May 27, 2023
Overhyped. That's a pretty word.
When Shikimori was about to air, manga readers were promising us THE next big thing. Something, that will dethrone Marin and Dress Up Darling. Expectations were great, so what did we had? Well, to say that we've been lied to is an understatement. We've been backstabbed, deceived, bamboozled. We've got a show so bad at fundamental level (so you can't even blame quality of adaptation), that fails at absolutely everything it does.
At what exactly?
This show is being sold as a romcom.
It utterly fails as a romcom, because it completely skips development of relationship between two main leads, which is bread and
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butter, fundamental aspect of every romance. There is a good reason why most of the good romances end on confession. And if they continue further after the confession, the relationship between two main leads is usually slightly awkward and both are still inexperienced and are developing and in most cases even are wondering wether they even should be together.
But here, we start at the ending. And as a result, there is absolutely nothing, that makes us invested in following the relationship of those two.
But that's not all. This show really feels as if we have missed an entire season of content, despite it literally being the first episode. What I mean by this? Well, imagine, that in the very first scene, in which our Stock Anime Protagonist leaves the house, some sort of timer appears out of nowhere (upping the comedy because funy). After our Protagonist takes a few steps and timer counts to seven seconds, he trips on a conveniently placed in front of his house rock (I won't question the logic of it even being there. I'm not that petty.) So, if you'd be confused as an anime only by what just happened, you'd be correct. Apparently, Stock Protagonist in this show has luck so bad, that it can be considered as something supernatural. Just like him having a Shikimori as a girlfriend the first place seems supernatural. Jokes aside, the show either expected us to find a boy tripping on a rock funny or pretended like we already know the entire premise of the show, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't established in those two minutes. Such a scene might appear as the first scene of a sequel season, but here it is literally the beginning of the supposed "story". The show quite literally starts with us wondering what the hell just happened. And it's all downhill from there.
So, if romance is bottom tier and pacing non existent, maybe we'll approach it as comfy SOL?
Nope. The only thing that matters in SOL are characters and interactions between them. Characters are soulless husks (with an exception of maybe Hachimatsu), two main leads have absolutely no chemistry, main guy has literally no personality and main girl is a complete Mary Sue waifu bait and not even the best girl in her own show. You are literally going to ask yourself a question what does she even see in him and the only answer given by the author is "he's kinda nice". On top of that, there is absolutely NOTHING happening throughout entire run.
How about comedy?
Well, after seeing the Protagonist tripping on the rock at the beginning, you have seen everything and won't see anything new. There is literally one joke (MC being unlucky), that becomes stale midway through the first episode and is actually more sad, than funny if you think about it. This joke is so overused in fact, that ED is made entirely around it.
As such, I highly advise you to take others hyping series up with a grain of salt.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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