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Sep 14, 2023
What a... specific anime. Feels like a Toradora on drugs. Will note observations in a list, mostly negatives:

- Very slow plot with very low dynamic
- Mainly consists of constant character thoughts. Focus point swaps between characters, but they never stop thinking
- Nothing in a plot happens that is not directly connected to the love story of one of the characters. Show feels one-dimensional in this matter
- Weak, boring characters. Many are too similar, especially the boys, where 3 out of 4 main ones are assertive and constantly try to initiate sex (2 of them even says something like "I'm a boy, it's only natural of me!"). And the characters who get in focus have a very similar way of thinking
- Super Mega Hexagon of love relations. Kinda spoiler: 1 loves 2 but 2 loves 3 so 1 attaches to 4 who loves 3 but 3 actually spends time with 2 and there is 5 who loves 1 and 6 who loves 4 and also 8 who spends time with 3 for a while but also some with 1... Isn't that cool? But actually: it feels pretty absurd that so many chars here can't just become a pair and keep denying each other while still ending up in bed occasionally... kinda dumb.
- Characters often think in circles and end up with dumb\horrible decisions. There is this philosophy principle (Occam's razor): The simplest explanation is usually the best one. Characters (Yasuraoka in particular) never seek simple approaches, they constantly think the hardest and wildest ideas or more like "choose with their own will the path of confusion and suffering".
- Higher point results in empty philosophy dramas that are hard to believe in and feel fake as a result
- Constant bed scenes, for a minimum of 1 in every episode. Some are sex scenes, some ended being "touching"\smooching scenes. Most are forced, not romantic, and otherwise pointless (characters view those as a distraction but still do most of those things with sad faces). Also, sex scenes skip core sequence and lack animation, so there is no hentai value here too)
- Unsatisfying as a romance. Most of the characters felt uninteresting or even disgusting and not worth rooting for (or shipping)). Noriko was the only one worth of some compassion, imo.
- General feeling of repetitiveness and pointlessness of what's happening in most episodes.
- Some non-exciting yet surprising breakthroughs in the end, because characters finally break from the typical loop there.

Yeah. I don't see good points to be fair, except that 'it could be worse'. Anime is unique (for me right now) with all those love hexagons and countless sex scenes, but ultimately not good. Would have dropped it around the episode 3 but I was watching with a friend. Later, I became attached to the intrigue: how the hell is this going to end. Without spoilers, imo: unsatisfying. But at least it has an actual end
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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