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The series takes the all-you-can-eat buffet approach to storytelling. Rather than refining what it already has, it chooses to add yet more to keep your attention. What starts off as a main couple, with a cast of side characters popping in to spur change, turns into an ensemble cast who's been made quirky for quirky's sake (According to the author). In particular, Forty was supposed to be a little sister character, but the author thought that was too dull, so he made her also turn into a boy sometimes, but that was also too dull for the author's tastes, so he ALSO gave the boy ... a stern, conscientious personality (Which was meant for a girl. It'll make sense if you read it), and then the flirty party boy personality to the girl (Again, makes sense in context). The issue? The author apparently didn't have as much fun writing the boy, so he almost entirely dropped the bit. To add to that, the character suffers two full retcons, wherein the transformations between boy and girl are literally explosive, and then the girl's personality changes to "Kawaii imouto", like the creator originally intended.

You'll basically get one of two storylines:

1) The AI is bad at simple Human tasks, and we need to cope with whatever the Human problem of the day is.

2) A woman shows up and is an absolute nuisance. The most horrid examples are:

2.1) "Cindy", a rich, famous celebrity that shows up and makes an absolutely brain dead with with Saatii that whoever MC picks in a play (Playing the part of the prince) keeps him, and the other disappears. Cue three solid chapters of her being a slimy bitch, and then realizing she did wrong after Saatii tries to kill herself because MC, entirely unaware of the retarded bet they made, chose Cindy to keep the end of the play consistent with the source material, and keep her around (Because she threatened to leave if he didn't, to boot).

2.2) MC's sister shows up, blabs about the AI to the world the moment she finds out, then, to boot, tries to wake a fourth one, and manages to install literal malware into it in the process. Cue immediate disaster as it then infects everything, possibly kills countless people, and triggers a rushed, confusing ending to the story. All the sister had to do was stop touching things!

To sum of a very long, confusing story, it basically starts as a comedy, then it turns into a drama. And it spends a LONG time spinning its wheels, focusing on side characters, at least one of which is an objectively awful human being. Halfway through, the quality of the art just stops off a cliff for no apparent reason, to boot. But if I had to point to its biggest sin, it's the fact that the story actually ends two or three times. Seriously, the main conflict is resolved, everything's set for the end card... and the author just pretends it didn't happen. Especially ... nearer to the end, we've got a character lamenting that something didn't happen WHEN IT SPECIFICALLY ALREADY HAPPENED AND THEN SOME!

P.S.: There are 71 chapters in the pre-ser version.

TL;DR: This show features garbage so-called "people", and you're supposed to be ok with them.

I dropped it. And it's a 3 to me. The only reason I can't outright warn you against it is because the main girl is very much the embodiment of the perfect woman. But besides that, the show regularly introduces pieces of shit, and then, after an episode or two, with barely even a "Sorry" (Literally none, in the bitch sister's case), we're supposed to ignore everything they've done and just move on like nothing happened; they're "Forgiven" now.

MC is literally abandoned by his whole family, his own sister ... outright tells him she doesn't give a fuck if he leaves. One day she just randomly shows up, stays with them, and decides to tell MC how little she, and the rest of the family, actually care about him. She screams, and whines, and even throws away meticulously crafted food because she insists everyone needs to be as mean, and petty, and selfish as her. She pisses herself in the middle of a thunderstorm, and when Yuzu takes care of her, we have a magical 180. But only for Yuzu. She keeps treating the brother like shit until the absolute last second. Meanwhile the brother's somehow not mad at her, spends 2-3 minutes monologuing about how much he loves her while she's asleep.

Then comes Ryou. She literally breaks into MC's house, steals his money, along with the bookmark Yuzu gave him as a birthday present, and almost literally laughs her way back home, proud of the fact that she managed to rob a stunned shut-in. Immediately after, we see her acting like she's being forced to do this, suddenly seems to have a conscience (Since the dad's also in on this, boasting about it, and she's telling him not to talk about that in front of the boys). The whole time, she's also talking about how the dad's a worthless drunk, and how she's going to use the money to feed her three little brothers. Already we have the show trying to suck and blow at the same time here: First she's an unrepentant thief, and then she's a self-conscious sister just doing what she has to to protect her brothers.

It's already bad enough, until MC decides he's going to go get his bookmark back. She holds it hostage, makes MC tutor her brothers all day, and then, after kicking out MC without giving him his bookmark back, she goes to his house, immediately starts lying to Yuzu by making herself out to be a mistress, and telling her that the bookmark was a gift from MC. Her only reason for doing this is sheer spite for a girl who's found happiness despite having been bought.

What does the show have this paragon of morality and virtue do to earn forgiveness? She shows up after her little shit brothers drag every child in the village to MC's house for lessons, makes a bit of food, and apologizes once to Yuzu (Not the guy she robbed, threatened, and whose relationship she tried to destroy). And not because she thought what she did was bad, but because Yuzu literally tore the bookmark right in front of her face instead of crying, somehow convincing her that she's not "some pampered princess" (Her words) and how that makes things interesting. And now that she likes them, she's apologized... but, again, only to Yuzu.

EXCEPT NO. THE RIP HAPPENED BEFORE SHE WALKED AWAY AND GLOATED TO HERSELF ABOUT HOW SHE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE HAPPY! THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN ATTITUDE HERE, AND THIS APOLOGY MEANS NOTHING!

It starts off good, but the moment the dog slug splits, the story suddenly has to juggle the obvious implication of an anti-slug breeding out in the wild, the redemption arc for a LOT of really shitty people, a romance arc, managing the original dog slug's reproduction, and wrapping all of this up in two volumes. And frankly, it falls flat on that front. The ending boils down to a Deus Ex Machina, and a "ooo, we're mysterious and beyond your comprehension".

Almost everyone kind of just sucks here. FMC is the least unlikeable out of the lot. But everyone around her is some variety of ... shit. Her "friends" constantly insult her, and leave her out, everyone in her club constantly abuses her, and her own brother is an annoying brat that eventually gets his own sister attacked by an old man, and their house burned down. At the story goes on, a couple of people apologize, and the mega bitch from the club actually has a redemption arc, but it sounds like the story wants us to lump individual characters atoning with everyone atoning. Like, if mega bitch is nice now, then all her problems in the club must be resolved. And if one of her bitch "friends" apologizes exactly once, then they must both be clean now. The story even has the audacity to have the second bitch friend call the first one out like she wasn't ALSO doing the exact same shit. And they're just "friends" in the end like nothing happened.

Thing is, the story starts out great! You quickly get the sense that this is basically going to be "Sassuga Mia-sama!": The Series. And they really work the joke, while making FMC believably flawed. Just because her personality got her killed once, doesn't mean she's suddenly going to pull a 180. She's mean, childish, and manipulative, and this time around, she has her execution as a fantastic excuse to be that way. The issue is that somehow the show peters out as time goes on, with issues coming to a head in Episode 8. I can't put my finger on it, but after seeing her ... failing upwards for three quarters of the series, I'm not invested enough in seeing her do the same for five more episodes in even less believable circumstances. If this series had ended at episode 7, I'd give it a 5 and move on happily.

The story has an extremely strong start. And if this was all there was to it, this would be a great work. The problem is the author decided to move away from the dynamic between the two main character characters, and decided to change the genre several different times. The story expands to explore all the different outcomes of Vampire's various relationships with Humans, and by god, they're all sad.

Without spoiling too much, there's this MASSIVE digress where both main characters are presented as some kind of exception to basically all the rules established. Then, after the author spends literally over one hundred chapters ... setting it all up... we end up with a disappointing wet fart of an ending that just tosses it all aside and goes on to actively destroy everything that's been built up. This author hates ending his works, and it's twice now that we get such a disappointing waste of time for a conclusion to a series.

But hey, I finished it, if only through sheer stubbornness. There were some points where I almost stopped reading, but I guess it's not all that bad if I finished reading it.

The story really didn't know what it wanted to be. On one hand, there's a drama and slice of life thing involving dance lessons, and on the other, there's lots of ecchi fanservice, with nipples in plain view. The story went well out of its way to separate the two from each other, despite their proximity. FMC is aroused by watching a second girl dancing. Instead of using that to have FMC get grabby during the private dance lessons, we get her having irrelevant fantasies at home. The story even lampshades this later on when a third girl assumes "private dance lessons" is code for ... something.

If the story wanted to be a horny, fanservice title, the dance lessons should have been an opportunity for the stated into-girls FMC to get handsy with the other one(s). If it wanted a more serious slice of life dance thing, it shouldn't stop the story every couple of pages to flash us, to have us watch them masturbate, lick each other, or sniff each others' panties.

Neither of the two stories is bad, per se, but then on top of that you can really sense the author throwing in everything and the kitchen sink, with plot threat after plot thread that quickly goes nowhere, as if all the author had in mind is there would be dancing, and then naked kids doing naked stuff, and then realized there were 15 more pages to fill.

Scattered. That's the only way to describe this. A boy finds a girl that's about to kill herself, then they just move in together. Instead of exploring the girl and her path to recovery, or even their relationship, the story mostly consists of MC saying "I wish you'd/she'd do this", her saying "O-... ok. I'll try", and then succeeding in the very same page after literally one or two tiny hiccups. A baseball coach shows up who suddenly insists on recruiting MC because of his talent or whatever, and wouldn't you know it, he's the girl's dad (Because why else would we focus so ... much time on some rando if not for this contrivance). Turns out the guy's abusive, and the girl's too scared to say anything (she doesn't really share much in general). But worry not, MC punches him a couple of times, then dad gets arrested for unrelated reasons. Then MC gets a shit ton bunch of money from dad (Who was supposedly struggling financially), and... that's it. The girl moves in next to him instead of just living together still, and their arc is over. That's the first volume of the WN.

After that, we completely forget about them and move on to other people. This isn't just a quirk of the manga adaptation, it happens in the WN too: We literally just ignore the main couple after the drama gets some contrived resolution until the fourth volume, where MC's mom meets the girl. The next arc in the Manga, covering Volume 3 of the WN is about MC's friend, whose feelings had been hinted at already. That's where the release ends for now, so I don't know what comes next. And frankly, I'm not nearly motivated enough to find out.

Update: Never mind. Fuck this show. I just barely tolerated the compulsive lying from 80,000 gold's MC. I won't tolerate it a second time. More and more of the episodes seem to be dedicated to the girl spinning an unnecessary web and explaining it all away. Dropped, which is an automatic 3 for me.

If you watched the author's other work, "Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement", and felt the work would have been better served by making the main character a listless, wandering bum, then look no further than this beautiful masterpiece. The story is simple, and episodic: FMC shows up in ... town, pops a potion or two, gets everyone to fawn over her for having magic potions, and being super mega smart and awesome, then when a noble shows up, it's time for her to skedaddle on to the next destination to do it all over again. She will never, under any circumstances so far, settle down anywhere, to do anything. Her motivations are an enigma, and three episodes in, the closest we've gotten is "I want to start my own business"... which is promptly ignored for a random plot about undercover charity work that didn't get enough setup because the anime skipped content.

Every time, and I do mean Every, and then Time, that an adult noble meets her, they try to take her for themselves. First it's an annoying fat guy, then it's the crown prince trying to stalk her into marriage. The first time, she swaps places with a maid that needed to be her size for no logical reason, given that she can make potions that do ANYTHING. The second time, she gets tired of being stalked by the prince, so when he invites her to a party, she shows up, changes into a maid outfit, pretends she was too stupid to know she also got a package with the invitation, shouts about how life as a noble sucks until everyone cries, then cuts her face and runs away.

To add to that second event, a random guard at the exit to the town buys a stupid lie that she angered a noble, and not only lets her go, but also gives her money and supplies for no reason.

I could go on about every little thing wrong with this, but you get the idea.

Still, I'm not dropping it yet, so it's clearly not a 3 on my book.

Every gag series runs the risk of devolving into pure "Lolrandom" territory, where the dialogue is less a means to set up, then tell, jokes, and more a means of dazzling you into thinking something's happened in the story. I've braved through hundreds of these short chapters, trying to crack a smile as best I can, but I can confidently say that this is all pointless bullshit. Sometimes, rarely, they'll tell a funny joke, or do a funny gag, but most of the manga is basically a series of random noises and gags ostensibly tied together by the setting. The key to figuring out when ... your gag manga's gone too far is when your characters don't so much talk TO each other, but rather AT each other, and this one does that for dozens of chapters at a time.