This is one of those anime that is difficult to talk about, not because there's a lot to take in but rather lack thereof. There's not really much to say because the anime just serves you with a slice of life with a side of "cute girls doing cute things"... Sorry, the joke was just there... Either way, let's begin with the plot, shall we? So Maika is looking for a job and eventually comes across Dino, the manager of Café Stile. And in Café Stile, the gimmick is that the workers of the café show different personality traits, so Maika would be the sadist, Kaho would be the tsundere, Mafuyu imouto, etc. This gimmick is actually pretty neat and makes for some good interactions with customers if you ask me, or well, the few odd interactions we get anyway. Since this is a slice of life at heart, you wouldn't expect this to have a consistent plot since the story isn't necessarily the focus, but here they try to have a storyline about a romance that doesn't end up working and just harms the plot even more than it would if it didn't have that storyline, more on that later though.

Onto characters now, Maika and Dino essentially have similar sorts of personalities I feel but that doesn't mean their personalities are any good all things considered, they're just a bit too cliché and boring for my liking. The rest however are pretty diverse. Kaho was a bit 'eh' at first but became a lot more tolerable and likable near the end, a really decent character. Mafuyu is OK, feel like she does lack a lot of personality other than the imouto personality she has at work though. Miu is pretty one-dimensional from my standpoint, not much else to say. Akizuki is also like this, although there is some development for him later on in the anime. Hideri is actually kind of decent too and would have been better a lot earlier on in the anime I feel. Although since we're on the subject of characters, time to revisit that romance storyline because as it turns out, Dino has a crush on Maika, which may not sound so bad if it wasn't for the fact that Dino is 26 and Maika is 16... that... just disgusts me. I've dealt with problematic stuff before but that takes the cake... sorry, that time it was unintentional...

I don't know why the creator of this thought that weaving that storyline into this slice-of-life was a good thing to do because once you know about it, you can't help but feel sickened, and rather than giving significant substance, it just gives a reason for this show to exist. At the end of the day, without those two, this show would just have zero substance...

Being disappointed and sickened by this show's plot and character is not a good feeling. However, I will say this, the art is alright, pretty much what you would expect from A-1, standard stuff, not much to say... I say that a lot, don't I? Wonder if I hammered in the point yet? Anyways, the OP, I find personally to be REALLY GOOD... sure, it has lost its charm due to it being an old meme but as a genuine track, it's really catchy. ED not as much, but it's pretty neat I suppose. The show also has... some comedic factor but it's a shame that it has to repeat jokes every so often in every episode, if they were just singular jokes, I feel like I would have enjoyed it a lot than I did. Don't get me wrong, there is something to enjoy here, it's just not as present as I would have liked it to be. So overall, BLEND-S at its best is just an 'eh' show that just exists merely off a smidge of its comedy, a decent cast of characters, and an OP that is memorable... but at its very worst, it's a show that thrives off a plot that revolves around a relationship with a 10 year age gap which is disgusting to even think about.

An honest 4/10 makes sense to me here, since really there's nothing special about this anime at its core. It really just exists for sake of existing, is a way you could put it. It's not bad by any means but, to be honest, it isn't all too good either. Low C-tier to high D-tier anime.