This anime is absolutely amazing, I must say after the first few episodes, I was completely hooked and was unable to stop watching the show. And while I did find a few moments which I would say were a bit "boring", for the most part the anime did its best to keep all my attention focused specifically on it.
Now, to start off, I will straight up say that you should only watch this anime if you are okay with exploring in depth themes, emotions and more adult-like content. Without delving too much into this, the anime talks a lot about depression, the effects of depression, and how it can completely crush an individual. As such, I highly recommend avoiding this anime if you are uncomfortable with these themes.
On the other hand, if you are capable of understanding and handling these themes, then I fully recommend it, as this anime not only handles it well, but rather handles it excellently. Furthermore, many of the shortcoming you might find in this season, will be fixed in the 2nd season (Which is a masterpiece on my opinion.)
Below I will delve into the main categories of this show;
As mentioned above, the story of March Comes in like a lion revolves around depression, and how it affects the main character, as well as him slowly getting through it, in this regard the story is absolutely amazing, it treats depression as a serious issue, and unlike other anime I have seen, there are a lot of moments when it feels like the issue is barely being resolved, giving this a very mature and realistic progression throughout the show.
While unlike season 2, the art style doesn't have any very memorable highly-detailed scenes, there is a very good combination and transitions of pure darkness when needed, to beautiful imagery and light in order to show happiness and tranquility, in that regard, while the art style might not be detailed, the great use of lighting and environment have definitely been great.
There are a good number of good OSTs in the show, but nothing really memorable apart from two of them.
The characters are pretty well detailed, each have their own problems and they are well written to be integrated inside the story. And yes, characters become even better in the 2nd season.
I overall enjoyed watching this anime, and I would gladly re-watch it if I will ever have enough time for it. The only reason why I am not rating this higher is because of a few scenes, which genuinely made me feel bored.
I highly recommend this amazing anime, I swear if you give it a watch, you will be shocked by the pure amount of attention given to each character and the amazing progression all the characters go through.
47 out of 51 users liked this review
