I should have written a review the first time I watched Battery for comparison purposes, but since I didn't, I'll try to put in a little text what changed in my perspective. I followed this anime as a favorite during its respective season, and even seeing an almost zero development as the episodes progressed, I had to watch until the last second to accept how BAD this work is !!! An irritating protagonist, a static cast, a plot supported by pure conveniences and great FEAR on the part of the narrative of hurting the protagonist's ego - so that from the first to the last episodenothing neither nobody has changed. It failed miserably, both in sport and drama. For these reasons I gave this work a 3.

And what has changed? Maybe only three years, but also what I will call "admiration for the subtle and goodwill with the mundane" ... Knowing what (not) to expect, I re-watched it because I never managed to forget this anime, nor have I ever overcome the great disappointment it was. But exactly because of the LACK of expectations for a masterpiece, this time I was able to relax and calmly analyze the whole situation. It is still a work without beginning, middle and end (the basics for a good story), but this rawness of development could be balanced with a comparison of reality and a special interpretation for the feeling that the anime tries to convey... A promising, captivating story with no loose cables in the thin would be great, however, I could still appreciate the lack of it all. People don't change easily if they are not forced to do so, friendships may not be as beautiful as fiction likes to portray, and perhaps only the suggestion of feelings on the part of the characters' attitudes has already been enough to convey his message.

The anime becomes more palatable when seen as a portrait of the life of a pampered, hardheaded teenager beginning to face the difficulties of his choices. Takumi is a kid without any emotional intelligence, a counterpoint to his partner Gou (who accepted him as a friend precisely aware of this), and having said that it is possible to establish among all the unspoken words a perfectly mundane friendship between two boys. There is an undeniable dramatic bias appealing to shounen-ai here, and perhaps it was the author's way of working with it. It is not the best method, and neither in the least sincere, but it is still valid. His egocentric attitudes towards family, colleagues and teachers were all still forgiven (as well as punished) for the convenience of a script, but he still has time to review all of this, since being a self-centered asshole was the greatest of his sins; maybe it was never intended to make him "likeable" within this narrative in the first place, and that's fine (at least for me). I changed the score given to a 7 because of all this.

In the end I failed to make a small text, but I accept it as it is.