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Sep 7, 2021
Mixed Feelings
Pros:

A decent handling of an actual friends-who-are-rivals situation; it is actually established that the main characters (Ikuto and Chiyuki) are kind to one another before their temporary rivalry begins, which is something many shounen anime fail to do (and yes, this is a shounen anime). I'm very appreciative of the fact that the show doesn't try to convince the audience that two characters who are shown to be nothing but complete assholes to one another are somehow friends. Ikuto and Chiyuki have a good rapport and are pretty supportive of one another - their rivalry is temporary and to advance their education/careers, and then they're friends again. Cool.

Also, without spoiling too much, I appreciated the realistic depiction of what would happen if a high school sophomore entered a competition designed for university students who've actually taken some classes on the subject of the competition.

It's funny, although mostly unintentionally. I'm laughing at it, not with it.


Cons:

The art is lazy and led to a weirdly vacant-feeling world. A distinct lack of background characters in pretty much every scene made for an unpopulated vibe. There were only a handful of backgrounds/sceneries/locations and none of them were great (copy-pasted racks of clothes, copy-pasted shelves of fabric, copy-pasted student desks...). Lots of panning still shots in lieu of actual animation. A lot of the clothing designs were really lackluster, which is bad when you have a series about fashion.

It's insanely melodramatic. Ikuto got his world rocked at least three times per episode by people making casual observations (Some Guy: "Yeah, this isn't fantastic, but you're 17 and you've never taken a design course, so that makes sense." Ikuto: [eyes widen, skin goes clammy, he grips his chest dramatically and the music goes DONNNNNNN]) and Chiyuki was panting like she just ran a half marathon every time she did her thirty second catwalk. And why couldn't Tsumura just quit being a model if she hated modeling so much? Because then there would be no drama, I guess. See above about this show being unintentionally funny - this is due to the melodrama.

There were a lot of unnecessary side plots. The mom being sick, the failed-model-turned-agent scorned, the girl who worked at the fashion mag, etc. So much of the plot could have been resolved if any of the characters at any point just said "no thanks" to all the unnecessary criticism/unwarranted life advice they received.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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