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This anime might seem like a good cure for a broken heart, but it is the opposite. If you are into melancholy and the feeling of hopelessness this is for you. The hero is your typical "good boy" who does nothing significant, but this time also nothing significant happens to him. He is just there, watching how various girls get rejected and then bottle up their emotions because they have to see their crushes every day. It is realistic, that is true. But it depicts that cynical reality of the "I don't care, I give up" people. The anime has no point, it leads to ... no conclusion. No idea, no message, no moral... nothing. A waste of time.

Unusually good for it's genre.

Don't expect anything groundbreaking. It isn't a top tier story that would change your view on life or teach you something. But despite it being an ecchi, it is very sweet and kinda wholesome.

I've seen many ecchi anime, I admit, but this one got actually some depth to it. Albeit just some.

Everything, the story, the characters, the world seems like an ordinary ecchi cliche at first. The few first episodes we watch a generic nice-guy, weakling, blunt protagonist who summons a hot chick who is all over him for some reason. What happens in the first episodes has very little meaning ... and makes very little sense as it only serves to provide the fan service to the audience.

However as the story progresses, the characters evolve a bit. Especially the main guy who actually mans up for a change and gives the hot chick an actual reason to fall for him. He also doesn't stay a clueless victim of random stripped girl's attacks like most of the ecchi protagonists, but actually takes an initiative with the one he likes, so the scenes become less dumb and forced as the story goes on.

The anime sadly ends when it starts to get interesting with the plot. Maybe that is a good thing, with how many anime's butcher their story the closer they get to the finale, but I am really curious how this one would continue.

In short: There is no actual story, the characters are flat and uninteresting. Shock and awe is used to keep viewer's attention because the writing lacks any coherence and realism.

At length: The characters are pulling new powers one after another without a sufficient buildup. The new saga does not make the effort to properly, in-depth describe the character's understanding of their new powers or the struggle they had to overcome to gain them. They just train, sweat a lot and boom - superpower.

The new villains are very colourful and varied, but lack a depth the previous villains did. All but the main villain. In old ... bleach even the level one enemy felt relevant. They felt like people with a real place in the world and the story of the protagonist, no matter how silly their powers were. Here the enemies are showing signs of a background, but the show pays so little attention to it, that you have not the time to develop any sympathy to the characters. So they are basically foot-soldiers, who get killed of in two episodes, you learn nothing about them and they cry about their unhappy childhood the last few minutes of their lives - this feel arbitrary and unnatural to me.

The story moves forward as in the previous seasons of the show. With large plot-less fights in-between the actual story points. But that has always been Bleach and I don't mind that. What I mind is that the actual story points evoke no emotion. The Major plot twists are revealed and accepted in a matter of seconds. The emotions and strength you feel when Ichigo goes on a rescue missions in the Soul Society arc or Arancar arcs are not here. The motivation of the main characters is poorly presented or almost not there for the most part of the show. And when they finally get the chance to show some of that Ichigo's strong friendship based personality, it is really just one sentence, where he and all his friends say that they believe everything will be good, so let's just move one.

Everything that happens, happens out of convenience. The characters appear on scene just in the nick of time so often it is unreal. They always have the new power ready just when the enemy is about to win. The explanation for why they are where they are and how they've got all these new powers and knowledge is given, yes, but it is all handled to the viewer in such nihilistic manner that I could not bring myself to believe it most of the time. It is like reading a wikipedia page on a battle, instead of feeling the tension and the heat of the moment.

Animation is good.

Half of the show is about cooking food, the other one is about bad parenting.
The cooking aspect is very superficial. But the reason I would not recommend it is that it is simply unreal, fake. The child does not act liek a child. She acts like someone without children would imagine a child to act. When she expresses actual trait a children might have, it is sullenness or stubbornness, her father first does not know how to react properly and then apologises to her for not acting properly (e.g. Daddy is sorry for not scolding you enough).
The parenting is so wrong here that the cuteness ... the authors are trying to go for feels kinda repulsive.

Confused waste of time
(NO SPOILERS)

It starts strong. The movie makes you feel pity, disgust, hopelessness right from the start. It shows you bunch of cruel people, a bullied girl and one idiot who rides along with the bullies. You feel for the victim but you also get to know the idiot and you feel for him too. How he was played, betrayed, you feel how he hates himself, blames himself for what he did, or how his mother loves him despite all this. Then as he tries to make amends, you witness the gradual growth, turning from darkness to light. Heartwarming sensation of healing. You ... don't pity only the girl he bullied but also him and you see how they might help each other through mutual understanding and caring. This hits right in your compassion centre. Beautifully human.

BUT... this film actually isn't about any of that. Somewhere in the second half it turns away from honesty, from healing, from the two protagonists. The development stops and the movie rather shows you how every one is misunderstood and should be loved. Even the people who you could not care less about, who continuously hate, destroy, bully and hurt the two protagonists to the point they wanna jump of the rooftop. Because they suffer too...

WE KNOW JAPAN! Everyone suffers! But that is not a reason to hurt others. So bloody decide what are you going to make a film about! Two hurt people trying to heal together? Or a film about heartless pretending to understand others and suffering quietly, so you won't have to tell people the truth they don't wanna hear, or you are too scared to tell! 'Cause this sht takes really drastic turn from the former to the letter. Nothing gets developed, everything stays on a superficial level and NONE OF IT GETS CLOSURE, most of the second half of the movie feels forced to the point it makes no sense (and makes me wanna puke) and the whole proces of healing of the protagonist, the gradual build up to the final idea suggested in the first half - " I learned to love myself through you" is lost in the white noise of japaneseness. EVERYONE SUFFERS SO JUST APPOLOGIZE AND KEEP SUFFERING YOURSELF, KEEP SMILING AT THOSE WHO HURT YOU, KICK YOU, INSULT YOU, MAKE YOU WANNA DIE.

That's not care! That's disgusting and cruel fakeness I wanted this film to show me how it can be overcome. The final scene ( still no spoilers) is so out of place and quite literately spits at the whole idea of healthy compassion and care. Nothing changed from the beginning to the end. Everyone just started pretending the world is fine and started smiling.

You had it all film! Amazing animation, amazing voice acting, strong premise, beautiful idea, actual bloody humanity and honesty and then you throw it all away in favour of the typical japanese self blaming? WHAT THE HELL? I am really pissed. The first part was brilliant, the second part... I just couldn't stop rolling my eyes.

Will charm you more if you are a board game player. Not so much if you aren't.
Calm, relaxing. No stupid cliches. Gets straight to the point - presenting you the most popular and fun board games. Story isn't very unique, the plot is simple and characters have little personality, as is typical for such a short anime, but they are not annoying.

Well, maybe slightly towards the beginning and the end. The beginning is really rushed as the anime does not want to waste time on introducing these simple characters, which is actually a plus. The ending is typical secondary school anime melodrama, yet made short ... too. Thankfully

You came here for the boobs. Be honest! So do yourself a favour and watch just the first 3 maybe 4 episodes. After that animation and drawing drops to the level taht even the nudity is unenjoyable. Pls there is less and less of it, and the anime concentrates more on the story which is rubbish and makes no sense. Music is fine.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

The website wants me to write a longer review. but what could have been said about this anime I already said. I enjoy a little ecchi from time to time so I am not being puritan. But the combination of ... christian mythos, need to undress women, japanese worldview, their dumb character motivations, dialogues about the most disgusting sexual practices is a really, I mean REALLY bad combination.