Mar 9, 2020
i watched midori days because it showed up in one of the MAL "best romance anime" lists and the author drew a comparison to kiseijuu, which was pretty competently made if incredibly fucking boring. so since this show is short and has some nudity in it i decided to try it out.
story - 2. the best comparison i can draw here is to bunny girl senpai since it's also a sex comedy with weird supernatural elements. unlike the situations in bunny girl senpai, nothing in midori days really seems to symbolize anything. midori just doesn't really like being at home and she wants to spend
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time with seiji instead. my guess is that this premise is the author's weird kink.
in one early scene, seiji goes to visit midori's (real) unconscious body. he tries to reunite the two of them by shoving hand midori's face into real midori's breast (for some reason she's completely nude in bed????), then midori's mother comes in and chases him out, rightly assuming he just performed sexual assault on an underage unconscious victim. i guess it could be to your taste, but i found it fucking skin crawling, so much so that i actually just skipped to the next scene.
art - 6. it's fine. character designs are pretty bland but there's some pretty well animated visual comedy. the nudity all reminds me of creepy plastic dolls, though.
sound - 6. the OP is actually a banger. i can't remember a single other piece of music from this anime, but 1 success is better than most shows i've seen.
character - 1. this is pretty much a sitcom, so the situations are pretty unimportant and the show needs to be carried by character interaction. in this area midori days is a fucking disaster.
seiji is a belligerent douche. he yells at midori all the time and seems to be constantly frustrated with how annoying she is, even though the extent to which midori is written to be doting and subservient is pretty hilarious (or cringey depending on how you like your anime characters). his only real character trait other than that is that he's notorious for beating the shit out of people. yeah, this character's reputation for being a delinquent isn't actually a baseless accusation and he isn't actually a misunderstood nice guy, however much the show would like to tell you otherwise.
midori is a non-entity, which, coming from me, is pretty harsh. i have a soft spot for moe and usually the cute character is enough in and of themselves to make me like them. unfortunately, midori has no personality other than being slavishly devoted to a main character who's about as likeable as an angry honey badger.
Female Side Character falls for seiji after he beats the shit out of a bunch of dudes who were trying to kidnap her. gotta say i'm not a big fan of the completely straight-faced glorification of childish violence. there's no parody or nuance to this, it's just painful to watch.
enjoyment - 3. i kind of have to disengage my brain in order to enjoy sitcom humor, so it's not really my thing. midori days combines lame sitcom jokes with douchey characters i hate, so i can't say it's great to watch.
overall - 2. i hate everyone in this show, but it does have creepy plastic anime tiddies so watch it if you're into that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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