Short summary: Very fun. I read the 7 volumes in one week and watched 11 of the 12 episodes in one sitting.

Longer summary: So, yeah, very fun. Is it perfect? No, far from it.

The good: Most of the jokes are funny; the characters are not that deep but have more than one joke, and their interactions can be hilarious; the shenanigans are as grounded in reality as one could expect from this sort of book; and the satire parts are pretty on-point.

The bad: Huge amounts of fatphobia; a lot of incest jokes; the only queer character is played as a joke; a lot of sexualizing queer relationships through a straight lens.

The ugly: While Nukumizu is a fun character, he also just sucks. He treats all of his friends so badly and talks sooooo much shit about them (even out loud, sometimes).

The boring: The will-they-won't-they with every single character gets stale after a while

Favorite characters:

1- Yanami
2- Shikya
3- Yakishio
piles of whatever
N-2- Asagumo
N-1- Kaju
N- Kazuhiko

Grades (for me, an average score in each part is 50) ->

Concept for the story: 75/100. Focusing on the "losing heroines" is quite fun, as is the idea of Nukumizu as an unreliable narrator. What sucks is that the writing is more than a bit heavy-handed and it tries so hard to satirize a genre that it ends up overusing a few tropes (I have trouble deciding what is more annoying, Nukumizu as an uber-dense MC or the siscon-brocon narrative with Kaju)

Complexity of the setting: 90/100. I'd say this is where the story shines. I feel like I know a lot more about Aichi prefecture than I would have expected from a book like this. Also, since it is so focused on its jokes and satire, I wouldn't have expected the author to be so good at creating such a deep universe and deep-enough characters.

Character development: 70/100. There is a lot of character development in each heroine's arc, but not a lot of it going on in the background. Because of that, the jokes get less funny over time, and a tad predictable.

Philosophical bent: 50/100. Honestly, the story isn't that deep, nor do the author/director/whoever wants to make it deeper. Which is more than fine.

Political bent: 50/100. No politics in this whatsoever (not that politics don't affect the story and the way its characters are presented, just that the story doesn't want to talk or think about politics).

Representation: 50/100. Apparently, queer people don't exist in this universe...unless it is to make straight people horny.

Originality within genre: 85/100. Originality is where this story shines, and I'd argue it could have scored higher if the author were more willing to challenge the conceptions and tropes within the genre, instead of just making fun of them.

Realism: 80/100. I think the grade speaks for itself. Not a lot of Deus Ex Machina done poorly, nor a lot of Anime Logic, in here. The characters just seem to act in ways that are realistic given how they are portrayed.

Psychological depth: 80/100. The way the story portrays the characters' emotions and thoughts so realistically, while also being good at leaving a lot of question marks, is beautiful. What taints the painting a bit is that Nukumizu is a 30-year-old in a 15-year-old's body. And that Kaju is...I don't even know how to define it.

Enjoyment: 80/100. Even though I hate the prejudice behind so many of the story, I actually liked it a lot, and laughed out loud so many times.

Final grade: 71/100.

Recommendation: Recommend but with caveats