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No spoilers in this review :3

Honestly not recommended to anybody at all. The colours are actually pretty nice; animation is limited but clean and never unpleasant to look at, but it's just so lobotomizing and tedious despite the 80 second episode runtime. I don't know how they do that! At 1.5x speed it's a little better, just in the sense that it's bearable plus it goes so quick you can liberate yourself from hearing it's nasty, horrid dialogue by tuning out with greater efficiency, but that's no way to treat a show you enjoy, is it? Because you don't enjoy this show.

Has this gross human ... male character who's either the worst husbando bait imaginable or exists to provide an audience conduit, and I seriously hope it's not the latter because imagine wanting to date Kuromi..ew. She's like 1 foot tall there's basically no woman there!! But honestly I think he, like every other element of this show, is just part of the script to this nasty, nasty however many episode advertisement, a list of requirements given to its creators that cannibalise any chance at all to make "art" (whatever that is) in this godforsaken industry. The characters make goofy faces or whatever so you can screencap them and tweet them at your 12 followers, and this will sell merch I guess.

I haaaate Kuromi, she's so annoying especially since her whole personality exists to market to a certain demographic; she's so cringe and insufferable and...ugh!!! I hate her!!!!!!!!!! If she was real I would take a hammer to her skull immediately, and I'm normally against animal cruelty :/ Just goes to show what media can do to someone.

Okay reading this back I feel kind of sad, I just imagined a hypothetical fan of this show who actually likes Kuromi and all her empty "character traits", and smiles at all the merchandise on screen. I'm sorry to that viewer!! I don't mean to invalidate anyone's experiences >_<

Well...I haven't really read enough to write a review of this, but what is currently the only review was written by someone who...either doesn't know what transgender people are, or is "wilfully ignorant", and I don't really like that. This manga is nice because the art feels genuinely cared for and not like the artist was being tortured with deadlines the whole time; is that genuinely the case? Not sure, but it feels that way. But yeah, it's very beautiful and ornate like an ink tapestry, though some of the artistic choices are cornily rather than charmingly retro. As for the characters and plot, they're ... rather thin in keeping with the fairytale aesthetic, but beneath all those layers of mundanity fostering my apathy is an empathetic portrayal of someone trying to form an identity within a system that tries to reduce them to who they are on the surface. I think the way it utilises the surface level is also nice, because it points out how limiting certain forms of storytelling are when trying to express the human experience beyond the norms that the society that created them wants to foster.

Okay, Siphyr out.