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Been rewatching imouto sae ireba ii. It's kind of insane how good this show is considering the first few minutes where it trolls you. The way it uses subtle moments to impart so much of the characters is something I wish almost every anime would do. I mean right in the first episode when you see kani showering with that just dead look on her face in the few minutes she is alone before she puts her smile back on to go keep getting rejected by main dude.

You can just feel exactly how these characters feel so quickly. It manages to say some pretty real stuff about life in just the first two episodes and the contrast between the "anime" moments that take most of the screen time and the few "real" moments that slip out for a few seconds is just such a wonderful dynamic. It kind of reminds me of what they do in .hack//sign with the black and white out of game moments you see a couple times during the series.

Letting the viewer get a brief but powerful look behind the mask a show's characters put on in is just crack for me and I wish more anime did it. Also I really like the ED. It's super chill.

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