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I want to warn some people because people might have wrong expectations. In general I like this type of comedy but still it was one of the worst I ever seen because of main character and his family. Main problem? There is huge focus on suffering without enough mitigation measures. Main hero want but can't escape from hardcore bullying and in general suffering that grows and at some point push him to think about suicide which actually wouldn't be so unreasonable in such situation... In most comedies in such circumstances at least main hero is just immune or almost immune to pain or at least ... have some escape (just something), but in this anime hero have half baked immunity and sometimes try to be serious which makes everything harder to swallow as comedy. You can feel lost potential, you can feel lessen comedy but also not enough drama to make it drama at any point and because of this it's easy to feel nothing when you watch it... I have no doubt that especially younger audience won't have problems with distancing themselves and enjoy this without spotting issues, the problem is that it feels like effort to not lose balance of comedy is below average - this anime brings "why so serious" walls in wrong places in wrong way (It's not Gintama). It wouldn't be a problem if hero situation would improve fast or if this in general would bring any value for people who like the show, but it look like it brings nothing for them (it's not why they like the show, it looks like they can just ignore this issue and that's it - just look at reviews).
Ending of the show is a strong prove to my point. I won't spoil anything but I can vaguely explain that at the end hero suddenly is no longer our hero - in a blink of an eye at the end of last episode hero is swapped for different person that completely changes situation - it was the only way to escape ending in style "unhappiness and suffering forever and ever...", which combined with not comedic enough tone would be seriously awful...
This comedy is also full of other things that a lot of people dislike (like repetitiveness, development stagnancy, constant screaming, inconsistency, lack reason for a lot of things - including standard hero who won't explain himself or situation) but such things happens very often in comedies and I'm not so picky

Let's remember genre - Slice of Life, Comedy, Ecchi
And just because of this you already know why so many reviews doesn't make much sense...

Pseudo controversy explained:
1. Funny thing is that if you want fan service this is not show for you because you can find more fan service almost everywhere else!
2. Boobs in anime are not controversial no matter how they look (yes even square boobs wouldn't be really controversial). Almost any argument that try to make this serious is kinda insane... You don't have to like things and concepts the same way you don't like all music or meals, but that's it - trying ... to push this further is ludicrous... And lets not forget that we are talking about big boobs in JAPANESE comedy where it's used to create appealing and grotesque look at the same time (perfect for comedy and ecchi)!
3. Uzaki behavior is also good for COMEDY! (it's nothing in comparison to for example Aho-Girl)

But this is not some hardcore comedy - it's more slice of life toned down comedy - just not so much toned down only thanks to behavior and look of main characters...

Story is about friendship that probably can change in to love story. You won't find some specific story line - it's a story about friends who just hang out and do various stuff which is not something unusual in anime...
For some people this anime probably gonna be too calm and for other it's gonna be bad because it's not as calm as K-On or something (and because of really small but existing bites of ecchi)

In general this comedy is not something unusual. This style is not unusual, but in these times unfortunately also horrible misinterpretations of popular shows is not something unusual...
Misrepresentations are so common that reviews are less and less viable... If you like description just watch it, and if you don't like it then DO NOT WATCH IT and don't force yourself only because show is popular or something!

Being more objective and considering genre combination (Slice of Life, Comedy, Ecchi) this is really top show in my opinion - 9. Without trying to be more objective I would consider this just good - because it's not Mushishi, Ergo Proxy or something like that...