Ebonyslayer

Everyone must have at least heard of the workplace genre for anime. It gives an idea of what a person's work life is like, and that can be a new interesting experience.

Story- The character Majime is the protagonist and through a number of events is recruited to work on the revised dictionary known as The Great Passage, a project that spans over thirteen years to complete. Its a pretty basic premise but the studio makes it work. There are parts where the story is a little sluggish, but the anime's intent is to be relaxing. And somewhere in all of this, they made the romantic subplot between Kaguya and Majime work so well, so I can definitely say the romance was a plus.

Animation- I enjoyed how smooth they kept the animation, but most importantly, I loved how simple they kept the character designs. A number of anime suffer from the characters being over-designed, but this anime nails it.

Sound- There are parts in the anime where I found this to be lacking. There were parts that did well to reflect Majime, but that opening. That opening is like the completely opposite of the anime's atmosphere and I think that's a dentriment. Thankfully, the ending on the other hand is just fine.

Characters- I enjoyed how the writing for the characters was handled. There are cases where characters in other series end up being two dimensional if they're handled poorly. But they gave enough time and development to the characters that they set themselves to be different as the story went on.

Overall- I can say that I did enjoy the anime, but there was one part that did bother me. The halfway point would have these dictionaries giving an explanation on stuff, but it feels jarring to have it appear with the atmosphere of the anime. If they had put them at the end I think it could have worked but that didn't happen. Other than a few bumps in the road, its still a good anime.