc in question chooses to focus. His twin sister, perfectly matches the standarts of younger sisters, a dash of tsundere, a little touch of loli, some shyness, and voulla, bland imouto is born. The same is true for the rest of the cast, we have the "perfect" rich girl, the good old glasses oppai-neechan, the clumsy energetic girl, hell, we even have the comedic relief only other male in the group.

Ally bland base characters, with lazy and unrealistic character progression and interaction, and you have what we call, a dreadful cast.

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Enjoyment:
The show is unwatchable with critical thought present. 16 year olds keep breaking into awkward sex scenes and tongue kisses. We are talking rural teenagers, whose ideal relationship seems to turn into sex every half minute. Don't get me wrong, the sex scenes while well animated and voiced, completely break suspension of disbelief, as they will not be what you'd expect from teenagers, first timers, such and such.

To name one, and this sentence will spoil a bit, you will get to see a 12 year old girl, rape a 12 year old boy because of emotional instability.

Again, see what I mean by poorly written interaction?

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Overall:
YnS had everything it needed to suceed, but awkward writing that looks to have been made by a horny teenager or some very... unreliable adult ultimately bring it to it's demise. A show without a plot per say cannot afford to have terrible and unoriginal cast, and worse, horrendous writing.
We get it, the message covered in the last arc about love transcending all barriers bla bla. Good intentions don't make a good show. YnS would have been far more sucessfull add it' author decided to simply write adult works instead of shoving a hollow show full of sex scenes and cringeworthy interactions.