Review of Senpai is an Otokonoko

Senpai wa Otokonoko - Final Episode The story severely under delivered in the end, and not only because of the topics treated. Awful pacing, a fudged narrative, and overall bad decisions on what to develop, to include or exclude, played the key roles in destroying good potential. Absent logic in the writing department strikes again. The anime often felt like three different seasons mixed into one, and nothing got the time it deserved. The whole "muh parents" arc and the "old friends from school appear, at the second last episode, bringing with them flashbacks, and a focus on people no one cares about" delivered the kill shot. Let'sbe fair, no law or rule written anywhere requires that a webtoon artist should know about dramatic technique or poetics. Just the intention to create something justifies the endeavor, and nothing wrong with that.

But the moment a studio invests (big) money into its anime production you should expect at least one educated guy to take a look at it and say ce n'est pas possible. We need to cut and reorder things. But none of that happened, so we got lukewarm and underwhelming nonsense in the end - 4/10.