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BONUS. The Little Lies We All Tell
https://myanimelist.net/anime/51464/4-nin_wa_Sorezore_Uso_wo_Tsuku
Fall 2022 (11 episodes)
My Score: TBA, MAL Score: 7.15/10
Best Character: Sekine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMfJHYoUf0

Premise: Four friends are living as normal middle-school girls, but they each have a secret they need to hide from the others. One is an alien, one is a ninja, one is a psychic, and one is actually a boy!

The Good: The Little Lies We All Tell is a comedy anime about the misadventures of the four main characters as they each try to keep their secret from the others. The episodes are mostly situational gags, so there isn't a deep plot or anything, but the jokes are were good enough to carry it for me. I enjoyed each of the secrets the girls had. It was fun seeing the contrast of Rikka the alien's thoughts and actions, she pretends to be a cute little girl while her thoughts are those of a hardened intergalactic soldier. Chiyo is genuinely clueless and ditzy due to being raised by an isolated ninja clan, but she's also frighteningly capable when it comes to things related to her training. I also enjoyed Tsubasa, who was forced to impersonate his twin sister. His secret is the most mundane, but it led to a lot of great moments where the others compliment his femininity and he's secretly disappointed about it. Sekine was still easily my favorite character. I loved the jokes that came from her ability to read minds. She knows Rikka is an alien and Chiyo a ninja, but self-preservation leads Sekine to hide that knowledge. Instead, she tries to get ahead of the wacky ideas the others have, which was always fun. I'm a fan of this kind of off-the-wall quasi-random humor, and both the premise and the cast lent itself to it well.

The Bad: I don't have any major complaints. Some of the situations weren't as funny as others, but that would be true in any show like this, and I don't recall any episodes being outright bad.

Overall: The Little Lies We All Tell was a solid comedy about four zany characters with fun secrets. I enjoyed its style of humor. Sekine knew most of what was going on, which led to lots of great reactions when Chiyo or Rikka were about to unknowingly do something insane. This will be a 7/10 in my final ranking because it didn't resonate with me enough to rise into my favorites, but it was a fun anime and I have no major complaints.