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113. RPG Real Estate
https://myanimelist.net/anime/48363/RPG_Fudousan
Spring 2022 (12 episodes)
My Score: 6/10, MAL Score: 6.73/10
Best Character: Fa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAg6CKhUKxE

Premise: Kazairo Kotone is a young witch who moves to the capital and begins working for a business that helps people find homes. Together with her three coworkers, they strive to find the perfect place for everyone.

The Good: RPG Real Estate is a cute girls comedy set in a fantasy world. It's mostly lighthearted with the four characters getting one or two clients each episode who they take to various homes. It's stuff like a girl who wants to live with her pet griffon, a necromancer who wants a place with lots of spiritual energy, and a bunch of cats who want to rent out their hot spring rooms. I really enjoyed all of those standalone episodes. The big thing I look for in a cute girls show is a creative twist on familiar antics. Having new side characters show up every episode to visit new places always kept things fresh. Finding people a place where they can belong is also a nice way to have a few heartwarming moments. The main characters are mostly recognizable archetypes, but they were still decent. Fa, the young energetic girl who could talk to monsters, was easily my favorite. The side characters were usually good too, each contributing to the episode's humor.

The Bad: While most of RPG Real Estate is humorous house hunting with an emotional moment or two, there's also an overarching plotline about a dragon attacking towns that I didn't like. It felt like one of those cases where an otherwise lighthearted anime shoehorns in a super dramatic plotline when it isn't necessary. To its credit, RPG handled it better than most shows usually do (Heroines Run the Show from the same season had a similar overdramatic final arc that absolutely ruined the anime for me). Still, even though it was handled well, it still felt harshly out of place next to the tone of the rest of the show, and I'd have ranked this a lot higher if the dragon plotline were removed entirely.

Overall: RPG Real Estate has four girls with familiar archetypes (the tomboy who tries to be more girly, the one with a crush on the tomboy, etc). However, the new side characters every episode and the fun places they visit keeps things fresh and funny, often with a nice heartwarming moment or two along the way. I wasn't a fan of the overarching dramatic plotline, but it wasn't a big part of this until the end and it didn't ruin the anime for me. Most of RPG Real Estate is Fa running around being cute, so overall I enjoyed it quite a bit.