Animation is beautiful, I adore Mao Mao as a main character. Story is good. The dynamic between Mao Mao and Jinshi just isn’t enjoyable to me, I’m aware it’s supposed to be one sided in an over-the-top unserious way but it just comes across as her having no interest and Jinshi making moves on her regardless because he has the power to. It just gives me the ick. Season 2 lesbian arc was peak, made this show 10x more enjoyable and I will be forever sad it’s over but glad I witnessed it. Hammered the point home in my mind that Mao Mao and Jinshi just ain’t it as she continued to ignore his advances of opening up to her, let alone acting romantically, while going out of her way to spend more time with her friends and care so deeply for them it shows outwardly undeniably. It’s not even bias towards wlw being superior bc I could convince myself Jinshi was a woman if I squinted (half the time it’s like Mao Mao’s trying to do that herself) but she has simply never shown interest in that man. I know she can be unreliable, like how she was with her father, but it won’t change my mind it feels like we’re venturing towards Stockholm syndrome more than a legit romance with any chemistry.