Hey, remember that romcom series a few years ago? The one about the smaller than normal Japanese office lady and her annoying, much bigger & taller senpai? Well, what if we twisted it around and made the senpai the shorter than usual office lady and her kouhai the tall guy? Wouldn’t that be hilarious?
To be fair, the two protagonists in Uchi No Kaisha No Chiisai Senpai No Hanashi are not nearly as extreme as the couple from Senpai ga Uzai Kōhai no Hanashi. Shinozaki is maybe a bit taller than the average Japanese dude, but not that much, nor is Shiori that much shorter than most Japanese women. It’s all a bit normal and that’s the problem. Everything about this series is just …normal. Shinozaki is a bit in love with his senpai and has the occassional fantasy about her. She mentions her shoulders are stiff and she could use a massage and in his mind it becomes an erotic scene, complete with the usual porn music. That sort of thing. Tediously predictable and completely unfunny. As are the scenes in which Shiori acts a bit airheaded and he catches her at it. Everything she says comes out in the same tone, which means these just don’t work. You never get the impression she really is embarassed when it’s the same tone she uses when she’s teasing him.
It’s all a bit meh, including the animation and character design. After all the amazing romcoms of last season, this is a disappointment.
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