Review of A Couple of Cuckoos

tl;dr formless and aimless, I fell asleep multiple times while getting through it I really wish I could've given this a better score than a 4. Cute character designs and an interesting premise are unfortunately not backed up by actual content. 24 episodes was perhaps a few too many for this amount of development and plot that honestly could've fit in a single 12 episode season or less. Kakkou no Inazuke was enjoyable and funny at times yet astoundingly boring and frustrating elsewhere. Perhaps it's part of the decline of the harem romcom in general; one can only watch the same trope a finite amount of timesbefore feeling bored and disengaged. And I think that's the main issue with the show. It drags on too long over the same content and simply isn't engaging.

The characters art and music on one hand were pleasant, but after the first few episodes it becomes clear that there won't be any character development. What little change the characters see in their behavior or relationship with the other characters is really more of a revealing of past inclinations or previously unknown traits. We end episode 24 in much the same state that we started episode 2 in. Naturally the creators want to do this in order to drag on the clueless MC trope as long as possible, but as we have seen in Bokuben and Quints (who share really similar MC's with this show) there's only so much you can stretch that trope before it becomes unbelievable to the point of detracting from the show.

Maybe there just isn't enough source material to fill up 2 cours of anime? In which case I would be judging the show too harshly. Yet from manga source to a show in 3 years is perhaps a bit on the fast side surely there's enough to put in here to prevent it from becoming the soporific it is? Either way, maybe if you're out of romcoms to watch you can hit this one up. 4/10