Mar 7, 2023
I'd love to have write my first review for a 10 but this was definitely not a 10 star rate.
I'll just straight get into it:
I didn't like "Shikimoris not a cutie" mostly because I couldn't connect with the protagonists at all. And with at all I really mean at all. I didn't care about Shikimori and neither did I care much about Izumi to be honest.
As an anime watcher I was straight thrown into the situation of their relationship and everyday school life. I do watch many romance and slice of life stuff and I really like it normally but this was not
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it for me.
Maybe it was because I was thrown into the situation not knowing anything about the main characters at all. Then again I feel like I knew everything about the characters there was to know after only having finished one episode. I thought there would be more to them but there just wasn't not in any of the twelve episodes (I have to exclude episode 8 because we got some minor development there) but otherwise the two protagonist's and their friends just had one or two character traits that stayed the same. Shikimoris cute yet somehow cool and Izumi is always clumsy and has to be helped my Shikimori. And their friends Inu and Neko are the competitive type while Hatsumichi always has the same deadpan expression on her face. I actually liked Inu and Hatsumichi the most even though they only had like one big character trait, I somehow liked them the most.
Which undermines my point how I couldn't, and somewhere along the way didn't even want to, connect with the two protagonists at all. Shikimori was from the beginning too much for me. I honestly don't get the appeal of the pretty, perfect, can-do-everything girl. She switched from cutie to supposedly 'cool' and got so overtly jealous and possessive of Izumi that it was just annoying. And Izumi honestly just felt like a sidekick to showcase Shikimoris 'greatness'.
Maybe I would have connected with the characters more if I had seen the beginning of their Lovestory first and then their everyday life. Maybe I wouldn't. The most enjoyable episode for me was probably episode 10 with the sports festival because of Hatsumichi.
I honestly can't remember much more of it. Most scenes were repetitive in some way and so very predictable and the comedy was not to my like.
I actually watched it to get the new badge but I wouldn't watch it for any other badge again. Also I added it last year to my watchlist because the art and design seemed appealing to me and they are. They're just not enough to make a bland anime interesting enough.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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