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Sep 22, 2022
Mixed Feelings
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*SPOILER ALERT*

Story: 6/10

Okay so there's no actual plot in Sakamoto Desu ga. It's purely episodic with a cluster of independent plotlines about how people are drawn to Sakamoto perfect-kun due to jealousy/attraction/admiration in an attempt to either impress or degrade him but in the end Sakamoto perfect-kun overcomes all odds & obstacles and shines brighter than your dad's hair gel. The pair of short stories every episode were overall fun with some moments being really really fun while others being meh or extremely cringey.


Art: 8/10
Colors are great. Characters look good (Sadly most of them ONLY look good).

Sound: 10/10
Ngl the opening is a banger and it's prolly one of my top anime ops of all time. The ending is also very nice.

Character : 2/10
Technically, you can divide the characters in three tiers. 1) Sakamoto 2) Hayabusa and 3) One-dimensional boring piece of crap. I'll try to briefly explain my opinion on each of these three tiers one-by-one.

1) Sakamoto : 9/10
Okay, straight up, this story is about Sakamoto and JUST Sakamoto and how good he is at everything. Honestly, I really like their approach towards drawing his character. He's not actually very emotionally invested in anyone. Infact a lot of his activities are rather robotic even though he still shows empathy and kindness to a lot of people around him. Also, here's another interpretation, in the ending it's shown that Sakamoto is leaving the school and is (clearly) lying about joining NASA so it's highly assumed that Sakamoto chose not to be super close or attached to anyone because a sad fate awaits him (Popular Theory : Sakamoto is dying) & he only wanted to be kind and generous to people during his time in school. Taking this as a fact, I think Sakamoto's character was overall perfect. Yes, I'd also write my quiet, composed and good-at-everything character the same way if I had to give him 12 episodes to live his life to the fullest. Keeping that analysis aside, Sakamoto is drawn to be perfect and invincible. He never fails at anything. All the girls go ga-ga over him, the thugs are trying to bring him down & insult him and quite frankly, it works. So, If you can focus on this show only through the main character - Perfect Sakamoto, you can make it to the end, AWAKE


2) Hayabusa : 7/10
This is the only, I repeat, the only LIKABLE character apart from Sakamoto with some fragments of personality. He looks good, he's shown to be witty, a lot aggressive but also portrayed to be a kind and caring brother in later part of the series. The set-up for Hayabusa was great and I liked him every time I saw him on screen but the problem is you don't see enough of him and that makes his entire appearance a bit lack-lusture and mostly INCOMPLETE.


3) The rest of the cast : Overall a 1/10 maybe?
Okay. So the entire supporting cast of the show apart from Hayabusa are just boring, One-dimensional and utterly useless. There were times when I kinda liked characters like Acchan, Kubota and Sera but it quickly faded away due to constantly being shadowed by Sakamoto & the abnormal Sakamoto-fan syndrome that surrounded the cast. Kubota's mother was so creepy and disgusting, it made me want to throw-up. I wish there was atleast one girl with an interesting outlook but every girl in the show is straight up fucking annoying. The intent to everyone admiring Sakamoto was meant to be comedic but how a lot of characters just utter 'Sakamoto-kun' for like 99% of the time they are on screen & nothing else makes them extremely unlikable and cringey.


Enjoyment : 5/10
I enjoyed it. At times that is. But yeah, not all the while. There were a few times I was cracking up really bad but there were other times when the jokes didn't work. Overall it was quite fun until the POV shifted from Sakamoto/Hayabusa to the rest of the cast because all you see is random creepy blushes & 'Sakamoto' 'Sakamoto-kun' and literally nothing else.


Overall : 5/10

For me, it was an okay show. Yes the entire supporting cast suck ass but prolly that is why the story is mostly focused on Sakamoto and not anyone else. If you're keen on watching anyway, I'd say try to ignore the rest of the cast apart from the two characters I mentioned and you can actually enjoy the show without cringing your ass off, well not exactly but that's for the best.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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