Review of Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms

For some reason, this anime is praised by many, but it doesn't have any special moments or characters in it. It's clear that the promoting tried to give a feeling that this will be on the same level as Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru / My Dress-Up Darling, but it fails in many aspects, as it has many more bad than good. Story: 6.5 Sure, the anime have some funny moments, but the rest of them are simply too repetitive. There are points where it gets promising, just to fall down again and show the same old things again without much progression. Because of this,the whole story feels inconsistent from time to time, which is not a good thing. Another painful aspect the story are the missing scenes from the manga. Without them the anime have many holes in it, and it makes things even worse. We have a weakened version of the original, which is not he strongest one in the market anyways.

Characters: 5
In a slice of life romance story, the viewer needs character development to feel something toward them. Because of the slow and bad pacing of the story, the main characters basically progressing at a snail pace. The main pair is just standing in place for most of the time, and when they do something, they need the help of the supporting characters. Because of this, we get more information and story from the other characters than the MCs. Especially the girl protagonist is a wooden plank without outside help. The supporting characters deserve more spotlight.

Art: 6
Of course, in animation production there is a financial reason why we get a toned down design of the original, but this is way too much. Compared to the manga, the anime basically got nothing. The detailed hair of the characters, the depth in their eyes, they are all gone. Putting aside the characters, the color palette is boring.

Animation: 4
One of the worst parts of this show. In an anime. It seems like that the studio doesn't know what to do in some scenes. They used too many still frames, even in such places like an amusement park. In other scenes, especially when a character running away, they just simply put in a looped animation, sometimes not even bothering to give us the feeling of movement, moving the character model too slow or not at all. Even worse, there is a really bad running animation, which appeared at least 4 or 5 times in the show.

Music: 7
There is nothing special about it, especially because the studio used that few melodies over and over again, it gets old really quick.