Himouto! Umaru-chan is about a girl named Umaru who is a princess while outside, but when she's in her secluded domain, she turns into a lazy, junk foodie who doesn't do anything but laze around and play video games all day. She has an older brother named Taihei who took her in when she was younger, and as she got comfortable living with him she slowly started to become more lazy. It's an interesting story that doesn't have many exciting things going on, and is mainly about the characters, but is nonetheless entertaining to watch.
As usual Art and Sound is next. Usually these type of anime don't have a good OP or intriguing art-styles but this one delivers. The OP is addictive and fun to listen to and the art-style is no different. Both are great.
Now onto the characters and while this anime is very character driven, it doesn't do a bad job at delivering characters that are average. Let's start with Umaru. As I said before, she is, as the title of this anime says, two-faced. This is a problem. Umaru is too perfect for her own good. All of her classmates and even random people outside act as if she's a famous model while she doesn't do anything intriguing to promote such attitude with the people around her. This realization alone is the biggest reason this anime isn't as good as it could be. And the fact that she acts like a whiny baby when she doesn't get what she wants doesn't help. When talking about Umaru's friends, her friends are your average stereotypes you see in a bunch of other anime before this, but that doesn't mean that they aren't enjoyable to watch, it just diminishes the overall score toward this anime.
Overall you have a good anime here, there's nothing special about it, it's just your average, fun anime. Is that a bad thing, no it's not at all. In the end this show is not for everyone. If you can bare the perfect character of Umaru, and bare the fact that most characters are what we have all seen before, but look past those and just enjoy the show as it is, then you should be able to give it a go. Don't let the bad reviews or the score of 7 deter you from watching this, you may enjoy something it has to offer.
