Given it was studio Feel, I was always apprehensive about the Spyroom adaptation and had my doubts, but I tried to be as optimistic as possible. Unfortunately, I was wrong. The pacing and direction of this show were just awful.
Even if you take out the adaptation aspect, it’s painfully obvious that the show breezes over important details and omits content. On top of that, the studio made the decision to adapt side story volumes which feel like filler in the middle of the show instead of adapting the main story properly. They feel out of place as they take place prior to the events of the end of volume 1, and they also don’t match the tone of the story. Those 2-3 episodes just felt really off and I don’t understand the choice.
They did start to improve things in the second half of the show when they faithfully adapted volume 2, but by that time I’d totally lost interest in the anime and couldn’t really bring myself to care. It’s really a shame because this is a solid light novel story that’s basically cute girls doing cute things with a spy thriller/military backdrop, but the anime fails to capture any of that magic. Instead it feels like a generic soulless cash-grab that might do well enough to sell a few risqué waifu figures, but I can’t imagine it did well enough to really justify the means.
The art style is good, animation is ok for the most part. The direction is very bad as I mentioned the pacing is awful and the show expects us to care about characters without giving them proper attention and care.
I’d advise against watching the anime and just suggest you to check out the LN series. If you are at all interested in the world of Spyroom that is the ideal manner of consumption because this anime is simply not it.
Spyroom gets 4 out of 10
