I'll start with the characters: All perked my interest, none held it at all though, seeing as no character had any feature that really put them ahead of any other in a way as to appeal to the differences in people's likes. While the characters all had their own development with the MC, none had any development without him.
As anime art goes, it was really impressive. I enjoyed watching the fluent transitions without the need for the exaggerated, 3-D motions that are used in a lot of animes these days, which I have nothing against, actually all for, but seeing an anime that was recently realesed not use it and have it done well impressed me a lot. Now it has a bad habit of transitioning its filter to that similar to No Game No Life, pallet and animation wise, which was weird and not very enjoyable.
The sound was amazing. I think they chose their voice actors very well, as each character had an emotional feel to their voices as they spoke, no matter how sarcastic or brutal their lines were. Even the "boring, no moe" character felt real! The music they used was actually really cool and well used. Many a times my anime friend and I would stop and just listen to the music because we actually enjoyed it. Normally jumping between upbeat and slow songs between episodes doesn't sound very good or give a good mood to an anime but I feel that using the kind they did, when they did it, was pretty cool. The intro was on another level as far as romcoms go. I didn't skip it even once.
Jumping into the story, it was rather weak, or maybe just bland. The opening hook had me captivated within the first 10 minutes of the anime, but by episode 6, my mind was wondering and focusing became hard as the story really wasn't making any progress or any new developments. Even the "relationship development" that was going on during those episodes was weak and rather uninteresting. Around episode 8, I got my interest back since the story took a large leap and the characters finally felt like they were making an impact on the MC's personality.
All in all, it was a good anime. It just had many issues holding my attention, and really only kept it with the random fan service. Enjoying the characters was definitely easy as they all had their interesting points and all the heroines were most definitely eye candy. As I said earlier in this review, The hook was phenomenal and had me locked. The intriguing idea that he had to make a game based off a girl he just looked at, and then more enthralling as he wanted to form this "unfished girl" into a perfect otaku, moe, model girl. It was a good anime as a start but I think it needed more in its middle. Overall, a good anime, but I think it could use work.
