Review of Kokoro Connect

I at first dropped this after 8 episodes as it was getting progressively worse. Characters weren't clever enough and there's no spotlighting where it was needed so the story seemed a bit naive. The idea seemed to be to put slice of life characters through a non-everyday problem and then watch them fail their way through their ordinary lives affected by the supernatural problem. Considering the idea itself, first problem they faced was kinda fun to watch, had some potential, and wasn't handled badly but the second one just felt like an obvious and lame plot device, it seems forced in a way and charactersall get negative because they can't deal with the problem because they are stupid and non creative. I guess I was bothered by plot logic in a way?

At some point around middle there was a really cool opportunity for a genre shift into something a lot darker that could have made the story a lot better for me. Romance is at first fun but then becomes exceptionally bad and infuriating to watch. Characters are essential for a slice of life derivative such as this, and Kokoro Connect at first seemed good, but then failed halfway through with both characters and story.

I later got talked into finishing it regardless of disliking it, so I watched it up to episode 13, but I didn't feel it got considerably better in any way.