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I like this manga a normal amount (Lying)

It's easily the best coming-of-age story I've ever read. Extremely bittersweet in the best way, hurts exactly the way you want it to, just the right amount of wish fulfillment for depressed adults, I want to never shut up about it until all my friends read it too.

Helps that the artstyle is super appealing, all of the characters look adorable and the world feels soft and colorful. Pacing is also very deliberate, you maintain a clear sense of time passing the entire way through.

This series is going to haunt my skull until I'm cold in the ground.

Onoya ... An is best girl btw.

I don't like this show.

Maybe it's because I rarely enjoy SoL moe, and this one annoyed me more than usual due to the ungodly amount of praise it's gotten. Either way, I don't see how this show can be anything more than average to most people.

The story...it's SoL. There is no story. Episodes are a string of cute situations with various characters. This is how the genre functions. But how are the characters?

They range from cookie-cutter to slightly okay. Kobayashi and Tohru are both overplayed tropes; Tohru being a "Naive other-worldly creature discovering the world" and Kobayashi being her "Deadpan caretaker". At least half ... the jokes in the show consist of Tohru doing something that only a dragon would do, followed by a stoic reaction image from Kobayashi. It's funny the first couple times, then it gets old.
Next is Kanna, who the internet seems to have collectively fallen in love with. She's sort of decent; deadpan lolis are usually funny, but she almost feels like a fanservice character to act as a daughter to the two main characters - and, not surprisingly, she becomes the victim of pedo humor. More on that with these two.
Lucoa and Shouta aren't in the show much, but their purpose is clear enough; Provide fanservice with a large breasted adult woman who wants to feel up an elementary school boy. Tasteful.
The only other characters I can think to mention are Fafnir and Takiya, who are only there to make jokes about being nerds. Another concept that's funny at first with its references and homages to popular games/anime, but again, it gets old.

The sound and art are good. It's KyoAni, no surprises here.

Overall, I don't think this show has no merit at all, but it's carried along by tasteless fanservice and repetitive humor that always boils down to "Dragon does something inappropriate in public", "Reference to anime/nerd culture", or "Look at these children in sexual situations".

I know this whole review sounds like it was written by an elitist who hates fun, but I just don't like this show, nor how much it's been forced in my face.