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Aug 1, 2018
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (3/12 eps)
Chio-chan the anime series is the perfect example of an average adaptation. It doesn't do anything with the manga except worsen the pace.

The voice acting is pretty good, Chio, Manana and Hosokawa are well cast, sounding like you'd expect the characters to. Andou sounds much older than he actually is, even though the tone of his voice matches his character, he still sounds a bit old.

The entire production feels incredibly cheap, with the backgrounds often being dull cutouts that you tend to forget about. There's nothing exceptional about the art at all, but some of the expressions drawn are funny and there are moments when you can tell that they put a lot of effort in the artwork.

The pacing is the worst aspect of the anime, the manga was very well paced and all the jokes were impactful and hit the mark just right but the anime feels like it's more stretched out Like it's a few minutes longer than it should be, and I think it would have been so much better if they squeezed in four chapters per episode.

The sound design is also bad, moments that would probably be enhanced by sound effects lack that, and it reduces the impact and sometimes makes the punchline worse off.

The writing is definitely the best part of the series but seeing as the writing is mostly off of the manga, I don't think the anime should be praised for that.

Ultimately the anime is incredibly average, even without any comparison to the mange, the anime doesn't do anything above average, it's just a throw away seasonal anime with a plenty of laughs but not much more.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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