Jun 07, 2025
I get that the idea is to have the classic slice of life haha shenanigans story that gets progressively more depressing, but I think the main issue I'm having aside from the overall format is that those slice of life turned depresso stories have this period where characters bond not necessarily with themselves, but with the audience. I think you skipped that part.
I think that the girls in Usagi Days had distinct enough personalities after a while (though it did take some time to tell most of them apart tbh), but so far Heineken is comic relief guy, Yuka is tsundere girl Miyu is girl, Cameron is boy. I feel like I'm watching a bunch of people do stuff through a window but I'm not invited (I think you said smth to this effect about catgirls and now I know what you meant
). The events by themselves might be entertaining in a vacuum, but I also want to care about the characters, especially so if the emotional thread is that they'll break up eventually. So far, they're Cute Couple(TM) but that's about it.
I did like the first couple of chapters a lot and really felt like it was a huge improvement over Usagi Days, but then is just kind of god the weird format again and just kind of fell back into a lot of usagisms. Idk we'll see