2.5-jigen no Ririsa

A moment of silence for every manga fan who's heard an announcement that a beloved manga of theirs is getting an anime adaptation only to hear that J.C. Staff is the studio adapting it. A truly heart wrenching realization that it's going to be completely sullied beyond recognition.

I'm not typically one to rate things this early on and especially not to write a review on it but I feel obligated to in this case as a big fan of the source material who's watching this abomination of an adaptation. J.C. staff might be the biggest joke of a big name studio to still be ... producing anime in 2024. As if what they did to my believed OPM wasn't enough, they had to ruin another great manga.

For those unfamiliar with the source material, 2.5 dimensional seduction at it's core is pretty similar to the impression you would get reading the plot description and watching the first 3 episodes. An ecchi manga revolving around a hopeless otaku who only finds 2D girls attractive but starts to question this after seeing real life girls cosplay as his favorite characters. The key part of that missing in the anime is 'ecchi'.

The manga is true to the title of 'ecchi'. Uncensored and quite generous with the amount of fan service such as the usual panty shots, revealing clothing, changing scenes, and skimpy cosplay with the occasional full nude panels. The anime however doesn't deserve to be titled as such. Every ecchi scene is completely watered down to the point if I didn't know the source or see the tag, I would assume this was just a regular anime with very light fan service. Every revealing shot is basically completely out of frame or has convenient placement to not see so much as a slip of skin. Each scene meant to be the pinnacle of fan service in the source is watered down to a slight shot of skin and a little moan as if that makes things the same. Even the base design of Lileil's cosplay is completely censored down.

I will give credit where it's due. As far as the regular scenes go, it's a solidly produced show. But for a show tagged with 'ecchi', that alone doesn't cut it.

Being tame and vanilla is fine and I'm sure most people don't mind watching stuff like that. But chances are if you're willingly watching an ecchi anime, you're here for the goods. And I'm here to tell you, they're not here. Do yourself a favor and go read the manga for the real stuff. I've seen Cartoon Network Y-7 shows that are less vanilla than this so-called 'ecchi' anime.

Here we go, your much-anticipated ecchi harem!

The MC is obsessed with 2D women but finds himself building a 3D harem of cosplay girls who all inexplicably fall for his lackluster character.

That's essentially the show: the main character has a manga club where he drools over his waifu. Girl #1 walks in, loves to cosplay as his waifu, and the ecchi scenes begin!

The hottest girl in school also happens to have a crush on this "amazing" MC and joins the crew, with more women inevitably to come!

The plot is pretty weak, the art is okay, and the sound is nothing special.

That's really all there is to ... say for this review. It's an okay anime if you're into this sort of thing, but it's not on the same level as "Dress Up My Darling" or other top-tier series. This is one of those animes we'll forget about by next season.

I have one thing to say before you guys want to watch it there is going to be a lot of fan service. Its to the point that the story isn't fun to watch anymore and half the time the anime is really just trying to make you horny. plus I feel like this anime is just trying to get you hard or somthing so if you guys don't mind the fan service then watch it but for me I really wanted to like this anime but I coulden't because of the amount of face service this has its to the point I wanted to ... throw my screen out the window everytime they did somthing sexy but if you are going to watch this make sure to close your door and watch this alone