Review of Ikebukuro West Gate Park

As far as I know this show is a remake of some old show/manga. While you don't get any women in refrigerators here, it's stil very dark at times, but light hearted at others. It starts episodic, but later on you get a little more of a story arc - while not much and feeling pretty rushed, it seems to set up more for the future. If this gets a S2 I will watch it, but it is nothing that I will miss if it gets dropped. The show looked promising but didin't fully deliver. It's like ordering fries - they are a little soggy, stiltaste good, but not as good as they do when you get them freshly made.

If this show was a drink, it would be diet coke.

I don't know if you're getting what I try to describe here, but that's the closest I can get: It looks great, but there is something off and you can't excatly point it out. There is some flavour missing here, some crispiness there... not too much, but you notice it subconciously.

The themes are great. The MC is nice and has a quirk (he orders everything he eats with fruits, his Ramen looks like a fruit salad), the side characters are interesting...

But sometimes the pacing is off, sometimes it's the delivery of the plot twist - sometimes the whole motivation of some characters.

It's a 6/10 for me - above average, but not much. Could be an easy 8, if done well, tho.