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I dived into this 66 minute show amidst glowing reviews, expecting a short and sweet morsel of slice of life that you really don't see in your typical 12 episode series. I was wrong.

While the show runs for 12 episodes and has a total running time of 66 minutes, the actual show itself, barring the repeated use of OPs and EDs boils down to only 32 minutes of ACTUAL content.

And while the art and voice direction is very polished, the whole thing is soiled by a disappointing display of mediocre slice of life that surprises no one. There's absolutely nothing new here if you're ... even remotely familiar with the genre. Many have been quick to defend this show on account of the girls' beautifully rotoscoped interactions with their legwear, but even that doesn't do enough to distract from the disappointing mediocrity that is Aiura.

This show leaves no lasting impressions except for a sense of innate aggravation that you may or may not experience after sitting through 3 minutes of absolutely nothing and then skipping through 2 EDs and an OP only to experience 3 more minutes of nothing. The story goes nowhere, and some might even wonder why some characters were even introduced at all, because you just want to see more of them and they never appear again. A real squandering of story-telling potential, if you may. That alone hurts more deeply than having sat through this show.

As a final note, the final 3 minute "episode" isn't even a real episode.
Rather, it is merely a retracing of the first episode, only with the girls wearing different outfits.
No closure, no real ending. It's over before it's even begun and you sit there wondering why you even bothered.