Let's be a little bit optimistic. Art is decent and characters are joyful to see. Full of colours, colored hairs, eyes overall it's a bright anime and it suits well the romcom genre so nothing to say about that.
And... Well that was fast because I dont see any other decent things about it !
Well, let's talk about the setup. It's obviously your random romcom. Everything is generic and random. The MC is the virgin dumb boy, he lives in a random suburb house, he has the random mother that cares too much about him with the same seiyu every mother has in this genre. Shikimori is your random beautiful girl that every highschooler dream about in their highschool.
Did you see those redflags ? That's what we see in the first 5 minutes. Sweet !
Actually there's one original thing that surprised me : the MC "suffers" from his badluck. We quickly learn that he falls a lot, attracts birds to shit on him and so on.
Indeed at first I was happy to discover one original thing ! How unpleased was I when I discovered that it's higly predictable and boring because the MC lives unlucky events every TWO F*CKING MINUTES !
Worse than this, the girl basically acts as a mother. She protects the MC everytime over and over again. Hey i've got a theory, I do believe that the MC is victim of bullying and that Shikimori secretly protects him punching the students that bully him. Honestly, in the first episode, his classmates laugh at him right in front of him as he dates a beautiful girl like that seeing how bad he is. What did our solid MC do ? He laughed back at them and roasted them about the fact that while they try to find excuses, he gets to sleep and do a lot of things with the most beautiful girl of the highschool !
No it was a joke he just laughed with them like an idiot with an anxious laugh. And it leads us to the two main biggest issues with those fast food romcom. In a good anime, the story would be about how the MC gets more confident over time and how he gets to learn taking care of himself without being in need of a second mother watching every of his footsteps at school.
Here, it's not. There's no story, they just randomly go to random places triggering random cliche tropes in romcom : cinema, sports event, cleaning the blackboard and so on.
I still dont understand how people can like animes where there's basically no story. Just random events. The MC is one of the biggest excuse as a man (as a human being overall let's be honest here) that exists ? Not important, his second mother will protect him till the end of his life ! Seriously what kind of lesson does this anime try to convey ?!
Thus the second issue is an underlying issue : no story ? No character dev that's simple.
The classic idiot MC "It's ridiculous I cant protect myself !" he says that every episode but he has never tried to change in 5 episodes. Yes yes yes.
Shikimori ? "dont worry MC you re strong enough" and blah blah im too coward to be blunt with the man I love blah blah.
Let's summarize that anime till now. Not funny ? Check. No story ? Check. No character dev ? Check. No message to convey ? Check.
Now what if I tell you the romance is bad aswell.
Firstly, we dont know how they ended up together which is... I dont know maybe a lil bit important to enhance our vision of their couple... Just sayin
Secondly, even if it's not meant to be drama, is it really normal for a couple to live without any issues ? No arguments no question about their future nothing.
I mean a sexfriend has a deeper relationship with her sex interest IRL than both of them have with each other. It seems that the author doesnt have anything to tell in his story so he could at least create a relatable relationship and their hardships to get closer over time.
Im really fed up with those lazy people. "Hey i want to do a manga, what currently works in this industry ? Cute girls ? Nice I'm going to do a terrible manga with it's girl as a sole interest !"
The most funny element about those animes is the fact I've never given them a 1 out of 10 cuz the people making the anime save it from being pathetic with their work to make it beautiful to watch.
