At least I can appreciate the hair vents.
I’m catching up on yesterday because I was up at 4am for a plane across country, which got delayed, and then when I got in after not eating for 20 hours, I gorged, fell into a stupor, and slept for 11 hours like a grizzly, which probably says more about my sleep debt than anything else. So now I have seven shows to catch up on including the ones from today. It will be slow going.
Impressions:
Another show about an awkward lady who announces how awkward she is nonstop. You can tell that it’s a comedy instead of a drama because she makes silly faces. But I had to sigh, pause, and steel myself pretty early on when one of its big jokes was “This is the copier! This is the other copier! Now do Japanese business work!” “Um, you didn’t tell me what to do.” “Oh no! I didn’t tell him what to do!” If you can’t find the joke in that exchange, maybe it’s because that’s not verbatim, but a summary that goes on twice as long. Or maybe it’s because they forgot to write one, but that wasn’t going to stop them from putting in a silly face as if they had. That would be how it goes through the entire episode.
A socially awkward character isn’t automatically irritating. My personal gold standard is Felli of Regios, but Komi works too, or even Bocchi as the opposite side of over the top reactions instead randomly making faces. Re-narration is already irritating enough as a ‘joke’ in anime, and heaping more irritating things like the random new guy, who’s almost obnoxiously cheerful about literally everything, being the only one able to see her true self despite how plainly obvious it is to the point where she’s constantly screaming it is on the nose to the level beyond the kind of corny Hallmark Valentines movies where busy business woman means smalltown dude and learns the missing piece of her life is his attention instead of having a job. It’s not offensive or anything, but there’s only so many times I can stomach the joke of “Ooooh, I’m so awwwwkkkkwaaaaard,” in a year, and anime has beaten that dead horse into a smear on the sidewalk across decades now, and there’s nothing else here that stands out.
