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Dec 28, 2025
I just read the news that the author passing was announced. She makes good work, her art and stories are unique and beautiful. There are some funny moments, but it's mostly serious and slice-of-life. I liked the art, the many characters and variety. Each of the 23 chapters has a different story. It is realistically written, and kind of melancholic. The flawed characters are interesting, going about their relationship problems and thinking complicated emotions to themselves. It is introspective and revealing the way the characters think about the world and making decision about their love life. It seems the author really had a grasp of
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people at this age range.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 18, 2025
Here are my thoughts and feelings on Frieren. Unfortunately, I couldn't find much to truly enjoy with the series, despite reading the manga to the latest release and watching the entire anime. I've watched many other classic and equivalent shows already that express these themes better, but I can tell how efficient the show is, and it's competently made.
Honestly, I learnt about this show from people calling it incredible, knowing it is the top rated anime, so I was just constantly disappointed with this series. I know that this voting is not the most objective, but I've found MAL very helpful, so I really
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tried to give it a shot.
THE SHOW IN GENERAL
To be honest Frieren is one of the most visually beautiful shows I've ever seen, but it's still really basic and bland, like the point is that it's very subdued in mood and has really simple and quiet personalities. It seems like a beginner's show with cliché anime tropes, light fan service, and no realistic characters or detailed themes. I just can't get into it despite enduring the first season and manga. I am amazed by how everything was drawn and coloured, the physicality and detail of the animation, but it's frustrating that this was used on such a bare bones story.
It could be relaxing to watch, and the characters are mildly nice to each other, but they still butt heads in a frustrating way. The characters are mostly emotionally stunted, and that's the mood of most of the show. Who would want to watch a show with characters or people like that? It would be difficult to be with people like that in normal life. It is not as nuanced or intriguing as other high rated shows in it's genre and style, it's just the most popular and accessible, but that is an extremely valuable thing to be. It's not inspired or creative in any way, to a fault. It's defined by simple tropes, but the animation is great and there's lots of polish. The designs, composition, color palette, music and background art are all very great.
If it's nostalgia for a past we barely get to see with Himmel, and Frieren making an effort to develop connections and appreciate the short time we have together, then it's about nothing but a failure of Frieren's perspective. Are we supposed to wait a hundred years for her and her group to develop a personality in real time? It's absurd and impossible for these characters this unique to be so subdued and bland in a fantasy world. I love slice of life shows about characters and vibes, which is why I know this is really lacking. The themes of appreciation of life is story 101, literally every story is this, so this is impressively stock and minimalist. I just expected more because how great the visual are and how superficially it matches my taste. It's all vague grand allusions.
It is generic and appealing designed as a show and franchise, and easy to understand. It's good how this show uses patience, but it gets quite boring and it drags with how shallow the events are. The show takes itself so seriously and grandly but it is about so little, and I know where the manga goes too. It's really hypocritical and wasteful of people's time. It's like how the color grey is universal and utilitarian, but I can't imagine how person could relate or enjoy it. This show is just not for me, but accessibility is important.
Frieren is a show that actually appeals easily to non-anime and non-fantasy fans for being laid back and more Western. It's easy going and simple, mostly episodic events in 20 min episodes. It's easy to drop in and try it out, so it has perfected this format and has a big audience in the age of lengthy, continuous, seasonal epics.
CHARACTERS AND WORLD
Most of the important characters are unchanging or move at a glacial pace on purpose, literal hundreds of years with little progression. What's the point of an amazing power fantasy and world of danger if the main characters are just mildly affected by things? Do they feel the beauty of life just by going through the basic motions? They feel a little disconnected and calm when using incredible magical powers. Characters don't really emote or express themselves often, but it is nuanced. These are the most simple bad guys possible, despite the scale of the characters and world, but they do make for convenient devices for the action scenes which are the most spectacular parts.
The characters barely emote and don't express themselves very much. Just being stoic with faces like blank slates. The disadvantage of this very polished art style is that they move in a restrained way. The dialogue is basic and repetitive, but the themes of grief and moving on are well done. These impressive and awe-inspiring characters should not be acting and talking this simply, it seems like a first draft. The story has long arcs in a comfortable deliberate pace, but it's shallow. There isn't any kind of deep story or truly complex characters, it just likes to take lots of time.
The mood of peace broken by tension and the melancholy of loss and nostalgia is a great way to combine the world building and character's experiences, with Frieren being living history. She is an intriguing main character, something like a great elf mage that is very experienced yet learning how to live her best life with new companions, and also silly a marketable anime character.
It doesn't have really thought provoking themes or very relatable human stories. I got some enjoyment from it. There are several reviewers I like to read that are more intellectual and perceptive about anime, so I understand conceptually that this show is well crafted for the themes it conveys. It's great that it explores actual themes of living in a realistic way, and it appreciates peace.
From the presentation and reputation, I expected it to at least be on par with other anime in terms of story and pacing, and I wouldn't watch this if there weren't reviews calling it a masterpiece. The production values are amazing, but it does feel artificial. It never really affected me emotionally and didn't really get it's artistic merit. It feels like a template for something better.
CONCLUSION
There are more mature and artful anime out there that deserve attention more than this show. Stories that are introspective about war and healing like Vinland Saga, or with even an emotionally stunted main character like Violet Evergarden. Mushishi has a far more intriguing knowledgeable wanderer character and magical creature world. Dungeon Meshi has more fun with the group of adventurers and has an actual philosophical statement about hunger. Anne of Green Gables does living life, nature and the passage of time in a lovely way. I guess the action scenes in Frieren are better than any of these shows, if you like fantasy?
I heard the online discourse is quite hostile, but this happens with every popular bandwagon, the reputation creates massive bias. It's not contrarian to dislike something that has flaws, but it's frustrating that some people are very hateful with arguing and outrage about liking or hating the show, so I hope they can learn to accept other people's opinions.
I stuck with it for a long time, but I got so bored I eventually gave up on the series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Dec 17, 2025
I watched nearly all of it, and had a decent time. I liked the tutorial and informative aspects, and the show does try to make every aspect of fitness fun and light. By the end it gets very wacky. I appreciate the passion and energy of the show, but everything is made into a loud joke, and it's not always relatable. Everything is exaggerated for comedic effect, and you get to know about fitness, the process of exercising your body, and the culture of people that are into this and their motivations. Some characters are extremely fit, others aren't, and this shows that everyone
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can be more fit, with many personal reasons for body improvement, and that this can be an entertaining hobby. The show is too comical and ridiculous for my tastes, but I somewhat appreciate it.
The characters are mostly girls and are simple archetypes that all get along. There is a very buff trainer that is their mentor and gives various useful tips for working out. They have some entertaining times with exercising, eating, walking, being in a competition. It becomes more of a comedy anime, so I lost interest because these characters are not that relatable outside of their like of exercise. It's questionable how there are young characters framed as doing sexual poses, but the fan service makes a bit of sense since the whole focus is on attractive people showing body movements. I watched this show to know more about fitness and this works as an introduction, but it is not much more than that. I didn't like a majority of the show, but I learnt useful things. I would not recommend it to anyone because you could just watch shows with an actual story or other exercise videos.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Dec 5, 2025
This show is really about Kyoto Ani using their usual skills, with incredible artistic storytelling to elevate a trash fetish work to be as wonderful and good hearted as it can be. There is a perfect story about found family and love in the midst of this, as well as appreciation for peace and leisure. The problem is, they chose a trash fetish work to faithfully adapt, and they also leaned into the fetish because it gets engagement for their business. There has never been a Kyoto Ani show with so many ridiculous balloon boobs.
It could teach people and maybe even porn addicts to appreciate
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life, and it also tries to get normal people to accept these disgusting fetishes. Empathy and love is important and healing, and the slice of life moments are very relatable. These dragons have tough lives. This series will always be objectifying and creepy, the studio is flawed, but I'd never guessed it'll go into vore, sexual molestation, children framed in sexual ways, forced stripping, jokes about sex slaves and exploitation. It's all justified in magic, but this is a basket of the author's thinly veiled fetishes. In this corrupted and exploitative industry, this kind of show will easily get popular and earn their money for other projects too.
It's such a shame that a notably progressive and women supporting studio in the usually patriarchal and misogynistic society of Japan has to follow demand and draw balloon boobs. It's even worse in season 2 with Illulu, with balloon boobs so ridiculous on a young teenager character, it actually distracts from the main themes of the show. They're just a business, they have their biases and must stick with the times.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Oct 11, 2025
This the first anime I knew of. I saw it as music videos and memes, and I didn't know what it was. I just knew that it blew my mind, and I wanted more of it in my life. Now more than a decade later, I love many Kyoto Ani shows and slice of life stories, and I love this art style. It had a great impact on me and my involvement with art and anime, inspiring me to begin watching many anime shows, music videos, as well as analysis and history videos. I went to many anime conventions, because it was an aspiration of
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mine since watching this show, where I learnt a bit about anime culture. However, I like realistic and relatable stories. I've never related to these characters, except for my struggles with school work. I even know many of the anime references the show has, but I can't bring myself to care about this show itself. It feels like a 4-koma manga in a shallow way.
Otaku culture was interesting to me, but I never could have any involvement in it, as someone from another country, where anime was quite rare and expensive back in the day. I also was also too young for the show. When I got around to actually watching it years later, I thought it was novel, and I wanted to like it, but even now I don't understand the appeal of these characters, or what they are talking about. I think this show doesn't have much substance, carries a simplistic rhythm to its stories. I find the whole experience exaggerated, or too superficial to make a human connection to this comedy. I think it's an achievement and cultural touch stone, it's memorable for cute girls doing cute things, but it's not that funny or enjoyable. The references to real world things aren't worth much to me because I'm not from that culture or time.
Konata is the main reason why I don't like the show. I think her attitude is quite odd, for the amount of talent, interests and skills she has. She's basically good at everything she wants to do, but she's has problems just getting along with people, being mean and judgement too much. She is consistently one of the most antagonistic characters, and I think it is a bad showcase of what a fan of media should be. I think most of the characters are one dimensional most of the time and are annoying in how repetitive they are. The story about Konata's mother is my favourite story part. The history of this series and important impact to genre and anime fans is more much more fascinating than actually watching this show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 1, 2025
These are my complete honest thoughts as a huge fan of the the works by manga artist Keiichi Arawi, but just know that I'll be critiquing parts of the show in detail, so it's a long read.
CITY: The Animation has been a distant dream for fans in the past decade, so this has been a long time coming. It's a miracle this comedy spiritual-sequel has finally been made by Kyoto Animation with their top tier craft. CITY should be a grander, more mature story-oriented take on Nichijou, but this adaptation has skipped more than half of the original manga content, making it an unbalanced adaptation.
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It's a difficult compromise, but they managed to condense the story to 13 episodes, each ~27 minutes. Nichijou in 2011 was the second last 2-cour show made by Kyoto Ani, being 26 episodes.
The manga licencing issues with Kadokawa are why another collaboration with Keiichi Arawi didn't happen until more than a decade later. These rights are crucial for Kyoto Ani, which is known for fair practices. This studio also had such a deadly and tragic attack, some of those original artists behind Nichijou are gone. It's hard to develop that series further, so City the Animation is the next best thing.
ART AND ANIMATION - 9/10
The level of technique and composition is on a very high level, incredible consistency across every frame, and illustration and directing that feels immediate and silly, perfectly like the manga. Th art style has no gradients, but bold lines and shapes give clarity to every detail and motion. The character animation and 3d camera movements are stunning. The style is cute but transitions easily into more realistic detail during close-ups and multiple layers of composition, grounding the environments with an impressionistic but believable depth. This all gives the world of CITY a tactile, intuitive feeling.
Things operate on an heightened emotional level. Moments in the manga are extended, given lots of emphasis, and are surpassed by this anime. The intimate and calm moments balance the loud and bombastic moments. Overall, it's amazing to watch.
It's super impressive this is inked in analogue, the finalized thick lines directly on the paper in brush pen, it takes such skill to animate that way. It is heart breaking how the old work influences this new one, and how some of the staff from Nichijou who died can still be felt and represented here by the staff that worked with them. The studio and the author worked closely on this series composition, and this feels like a unique and artistic work.
This is nearly the best looking show I've seen, but it sticks to a fun mood and doesn't really have peaceful or serious moments. There is a ton of movement and fun. The simple character designs are animated with great detail, and the effects animation is evocative of the feeling of the scenes. The anime adapts the manga down to the panels, interpreting the art style variations, characters movements and duplicated body parts as they really would be. Subtle small movements, stretchy bounces, smear frames, action lines, onomatopoeia and silly abstractions are all precisely drawn. Every line and color in the background frames the characters with a balance that only great illustrators can achieve. The color design is warm, bright and vibrant, giving a sense of energy and comfort. The backgrounds for comedic moments are creative and colourful. This bold visual style shows the wonderful joy and absurd mood of this comic world, feeling like a summer where everything goes well.
Episode 5 is an incredible highlight, I think the flat simple design makes the episode easier to follow, for all panels and multiple POVs. It's a breath taking experience, with the intensity of information. Rewatches are kind of necessary when there's a lot to see and remember at once. The physical model of the mansion is fun mixed media. Other episodes also have incredible sequences and animation showcases like this, but there are some still frames that have no movement in lower energy moments.
STORY AND COMPOSITION - 6/10
This comedy is about the intertwined stories of an ensemble cast, many short moments of people in the titular City, their stories contrasting and connecting with each other. Nagumo, Niikura and Izumi are the main characters, but there are many nearby residents living their lives. The sections skip between many topics in the school, a family run restaurant, a newspaper department, a soccer team, a theatre troupe, etc. These contrasting stories are interconnected and woven together, making a varied comedic tone. CITY's best quality is the relatable and loud emotions, and the beautiful detailed spreads depicting those character moments and environments. There is genuine whimsy and fun showing the joy and coincidences of life.
The range of jokes and scenarios is wide, but the series composition is odd because the missing foundations are noticeable. The anime cuts crucial sections of the main character's story, removing most of the context from the anime since the beginning. Most of the farcical and bombastic jokes have been cut tell the slice of life parts in this limited time, which is not the strong point when the entire presentation is comedic. They removed the more adult scenes too. Less than half of the story has been adapted, but the series' pace looks to reach the end in this one season. Little in the series has enough build up or context. None of the ensemble cast gets enough scenes. Whole arcs are skipped, leaving things somewhat incomplete.
The focus is skewed so badly that that the three main characters don't really have a backstory or connection, so they are quite vague. The evil land lady who adds context to Nagumo's money troubles is almost completely gone, and the main characters have little time to themselves, so a main part of story's conflict, drive and soul is not present. It's built as a series about everyone, with intricate connections that can be appreciated most by attentive viewers. This is lessened as the high school side characters are the only ones given time for a complete character driven emotional arc, which are the most simple and cliché parts. This only works as a palette cleanser to the actual main characters. Kyoto Ani reorganised Nichijou, a gag manga, into a coming of age character story to create solid emotional core, but they removed CITY's story and cut much of the young adult themes of maturing.
The vision is not fully realized. This kind of collective story achieves a compounding effect only when it has time to develop, and the CITY manga is an evolution of Keiichi Arawi's style, pushing the bounds for energetic creativity. Part of the comedy's effectiveness is that it seems silly, but it has a surprising sustained level of depth, scale and craft. The irony is Kyoto Ani set the standard here, Nichijou's mundane slice of life direction adds depth to the absurdity, and the intermissions of stunning sakuga and photo realism broadens that comedic range. With the follow-up CITY series they've made a show like a beautiful, authentic gag manga, but the story is reduced to be more superficial. Doing the opposite has broken the effect, the series feels like pieces of great moments that don't have weight or much real meaning to the characters. The entire narrative backbone that develops the main characters is gone.
It's telling by episode 5 with the huge crowd scene, we don't know most of these characters yet, and the connections between them are vague. It's awkward that there is so much skipping, and the viewer has to make many assumptions. They've also condensed the entire island arc into one outro sequence, which is novel, but there's not much satisfaction in that. I've only found a handful of funny moments in the entire season because of the rushed pacing, but it is consistently amusing, and the story composition is functional. The song and dance number at the end is beautifully choreographed, and a creative wrap up, but it's not as complete as the missing final Mayor Election arc that addresses all the characters of the entire City and connects them all together in one grand finale. There is limited character progression outside of call-backs, and the larger scope doesn't amount to much.
MUSIC AND AUDIO - 6/10
The music is appropriately silly and whimsical, but could have more variety. The tone of the jokes can be delicate with the quiet music, which doesn't always match the intensely surreal jokes. This show does not have enough unique music for the many completely different scenes, and it gets a bit repetitive. There are long stretches of silence without background noise which can kill the mood, but is peaceful. The tone is light but not that comedic, and the music often doesn't have enough energy and texture to match the stunning visuals and slapstick. The timing of the accompaniment matches the jokes well, so it is good when it counts.
In comparison, Nichijou had an incredible orchestrated score, with 4 times the number of tracks. There are a few scenes like that which are elevated by beautiful music, such as Niikura punching the big nose creature. The classical orchestral music and Niikura's undignified suffering is hilariously absurd, showing the struggle and beauty of life. Overall, the show's score feels light hearted but sparse.
The sound effects are mostly detailed and satisfying, being a bit toy-like and funny. Some parts could be more dramatic and louder for impact in the literal explosive moments. The voice actors all sound like their character archetypes and give great and earnest performances. They say exaggerated and funny lines with good timing, with a large range of contrasting emotions and expressions in the joke structures.
The OP has a joyful yet nostalgic sentiment about friendship, and the difficulty of living and growing up. It is a celebration about precious moments of connection. It is well composed and balanced in a pop way, with an easy melody, some slow sensitive parts, and soulful singing. The overall effect is beautiful and inspiring.
The ED is beautiful and creative, with pseudo CGI claymation. It looks so colorful and soft, the silly and playful mood fits the show well. The design has beautiful soft shapes and bright colors.
FINAL THOUGHTS AND NOTES - 7/10
This show is more balanced than Nichijou, but it's genuinely disappointing if you've read the manga. It should've been more with the stunning art direction, but not much of the show feels meaningful. It's hard to understand why this show has been composed like this, maybe it's from lack of budget and support to make it a longer length. It does work as a counterpoint to Nichijou. In my opinion, Episode 5 is the most satisfying, so I feel the show peaks early. The ending song sequence is also great.
Some fans are hoping for a second season or OVA, since Kyoto Ani often makes sequels and movies. This one season is incomplete, but the opportunity has already been used. We will likely never get a complete adaptation. If CITY was adapted to the midpoint, a season 2 would've been great. This adaptation is really accurate towards the scenes and panels, but the material's potential is a bit wasted.
This is an good show because it is a bold creative risk and technically in class of its own, with a stunning and incredible production. I would not recommend it to everyone, because absurdity is not everyone's taste, and the heavy Japanese style and references are interesting but may be confusing. I'll watch it again soon to refine this review.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Aug 8, 2025
A short work that is an experimental animation of abstract feeling. Detailed animation and character designs that are rarely seen in this hand drawn fidelity. It progresses through scenes in a dream-like way, cutting between strange locations. Seems like free association, so I've seen it a few times over the years to consider it again.
It is a series of scenes and moods that you contemplate, each scene with many layers of shapes and colors that seem to imply a deeper consciousness and surreal presence. There is only steady music, and the visuals. Beings that have strange behaviour and bodies move and travel around, becoming aware
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of things and staring. It looks detailed and precise.
It seems broad, touches on nature, gals, a house, a crowd, a landscape. With all the silent staring and curling shapss that drawn you in, I can guess it's about perception, inner and outer of a person, raw and deeply felt sensations and feeling. It is somewhat ominous and mysterious, explaning nothing and some characters look at the viewer as if judging your reaction.
To me it is mildly entertaining, and it shows careful and high level technique. I got a sense of introspection and vulnerability, and I will remember its unique style.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 2, 2025
I am here from The Anime Man's video about obscure works in the Anime Iceberg. This animation has cool 3d visuals and good sound direction. Kwanthemaster has provided a Youtube link in the forum, so thank you! I love the style of analogue techniques and graphics, so I was interested in finding this video. This is an impressive animation showing a precise graphical technique and animation variations, without digital technology. I enjoyed the experimental film, and the detailed interaction between object and graphic. The mysterious sound cues make the video more intriguing.
Here is the description of the Youtube video about the animation's background, translated by
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DeepL. I studied graphics and design, so I relate to this project, and appreciate this work because I've made similar layered shape images in the past.
"In the Department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University, the following assignment was given to students in their first year.
The students were to take the shape of a hole made by sticking their hand into a cube of clay, slice the clay a little thinner, take the shape of the hole, copy the shape onto a piece of cardboard of the same thickness, cut it out, and paste it back on, obtaining a negative and positive of the hand shape as a laminated object.
The copied shape is then traced onto a cell, time-lapsed, and made into an animated work."
This animation is abstract and has many variations of an intersection panel theme. It is precisely made, and has a minimalist style on a black background. There are shapes outlined in black which are intersections of objects framed in a white box. When these box panels are layered they show the space that the object occupied. Most show the outside volume, but there was one that showed inverse volume, and one that showed the volume animated and moving through a 3d box. Sometimes the shape is not filled, so the many outlines makes a transparent volume. There was also some scenes with clay objects, which looked shaded and soft. I really liked the clay stop motion of a hand that became the scan, that was impressive.
I thought it was well choreographed, with multiple concurrent movements of the shapes and detailed sound effects that seem to give a tactile feeling when exploring the object. The sound cues make it entertaining. Sliding, shifting, squeezing, the sound of a precise gear. Many digital sound effects that seemed technical or funny. There are mechanical clicking sounds indicating the movement of the panel. A liquid filling sound when revealing the inverse hollow volume of the hand within the space of a cube. At the end there was a little drum beat that matches the pace of the moving shapes, which is fun.
These panels are used in the animation to demonstrate depth using various graphical techniques and layouts. Many demonstrated 3d shapes. They are layered many times on top of each other. The animation is very smooth, and the motions include several rotations in 3d space, scaling, rainbow color changes. The outer square panel shape sometimes detaches from the images contained, so the images float in space while the panel moves.
Overall, I was interested and entertained! Perhaps you'll be interested too, but if you already like animation and graphics techniques.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jul 23, 2025
This is a show that I enjoy watching, and I like the concept of it. The show looks quite nice, and is nicely made. Here are my thoughts early into the show.
Yuu is the main guy character, and he has to take care of three of his very skilled classmates by a being their housekeeper, because they are often away. He is a pretty and well intentioned fellow, and he tries his best. It makes sense that via his mother's fame, he gets to be in situation where he is always outclassed and seen as disappointing. The story has a good start and has an
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emotional hook, by his struggle of his mum being absent, and him being not very good at school, so he wants to help this group be a better family in a supporting role. It feels nice to see him try to get along with these sisters, and connect with them via cooking and cleaning. Highlighting this supportive role is an relatable.
This takes place in Saika Academy, and the story is focused on the Mikadono sisters: Miwa, Niko, and Kazuki. They are prodigies in shogi, martial arts, and performing arts. These are tomboy archetypes. The sisters are quite high strung and not keen on getting along, being annoyed quite often because they are not used to being together as sisters, or even eating together at a table. This also makes sense, and their personalities play off each other quite well, being quite different leads to comedic conflict. They are often busy, and tend to focus very hard on their disciplines to the detriment of other things in their lives.
These characters are quite tense and quick to be bashful about their feelings towards Yuu. They make the house really messy, which is surprising given their supposed level of coordination. This are also dramatic about every little thing about the sisters, which makes sense because of their high stress and limited perspective. Still, story events happened in a consistent pattern which got repetitive. They tend to react the same way at the same time. I'm worried the characters will keep being shown this way, because I appreciate character depth, and this feels too simplified by defaulting to comedic exaggeration every time. Still, the characters are slowly becoming more fleshed out, and their history explored. It's nice that the focus is on getting along while living together, and appreciating each other, and not specifically on the romantic elements. The struggle and conflict seems to be worth it.
I don't like the character designs, they look too silly with very saturated, shaped and colored hair. This feels out of character. I appreciate that this guy is soft and kind, and I enjoy that his behaviour tends to make things better, but he can seem pushy by being able to do all this organising off screen, without the sisters knowing about it. He is the most relatable character, his determination is admirable, but we don’t see clearly how he is able to do so much. He is surprisingly capable despite being clumsy elsewhere, so this needs elaboration. The story’s pace is quite fast and skips the boring parts and a lot of his process, and there are some coincidences that make things too convenient. The louder moments have contrast and bring context to the intimate scenes with them interacting, which is good.
Overall, this is a nice watch and I will continue following the show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jul 21, 2025
I quite like this story about two people chatting at the food court. At 6 episodes, it's easy to pick up and finish. It's funny, natural and relatable, and the two characters balance each other. Wada is a black haired rich girl, who is a mobile game addict and obsesses over a "2D" character. Yamamoto wears gyaru fashion, and acts a bit like a nice older sister to her. She doesn't watch media much, but does like an urban legends YooTuber. Saitou, another classmate sometimes makes an appearance too.
One is quite impulsive and talkative and and the other is subdued and thoughtful. It's light hearted
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and shows the two characters contrasting each other and getting to know each other more. It is a process of understanding, and it's a fun watch. The characters are a simple subversion of their archetypes, and the comedy comes from that surprise and contradiction.
It is well drawn and directed, consistent. The food court area and atmosphere is convincing. The character acting and expressions are good and add to the conversation. The OP dance is well animated. There is some food product placement, but it's not noticeable and it makes it feel more true to life.
I recommend this anime for it's relatability and casual talking points. I am into stories like Odd Taxi and Setoutsumi which have normal locations and people going about their lives.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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