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I just checked this out on a whim after seeing it had an upcoming anime this winter, and since it wasn't that popular and had a score below 8, I didn't expect that much. I've only read 6 chapters (though this manga has long chapters, around 80 pages with lots of text), but so far I'm very positively surprised. The art is great, the characters are interesting, witty and intelligent without being overly abstract minded and unrelatable (unlike say Monogatari characters), the world seems interesting and well thought out (though not super unique), and so far I've enjoyed it a lot.

The first thing that springs ... to mind is that it reminds me a lot of Noragami, and maybe a little of Monogatari, but with more if an edgy horror leaning than those two, which is definitively not a bad thing. It seems to be a mystery story, though if that's the core theme or just an aspect isn't really clear so far.

Also bonus points for nice character designs, MC looks like a mix between Violet Evergarden and Tanya von Degurechaff, which I can't hate! Cop girl and main guy also has nice looking designs.

No idea if it's able to deliver on the strong start, or what direction the story is going, but I'm looking forward to read on. The scores are mostly just placeholder.

What happens if you take the immature, loud and emotionally dysfunctional boy of a shounen and put him in a romance/drama? Well... not good things.

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I watched Sakurasou about a year ago when I was on a roll of drams like Toradora, Anohana etc., but I dropped it after a few episdes because the writing in general was meh, but more importantly because the MC was absolutely unbearable. Now I picked it back up because it's written by the same guy that's writing Bunny Girl Senpai, which supposedly is very well written (not watching until it's finished), and I hoped it might get better over it's ... duration since I'd watched just ~1/4th of it. Well no, it didn't. I really hope my main issues with Sakurasou don't carry over too heavily to Bunny Girl, because I was looking forward to that show based on the things I'd heard.

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This show might have the most annoying, least charismatic MC of any show I've ever watched, and that's a huge problem when the show is basically a semi-harem, where the girls all cling to him and the guys all respect or admire him.

This guy not only has absolutely no social tact, no empathy and understanding of social situations & others' feelings, so sense of humor or wit, no self control, no ability to mask his feelings or constrain his reactions, gets surprised and flustered by the same things every time, and screams and shouts obnoxiously at any chance, but he's even petty and cruel at times. This guy has literally zero redeemable qualities, and yet everyone loves him which makes it REALLY hard for me to empathize with any of the characters.

The other characters are also nothing to write home about, with many of them being overly wacky or caricatured, to the point where they don't really fit in with the (sometimes) serious plot(s). The main girls seems to be a romanticized autist which probably brings with it it's own issues, but I'm not gonna bother with that.

The writing in general suffer from heavy cliches and shallow emotions, and like a lot of anime have fan service that's played as slapstick humor (which is made even more unbearable by the MCs terrible reactions (this dude literally has no reactions other than shrieking and putting on a shocked face, or sighing dejectedly)). The overarching plot isn't terrible tho, it's more the writing style, dialogue and characterizations that bring it down.

I often get the feeling that a lot of the scenarios in this show is like in one of those sitcoms where all of the main actors have clauses in their contract that they need to have a minimum of X minutes of screen time every episode, regardless of whether they're relevant to the current plot; often the rest of the cast will just drop out of nowhere into a scene with 2 or 3 characters to comment on whatever they were talking about/doing (mostly while in the Sakura dorms).

The art and sound was decent, nothing that blew me away or anything, but more than ok-.

(Sorry for excessive parenthese use)

Wow this show is dull.. I thought this was gonna go a similar direction as Made in Abyss with misleadingly cute art and a slow paced start before the show gets more dramatic, but this show never does ANYTHING. There's no characters, no humor, no story, no motivations, no drama..

The only thing the show has going is that there's seemingly a rather rich backstory / lore to it, but it's never actually used for anything.

The art and sound is also very obviously cheap.

Maybe you'll enjoy this if you like slow paced shows about nothing like Mushishi or Flying Witch, but atleast those shows have ... stuff happening and characters..

I honestly don't think Girls Last Tour has ANYHTING going for it. It's not offensive or terrible in any way either, it's just critically boring.