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Dec 4, 2025
As an anime only viewer of this series, it was kind of blatantly obvious to me that this season completely falls apart after 4-5 episodes.
If the first season was kind of just a dumb shounen, then second season is just completely nonsensical. I can't even blame the series though--the anime just straight up adapts garbage and the pacing doesn't make sense. Season 2 just cuts so much of the original material that it doesn't even matter. Again, coming from only watching the anime, even I could tell that Season 2 just did not adapt anything and was completely rushed.
Just going to drop this garbage and
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read the manga at some point. I can't even have an actual opinion of the show because of how poorly this anime adapts the original material
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Nov 28, 2025
The main issue I have with this show is how little the setting actually matters in this anime. You can't just have a kind of unique setting like an all girls, prestigious girls school where our main character, with a chip off her shoulder is trying to become the most popular girl at school and then poof, 99% of that is never going to be mentioned ever again once she starts doing her band stuff.
Well, first of all, I don't care about our MC's terribly boring and trope filled backstory that was shoved down my throat through overly detailed monologuing and flashbacks. Even worse, it
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doesn't even really matter since the show just hyper focuses on the band stuff. Like, you really can't blame me since Otoha and our MC just happen to meet because "somehow, there's a well maintained abandoned school building that no one knows the existence about or ever visits other than Otoha who practices the frowned upon drums" and that's the entire premise of the anime before even going down the line about anything else. If you want to maintain a serious setting around our MC, you can't trivialize it with the most BS "somehows" in existence, can you?
Secondly, the way music is portrayed sucks. The CGI sucks, I don't care if it's "above average" in anime-- that bar's in hell. When our MC plays or strums the guitar, when people play the violin, obviously their finger movements don't even remotely try to mimic what's actually being played, and barring that, but the CGI is still crappy and trash. Plus, I just hate how this show just brushes all demonstrations of skill by using visual metaphors constantly. Like "oh my god her music was so breathtaking" and then rose barbs show up on her body to visualize it to the audience rather than actually have a chilling performance or aesthetically pleasing animation of the girl playing the instrument. It's fine occasionally, but I feel like that's all this anime does to demonstrate skill and all we go off of. We're not the manga, please use sound or something too, could be important, idk.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Nov 28, 2025
Somehow this show adapts like 167 chapters over the course of only 24 episodes and 2 seasons. How is that possible? Because like 99% of the manga is straight up not adapted. I don't know what to say. The first season does a decent enough job of adapting the actual GAGS of the show. This second season straight up only adapts the ROMANTIC parts of the show, which are, to me, the most unfunny to watch. The pacing is terrible, most characters don't even exist in the second season. I had to actually go read my first review to realize that Oshiro was a stalker
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type character in the first season because she had literally zero presence in the second season.
I actually recall Ishikawa and Hanako being quite fun characters to watch. Too bad they got a combined screen time of 1 single minute this season. Or even just Aharen and Raidou's interactions with kids. Instead we get really boring romantic subplots every single episode being adapted. Even Toubaru-sensei gets constantly shown because of this as well.
Overall, I wouldn't even say the source material is bad, but due to the lack of available episodes available, the show decides to go all in on Raidou and Aharen's relationship which makes this show unwatchable.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 24, 2025
It's not a very charming show. It's very clear that our protagonist is the only fun character in the show, especially before they introduce a bunch of side characters from episode 3 onwards. it's a one man show, and the main character even is basically one of two robots that can even talk. So despite how the main character is fun to watch, because of the lack of exciting scenarios and other side characters, it kind of goes nowhere. The tanuki family starts joining as side characters, and to be honest, this family kind of puts the show in a whole different direction it was
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going in. The show could have stuck to its guns and kind of went with a more episodic and sadder show but instead it's a lot more upbeat and filled with cute slice of life interactions in the wasteland which is kind of weird to me, considering the initial premise.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 14, 2025
Konoha is miserable to watch. She's just an extremely unlikeable protagonist by nature and I'm not sure how the dynamic between Konoha and Satoko is supposed to be fun at all. Really, that's the only complaint I have of this show, but because she is literally the main character of the show, of course I'm going to have to drop it.
Konoha's a pretty unfeeling/apathetic and OP main character. She talks in monotone, doesn't really care about anything or anybody 99% of the time, and her gimmick is that she has a "gap moe" when she eats food and becomes super happy and animated. There's basically
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no manzai at all between Satoko and Konoha. I actually find there to be basically no comedy at all and no actual synergy between the two main characters. Of course Satoko's more of the boke and character that gets thrown into random situations because of her stupidity or curiosity, but Konoha having to bail her out is almost too simple--because she's just that overpowered as a character. Again, when Satoko isn't randomly interacting with other characters and Konoha is just stuck with Satoko, their conversations are incredibly bland. It's just a repeat joke setup of Satoko caring for Konoha and Konoha ignoring or neglecting her over and over and over and over and over again.
See, Saiki K, a similar apathetic protagonist, is entertaining to watch because his monologues are incredibly detailed and fun to watch despite his -- yes kind of boring personality. Konoha's just kind of a shell character. She's very predictable as a character as there's not much going on around her. She reacts to stimuli the same way and doesn't change.
I don't have anything to complain about other than Konoha either. I love Shaft, and the editing and comedic pacing of this show is great. Even if the jokes aren't funny, the eye candy is just great to look at to be honest. I found Marin to be a fun character to watch, and so is Kuro and her girlfriend. Every character seems to fit in a comedic anime other than Konoha.
Again, even in OPM, Saitama's funny because the enemy characters get so much screen time, have personality, and other heroes struggling with them before Saitama ever shows up so there's comedic value. Again, the enemies are just kind of just a backdrop to the actual anime, and don't serve any purpose at all other than flavor text and wasting screen time as the enemy of the week usually. Overall, Konoha being incredibly boring to watch in a comedic show really kills it.
This definitely is illustrated in episode 5, where Satoko is replaced by a robot and the entire episode centers around Konoha and Roboko. Since Roboko just serves as assistant or helper to Konoha and Satoko isn't really featured too much in the episode, you're shown in full glory as to why Konoha is such a bland protagonist as you follow her mechanically do missions, eat food and gets happy, and that's practically it. There's no content without Satoko as the show shrivels up and dies without the premiere fun character watch.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Nov 9, 2025
This show is so "anime original" it hurts. With anime adaptation of manga, again, at least there's a track record of it being a popular series, so at the very least it's been screened a little bit.
I swear to god every movie and anime original just doesn't get reviewed by anyone relevant, or the plot has been vetted by corporate so many times that people just pump out unpolished trash most of the time.
Even just the simple first episode where they have the MC, Natsuko get transported to a movie world is poorly done. Her sequence of realization is boring and it's like the
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anime is trying way too hard to be funny only for it to just be it to not be a good introduction of the world, but also extremely unfunny. Of course, this anime is trying to be meta, but none of the jokes are particularly funny despite the over-the-top joke setups. And through these joke setups, you see the sad reality that the Natsuko just treats everything like a game or movie, and because the viewers are using her perspective to look at the world, most of the characters in the show become more like NPCs rather than genuine characters. Whether it's her constant rambling about the story setting, character settings, or what plot is going to happen, it's all viewed in the perspective of a movie viewer and observer rather than someone trapped in a world and trying to help people out. This is more accentuated in Luke Braveheart who is such a archetypal hero character that never develops at all with his only redeeming trait being "kind to his friends" and being super hot and future love interest.
Of course our MC has typical Mary Sue characteristics--an incredible overpowered ability to turn anything she draws into reality. The only thing stopping her is her own mind!! She's super gorgeous but has this gimmick where she has super long hair and covers her face most of the time. As stupid of a gimmick as MaoMao in apocethary diaries where they're both extremely beautiful, but they hide it for some reason." OMG when the super hot braveheart sees Natsuko's face he's super surprised at her beauty time and time again!!! Such a cool romance!!! Like she's ugly but actually not really at all that's super funny and compelling!!!
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 3, 2025
God these types of shows are kind of insufferable. They try to experiment and do something unique, meta, or breaking the fourth wall, and it just still ends up being slop because of how incoherent the actual story is.
Of course, I'm talking about there's the two settings of the "game world" and the "real world" and how the show constantly shifts between the two perspectives. Similar to Isekai Ojisan-- or exactly like that show, this anime really wanted to add more "depth" by adding a completely useless layer of "the real world" in addition to the game world that our protagonist is in.
The problem is
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that this real world provides zero value. It's just that half the show is added fluff, and as a result, garbage. The real world has surface level interactions with the game world, and to be honest, it could have been completely cut from the anime and the game world part of the anime wouldn't have changed too much to begin with. Additionally, the real world characters are just super cringe. Like how many times are you going to mention to the audience that the author is an otaku and so is the mother. The father is apparently an otaku but he just seems like a typical old man with little to no anime knowledge with how his monologues are set. Additionally, the anime is supposed to be kind of a comedic misunderstanding where he's trying to be villainess but instead just makes everyone praise him instead. This doesn't really work very well since the protagonist himself doesn't really have that extreme intent of making everyone hate the MC. No penalty or punishment happens if he can't get the female lead to hate him. No death flag gets raised if he takes over the female lead's role. Overall, the comedy is extremely low level and diluted because of this. The MC makes a half hearted attempt of "being a villainess," people praise her instead, and rinse and repeat. Very boring cycle with nothing in between.
Let's just pretend that the real world didn't exist at all. This show would at best be MEDIOCRE. it's just a mediocre anime plopped with completely BS gimmicks that go completely nowhere. 5/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 3, 2025
Before anything, can we just appreciate how good Medalist's 3D animation is? I complain over and over again and shudder at any mention of Japanese Anime's complete dogshit CGI, 3D animation, and 3D models. But holy shit, this anime has GREAT 3D animation. Absolutely amazing in how it blends in with the actual art style of the anime, the 2D/3D blending of the actual rigs themselves, the shaders used, and the love and care that went into the choreography. The 3D animations themselves, with the complex maneuvers that figure skaters go through is captured, and the camera panning is good as well. By far the
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best 3D animation done in a full cour anime. There's no competition.
Now, onto the rest of the show. Honestly, I just like how Inori's character development is a constant theme in the anime. She a consistent character that struggles with confidence, but tries to improve her self esteem by being good at what she does: figure skating. Not only does she love figure skating, it is also a way to regain her confidence by catching up to her peers who have glided past her all the years she spent not practicing figure skating. By improving her skills, it's as if she's truly worthy of her dream of figure skating, making her mom spend all her time worrying about her, and also proving to the world that despite her coach not having any qualification in her category of figure skating, is still the best coach there is. The chibi animations, exaggerated facial expressions when Inori lacks confidence, is scared, or has anxiety accentuate her low self esteem and also adds a lot of character. While this is a sports show first and foremost, and she does gain back a lot of that esteem back just from being good at figure skating, I think she's still a well written character. You can say that her drive to figure skate is the first time she's stood up for herself, and her effort to get good is to prove to everyone that it wasn't a wrong choice, including herself.
Her opponents are all pretty decent. There's a decent amount of them, none of which have super detailed character profiles, but they aren't archetypal cutouts with zero screen time or personality either. There's a good balance of knowing the character, but also having the story flow and not stagnate by focusing everything on each opponent. It's a rich and vibrant environment of competitive figure skaters with their own set of personalities, character traits, and talents.
Tsukasa, the coach himself is a pretty dull, but energetic and driven coach that wants his pupil, Inori to improve. Through Inori, Tsukasa is also forced to become a better coach, better understand figure skating, and figure out the best program for Inori to use. He's got a melodramatic past, but nothing super crazy, which is a nice touch.
Overall, just a very solid sports anime about figure skating.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Oct 15, 2025
It’s a very typical melodrama that, to me, fails to capture the viewer with any compelling characters. This is most glaring in our main character. It’s an interesting take, for sure, to present a show all about coming of age, coming to terms with yourself, and self-improvement—while also being told from a completely third-person objective perspective where no one’s inner monologues are shown. With this type of writing, you really have to be smart with the presentation of the story. Unfortunately, this show just didn’t do that for me.
You’re constantly shown that the main character is struggling with a multitude of things—anxiety, self-loathing, low self-esteem,
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etc. But do I care about it? Absolutely not. The first episode is just the main character being convinced to join a club. And then she gets convinced. There’s not much character introspection going on; you’re only being shown that the MC is struggling internally, but what’s shown doesn’t convey it well.
Because it’s third-person objective, people constantly have to fish everything out of our MC regardless of the situation. Rather than call this character development, most characters in the show simply confront Hana directly, and the story progresses because Hana grows a little bit as a person through those experiences.
Other characters in this show aren’t even worth mentioning. They’re all average—some better than others. They don’t get much screen time, and when they do, it’s only in relation to Hana’s current drama. The club activities are also middling. The show does a great job with visuals more than anything else, but honestly, if it weren’t for the stunning animation, this part would easily be the weakest. The show doesn’t go into detail about any of the works being recited (why would it—it’s a manga/anime about melodrama first and foremost), and of course, our main character just has god-given talent, so who the hell cares anyway?
if you want a show about radio, Nami yo Kiitekure is a lot more compelling.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 12, 2025
This show suffers from the same fate as a lot of other CGDCT shows. Despite the anime having a core theme about cooking, it doesn't really engage the viewer at all with it.
You can click off this review if all you care about is the genre itself. To be honest, I'm not the fan of this particular genre anyways. Heavily archetyped cute girls that obviously embellish "cuteness" and don't embody real personalities, intentional of course is kind of boring and cringe to watch to me.
However, I can still appreciate some shows featuring this genre. This show is unfortunately not it. See, while this show circles
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around a "food culture research club," it never actually features any meaningful interaction with food other than eating it. Shouldn't this show, I don't know, have the club members actually procure ingredients, look for culturally impactful recipes, and show the cooking process? Instead, it's mainly the MC saying "I will cook [this dish]," and the dish gets cooked in a slideshow that takes around 15 seconds.
Actually, the characters are better than I expected. The entire club is actually good enough--other than Nana. Nana's an incredibly annoying character that even I can't stand in the context of this genre and show. Her entire personality is "being afraid of strangers" and nothing else, and every scene about her is just being scared off or contributing to absolutely nothing in the conversation.
Overall, a pretty average CGDCT show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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