Well, the first thing that I know: it should've been more develop, whit more characters (they work in a company with 4 employees? LITERALLY!!! LIKE, THE CHAIRS ARE EMPTY), more situations and they could show more of romance. AND MORE EXPLANATIONS, TOO. The history must have some details unrelevant to fill the space, details that you think you don't need until you don't have them.
I know that the focus was on showing the otaku world, what has been accomplished; but the point was also showing otaku from a social point of view, in friendships (ok-ish) and romances (not ok); here the romance are almost nonexistent and kinda superficial.
The part were they represent adults I lost: it's not because I watch or play or read or whatever, that I'll not be able to communicate or have a loving relationship.
# I know, however, that there is a difference between the word "otaku" in Japan and in other parts of the world. Here in the west it means that we like oriental animation, but there is a pejorative term that means an addicted person. The likelihood, then, is that this person may well be antisocial. #
So I understand the regional missunderstanding by the meaning.
I'm still disappointed 'cause it had a beautiful potential and was so poorly developed. Also, the ending is half open, leaving expectations of a new season, which was not answered either by the studio or by Fujita.
Despite it all, after the 3rd episode I just laughed. It's very funny, mainly 'cause we have all gone through the stage of being made fun of or feeling ashamed of being otaku; the work creates a huge identification with us, first showing the difficulties of making friends who understand our tastes, and share the same, OR the shame we go through when our co-workers discover that we like yaoi, or EVEN in the lightest things, when they think we are childish because we watch cartoons.
We all go through this in adolescence, but in adulthood? the judgment is much worse (YEAS, I'm not the first one and I won't be the last).
When I first read about the history line, I was so excided... come on, the premisse it's perfect! The manga, however, it is still releasing (and I didn't read, so idk if it’s just the adaptation or if the source of the work is like that too, BUT) my expectations are that they will do a do-over, or at least continue to with much more vision.
The parts I laughed the most are those who the characters loose the control of there passions: not sleeping as if they had no work the next day, spending the night playing and passing out from not eating, watching the new episode at work, spending the day upset because the character died, losing control in front of cosplayers or trying to convince the other to read yaoi.
Honestly, the otaku part was the most faithfull, I feel 100% represented, although I'm not like that full time.
To finish, the anime was launched in 2018, and i'm still deluded looking forward to season 2.
