When I came to know of this series, I was expecting something decent, given that studio Doga Kobo’s previous production included Monthly Girl’s Nozaki Kun and Himouto Umaru Chan. I even would have accepted if this series was generic as frankly in my opinion, those who are into CGDCT expects a certain degree of genericity.
However, I can’t quite seems to define Koisuru Asteriod. Is it generic? Is it decent? Is it bad? let me explain.
There are other CGDCT series such as Yuru Camp which introduce viewers to camping. That was a great series (one of my favourites actually) as it stuck to the theme of camping throughout.
Now let’s talk about Koisuru Asteriod. This series is about two childhood friends who join their high school’s astronomy club (albeit the club merging with the geology club). At first I was expecting a CGDCT series about astronomy as that is the title, however although there is introduction to astronomy, there are a few other different themes that were included. There is geology (I could accept as the plot dictates that they merge with the geology club), however there was also topography of maps, meteorology and bakery (what has bakery have in common with the rest?!!).
They should have stuck to solely astronomy or change the title to Koisuru Earth Science club.
The next thing that caught my attention is that this series feels like it has run out of story to tell but wanted to have a complete 12 episode season.
The reason I felt this way is that I would have been fine if they ended the series at episode 9 whereby it was decided that Ao would be staying with Mira’s family, add scenes of them discovering a new asteroid while at Mira’s house during the end credits. In a way, the series could come to a nice conclusion.
Instead, they decided to introduce new characters in episode 10 (new club members) and episode 11 and 12 (Shining Star contest).
There is no time for character building or allowing the viewers to get invested in the new characters, instead it feels like they included the shining Star contest arc as a means to have more cute girls introduced into the series.
I felt that instead of have the shining Star contest arc, they should have focus on further character building of the existing casts for the last three episodes to the series. They could also have done an event where the whole club can participate, I am not into astronomy but I can think of events like an eclipse perhaps or Metroid shower. However instead we got an arc whereby the two MC got to meet pointless new friends, ignoring the potential of further bonding with their fellow new club member.
My verdict is that astronomy is so boring that there is not much interesting material to use for in a 12 series episode, hence the use of the other themes.
If it would have ended at episode 9, I would have give it a 7/10.
For the whole 12 episode series, 4/10.
Yes, they made astronomy boring.
