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My Senpai Is Annoying, directed by Ryota Itoh. Shunsuke Takeuchi and Tomori Kusunoki. Doga Kobo, 2021. Episode 2, “Udon with the Occasional Full Moon” (of 12). 24 minutes. Rated TV-14.

Available on Funimation.

The second episode of this series confirms my earlier suspicion that this show intends to draw only loosely from its source material, taking the vignettes of the manga and giving them a more definite plot structure. Unlike episode 1, which featured largely original material, episode 2 draws almost all of its incidents from the manga, but it has reordered and rewritten them. Because it’s doing a good job with this re-creation, I find that I can enjoy the anime without feeling as if I’m retreading the same story.

The quality is  quite good, and though some occasional CGI peeks through the animation, it’s mostly not too obvious. Considering that the manga is quite sparse in details (despite being in full color), the anime is surprisingly rich, visually.

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My Senpai Is Annoying, directed by Ryota Itoh. Shunsuke Takeuchi and Tomori Kusunoki. Doga Kobo, 2021. One episode (of 12). 24 minutes. Rated TV-14.

Available on Funimation (so avoid the dub when it comes out).

The first episode of My Senpai Is Annoying has dropped, and I decided to give it a look-see since the manga is so maddeningly slow at releasing new volumes. Readers may recall that I previously reviewed the extant English-language manga volumes, which I found amusing but unspectacular. The first episode of the animated version, however, indicates that it’s going to both improve and expand on the comic—which it probably has to do because it would run out of material otherwise.

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