One Room

Some members of the anime community always seem to make a point to show public outrage when random seasonal show-x doesn't meet some arbitrary standard of 'maturity' or 'artistic integrity,' all in some weird attempt to distance themselves from "those kinds of anime fans." When doing this it's always easier to go after the low hanging fruit, shorts like these which most people don't care about or don't have high expectations of. This review of One Room is written with the expectation that nobody else on this site will defend it. The fact that this is a POV anime seems to be enough to sendmost people running. If it calms you down, you should know that it is not entirely done in POV. It's more of a hybrid of alternative views (when POV wouldn't make sense) and actual POV (when it's important). The anime itself is pretty smart about moving from one to the other in a way that isn't distracting or unnatural. The character designs are cute, and the scenarios are deliberately made to be heartwarming or emotionally engaging on some level. Dialogue is meant to be pseudo-interactive, in that you don't hear the MCs response (it's you) but the conversation obviously progresses in a way that completely ignores whatever you shout at the screen. Effectively creating two 'yous'. In this way it's possible to try to reverse engineer the conversation based on the reactions the girls have to 'your' answer. People need to realize that 'cringing' at this is their fault and that there are others out there who can separate reality from fiction. When watching this anime it's important to remember that worrying about not looking lonely on the internet is a fool's errand. Judging One Room for what is, is very simple. It's a short, relaxing and comfy look at the progress of three relationships that take place inside one room. The prevailing theme is that with these relationships comes growth and stability, both emotional and situational. It's interesting to note that (you) help out the girls in two of the three stories. The odd story out involves some tough love from your imouto. I think it should be obvious as well, that the real point of this anime is to help foster those feelings in the real you. You know, the person sitting on the couch in the dark. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that there is a demand for anime geared towards those who want some company or affection from 2D girls. The difference between the average 'escapist' show and this is that characters don't usually wait for (you) before they do something 'badass.' We're all in this together people.

One Room- Anime of the season for sure. Yes this is a decently sized review so of course a tl;dr will follow, have no fear all lonely otaku's pondering this show, all your questions are answered in the most spoiler free way possible. there's a lot of hate for this show and I understand why, this show is for lonely otaku's to give them the perfect waifu so of course normal weebs would see it as an iffy show. However I approached it more leniently and tried to enjoy the cringefest that was One Room, and succeeded to a certain extent. Story- probably the worst partof this show. The main character is you, the viewer, and one of 3 girls who aren't all sisters (the synopsis is clickbait) with each story detailing their happy fun times in your one room (creative name). Each girl has their own story and you play along with it, but sometimes the MC can be a real dick and not properly react to the feelings of the girl of the week, but as We are the main we can only criticise ourselves :/ Art- very vibrant and colourful, was nice to look at, made the backgrounds visually appealing and characters beautiful. typhoon graphics did a-ok in this department Sound- usually a very calm OST with everchanging ending theme's for each girl, making them less memorable. nothing much to hate on but nothing to applaud either Characters- the most important part of this show. we begin with Hanasaka Yui, a university applicant that struggles with revision. Being a uni applicant myself i empathised with this the most, so hanasaka was the obvious choice for best girl. you spend 4 episodes helping her studies in the hope she gets into a good uni, does she? watch it and find out fools. up next is momohara Natsuki, your imouto. oh the lolicons must have had a field day with her. the perfect sister, she cooks, cleans and cares for you after a hard days work. however i am not an imouto, so theres no empathy here. the final girl is Aoshima Moka, your childhood friend. her singing was pretty good, props to her VA. but the character is prone to giving up and you, the MC, have to be there to help her. being the only character your age she's the only one with a real chance at a love love ending, but childhood friends never win, do they? and finally, the MC- You. you're some Japanese guy that lives by himself in an apartment, working 9-5 in some job. you can be a bit of a prick sometimes but decent every so often, still the worst character of the show, but all the girls were made to be Perfect waifu's for whichever kinda girl you're in to whereas you, the MC, are not made perfect, so you cant be held accountable. Enjoyment- 10/10. laughing about how stupid this show was has been the highlight of my wednesday's for 12 weeks, ye I probably shoulda picked up maid dragon and konosuba but ah well, this and piacevole were fine. Overall- my brain says rate this show for lonely weebs a 1, but my enjoyment says give it 10. not sure why a 4/10 on the review thing is labelled "decent" as that means acceptable or satisfactory. but when thinking about this show, Decent suits it just right. so one room gets a decent 4/10. Roll on one room side M! TL;DR- watch this shit if you are a basement dwelling weeb that doesnt have an imouto, if you arent or you're just tsun about your loneliness then you'd be better off watching TWGOK or some other arc'd up romance anime. Mother dick this shit is helpful.

Oh boy! It's that time again to review another terrible show that is only around four minutes in length and features cute girls, one of whom is underage, as they talk to you, the audience, through the eyes of the voiceless main protagonist! One Room is strange. Damn strange. I have no idea what the show is trying to convey or achieve and belongs in that certain type of anime, under the "what the bloody hell is that crap?" with titles such as Pupa and Sleeping with Hinako. While on the topic of that big titted slut, Hianko, One Room also follows a very similar structureand idea as that show, that being that we watch and interact with these girls who are speaking to some unknown guy whom we can't see, and instead we assume the role of him instead and that's it! That's the entire show and it never deviates in any way and instead goes around in circles never developing anything at all! It's about three girls whom the main character helps whilst they're in their time of need; the schoolgirl, the token little sister who keeps yelling "baka" all the time and really needs to be taken behind the shed to be shot with a gun, and the now grown-up childhood friend who is having problems over at her job. Each one of them confides themselves in your company, for some reason since the main character hardly ever speaks, and since we're supposed to assume his role, I have no idea why these girls would ever come to a filthy cave-dwelling fujoshi such as myself. They try and play it off as romance, and try and sell the idea that you develop this bond between the girls or bond as a sibling between your sister but it doesn't feel as if anything happened, for two reasons: 1) The show is too short to allow for any development 2) THE ENTIRE CAST IS SO COOKIE-CUTTER AND BORING THAT YOU WON'T GIVE A SINGLE INTO WHAT IS HAPPENING! Phew, let me just get my breath back *inhales oxygen*. Each one of these girls is the most cliche and stereotypical anime girls that you could even imagine; the type that I and my friends joke about when we're TRYING to come up with generic characters for shows, more so than Kirito from SAO. The fact that this author, who is trying to create characters and drama, made these characters ON PURPOSE just goes to show how uninteresting these characters really are and each one makes me want to throw up into a basket of puppies with how deceptively cute each one of them are; just to pull at the heart strings and try and manipulate you into feeling something for these...creatures. But, that also begs the question. Who was this made for? What is the point of it? It is trying to appeal to people who have no one and wants to feel loved, like in Pillow Boys? Are they trying to make you do exercise like in Anitore EX? Both of these shows listed are two in which are similar to that of this show, but at the least, I can kind of see what they're trying to achieve, but this...I have no clue! It's an empty husk with no purpose! It doesn't entertain, so it's no good as an actual show, it doesn't fill in some strange fetish, so it doesn't even check off that possibility and it doesn't even work as a so bad it's good title since there is NOTHING good about this show. The only thing it has is an okay looking art design. That's it. And, can you believe it? They're making a male version of this show next season! I'm just going to take my cyanide pills and end it here...

There are slight spoilers in this review, but not anything too specific, read at your own discretion. I will be reviewing this by each arc and then overall. Arc 1 // New neighbor, busty underclassman - 6/10 This arc is pretty easy-going and has a story. Overall average, but very nice art and happy ending. Arc 2 // Energetic, cheerful, and petite sister - 1/10 I am not a big fan of sister complex's much less petite figures. Not to mention the story is pretty lame and the ending is just ?? like ?? wasted 16 minutes of screentime for what?? Sister stuff, just not my cup oftea. Arc 3 // Busty childhood friend - 10/10 Loved this arc, absolutely loved it. The angles, the cleavage, the story, the piano, it was all quite enjoyable. Story: 5/10 Art: 10/10 Sound: 6/10 Character: 4/10 Enjoyment: 6/10 (calculated based on the average of the arc scores) Overall Score: 6.2/10 Would I recommend it? The show is short, each episode 3 minutes and 20 seconds, 4 minutes if you count the outro. It isn't too time-consuming and you can pick and choose which arcs you want to watch based on personal taste/preference. So watch it if you want to, but you're not missing anything if you choose not to.