Anime-only with no interest in reading the manga review:
Very slow at the beginning. The movie arc thing was alright but way too many episodes. After that the anime finally picks back up, but by then it's almost over with. Towards the end the season the studio should have ended on the reveal of Ruby's revelation but it didn't and blue-balled, which was a bad way to end off.
In the end, I just didn't really care for the intricacies of the stage play that took up 2/3's of the second season is all. In fact, the first two episodes were quite a struggle to
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Dec 26, 2024
Gimai Seikatsu
(Anime)
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I rarely ever give out 10s but Days with my Stepsister--which was no doubt overlooked by many for the summer 2024 catalog--surely deserves it. Simply put, it's one of the best serious and experimental psychological SoL anime in a good long while. Everything about it is actually thought-provoking and there are moments of tension that are palpable which I haven't felt since probably Oreimo or that infamous Haruhi recording scene with Mikuru. It presents realistic problems and hangups, and provides instructive moral lessons and uplifting life advice. Even the ending episode is astonishingly realistic and the detailed animation matches the seriousness of the moment. This
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