Let me start with the characters:
The main guy: Yuki Ojima is nothing special. He runs because he wants to keep his club from being shut down. Along the way, he learns some stuff, yadah, yadah, yadah.
The main girl: Chisato. Best friends since childhood with Ojima. Are you seeing anything familiar?
The rest of the club fills out archetypes. You've got your small girl and your brainiac. (Who happen to be the same character.) The duo of comic relief. The older-sister type. The weirdo. The 'proper lady' who happens to be Ojima's running rival. The teacher that dotes on our main character. Etc.
You're wondering why I gave the characters a 9 when they're all so generic. Because they strike a chord and resonant with the audience. It's the archetypes in motion as they're supposed to be done. Done well, and they can be satisfying to watch, even for a short span of 12 episodes. But the main engine is the interpersonal relationship between Chisato and Ojima, and well, you have to watch the show because if I were to say here, it would ruin the impact.
The weakest element of this show is the story. It's not a very strong premise, but there are no loose ends. The sound is okay.
Moving onto the animation...clearly there must have been a very small, very dedicated group of animators working on this show because while each frame individually looks gorgeous and well put together, the actual motion is disjointed. Often times, the only motion will be lip-flaps. But since this show isn't a big-budget action anime, it can get away with it. It's a unique characteristic of this show that I've never seen before. Good frames, lousy animation.
