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Let's start with two disclaimers. If you hate eroge-adapted-to romantic drama, you'll hate it; it's an eroge-adapted-to romantic drama. If you hate the works of Shaft, you'll hate it; it's very definitely a Shaft show.

Essentially what you're watching is two very-tenuously linked (but with substantial parallels) melodramatic romances; one with just two people's problems getting in the way and the other triangular in nature. There is a certain element of "broken girls and the relationships that save them" that the cynic in me sneers at while trying to pretend he doesn't find it at all affecting. From all the blogging I've read on the show ... it looks like most people will find they prefer one side of the story to the other, which I did find to a slight extent (I'd never properly understood "eyepatch moe" before now) The ending is a long way from unexpected, but as ever it's the journey to it that's the worthwhile part.

Anyway, I don't want to get too bogged down in describing what happens (go and watch it instead!), but what I really should comment on is the use of imagery in the show. I've always liked Shaft for how they're prepared to use animation as animation with dramatic changes of style, visual metaphors and the like, but in all the shows of theirs I've seen before it's either seemed like it's adding an extra level of comedy to the comedies (SZS or Pani Poni), or artistic whimsy to a slice-of-life show about whimsical artists (Hidamari Sketch). In a drama-ish show like this though, it really can add a different level of intensity to things. I especially loved the way a character's unwelcome memories were depicted with the picture breaking up and static in one episode.