Calaggie on Wakaba Girl

"My rate of keeping up with newly-debuted anime series has fallen in the past few years." Doesn't it sound familiar? And so:

The bulk of my current anime watching involves series with episodes lasting less than 15 minutes. [...] Those shorter runtimes mean smaller weekly time commitments for me as a viewer and also mean the shows featuring those shorter episodes sometimes have more focused writing and pacing compared to their full-length counterparts.

Tom went on to give a run-down of the shorties, although his impressions are rather different from mine, starting from his top-rated one, Wakaba:

My favorite 2015 show among the ones I’ve completed so far. It was fun to watch the rich and out-of-touch Wakaba striving to become a normal high school student with the help of her classmate friends.

The rich girl stereotype is one of my favourites. Look no further than Sena of Haganai and Tsumigi of K-ON. Unfortunately, he neglected to mention that Wakaba was not only rich, but also hideously dumb, enough to make her insufferable. I lasted 2 episodes.

Similarly, in Wooser I did not care for psychodelic, macambre, and surrealistic episodes. Its referrential and self-deprecating humour was the best, IMHO. But Tom lauds S3 for being "more ambitious in its episode subjects than past seasons".

Overall, an excellent compendum of the form.

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