Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!

[DarthEnderX]

The VA cast is just full of geniuses.

Megumin has crazy range.

Maybe it's because this isn't exactly textbook romcom.

Let's see...

Fireworks Festival
Sports Festival
Cultural Festival...with maid cafe and haunted house...

Yep. Yep. Yuuuuup.......*sigh*...yup...

[Kraco]

Let's see...

Fireworks Festival
Sports Festival
Cultural Festival...with maid cafe and haunted house...

Yep. Yep. Yuuuuup.......*sigh*...yup...

I added the "exactly" for a reason. This is close enough, for sure, but in my opinion, although I'm hardly the greatest consumer of romcoms, this had enough other elements to make this not exactly a textbook one. The characters themselves have more quirks than in the more stale examples, where you will utterly forget pretty much the whole cast after taking a break of some length from the series. Furthermore, it's not the core theme in most romcoms that the FMC must struggle to make the MMC look at her like she's a woman, not just another "male" buddy. Not that an old childhood friend being revealed later in time to be a girl would be a novel idea as such.

[DarthEnderX]

I added the "exactly" for a reason.

Well sure. The big changeup here was we started in the spring. So the fireworks festival was in the middle of the season instead of the last episode. What a rollercoaster!

although I'm hardly the greatest consumer of romcoms

I only really started watching them with Love Is War. And since then, any time I try one, it follows this exact formula. Like, it's just as bad as isekai in that regard.

I don't know why I keep letting Mother's Basement trick me into thinking these are worth my time. A couple really likeable characters can only do so much.

Clearly they weren't as fresh or entertaining for Darth.

Tomo is entertaining. But no, I did not find the show "fresh".