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Wow, definitely didn't expect to see specials that are shown as if they were a single episode of a larger series of the 2 shows worked on in the original Shirobako.

If I could rate the 2 episodes individually, the first based on Exodus is a 4/10. Didn't much care for it. It was novel in its existence, but not good.

The 2nd though, based on Third Aerial Girls Squad is actually really good! I could genuinely see myself enjoying that as a full anime and give that one an 8/10. In fact, I wish it was a full anime!

Watch episode 11.

Overall a good enough show. If you're into sports anime and a team coming together, there's a good chance you may like it - only if you overlook one of the main characters being overly obnoxious and almost had me stopping multiple times.

Whether you give the shot a shot or not, watch episode 11. Even if you give up part way through, or if you don't watch it at all. Watch episode 11. I think most people can grasp any missing info based on context in the episode, so no concern about being lost. But the overall animation and production level of that ... one single episode soars through the roof and as a standalone is a 10/10 episode. It's absolutely fantastic, and highly recommend anyone and everyone to watch that single episode if you appreciate high quality animation, standout cinematography, good use of sound, and solid pacing, you'll love this episode. It's seriously one of the best I've seen all year.

Do yourself a favor, and watch episode 11.

The short of it for why I stopped watching, is the main premise of the show gave it a quirky start, but became overbearing to the point that it was no longer interesting.

Premise is girl who is enjoying her personal life with games, chocolate and spending time with her pet cat, gets "chosen" by a magical being to lose her favourite things in favor of finding romance possibilities with multiple real world guys. Main character is avidly against this being forced upon her and fights against whatever the magical character concocts and the execution of the show itself is a good one! But as I ... kept watching more, the quirk of the magical character becomes overbearing and overly contrived. Setting up nonsensical cliched happenstance moments, seemingly brainwashing characters into existence to fit tropes, and loses it's magic very quickly with it's reliance on "magic".

For me, there was clearly a point in episode 3 or 4 where they could have let off the gas on the contrived magicalness forcing unrealistic scenarios onto the characters and let things play out more naturally with nudging here and there. But nope, it keeps forcing things to an extreme degree where the show was no longer enjoyable and became no longer worth the watch. Too bad, because the shows execution, characters & dialogue were all done well enough that I could have liked the show if it wasn't for the overbearing magical "happenstance"!