Komori-san wa Kotowarenai!

Title:Komori-san wa Kotowarenai!
Komori-san Can't Say No
小森さんは断れない!
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Notables: UCHIDA Aya
Shuri Komori is a well endowed middle schooler who is so nice that when people ask her for help, she just can't say no.

12 episodes
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It's difficult to review short anime, and I sometimes am reluctant to even try, because there is so little content that it's hard to notice things worthy of mention. It's like trying to review four-frame comic strips (which they are often based on). With so little time to work with, the stories seldom get very sophisticated or the characters very developed. Anyway, Komori is an unremarkable but modestly amusing short. It makes me smile rather than laugh, and I am hard pressed to remember what happened even in the episode I watched two days ago. There doesn't seem to be any ongoing plot other than the gag that Komori can't say no to requests for help and can do a credible job at pretty much anything. I'm a little surprised that this can't-say-no business doesn't play more of a part in each episode than it does; it's little more than a set-up for Komori to try something new each week. There's no attempt to figure out why she behaves like this and whether it's wise or not.

It's also difficult to review thoroughly average anime, because with few things to praise and few to complain about, not many things to say come to mind. It could be argued that Komori is just so short and so basic that it doesn't really have time to either be good or bad. A show with a premise as simplistic as this probably couldn't maintain viewer attention for anything more than the couple of minutes that it runs. When I converted several episodes at once in order to catch up, I found that the show is so milquetoast, so borderline boring, that I cannot watch more than one episode at a time. I can only endure a certain amount of this stuff at a time, and if this had been a conventional 23-minute episode series, I'm sure I would have dropped it long ago. A few drops of poison at a time won't kill me, I guess. And yet I watch it, perhaps because while I get little in return, it likewise expects little from me.

In the end, in the last and next-to-last episodes, there was a little wrap-up of the story as Komori worries a little about what the future may hold and why she is so inclined to help other people. She doesn't reach any brilliant conclusions, but a little closure is better than nothing. I could have taken this anime or left it (and I almost did), but in the end I don't regret watching.

Last updated Friday, January 01 2016. Created Friday, November 13 2015.

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