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YoukaiSlayer posted...

It's been a pretty ok anime this season. I do feel like the central joke has gotten a bit stale by this point but the plot is moving places so I guess the writer realized that too.

Considering how long the original novels are, I think the author realized the singular joke would get old fast, yes. I mean, I have read up to chapter 36 of the manga (we're a couple weeks from 37), and episode 8 of the anime stops in the middle of chapter 18, and the next arc in the story, the one I suspect will end the anime season, will see the joke more or less be put to rest. Don't get me wrong, Claire will still be a tsundere and thorny rose, but... chapter 25 has her admit her feelings for Rei in a way not even Claire was expecting, and it also marks when Claire starts calling Rei by name and holding her hand. The story indeed moves on from there, never petering out from overusing its original premise.

I will give the show and manga points for being cute, for tackling real life lgbt+ issues in a more respectable manner than too many shows even these days, and for having characters with defined personality flaws and legit growth. I will also give the localization team points for hiring a trans person to play a trans character. If anything, I'd knock the manga (and I guess novels) for giving lesbians the Super Saiya-jin treatment*, and for making the ONE heterosexual relationship thus far incestual.

Worth a watch or read at least once, but probably something I'd only actively recommend to the percentage of anime/manga fans who happen to be lgbt+ or close allies, and otherwise passively recommend to others.

*Note: This is coming from a Touhou fangirl who ships Reimu with Miyoi, Marisa with Alice, Tenshi with Shion, Maribel/Yukari with both Renko and Yuyuko, and sometimes Mokou with Kaguya albeit as an unhappily married couple who mostly just fight to pass the time. Maybe also Sakuya and Meiling. That's thirteenish characters out of close to 200, not counting a certain eggplant girl from Hell who canonically has it bad for her boss.