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MEH.

On the one hand, very nice art and art-style, attention to detail, familiar branding (Literally "Familiar Mart" haha), The protagonist has a nice look to them and a good portrayal of many emotions. I would love to see more works of this author or works that the author is doing art for or assisting in! I really think the art is what carries this FOR ME personally to have read as much as I did. I really must commend the author on that.

On the other hand, I don't know who this manga is for. I don't really know what you're intended to 'take home' from ... this manga (of course it's in progress), or what the point is or will be and as I will not be finishing or keeping up to date with it, I can't say I'll ever find out. If you want to flip through pages of a cute girl being depressed, with little mental commitment from your end, something to pass the time that seems somewhat relatable or just interesting/funny, I'd say go for it, it's probably for you. That's the TL;DR.

It seems to be a slice-of-life 'depression' type manga featuring a perfect bodied bishoujou girl. I can't really think of any overarching plot or goal of the manga besides overcoming depression. I suppose it's relatable in that sense, and what initially got me to read it-- it seems to be about the monotony of your day-to-day everlasting depressive episode and the struggles of trying to pull yourself out of it through various means. Cooking for yourself, getting a job, making friends and going out more, exercising etc. I think a lot of people who are currently going through or have had a history of depression and/or being a shut-in can relate to me on having this desire to find likeminded stories and representation, particularly in the media you consume and especially if that medium is manga or anime.

As of the latest chapter I read, 15, though the manga does seem to be developing those goals that I listed earlier, not a lot happens or has happened so far. It's fairly repetitive, most chapters begin like so: she wakes up, she's depressed and groggy, she neglects certain duties (laundry etc), self mopes and beats herself up while looking at stuff on her phone or computer, goes to try and deal with something like an interview, or getting food..., getting her hair done, rinse and repeat, with a small development on occasion. Sound familiar to anyone you know? Anyways beyond the overcoming depression aspect of the manga, the title and abstract/synopsis seem to also imply the manga is about food? It... isn't... really, like at all lol. Perhaps a future development.

It doesn't really do much to retain the readers attention nor appeal, at least not mine. Not too much dialogue at times and if there is, there's a lack of meaningful dialogue to complement panels that are also not really advancing the 'plot' any direction (can chalk this up to slice-of-life). Although there has been more dialogue in later chapters coupled with a bit more exposition, nothing really deep or thought-provoking is contained in the dialogue when it happens. And dialogue alone is not the only way to inspire emotion in the reader or establish a solid scene for their environment and 'timeline-phrasing'. Well drawn out environmental panels and multiple perspectives with absolutely zero dialogue can be even more impactful than well written and thoroughly thought-out dialogue. This manga at times, however, opts to show more frames of the characters bust or rear, or them in revealing positions with punctuation and attenuating marks around their breasts and whatnot, showing them nude, or in a maid outfit. Makes use of multiple angles to show the characters... legs and behind lol. I get it, it's Japan, we love these tropes, but I've just been so sick of it in the last many years. It's not an ecchi manga, though my previous description may have made it sound like one, and it's not always like this in every chapter, just know that it is obviously prevalent from the cover alone.

I feel that with other manga or anime that have a focus on depression or depressive characters, there seems to be a bit more substance to grasp at. I figure if you're a woman as well, there is a bit more for you in this story than compared to reading from a male perspective. Oregairu is one such series that comes to mind, though I never really continued watching that series for other reasons I can't really remember. What I do remember is: more characters to bounce between and contrast with Hiki in that series, Hiki speaks a lot more and has a lot more internal monologue that provides meaningful insight into these pessimistic or almost nihilistic-at-times thought processes. This isn't the best example, but just one such example that came of mind, of a series that deals with isolation and loneliness and depressive themes and in my opinion does it a bit better.

Of course there exists other media too that deals with these topics better (Welcome to the NHK is a typical example) but continuing comparing this work to THOSE would be genuinely unfair to the author. My point in bringing them up though, is not to compare the works of already established/seasoned authors with this one. Rather it is to establish a sort of commonality between these various types of work that have "Depression" at the forefront of their stories themes, and to establish my opinion that this story is revolving around this theme all the same as the others, only in a fairly lower capacity and not bringing too much that is meaningful to the topic/discussion of depression. In fact, I will sort of argue in a moment that this manga serves to detract these themes a little bit. I don't think my disliking comes from a place of comparison among other media that "do it better", but rather from my own experience with the subject matter.

This manga might seem like "haha depressed hot doomer girl!" meme trend manga to put it coyly and a bit on the nose, at least from the cover, but the actual contents of the pages seem to clash weirdly with that notion because it's clearly somewhat of an authorial self-insert (at least to some extent) and a commentary on depression and not just... well a hot doomer depressed girl ecchi. Looking at it from my own, more personal and kind of antithetical point-of-view and imposing my own life experience, the manga kind of irritates me. I fully understand that the rest of what I will type out her can be scrutinized to the ends of the Earth and back, and that no two people alive (let alone a fictional character) are the same, and furthermore that demeaning the struggles of somebody is an incredibly ugly thing to do. But... it's a bishoujo girl who "reached her tipping point half a year ago". She's been at a low point for 6 months. She hasn't done anything with her life in these 6 months apparently but pretty weak introduction reveals like 2 articles of clothes on the floor and 6 dishes in the sink (though the author did a little better portrayal later on). She eats garbage and barely moves yet she has a flawless physique and the art is constantly drawn to sexualize her body and change angle to highlight her figure. She goes out everyday, with flawless hair, hygiene, eyeliner etc. which feels like a strange oversight to the otherwise realistic portrayal at times (especially given she's not really shown taking care of herself in the ways that would enable her to look like this).

Sure, the author *could*(?) just be an excited male who doesn't realize he's drawing her with makeup and then labelling her "no makeup, dirty clothes" with her solid white mostly unwrinkled shirt to highlight her bust). However I'm not really sure that's the case either lol. It's a weird thing where the the content of the story, while comedic at times has a depressive tone and chapters aren't really ending on a high-note for the character most of the time nor inspiring positive emotions in the reader, which is good! But then, underlying all of this, is the "haha cute busty doomer girl!" which kind of just sours it. I really feel like if the author didn't lean into this title-grab (cover-grab?) kinda slop attempt at getting interest with the whole 'flawless bishoujo girl is depressed'-thing, it would have made this story a little more palatable, and I'm fully aware of how shallow that may sound. It goes without saying that depression can affect everyone, and affects everyone differently but if you're a person who likes to self-insert into these types of stories where the protagonists life is a little more relatable to your own (beyond just having similar personalities to characters in crazy Isekai's fighting demons lol) I think this one can be a little bit cheesy and undermined by the physical nature of the protagonist, which very unfortunately detracts from what is otherwise WORKING it's way to EVENTUAALLY BECOME a fairly good work. There are things I've not seen written or talked about that I related to regarding depression that I was glad to see get recognition or be mentioned... and then it's like this zero maintenance girl that would have a linktree and an agent and be in the Bahamas going through all of it. Hence... MEH. I think I should reiterate that I am not trying to detract from anyones experiences at all, and if you have a very similar life like this, and similar looks, this is certainly not an attack on anybody. Pretty people have problems all the same so do not bastardize my criticisms of this fictional work by interpreting THIS as a rejection of THAT. It's just the entire premise of the manga (hot single busty doomer girl... and eating???) feels out of place and almost contradictive to the narrative the actual story presents if that makes sense.

In summary: on a first glance, seems like a sort of memeish trend riding manga, but there is more to it upon reading. Yet ultimately, there is not MUCH to it after reading more of it. 6/10 dropped after finishing the first chapter of Vol 3. My main gripe is just that it's not a very entertaining manga, and is additionally undermined by the tropes it employs. Thank you for reading my shitpost about a cute hungry doomer girl manga....

TL;DR This anime is pretty good, but can really seem like some edgy teenager garbage at times, and it isn't as artsy as it wants you to think.

Everything about this anime is pretty great, especially the music, but the one thing that isn't so great is the pacing, and the pacing can really kill the mood of an anime. Art can also be wonky.

An example is how in one episode, the main girl suddenly went into a depression about killing evil spirits after doing it for like literally 5 minutes. There wasn't even an apparently time skip, or her attempt to actually look for civilization ... and find people, she just decided there weren't people in the world because there was nobody outside past midnight. I understand the whole "There is a theme per episode, and a different sub-plot point per episode" type thing, and I'm going to assume there is also a different director too, but it just doesn't work well enough like that and I would assume that's why this anime has such a low rating on MAL.

Honestly, if this anime took a more Hajime no Ippo approach (boxing anime) where every person he was going to fight was a different mini-arc and there were 2 - 3 episodes revolving around his opponent and how they both train and prepare for the fight, the anime would be amazing. Not only would the anime be just generally better, and pull more of an audience, but episode count would go through the roof and make the anime seem actually interesting to onlookers.

The problem with that is that more production time = more money. They probably had a terrible budget, as noted by the occasional awful art of scenes, particularly of peoples faces.

Here's to hoping they put their candy-crush clone app money into the anime. Still watching it because I can't wait to see what happens to the MC after the main goal is accomplished (waking up the doctor's sister).

The attempts at making the anime seem fresh and original with the weird art and special effects can be really cringe-worthy, because the anime just simply isn't that great when you compare to so many others, but it desperately tries. At least it isn't a typical Isekai like Re:Zero or SAO, so it gets some points there.

Music can be really nice, I especially loved the music at the end of episode 6 (closing music).

Character development is pretty awful but I went into it earlier. It could be cured if the anime simply didn't follow the stupid "theme-per-episode" format, because each part of the dramatic structure just gets rushed when a lot of the parts are supposed to be dragged on to create the effect that they need to impact the viewers.

I enjoy the anime, but I can't help but think and call out all of the flaws whenever I see them. In my experience, most anime don't actually have huge standout flaws aside from boring cliches, be-it characters or episode themes (Like the typical beach episode, pure cancer).

Overall, I think it's worth giving it a watch up to episode 6. I think I might drop it sooner or later if the next episode isn't absolutely mind-blowingly amazing, because every episode just seems sub-par. The only episode that I thought was really well done was the one with the young girl who got that crazy illness. It pissed me off that she died, because she was the only interesting character that had real development and that was the only episode with good pacing. It also had a pretty amazing plot-twisty thing, the climax and falling action was really great and made me happy. All in all, that episode was a solid 9/10, which is why I'm hoping another one comes along.