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This will be a very short review, but I have to write this.

I had a good amount of anticipation built up around this anime, it's a pretty funny Manga and well liked by most people who read it. Great concept. Just an inherently funny juxtaposition. Yakuza guy turned househusband, perfect, great.

It's just not animated. The voice acting is all fine, the concept is great, but at the end of the day this barely passes for an anime and that's just really sad. A complete waste of everyone's time and talent. You still might laugh at a handful of jokes, because the source material is ... inherently pretty funny, but it's just not....drawn.

There's a trend in anime in general to cut corners with CGI or cheap animation when it comes to more difficult scenes, and while I do sympathize with the need to save money and time for often crunched production schedules, there's a very important aspect of all of this that seems to be forgotten. The reason people watch anime - cartoons in general - is to watch animation. That's the core of the medium, the art of animation. There's a reason why Nichijou is so fondly remembered, it's why something like Asobi Asobase is so funny. Animation alone can carry a show.

When you make a whole show that is these weird stilted flash animations, it feels cheap and it feels like you're just moving a 2D paper doll. It kills a lot of jokes that rely on character movement or slapstick because its just not that funny to watch a flash animation in 2021.

In the future, if your budget does not allow you to make full out hand drawn episodes, make them shorter and put the time and money in to the animation itself. Don't waste the talents of the people who worked on it by making something like this.