1. Story (7)
well there is not much of a story considering that it is still belong to the slice of life category but to summarize the things that you are going to expect from here onwards, it all started when an adult teen named Iori Kitahara went off to his uncle's diving shop in order to prepare for his college life but that was when he encountered the local Diving Club, at first you would probably had thought that its going to be just a normal diving club but turns out it consist of full of buff men who spend more time drinking, partying, and stripping naked than actually diving instead, now that's a plot twist! Anyhow, he also met her cute cousin who was then unfortunately had a wrong first impression about Iori and thus beging Iori's journey with the rest of the crew of the diving club.
2. Art (9)
the visuals are absolutely top notch.Probably some of the best ive seen in recent memories and quite an achievement for a comedic anime like this. all of the character's expression and superb animation really does bring the whole setting to life especially when the whole team when off diving in the ocean along with its breathtaking and crystal clear open waters. Although, character's overreacting facial animations are just cherry on top but they are being overused quite a lot that it can sometimes become stail but overall, fantastic visuals and animation indeed.
3. Sound (8)
for this category, i feel like the seiyuus did a splendid job playing the roles of the characters. the voices actually blended really well with the character's personalities. if im going to spell out even more, their voice acting might be on par as gintama's character voice acting with all of those overreacting moments which is something very great indeed. as for the music, its your typical and standard slice of life background music without anything noticable but its decent for its own.
4. Characters (9)
in my honest opinion, i really like the interactions between the characters. every single one of them had their own style of doing things and unique relationships. for instance, Iori Kitahara and his otaku weirdo friend, Kohei who was tricked to enter the diving club have probably one of the best chemistry in all history of comedic anime. whatever they did from blowing up antics to getting themselves into trouble, they always made me laugh. the same goes to the side characters notably Azusa, she is not one of those kind of "generic women tropes" you can see why if you watch the anime. However,the only character that i dislike are Ryuijiro and Shinji aka the "drunken duo" not in the sense of pure hate its just that their roles most of the time are just getting drunk and strip naked. i do admit that they can be pretty serious sometimes especially when it comes to diving lessons but forcing iori and kohei to join their alcohol party is something that i really dont like from them eventhough those 2 had grown accustomed with drinking alchohol.
5. enjoyment/personal opinion (9)
at first when i first found out that the anime is mostly about university students doing crazy stuffs like getting drunk and having a naked party i was turned off by the concept since the cover title literally tells the audience that its going to be an anime about diving. well fortunately it did provided us 3 episodes about diving and im really glad that the characters took it seriously. After i finished the anime, it turned out to be actually great! i was entertained with all of the hilarous moments from it and this is coming from a guy who dont usually watch slice of life anime. if you want to look for comedic anime that doesnt use the cliche tropes and wouldnt mind with all of the over drinking and getting naked stuffs then you should give it a try.
6. overall (9)
