bi, trans, poly ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
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will either use way too many words or say absolutely nothing
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host of quiz nights & games tournaments
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have agoraphobia & anxiety (as well as sleep problems, caffeine addiction, depression, some undiagnosed stuff...)
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UK-based (unfortunately)


Anime Reviews, but Youtube
www.youtube.com/@YoshiAnimeReviews

spoilers: it wasn't a good one!
I plan to have all of these reviews up on both Wordpress and Youtube the day the series finishes, so hopefully there aren't too many last-minute surprises that'll require edits. ^^; Expect a lot of posts in the next couple of weeks for these - next one should be Thursday~


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in reply to @YoshiKyon's post:

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aaaaa thank you! ๐Ÿฅฐ the only other comment i've had on a review post* before was someone very angry that i didn't like a show they liked, so it really means a lot to hear that ^^;

*from someone i didn't already know from elsewhere, at least ^^;

Reading your review made me think about nostalgia, and how it can go so wrong. They didn't set out to recreate a classic harem show; they did it but removed everything about those shows that makes them uncomfortable. But that's not just "this hasn't aged well" stuff (they kept a lot of that in fact!) but also describes everything that gives a show stakes. Love Hina's male lead is over-the-top pathetic in a way that's uncomfortable to watch but gives him actual room for growth. Ai Yori Aoshi's not shrinking away from the pain of unrequited love.

I kept wanting to compare Studio Apartment to, like, Smartphone and similar, a generic guy with all the abilities ever, solely for people to project themselves on to. Those shows have nothing on the line, they're just basic fantasies that start and end with "what if girls"
and this is exactly that, it just did it in a rom-com shell instead of a high fantasy one. Neither offers anything new, they're just the most basic boring interpretation of the genre for the sake of wish fulfilment.

I almost felt bad saying this was similar to mid-2000s rom-coms, because it is, but like... not the ones that people remember or like.