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It’s a gag anime, which revolves around a stupid girl- Yoshiko Hanabatake, who even though is in high school acts like a ten year old monkey- both in not having common sense, being dump and craving bananas, in the metaphorical and physical way. Which is to say her mom wants to marry her to the protagonist, Akutsu Akuru, your average main character: smart, black haired, and for some resaon still friends with the dumb neighbour. In each episode we have some kind of series of events, ending in more or less funny ways.

As for the characters, one-dimensional would be the best description. Even though there ... are a few that appear throughout the show, other that the protagonists, and Akutsu’s sister, which is basically Yoshiko’s personality copied in a smaller body, only one comes to mind, Sumino Sayaka, remarkable because she is normal. Not normal in the “better than these people that annoy me, butt I still hang out with them”, but actually, the one resembling most a human being, which is a shame, because she doesn’t really have any sort of personality, but feels like a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of the cast. Something that really bothered me was the lack of character growth: nothing really changes, and the episodic nature of the show makes you feel really stuck, waiting for something to change.

A thing that makes it enjoyable is however it’s length: it is short. Which says a lot, but, at twelve episodes of twelve minutes, I would say a lot of people will finish it for the sake of spending 44 minutes not being bored, or at least consider having it finished.

Other than the few giggles form the first episodes, the voice acting and character design are average, and the animation normal for a comedy, which makes it to a 5/10.

The art was really enjoyable and the story easy to understand. The characters might be a little shallow at first glance, but that's also because they do not have a lot of time to develop, although they do: overcoming some sort of flaw.

The beginning might be long, actually half of everything is spent on getting to know the characters and their problems- or rather wishes. Not having many also means that you can get to know each one of the three in detail. Personally, I really understood someone who does a sport more seriously in middle school only to come back to it casually in ... high school and enjoy it more. I would have liked this aspect explored a little more, rather than a lot of time between when the audience realizes the first girl's feelings, and when the main character does. There were really some moments which although cute, could have been cut off and replaced with some more relationship time at the end.

In terms of interactions in between them, it's as PG as it gets, you can show this to someone younger with no problem. But if you were to do that, they would probably not understand the motivation or problems of the characters. Which leaves a very enjoyable taste in the mouth of someone looking for more serious stuff, and probably a lot of people who just want deals of the flesh wanting for more: this is not really about something of that nature, it speaks to the intelect. The message you recieve, however, is not pompous or hard to understand.

Honestly the only problem is length: if you enjoy this, it only feels like the beginning of a larger story. If you don't, it only takes 30 minutes to read. But for me, they were a 30 minutes well spent.