You can clearly see that there is a director behind the scenes of every episode. Each episode always has a direction to where it is going with the story; no episode is meaningless or a filler. The plot curve that I learned in middle school comes up in my mind. The anime rolls very faithfully to that plot curve. It starts with an exposition and conflict, which are parts of the bottom of the plot curve. They are parts in the anime that is too boring and almost failed to make me hold on to watching and continuing this story, hence my late review and completion of this anime.
Fortunately, the ED of this anime is by Sayuri, whose songs I tend to like. The song played a little role to my continuing to watch this anime, and I don't regret it.
The greatest element of this anime is actually the theme. The theme is not shallow; it isn't about pleasing the audience with sexual images or thrilling moments. There is a fairly deep theme concerning the culture of some societies that exist or could exist. It pleased me to find that I watched an anime with a watch-worthy theme.
The characters are like monotone. I didn't develop any deep connection to any of the characters except for maybe the main protagonist. I could see that the director tried to make the viewer develop a connection to them, but unfortunately, he was not successfull. But I did develop some small feelings towards the cafe they run and made me wish to continue watch the characters bloom in their lives in season 2, which means the director was slightly succesfull, ... I guess.
Overall, you should watch this anime if you don't have any other important stuff to do right now. It should probably be worth your time...
