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Sep 15, 2019
Mixed Feelings
Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san is an easy-going anime about a white collar worker who finds himself hosting a fox demigoddess in his apartment. I didn't really know about it but apparently this is an entire subgenre of "healing" anime is meant to be for people who are in the protagonist's shoes. Nakano is always stressed out at work and so he comes home to a comforting fox demigoddess who pampers him and makes him feel better. The viewer is meant to relate to him.

It's a kind of alternate male fantasy where the protagonist is just showered with affection by this loli fox goddess as he bumbles through his miserable work life.

The main issue here is that the entire premise of this anime is not rooted in reality. If it's meant to "heal" people then I don't think it accomplished that goal. As others have pointed out, this anime panders to your desires but since it's not rooted in reality, is it really healthy in any sense? A cynical person might say the takeaway message of this anime is that if you work yourself to the bone at a job that demands too much of you, maybe some demigod loli out there will notice you and give you back rubs.

So even if you treat this anime as pandering wish fulfillment bait rather than any sort of healing anime, the question remains: is it good?

It has a lot of cutesy scenes, a few emotional and touching scenes, and some slightly inappropriate though not exactly lewd scenes. The characters are somewhat bland and the plot is mostly an afterthought.

Nothing about this anime stands out to me as outright bad, but it certainly didn't wow me in any regard. If you really hate your job and need some pablum to keep you from having an anxiety attack at work, maybe you'll enjoy this anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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