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141. Urara Meirocho
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32924/Urara_Meirochou
Winter 2017 (12 episodes)
My Score: 5/10, MAL Score: 7.12/10
Best Character: Chiya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW910AAOhCQ

Premise: Chiya, a girl mostly raised by animals in the mountains, arrives in a labyrinthine town that specializes in fortune telling. By learning to divine fate alongside her new friends, Chiya hopes to track down her long-lost mother.

The Good: Urara Meirocho is a cute girls comedy anime with a supernatural aspect focusing on fortune telling. I always enjoy a premise like that. The fantastical element allows for lots of new situations while also making even the most typical CGDCT antics feel fresh. I like all four of the main characters. Chiya was the best because she was so upbeat and energetic, plus I liked all the gags where wild animals followed her around. Kon was a good best friend character too with her knockoff ouija board, and Nono with her haunted doll freaking everyone out was great. Koume was kind of meh but even she got a nice focus episode. Urara Meirocho, in addition to the usual cute girl jokes, also managed some emotional moments between the characters. Chiya is searching for her mother, but she has already found people who are dear to her.

The Bad: While I'm usually neutral to fanservice, this is one where it really bugged me. There's a running gag that is never funny where Chiya thinks people need to display their belly when they apologize because that's how animals do it I guess. Whoever made this must have a belly fetish because the number of times Chiya shows hers or forces others to show theirs quickly gets uncomfortable.

Overall: I love Urara Meirocho for mixing cute girl antics with a supernatural twist. The characters are all good with fun quirks, and the fortune telling allows for lots of unique situations. There are even some heartfelt moments. If not for the belly fanservice putting me off, I'd have ranked this anime a lot higher. Fantastical settings like this are one of my favorite things. There are just too many belly moments for me to look past.

COMING UP TOMORROW:
140: In order to hunt monsters, this anime partially became one.
139: This anime is only losing here because the match is fixed.
C94: This character is the one who fixed the match.

(After six straight days of three anime per day, now it's time for five days of two to finish the tier. There are three more top 100 characters coming up and I tried to put them on days with two anime so it's like there are still three write-ups.)