Tsurezure Children

It's a shame there won't be another season, it's incredible what Tsurezure Children achieves with episodes 12 min long. Really funny characters, they are steryotypes of anime romcoms, but at the same time they would benefit of a 24 min runtime. The art style was also fluid for what was proposed, adding a lot on comedic value on some scenes, and since it is a romcom I haven't felt the need to a higher level of details, in the end the animation was fairly faithful to the manga.
Tsurezure Children reminded me of Kaguya-sama: Love is War (the setting, archetypes, comedy and shorter story style ... that leads to a bigger picture, their development), so, if you liked Kaguya, give this a shot!
Since there won't be another season I'll be catching up to the manga, by any means I thought it was perfect, but was a really pleasant surprise for sure!

If I had to describe this in one word, it's McDonalds. It's not healthy. It tastes only fine. However, you didn't invest much and you just got some chemicals that you need.

Putting a romance setting as a highschool is pretty generic so that already is a bad start. Tsurezure Children tries to be different where instead of telling one generic story, it tells around 6 generic stories and skips the usual filler. The upside is skipping the filler, the downside is that 6 generic stories told at once are still as generic.

The show seems very focused on trying to induce the "fuzzy cringe" feeling you're ... supposed to get from watching a romance show. It's hard to put this into words, but it feels like everything you see is a variant of *twiddling thumbs* "What if we kissed during Morbius premiere"? If that's what you want, this is the show for you. I personally don't appreciate the failed attempt to make me feel this way in such an inorganic way.

Besides that, there isn't really much going on because this is a short series. There isn't much of a story. There isn't much of a reason why the characters hook up. There isn't anything they do except awkwardly flirt. There is comedy that is honestly better than the average SOL romance slop. I exhaled out of my nose several times, but I never laughed.

Interesting concept. Not for me but might be for others.

I watched Tsurezure Children, also known as Tsuredure Children. Here are my thoughts:

These are ~12-minute episodes that consist of generic highschool romance skits between various student pairings. The characterization of these students is shallow and tropey.

I found the dialogue in this to be very clunky and unnatural. The romance feels quite inorganic and hamfisted, and overall simply not emotionally engaging. The script is seriously awful and a crippling flaw from my perspective; it feels so unnatural it's uncomfortable at times just having to listen to it.

The characters have simplistic same-face designs, and the animation quality is unremarkable. The voice acting is okay but that doesn't ... mean much when it's wasted on such a clumsy unnatural script.

If you can tolerate its flaws, this show can be mildly entertaining. It is sometimes cute, and some of the romance-oriented humour can be funny. To be honest, I only watched it with at least a bottle of wine in me, mainly because of how cringe-inducing the dialogue is.

Overall this is a very juvenile anime that feels targeted to an audience in their early teenage years. Somebody in that demographic may enjoy this more than I did. Frankly, I can't imagine anyone older than early teenage years enjoying this anime much.

My personal overall rating: 3/10