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.

[–] ayaya@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm so confused at the production/directorial choices. I came here to complain about similar things but you pretty much said everything I wanted to. I would prefer low budget regular animation (like Angel Next Door) over how distracting some of the shots in this were.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's a remarkably unnecessary contrast. Some of the animation comes across as borderline experimental, but the content is as tame and milquetoast as you can get. It makes you wonder who the director thinks this anime is for.