Halex

What's special about this anime is the Fashion Industry setting. Having said that, working conditions and the environment still use the old classic cliche from the Fashion Industry about how rude they are to treat each other, full of tantrum prima-donnas. I'm not involved in the fashion industry, nor do I know much about it, and the last thing I saw related to fashion was The Devil Wears Prada from 2006; so I'm not sure how accurate is this for the current state of the industry, but it seems absurd for an industry at the vanguard of innovation to still be using working practices reminiscent from the industrial era from the past century, lol.

Regardless, we all know people who are quick to judge, criticize our talents and discourage our dreams. Having the courage and the confidence to go against this and persevere is the focus of this anime and something that does well. There are a lot of critiques about the fashion industry and how it favors certain stereotypes. And is not just critiques, it offers different perspectives, solutions, and examples of a better approach.

Still, this anime may not be for everyone, besides the fashion industry focus, there are also cultural differences between the East & West. For example, the practice of bowing does not exist in the west and we are more open to criticizing working conditions and blame our own bosses for their mistakes and mistreatments, so the conversations & resolutions to these problems will probably go a different way on the west than how they are solved here in the anime with extreme bowing. Perhaps this is why I feel a lot of the problems presented here belong to the industrial revolution era. Is this anime a window for how things are still done in the East, even in our current era? I don't know, but no working conditions should rob a person of their dignity and most people I know will say that a job like that is not worth having. Yet, a lot of characters in this anime put up with a lot of mistreatment for the sake of their dream, just because this is the state of the fashion industry, and at the same time, this is what this anime criticizes and what the characters in the story are trying to change. So in the end, making all these considerations and pondering about all these things is what I ended up enjoying the show the most. Whether you see it as a window to the current state of the fashion industry or a window to the past and how long have we come to improve working conditions, is up to you what you can get out of this anime, which is at least entertaining. You may end up focusing on entirely different things, as the story is quite open to interpretation and different points of view.

The characters are very likable and this holds the show together. You are also bound to relate to some of the situations these characters get. There is good character development for the main protagonists considering that is only the first season and most of the time was used to introduce the setting and the characters themselves.

The voice actors were great, I only watched the dubbed version, the sub version may be superior, but it's easier for me to watch with dubs.

Overall, you should try watching the first 3 episodes, which is the first mini-arc, and that will probably be enough to figure out if this is for you or not.