Simply put, the story sucks.
Really bland story. After eight episodes, there's not much progress in the story. The first six episodes showcases the problems the team faces in creating the visual novel, but those problems are always solved by the end of the episode. Halfway through the season, other then the fact that they are trying to produce a bishoujo novel, we don't know much of the content the team is trying to make, and it seems as if they haven't made much progress at all! And then there's the problem of fanservice. It's as if the writers suddenly realised all they had written was pure crap, amd they thought, "Hey, isn't there a way to glue our audience's eyes back to the screen? Why not give them some ass?" Then, they devoted one entire episode to it! Even the name of the episode was 'This is the so-called fanservice episode.' Really, man?
Fanservice is ok, as long as it doesn't get in the way of the story. In this case, it does.
The characters in this series are, well, okay. But they're dull.
The characters in this anime have average amd cliched personalities. Buntarou Hojo is a good writer and he is called up by Sayuki Kuroda to write the script for a visual novel she wants to make. Kuroda is the leader of the team and is a otaku as well. The other characters also have other personalities of their own, but they are mostly just extras. We have the guy who's devoted to two-dimensional girls, the useless but actually-has-a-crush-on-dense-MC girl (Actually Shiina Mayuri in disguise) , the loud fujoshi, and the soft-spoken artist (Actually Ero-manga sensei from a parelell universe) . In certain episodes, the other characters might be highlighted, but afterwards, they will just be thrown aside and left to frolick in the dust.
There's also not much character development at all.
The writers must have thought that putting romance as an extra plotline would capture back the attention of the watcher, but instead the romance seemed forced and instead made watching every following episode seem like a chore. Well done.
Still, the art isn't bad.
The art is the saving grace for this anime, it's really good. If you aren't watching the anime now, take a look at the promotional vid somewhere on the details page.
Then afterwards, find another anime to watch.
The sound are okay as well.
The OP and EN is fine. It's not very good and it's not very bad either.
At least it doesn't make my ears bleed.
So after reading this review, what should you do?
Of course, the obvious action is to pull this anime out of your watch list.
It's really not worth your time. Go watch something better, I'm serious.
