viewer feel good, two - make money, attract as much viewers as possible by providing them straight-forward, easily-digestible plot and writing, with all of the 'moe' traits mentioned above, and nothing more. Seems like these types of shows are getting more and more popular nowdays, which is a result of modern media consumerism, but that's a topic for another article.
But all of that is fine. I was fully aware of this when I started watching this anime. I wanted to turn my brain off, I wanted to get that quick quilty pleasure from watching idealised girls in a yuri relationship, I wanted to watch something that would entertain me in a cheap way, I can enjoy shows like these. The problem is, this anime failed even at doing that. It's fucking boring.
The writing even at this level is incredibly bad. The plot consists of things that you've seen a million times before that are guaranteed to work, like studying sessions, exclusive rooftop access, pool cleaning, etc.. but this anime failed at making them entertaining. The dialogues are stupid (again, even when taking into account what kind of show this is) completely irritating, they feel like they don't have any meaning or goal. Those stupid animation quirks are overused to shit, combined with the dumb dialogue and I'm actually having trouble watching it because it causes me so much discomfort. I feel like that thing with the flowers representing character interaction that pops up for like 2 frames without a chance of actually realizing what it represents is slapped between every third shot, and its fucking bad. The only time dialogue is somehow relevant is on kissing scenes, but they just ended up using the same formula for their intimate talk and it becomes annoying. It's pretty obvious that the kissing scenes are the main driver and behind this show, the ultimate trump card for the viewer, and it shows. There is a lot of them. The thing is, the huge contrast between the stupid brainless character behaviour, and the seduction thats going on while they're kissing, makes it feel completely out of place. Characters are a bit below average for a show like this. We've got the cheerful girl with short/playful hair, then the bit more reserved (but not too much) girl with longer/boring hair and big tits, one of them has an older sister with an overprotective complex. Then we have the supporting characters - the girl who is a part of the student council, the loli girl with all of her typical loli traits, and I'm not even going to continue because I'm sure y'all can guess what the rest of the characters are like (I don't remember a single name). The problem with the characters for anime like this is the lack of defining traits, I feel like apart from their looks and personality, there is absolutely nothing I can say about them. No interests, no nothing. Well, we know that the most important aspects of this anime are fucked, one thing that could potentionally make this anime 5 times more enjoyable for me remains - the art/animation. And it's dogshit. I hate it. It's way too simple for trying to display a real world. It works for certain shows with more surreal ake on the world, but not this one. Characters lack any detail as well. The little animation that exists (usually kissing scenes) looks bad. It just doesn't work, and I don't think I came across one shot that looked aestethically pleasing. Can't say anything about the sound, I had it turned off.
This anime is a failure. I'm having trouble following the show, either because the writing is terrible, there are flowers jumping around on my screen, I'm falling asleep or my thoughts are trailing off because this shit is boring - the most important trait that any media should avoid.
(don't take me so seriously)
