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Apr 3, 2021
Finally the hypetrain arrived to the final destination and I can write this: I don't get this anime. First of all I will say, I am a manga reader and I had a huge problem with the source material. And like in the source material, I just can't understand what this anime wants to be.
First of all, it wants to be a slice of life AND a romcom. And here we get a problem of different pacings for those two things. For romcom you need progression, for slice you need a lot of fillers. So imagine my surprise when anime decided to speed through content, cutting both slice of life interactions AND chopping the development of our main couple. Let me point out, that there was a big problem in manga in terms of pacing: first it ran through main couple, finished the main plot and went after the secondary cast. The problem here is obvious - there is zero progression after one point, all the secondary roots feel like they were made only for a cashgrab and the relationships feel very artificial. I expected that anime will take the source up to this "day X" and have secondary cast plots placed in OVA or S2. Instead they copied the exact problem that original had, but amplified by cut content, so the relationships between every couple seems even more artificial and dishonest. So while I could enjoy this title up to EP7, after that it had 6 more episodes of basically wasted time and opportunity. Even if those 6 episodes were spread midseason and EP7 was placed the last one - the whole pacing problem would be much less obvious due to extended time for relationships to develop. There is also some kind of tone shift from comedy in manga to more serious stuff in anime so some kink jokes feel horribly weird if not straight up disturbing. And the fact that Hori just bends Miamura over as she pleases does not really help in showing a "healthy relationship".
To be honest, there is really not much left to talk about. Anime looks fine, some colourful panels were odd but whatever, sound was fine, the story (apart from horrible pacing) was as generic as one could get. If you are into basic generic romcoms - take a look at it, if you want something that is actually good - don't waste your time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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