As you would expect from an anime about a high school art students, the graphical fidelity is rather high. Most scenes have a nice soft look accompanied with bright colors to give the show a calming feel. The paintings created by the main heroine, Mashiro, have a painted feel to them, to differentiate them from the rest of the visuals. On the other hand the darker scenes of the show do a excellent job of separating themselves from the brighter nature of the show which deepens the feelings they impart.
Moving on from the visuals, the voice acting and the music are rather good even to my demanding tastes. The intro and outro are catchy and upbeat which do a great job of setting the tone. The ambient music throughout is a nice mixture of acoustic guitars and piano melodies. Where was the voice acting for all the characters is just impressive across the board, not a single weak link in the line up. Especially where they have Yoshitsugu Matsuoka's voice, the protagonist from Sword Art Online, this happens to be another stellar role for him where he does not fail to deliver.
Onto the characters, now the anime mostly follows the generic archetypes usually seen in this genre, ranging from the main character who is far to dense to realize all the girls like him, to the hyperactive large breasted, Misaki senpai. Of all the characters Mashiro happens to be the most unique among them, being a somewhat mentally unbalanced genius artist, who is trying hard to learn about the 'real' world and love. The character who holds the most value to me, as I can defiantly emphasize with a shut-in computer genius, is Ryuunoske, though regrettably I have yet to be visited by a busty British girl. Now the single best thing about the characters in this show is when they are not acting like themselves, such as when the normally sporadic Misaki gets depressed you can actually feel the emotion coming from her. Another instance is when Mashiro first starts feeling love, it is such a stark contrast to her normally deadpan character that it actually forced me to do a double take and re-watch the scene.
While Sakuraso no Pet na Kanojo did not rewrite the slice of life genre, it was overall a good, slightly different, iteration in it. It does a good job of building character relationships, touching on their backgrounds, and pulls them all together with strong music and visuals. Overall I would say it is a good watch to anyone who likes the genre and doubly so to anyone who has strong feelings for cats.
