Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk

A 10/10 for pure style, maybe a little lacking in substance brings it down to a 9, a slow burn plot rushed a tad into 12 episodes brings it to an 8, which would be remedied with a second season. Includes pretty egregious glorification of substance abuse, especially alcoholism, for which I've personally docked it 2 points. I do not level this accusation frivolously. Art: The show is beautiful. It uses a variety techniques that both feel very specific to the emotions they capture and cohesive in the context of the overall style, from flowing, almost melting art 10/10 Dialogue: All of the dialogue in this showis masterfully written. The characters convey a lot of emotion in relatively short scenes. Some of the best flirtatious dialogue I've ever seen. 10/10 Structure: It's a slice of life show, so there's not a lot of plot, the characters kind of more seem to float on a bed of very slowing growing emotions. There's also very little conflict and not a ton of character growth. That's fine, it's mostly about cute girls doing cute things, so they've picked a plot structure that let's them basically just do that the whole time. - 1 point (I like stuff to happen, no biggie) Pacing: Every scene is paced just right, but it felt rushed at the end, because it's a very slow burn (none of the big stuff happens until late in the second half) and it's packed into 12 eps. A second season would turn a so so ending into a great middle. - 1 point Glorification of substance abuse, including smoking, but mostly alcoholism: The love interest is an alcoholic, she has no major hobbies other than drinking, and at the start of the show, she only drinks alone. In the real world, that's called liver failure, in the show, it's cute and quirky. The main "cute thing" the cute girls are doing is going around Japan trying new alcohols, almost every time the love interest enters a room, she picks up a bottle of alcohol and goes "ooh, look at this fun new alcohol," they drink, que food orgasm. One of the main characters smokes and the way they frame it is "when a cute girl smokes, she looks like a movie star."* It is never addressed in any meaningful way that any of this is harmful behavior. I do not level the accusation of glorification of harmful behavior frivolously. - 2 points It's an astoundingly beautiful show, also made me want to rip my hair out. Recommended, with warnings. *It's paraphrased, but this is the only actual quote.