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Mar 1, 2021
Mixed Feelings
There's an interesting hook to My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering With My School Romantic Comedy: A god has bestowed (cursed, bestowed, tomayto, tomahto) Kanade Amakusa with choices. These choices show up as multiple choice-style—do option A or do option B—and one of the choices has to be completed. With a first episode that anchors the idea of choices that have rippling historical effects, the stage is set for an anime that has something to say, right?

Not quite.

Instead we get your average, seen-it-a-thousand-times harem. Our poor, oblivious, choice-laden protagonist swamped with girls about ready to burst with their secret love for him. This, somehow, despite the fact that his choices—required, impassable—lean towards the crude, embarrassing, degrading. In fact, his erratic behavior has him listed as, officially, the least popular student in school.

There's a loose storyline re: a series of quests to remove the curse, although focusing on that may end up more disappointing than it's worth. The quests are best seen—as with his choices—as arenas for comedic mishap, not as the driving narrative force. (The ending, fwiw, had an opportunity to really make an interesting statement about choices and sacrifice, but it dodges that in favor of, well, the way it does end.)

Embracing the frivolity probably keys into the target demographic better than what I'd have liked to see, so take that as you will. The swift 10 episodes make that frivolity easily consumed and, while any larger questions are dodged, just the idea of these god-imposed mental choices is a fun enough concept to make this a relatively decent watch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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