No, not really. The original manga is very…cozy. It has a simplistic, soft kind of visual style that fits for the “fluffy” and, let’s be honest, superficially cute source material. This anime is incredibly visually busy and has a lot of cinematographic decisions that are extremely distracting. For example, the opening sequence focuses on characters walking and the camera is almost always below waste height, almost leering at character’s legs. When it’s not doing this, it’s just extreme closeups of the show’s female lead. This is exacerbated by a genuinely nauseating blend of CGI and traditional animation. Honestly, the animation should probably be reminiscent of the animation for Nichijou. This is more like the animation for Land of the Lustrous, except that visual style worked for Land of the Lustrous because it had a lot of vibrant action setpieces. This simply does not.
That said, I’ll probably watch every episode of this show because I’m a [redacted] for romcoms, but I’ll also probably complain about the series and every episode each week.
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Haven’t seen the anime. OP, did you like the first ep?
No, not really. The original manga is very…cozy. It has a simplistic, soft kind of visual style that fits for the “fluffy” and, let’s be honest, superficially cute source material. This anime is incredibly visually busy and has a lot of cinematographic decisions that are extremely distracting. For example, the opening sequence focuses on characters walking and the camera is almost always below waste height, almost leering at character’s legs. When it’s not doing this, it’s just extreme closeups of the show’s female lead. This is exacerbated by a genuinely nauseating blend of CGI and traditional animation. Honestly, the animation should probably be reminiscent of the animation for Nichijou. This is more like the animation for Land of the Lustrous, except that visual style worked for Land of the Lustrous because it had a lot of vibrant action setpieces. This simply does not.
That said, I’ll probably watch every episode of this show because I’m a [redacted] for romcoms, but I’ll also probably complain about the series and every episode each week.
Long story short, 7/10.