Kokoro Connect

[Ryllharu]

I don't quite get the fascination with Kokoro Connect. After the first arc, it has been extremely repetitive. New supernatural scheme, one character gets a minor bit of character development. First Yui, then Inaba, then Iori, then Aoki, and finally more Iori and Inaba. Tachi either got a smattering throughout, or none at all, depending on your point of view.

Only Iori has been an interesting as a character at all. Inaba hasn't really panned out to be much of anything. She has no personality to speak of. She's not tsundere, she's all over the board. The last four episodes were even worse in terms of a consistent characterization for her. Taichi is generic male lead #1254, and Aoki was generic male supporting character #45326. Yui makes next to no impression at all.

Throughout the series, I found myself wondering when each episode was ever going to end. I can't remember many other series where I've paused episodes for hours multiple times per episode.

It's a 6/10 series at best. I will forget I ever watched it in under a year. Hell, I forgot that I had never watched episode 13.

It has been Kaibutsu-kun, yet stunningly somehow blander, the supernatural element being the driver of any character development, rather than any kind of actual story.