Get you a senpai who is this obsessed with you joining her school club:
As a young child Hana watched a recitation contest on television and became fascinated by it to the point that in middle school she held regular reading sessions for the younger children of her small island. By chance the club president of the broadcasting club of her new high school catches one of those readings and decides she has to have her for the club. But Hana isn’t sure whether she can, even if she wants to…
This was a nice surprise. I went into this completely blind and got not just a nice, sweet first episode about a girl who’s afraid to let herself attempt the things she wants to do, but also a bit of cute flirting by her senpai. Mizuki is a lot more touchy feely than normal for an anime character and feels extremely lesbian coded? Short haired, strawberry blonde, wears ear piercings and when we first saw her she was in a pants and blouse combination. I’m not getting my hopes up that this will amount to anything, but it would be great if it did. In the meantime this seems like a nice, meaty school club story and I like that it’s not all girls in the club either.
The character design is on point and the animation is strong, especially the character animation. Mostly it quietly shunts along until we get to the climax, where it lets loose, showcasing Hana’s dramatic recital of her favourite poem with equally dramatic animation. This so far is my favourite premiere of the season.
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