Story:
If you have watched high school romance melodrama before, this should be a no-brainer. Everything sounds like it should be: Have a setting (in this case, a convenience store), and let the drama play before your eyes.
The presentation of the drama isn't bad, but when you look at how the story progression goes, it's mundanely slow, but that's how dramas eloquently work.
Characters:
2 main couples: Haruki & Miharu, Mami & Towa.
The others get a backseat, or cameos wherever the gaps are needed to be filled.
For a drama series, character development is a vital and essential part of the whole show, because it is when they are properly given more than enough time to flesh their stories. In this case however, the couples showcased here don't give the drama justice, because as a whole, it is meant to be a filler towards the others, like all 6 couples have to be presented since you have that premise at the start, if not more so.
If there's one thing to blame at, it's not the average characters, but how much went into the production of this show that makes it worthwhile to watch or not.
Art/Animation:
Veteran studio Pierrot has brought us so many classics before (e.g. Yu Yu Hakusho), and just recently wrapped up the yearly 4-cour Twin Star Exorcists just the season before, so to understand what went wrong here is an understatement.
The art was soft and crisp, but more than enough, they didn't put in as much effort here, and to know that this is an original project, studio Pierrot knew that only specific people would love a high school romance melodrama, so the effort injected here isn't gonna amount to anything. Same goes for the animation, it's smooth and consistent, but then again, there's nothing to write off about.
Sound:
This is the only area where I feel like I have a soft spot of. Had a liking for both the OP and ED, but severely swelled at the end, because (like I said) it is meant to give the audience the feeling of watching a drama in anime form. Decent but not mediocre.
Overall:
If there's one thing to come out of this, expect watching a drama just to spare some time off the numerous troupes of shows that we've been watching that are both bad and good, and just relax to the tune.
Only recommended if you watch dramas and nothing else. Other than that, there are shows that have done this better (e.g. Nagi no Asukara, Tsuki ga Kirei) and this is unfortunately a disastrous waste of time.
