This anime is a take on the tried and true ecchi harem formula of a guy for some reason living in a dorm otherwise occupied entirely by girls. The only real twist on that in this is that the protagonist, Koushi, is a middle schooler. The circumstances for why he’s doing so is explained but doesn’t really matter. All that matters is that a mature for his age middle school boy is serving as the caretaker for a dorm full of especially eccentric college girls. And while I do say that he’s mature for his age, it’s not to an absurd degree. He is very much still a middle schooler and thus the anime overall has pretty heavy shota/onee energy.
The occupants of the dorm are pretty interesting in how much variety there is to how absurd they are. There’s a spectrum that goes from somewhat realistic to straight up supernatural, which I wasn’t really expecting. The most normal one is probably Atena. She’s just a regular caring girl with the exception that she can’t handle interacting with men at all. Over the course of the anime she seems to improve somewhat, though I wouldn’t really call it a character arc. Next on the normal ranking would be Frey, who is pretty much just an extreme cosplay freak that forces people into cosplay. After that would be Kiriya, a tomboy martial artist that breaks things when flustered and gets flustered really easily by shoujo manga and situations resembling those common in shoujo manga. Then Mineru, an energetic mad scientist that comes up with all sorts of elixirs that do all sorts of things, though they mainly seem to be variants of aphrodisiacs. Also, her room seems to have a giant lab that makes absolutely no sense space wise. Then there’s the stoic Serene, who I legit think may be an alien from the moon. The anime is somewhat nebulous about whether she’s just pretending to be one or actually is, but I’m very much leaning towards her actually being one. Wrapping back around in the strangeness scale, there’s Sutea, Koushi’s childhood friend who often comes to visit. She’s a tsundere with an extreme aversion to heat to the point she can’t stand touching other people.
There’s enough here for all sorts of amusing and ecchi hijinks. The vast majority are centered around one or more of the girls interacting with Koushi, but there’s also some of the girls interacting with each other. There’s really not all that much of substance. There’s some relationship development between Koushi and each of Atena, Kiriya, and Sutea, but nothing too extreme. A bit of light drama at times but it glosses over it and long term it doesn’t really seem to be committing to much. Still, it knows what it wants to be and does a good job at that, but just the comedy and fanservice and are enough to make it pretty fun to watch. The ending is the type that tries to be a bit more serious, and does about as good of a job as you’d expect. It’s a satisfying enough way to end, though that comes from not really expecting too much.
The art and animation are pretty good. The character designs were also really good considering the setting. The OP I thought was pretty good in terms of the song and visuals. The ED was just okay in both regards. The soundtrack wasn’t particularly remarkable.
