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This anime was hard to watch. Not because of the tear-jerking sentimentality, which was layered on thick from the very beginning. The biggest struggle was getting my eyes to adjust to the caustic visuals. The colors are so bright and so aggressively pastel, the artwork so puposefully, artistically rough that it was distracting. No sooner would I get used to looking at it than the short two and half minute episode would shift to credits. The story centers around the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes that killed more than four dozen people, displaced tens of thousands more, and barely registered in an indifferent... See full review

I didn't think anything could be worse than the Nozoki Ana anime adaptation. It turns out, I was right. This spin-off story succeeds precisely to the extent that it never tries to take seriously its source material.  The characters are deliberately shallow, the story is transported into the familiar (cliched) world of clumsy, sexually naive high school students, and the blackmail/exhibition that are the central feature of the manga are glimpsed at the start of each episode but then basically disappear. That's not to say this is a good anime. It's not.  But it is digestible at only three episodes... See full review

I loved this manga so much, which is why I was so excited about an anime version of it.  I cannot even express how disappointing this was.  It's all titilation without any of the humanity or character depth that makes Nozoki Ana such a great read.  They played cheap porn music throughout the poorly drawn, poorly constructed animation, emphasizing how little they cared about the story here when they could show naked girls instead.  Such a waste; such a disappointment.