So, I was in the mood to watch a light-hearted anime focused on the moe antics of little kids such as fighting over a toy or dealing with their crazy imaginations. For the most part, this anime delivers.
Overall, this anime is very light and will leave you with the warm fuzzy feelings of watching cute kids dealing with everyday life, EXCEPT:
The borderline creepy-as-hell relationship that develops between a kindergartner and an adult. Since I do my best to be spoiler-free, I try not to add names, but the characters involved are made clear within the first minute of the first episode.
Everything starts off innocent enough with a bunch of funny misunderstandings, but as the anime progresses, the situations get stranger and makes you go "WTF". Sure, you could pass it off as an innocent love from a 5-6 year old to an adult, but the scenarios the characters get into are just morally ambiguous. Examples: A parent allowing their child to roam the streets unsupervised to go to an adult's home and spend the night; kindergartners lopoking at "porn" and being fine with it; and an adult encouraging his pre-tween to start the process of getting engaged to an adult.
I'm pretty open-minded with anime situations and if this were done a different way, it probably wouldn't bother me. For some reason though, for me, the way the anime plays itself out just seems to have some undertone of sketchiness.
Everything else about the anime is done well, from the artwork to the character development. Maybe it just rubbed me the wrong way with me feeling those weird undertones. I just started getting an uneasy feeling around episode 11.
