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The premise is dumb, and the MC is unlikeable. All this has going for it is the animation, but it's not exactly outstanding in that regard either. Visually, it's only just a step above the bulk of stuff that comes out each season that you watch once and forget forever. I suspect the cute girl is what's keeping this show above average now because I really can't see what else this has going for it. I don't think I'm going to watch the whole season. The MC is just so obnoxious. Each episode is so tiresome because of her constant female dogging and moaning.

This came off as an attempted cross between Kaguya-sama: Love Is War and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU. It fell flat in my opinion, though. Alya is cute and the speaking in Russian shtick is sometimes funny and/or adorable, but that's about all it really has going for it. There are interesting plot points that are just kind of there, but not addressed much at all. I couldn't even tell you what the overarching story or what this season was supposed to be about, and I don't think the writer knows either. When the season ended, I was left sitting here confused. It ended, and ... I was like, "That's it? Nothing happened!". I have no desire to watch anymore if they put out another season. Alya being cute isn't a good enough hook. It was just a let-down. They have good pieces there, but they just didn't use any of them. It's a shame because there was clearly a lot of effort put into it. I believe they had unique outros for every episode (I can't say for sure because I didn't sit through every one). So that was the level of work put in. Despite all of that work, each episode after episode 3 left me incrementally less interested. I wanted to like it, but it's just meh. I don't recommend it. If you want to watch something good in the same vein as this, then check out the two mentioned in the beginning of this review.

Utter nonsense. This show makes shows like The Misfit of Demon King Academy seem coherent by comparison. There is no context prior to the mountains of gibberish crap that you're dropped into in episode 1 and as it progresses clarity never comes. It actually manages to get more confusing each episode. The feeling this show creates is what I imagine a toddler feels like. Everything is new, bizarre, and all basic concepts are entirely unknown. Things on the same level as don't touch the hot stove, for example, are just completely foreign. There's no explanation for anything. The viewer is just left to dangle cluelessly.

If ... that wasn't bad enough, the story also progresses like Unamed Memory. Just like Unamed Memory, each episode creates the feeling that an episode or two was skipped by mistake. It's like a book with random pages torn out. It's unacceptable work. It boggles the mind that the resources, amount of work, and time required to create an animated series was put into a show like this and Unamed Memory. The writing is God awful. Series like this and Unamed Memory belong in the circular filing bin.

Have you seen Hyouka? If you have and loved it, you're probably left like me underwhelmed and slightly irritated. This is essentially a Hyouka wannabe. The premise and the art are obviously inspired by it, and this is an attempted mirror, minus the skilled writing. The story is very lacking. The “hook” in the first episode is dull and bent. There's nothing there that makes me want to keep watching. That to me is an immediate drop for a series as a whole to the craplist. I don't owe you my time. You have to earn it. Maybe it does get better later on, but ... it doesn't matter. It's like submitting a test without putting your name on it. Why would I waste my time grading it? You already failed.