I wonder if there’s a shutterstock-like collection of those backgrounds.
I did glance at the Food Court show, but it’s a mini-series, so a short run, and the first episode was very, very boring. There are ways to make bottle episodes that are just people talking, or stuck in a same space work, such as SeiZon did it well, but the overwhelming majority are cheap and just basically manzai, and this was no exception.
Impressions:
I wonder what was going on for the first minute or so of this episode. It was extremely… I hestitate to say well animated, but highly animated. Think Go Hands, where everything is moving a bit too much, and random things have way too much detail. That tailed off very quickly, and the clothes especially went back to being relatively flat textures instead of billowing wildly while indoors. It’s still well animated enough to at least somewhat match the hyperactive energy of the lead better than these things usually do, but the production absolutely fell off after the first minute or so, only returning for the OP-as-ED.
Buuuuut these kinds of characters still more irritate than amuse me. While it’s more consistent in being nonstop loud, which is preferable to sudden abrupt yelling trying to pass off as jokes, and the characters do make an effort at the start about trying to change and grow, which is appreciated, it doesn’t have the fun visual flourishes of something like Bocchi, and the whole tree bonding scene, easily the highlight of the episode, is thrown straight in the bin for the actual gimmick of the show, that one is overly horny and sexually aggressive (spoiler, they all are), and the other is a bottom in denial. So instead it goes into a tour through the characters, internal narration introducing each, and then a recap of the premise/gimmick before the OP repeats it one final time. The second half of the episode was a lot more irritating and formulaic.
Buuut there’s also no other Monday shows this season since a couple things got bumped over to other days from late-announced webcasts or the like, so who knows. I’m sure I’ll glance at it again, but it’s just a fanservice yuri harem that’s light on the comedy, but somewhat higher on the production side, though that was already noticeably falling through the episode.
