I guess it's a bit of a shame that Do It Yourself!! had to share a season with Bocchi, but maybe I'm only saying this because it's a thing people are saying. Being arguably the less ambitious of the two shows doesn't mean DIY isn't quite a good version of what it is.

Premise: intrepid teens aspire to do it themselves. One somewhat more trepid teen harbors a furious crush on her childhood friend and copes by acting like a tech industry girlboss, setting herself up for an unfulfilling, lonely, and brief corporate career that will end in total burnout and lasting regret.

DIY stands out to me as an anime-original exercise in this type of show. Most other anime that follow a group gently doing a thing—I'm staying very general here!—emerge from manga source material. Adaptation is not inherently a problem. But I did think, watching DIY parcel itself out into twelve elegant episodes, that it benefitted from having full initiative.