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The Review

First Impression

At first, I totally fell for the "shelf character" they played off of to create Kippei: playboy without any real goals in life. So i thought this was going to be a story just about taking the shallow parts of the guy out, and adding a few lessons of maturity to make a typical slice-of-life story.

I can't say I was completely wrong; but I can't say that was all there was to it. This series really went deep into each character development phase, and did not glance over them -- this series has no filler episodes folks.

The Artwork

Although the drawings weren't excellent, they were fairly decent. The drawings of Yuzuyu (the little girl) were very cute and smoothly done. I think, since Yuzuyu could be argued to be the "most main" of the main characters, the artists decided to focus on her more. Still, there were times when I wondered if there was a bit of a hair-loss problem. Sometimes Yuzuyu would appear to have a big head with little hair to cover it with xD.

All other characters were okay. What I think the artists had the most trouble with facial expression - Kippei, for example, can't seem to furrow his brows too well when he's upset or shouting etc.

Overall Impression

This wasn't really a story written with the typical bell curve style in mind. Rather, it was more like a slice-of-life story that focused on each character's individual strengths and weaknesses.

Although Kippei's character was supposed to emphasize "playboyness" and "easygoing carelessness," I think they failed that in the big picture - they spent far more time developing Yuzuyu than Kippei's original character.

Yuzuyu didn't seem like the typical child, but I think they made a good decision to do make her that way. The way she communicated in any way except verbally was hard to do - and done very well. She came across as a child who had a painful understanding of abstract ideas, especially with her mother gone (her mother rarely appears visually in the series). I guess the roughest category to fit this into is that it's a "sob story." But it's usually the sob stories that speak out the most.

For my own part though - being my pessimistic self - I found the very last episode to be a little too bright and happy xD.

Breaking It Down