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This manga is the biggest pile of hot, steaming garbage I have ever read.
The author manages to fill in 200 chapters with constant pedophilia, rape, violence and countless other fucked up shit.
The comedy is bad, and I cant believe the sort of ideas it fed japanese kids back when it was publishing. How this averages an 8.88 on MAL is beyond me. If you argue it tries to criticise all these fucked up things by making the characters normalise them, you have an enormous copium addiction.
The last couple volumes try so hard to be super philosophical and deep when all it really manages ... to be is stupid and out of place, since it goes completely out of the shitty standard it had set during the 20 volumes prior. The art has nothing special. The plot is uninteresting. The characters are stupid, very one-dimensional and forgotten after their "development" arc. Too uncomfortable to read, aged like shit.
An easy 0/10.

One of the most recently published manga I have read. Calling it unique is an understatement, as I'm not even sure who this appeals to. It has strong shoujo manga tropes, as well as an all-girl lesbian fantasy feel to it, but somehow mixes a religious and psychological backdrop to it all. In fact, the character cast feels like a japanese version of Steven Universe, the setting is very unique and the art is also very refreshing. These are obviously all very good things, but these pros quickly became cons the longer the manga went on for.

- The character cast is too unstable (as ... in characters disappearing, appearing, and changing way too frequently, especially the MC).
- The art quality for this manga is very fucking exhausting, as you get the 1 every 10 chapters fight scene, with admittedly great character design, that is unfortunately very unintelligible (due to the soft shading style that the mangaka went for, together with pure white / pure black backgrounds that make it even more of a mess to decypher). I feel like the art and feel the author was going for would've been way better as an anime original, as the combination of colourful gem characters and paradise-like scenery would make for some insanely lively scenes that just can't be appreciated in black and white.
- Most of the chapters have a very happy go lucky feel to it, with cheery characters and constant :P moments, that take away all the seriousness that the plot was going for.
- About the plot, this felt like an inferior version of Eden: It's an Endless World, and as magical as that manga was to me, this one felt like a lackluster cousin.
- The actual story and big answer to the plot is given halfway throughout the manga as a simple, serious, lore dump conversation, which completely kills all of the mistery and made the idea behind the plot feel unimportant.
- Related to the last point, the Manga is too long for its own good. Most of the stuff that happens is drawn out for way too long. For example, what felt like the "final arc" of the manga, ends up being literally 50% of the length.


Overall, the lack of a real MC, the constant transformation of the entire cast (as well as some characters that only impact the story negatively from the reader point of view), the inconsistent art quality, as well as the ending hiding such a strong niche buddhism lore dump, ended up mortally wounding what could've been one of the most unique mangas of the decade.

DISCLAIMER: (Romance and slice of life is not my cup of tea, but I gave this a fair chance regardless.)
This is a comedy, school drama, fictional, romance story. The cast is composed by 2 male characters and around 6 female, of which the male that isnt the MC gets screentime in around a third of the episodes (and no development whatsoever). The episodes are structured in pairs, functioning as miniature character arcs that develop each girl in the cast, starting with the MC's girlfriend. The anime mixes in clear fantasy into the story, causing the characters to get affected by supernatural phenomena that can't be ... explained (even though they throw random science jergo at each problem, trying to "justify" it). These phenomena range from a girl becoming invisible to anyone but the MC, or a girl splitting into two clones of herself, each with a different ego. There's also a very prominent comedy aspect that the series takes that I dislike. The girlfriend's behaviour is a perfect example of this, or the mc's little sister saying some pretty questionable stuff. Luckily there isn't much fan service in the form of oversexualization of the cast, apart from the initial skits with the bunny suit.
Now that I have properly explained the basics, I can list out the main pros and cons:

+ It's short.
+ Well animated.
+ Good OST.
+ Despite what one may think, it's actually fairly serious.

- It's too short for its own good. Despite me liking short anime, I think this one doesnt benefit from it, since the girls get picked up and abandonded after their one (and only) 2 episode long development.
- The comedy is overdone, repetitive and unfunny (It made me chuckle around 4 times in the span of 4 hours and a half of screentime).
- The "romance" aspect of the anime gets resolved in the first 2 episodes, from where it basically becomes a slice of life.
- The cast is unlikeable. The girls range from socially inept to attention hoarders to "I'm not like other girls" motif.
So, this leaves us with an anime that I believe to be indecisive with what it wants to do, which is an unluckily common fault in the industry.
- It lacks a real romance story factor that is achieved in a much better and simpler fashion in classic anime romance movies.
- It lacks good character writing, since most of them can be simplified down to one core problem they have faced or are facing.
- The supernatural part of the story ends up feeling very out of place and just non-sensical, a story like this would've benefit much more from a down-to-earth approach.
- It's a shame, but it follows many of the tropes I dislike in anime, such as scenes that add nothing to the story and characters, cringe interactions, or just plain out of touch shit.

All in all, even though it's trying to convey some very clear and important life messages, such as the usual be kind to your neighbour, it does so in a way that doesnt feel impactful, through characters that don't get enough time to feel whole, since a lot of the screentime is spent on unfunny comedy and boring slice of life portions.
(5 = average, NOT bad)