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I would be lying if I said this was a hidden gem or anything special at all. Love All Play is a pretty fun Badminton anime, that actually just discusses playing badminton at a somewhat competitive high school level. For a badminton fan like myself, this is actually quite special, considering the alternatives are the melodramatic Hanebado, and the utterly boring office/badminton Ryman's club.

The characters are quite charming and have fun, wholesome relationships with one another. There's some drama going on in the background with our edgy boi Matsuda, and Mizushima is clearly going to have some special awesome observation powers or whatever, but ... it's nothing unique and it's all fairly dull.

The art is really pretty, feels like a great throwback to 80-90s anime and I really like it. Animation is pretty disappointing though, with worse badminton matches than Ryman's club, and not holding a candle against Hanebado. In a fast-paced and strategic game like Badminton, this sort of bland animation is really detrimental. Overall, I would say that the presentation of badminton is just overall dreadfully boring, but at least the practice they do is pretty accurate.

I came here to watch a cool Badminton anime, but now I'm just staying for the wholesome high school club activities and competitiveness and I'm definitely enjoying it. But, in the end, I can't wholeheartedly recommend this anime to anyone, there's just nothing that particularly stands out in a good way.