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Jun 16, 2024
Mixed Feelings
One Room, Hiatari Futsuu, Tenshi-tsuki is one of those pseudo CGDCT harem shows that adds romance and a male self-insert protagonist to the classic "cute girls doing cute things" four-girl ensemble formula. It more or less works if you want a big dose of sugary moe in a non-all-female anime, but ends up being pretty mediocre if you're expecting at least an average harem show from it.

It's far from a perfect female focused Slice of Life anime, but it does a good job of delivering cute content. All the girls are cute and have more or less well-defined personalities. At least for this type of show. I had no problems getting involved in what was happening and I quickly began to care about it, waiting to see how this or that character reacted to the “irritants” that arose. For example, I particularly liked and remembered Noeru with her quirky take on friendship based on Class S or even yuri-ish tropes from an all-female show (again, going back to my comparison to CGDCT above). The main character, Towa, is also quite sweet, her naive reaction to even the most mundane things is written quite sweetly and believably, although a little too silly at times.

Where this anime really starts to have noticeable problems is in trying to be a harem story. Or even have some story in general. While the first episodes tease us with the idea of ​​romance between a human and an angel and all that that entails, and then the difficulties of finding an ordinary person in the spotlight of various supernatural beings (which the anime repeatedly tries to satirize itself), by the middle it all gets thrown into the direction of a very slow cliché development and plotless comedy CGDCT. The central quirks of the characters are noticeably smoothed out and then we actually just see cute girls with some kind of comedic character trait. For example, the Noeru I previously mentioned already after 2-3 episodes almost completely loses her supernatural part, simply becoming a hyper-impressionable girl who is familiar with friendship only from manga and anime.

The same applies to romantic development. If you've watched at least 2-3 harems, you can clearly see where each of the girls expectedly began to develop feelings for the MC, but all this remains rather formal outside of Towa as the female lead and another character with the gimmick of an unlucky childhood friend. Although One Room is one of those harem shows where the male character constantly leads a group of girls in love like a mother duck to her ducklings, the show spends more time on its CGDCT with the male protagonist than it does anything to develop its romantic aspect. Although to be fair, the emergence of girl's romantic feelings that we can see, seems quite natural and reasonable, allowing you to see and feel the MC's chemistry with various girls. Especially with the original three.

Ultimately, I would have no problem recommending this show to you if you want to relax and watch something similar to CGDCT, but with a male protagonist that you can identify with. The show is funny and cute enough to entertain and relax a not particularly picky viewer. But it's not the best show if you're looking for a harem romance or a show with "monster girls", as the show disappointingly quickly stops developing that, concentrating more on the comedic Slice of Life of cute quirky characters.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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