STORY
The plot follows several stories taken from the first few volumes of the manga. There are few changes beyond occasionally combining two storylines into one. A good job was done in picking a fitting last episode for this show so it still feels like there is a climax and wrap-up, even with the episodic story structure.
ANIMATION & SOUND
There may not have been any significant slip-ups, but this animation looks very basic for a 2016 show. Backgrounds look minimum standard at times, and while it's nice to see the characters from the manga move around, I think a bit of detail was lost. Sound is fine with solid voice acting. The happy sounding ED 'Maybe' by Brian The Sun has been running through my head these last few days.
CHARACTERS
The cast is basically the same as it is in the original manga. Kohei is designed to be an everyman with the broadest possible appeal, but he manages to have just enough of a personality to avoid being entirely generic. Tsumugi's little kiddie songs get more attention- usually at points where the anime needs to pad out the length of an episode just a little. Kotori is still a gold-tier Best Girl.
OVERALL
When I rate a show as a '5' it means one of two things: 1) Major pros and cons cancel each other out, 2) It's very middle-of-road without significant strengths or weaknesses. The Sweetness and Lightning anime is an example of case 2.
