Koisuru Asteroid

"Koisuru Asteroid" is one of those anime than unless you're interested on its subject matter you won't be liking it as much as you'd want to. What if I told you that's not always the case. What if I told you that the characters could make the story rather the aforementioned "subject matter"? "Koisuru Asteroid" is certainly one of those anime, and I'll prove it to you. Yes, because the characters are so likable it makes me ignore the fact i've never been interested in astronomy. It's fascinating because throughout the anime I learned so much about something that it never mattered to me and all this thanks to its characters interaction, which I have to say, it's actually hilarious. They somehow make it possible to be hilarious and at the same time, explain further the astronomy. I actually did some research and whoever wrote the script did a good job of explaining things in the best way possible. It's not confusing to say the least and the comedy makes it better. I'll be honest, if it was a serious show i would have probably dropped it long time ago, and while I like it when something is serious, some things have to be hilarious, otherwise it wouldn't work as it should. The story is also nice even though sometimes it feels like most of it is filler and does not progress the story. This has mainly to do with the amount of characters and the fact it's set at school. Considering the amount of characters, lets very little to development but I don't think it wouldn't matter that much since the story is plot-triven rather than character-driven. The main point of the anime was explained extremely well and that's what matters in the most. Everything else irrelevant. "Koisuru Asteroid" is clearly not for everyone... in fact I dare to say it's just for a group of people but if you ever wondering if it's worth watching then my answer would be... thoroughly. Watch it at least for the characters as they're so damn lovely.

Life sucks, so let’s just allow ourselves to sink into the soft pillowy embrace of alcoho-er...I mean...cute girl anime. If its core fanbase wasn’t evidence enough, it’s hard to fuck up a cute girl anime. In the past, I’ve gone on record being fairly lenient towards most low-effort moe anime. With “Koisuru Asteroid”, most of my convictions about cute girl anime have been gravely perturbed. The term “CGDCT” or “Cute girls doing cute things” is one I’ve never been a fan of, if not for the sole reason that I grew up in the era that encapsulated its inception and persistence. I get the appeal because I lived through the majority of this genre’s golden age. I understand why certain fans will come to the defense of even the most niche entries in this genre. There’s a reason why the term “CGDCT” is used as a pejorative, and that’s because shows like this will rise to the surface every once in a while. Let’s cut to the chase, this show is mind-numbingly boring. Let’s stop kidding ourselves with this shit. Is this show REALLY worth defending? The core audience for this show is insomniacs, frankly, that’s the only type of person I’d ever recommend this show to. Someone so out of sync with their body-clock that conventional methods of conking out just don’t do it anymore. I’ve been seeing this show unfairly defended as an “iyashikei” anime, but the whole point of iyashikei anime is to heal you, not put you to sleep by the time the opening theme is finished. To me, this show has carved the path towards an entirely new genre of anime, anime so boring and full of grey-matter that it melts your consciousness into a sleep-inducing lull. What can I say about Koisuru besides the fact that watching it was a blur? None of the characters track. Not a single one of them had new or interesting traits we haven’t seen recycled dozens of times already. The protagonist is your typical bubbly energetic moe-blob joined at the hip with her reserved best-friend, what a genius contrast, you couldn’t make this shit up. There wasn’t a single believable or compelling storyline and most of the side-characters were just there to pad the runtime. The character designs are plain/simple which is an honest rarity for Doga Kobo. Unless you’ve already cultivated an active interest in the topic at hand (not that it can't be framed in an interesting way) you’d need the goddamn Ludovico Technique to stay awake watching this show. It is utterly bereft of anything worthwhile in a half-decent cute girl anime. Let’s just end it here, because at the very least I can credit this show with fixing my sleep schedule, thank fuck. Goodnight folks.

Among the various Anime released in January 2020, is one of the studios that is fairly solid in its adaptation. Namely, Doga Kobo with his new title "Koisuru Shouwakusei" The thing that made him 'different' from others was not only having a unique storyline, but also in terms of the graphic design that was displayed when it was really 'different'. I do not understand in here. You all manipulated the score, as if you forbid anyone else to watch this. I say this is a good anime, why because there are several factors that influence why this anime can be good. The many scenes of astromomical explanation, which I find easy to understand. in addition, their struggle to reach their ideals is exemplary and motivating, and much more. It was when we were kids. "Watashitachi ga kodomo no koro" is the one word that appeared at the beginning of the promotional video of this Koisuru Shouwakusei anime. Koisiru Shouwakusei described a woman named Mira Konohata, who was a student from Hoshizaki High School. Because when she was little, Mira met someone named Ao Manaka, their meeting there when he was little made Mira a little interested in things related to space. One day, when Mira went to see the club at her school, and coincidentally met with Ao Manaka. After their meeting, starting from here the story of Koisuru Shouwakusei begins ... Great music. Music in an Anime is something that cannot be separated. Because this also affects the development of the atmosphere in the story. Koisuru Shouwakusei can be called presenting music that is 'just right' even if in personal opinion this is exceptionally great music. As if this music was made not for the Anime itself, but the Anime follows the music. But everyone's opinions must be different, but the music presented in Koisuru Shouwakusei is very fitting in building the atmosphere and portraying the image of this Anime itself. Graphic. This is probably one of the main factors that makes people interested in watching this anime. The illustrations in Koisuru Shouwakusei are very different from the illustrations used in anime in general. Koisuru Shouwakusei is indeed not the first time, but after all this time, flooded with sharing the title of Anime maybe Koisuru Shouwakusei has the most prominent illustration. The background image is no less extraordinary. Maybe this is what is called realistic art. But even though the character's illustration and background are somewhat extraordinary, this is not followed by the expression of each character. Also, the amount of CG that I feel is still lacking to explain the story. So we are required to read the subtitles carefully if we want to understand the situation clearly. Stepping Forward, Towards Dreams. "If you have the chance to repeat everything from the beginning, do you choose to stay the way you are, or choose to change even though there is no guarantee that it will work?" asteroids that they find based on their desires. Will Mira and Ao be able to find the asteroid? Actually the possibilities are endless, so hope as high as possible because someday that desire will become a prayer and will come true.

A back-to-basics Doga Kobo cute-girls-doing-cute-things anime has the pleasure to show us the wonders of the universe, precisely asteroids, along with a healthy small dose of the wonders of geology, and in classical Doga Kobo, a small quantity of yuri subtext (English name is Asteroid in Love). Your astrological chart says that you'll read spoilers, so you're warned. When a little girl called Mira Konohata meets little boy Ao Manaka, they promised each other to discover a new asteroid when older. In the present, teenage Mira joints the Astronomy Club, where she meets teenage Ao, who is actually a girl, and along with Mai Inose, Mikage Sakurai and Mari Morino, they start their adventures exploring the wonders of the Earth and the Universe. Story (9/10): Mira Konohata is a passionate girl on the universe, astronomy, and specially, asteroids; such is her fanatism on asteroids that she made a promise in a camp with a young person with short hair called Ao Manaka that they'll do anything to discover together a new asteroid in a foreseeable future. A few years later, Mira enters high school and wants to join the Astronomy Club, but it was merged with the Geology Club to form the Earth Sciences Club, there she meets a purple haired girl named Ao Manaka, much to the surprise of the asteroid. We can't also forget our ample cast of girls, the calm Mai Inose, or Ino-senpai; the elegant president Mari Morino, or Monroe-senpai; and the playful vicepres Mikage Sakurai, Sakura-senpai. Since their specialties are varied and their clubs forced merging put them into a difficult position to get funds, the chemistry between the girls help them overcome it. Maintaining the traditional structure of Doga Kobo cute-girls-doing-cute-things anime like beach episodes, school festivals, the most remarkable aspect of Asteroid in Love is the soft talk to explain very complicated themes like the parts of a telescope, the celestial sphere, identification of planets by the naked eye, and sometimes the types of rocks, boring, core sampling, strata analysis, ironically, one of the themes that I majored. This is in contrast of the hard-hitting content of RikeKoi, whose themes are much more complicated and are explained very technically that can repel the less educated, while Science-Types fell in love with extreme theoretical jargon. Asteroid is in love with a much more forgiving detail telling to our minds. Later in the show, new girls appear after the graduation of Monroe and Sakura, Mikage's sister Chikage, or Chika-chan, who shares her geology love with her sister, but also can read the fortunes of the girls with rocks, called geomancy; and the rough second year Yuu Nanami, or Nana-chan, whose theme is not astronomy nor geology, rather meteorology, a science that is rarely interesting for the normal people, but she's not normal, so she likes it. Mira and Ao's relationship began normally and started evolving so much that Manaka, after a deep-searching discussion with her family, went to live with her fellow asteroid lover in order to fulfill their dream together. Their common dream made them write an essay about asteroids in order to qualify to an event to actually watch asteroids, in which only Mira qualifies to the final course. Of course Doga Kobo, using all its vast experience on inserting yuri subtext on CGDCT anime, tell us that Ao is indeed in love with the Asteroid girl. The Shining Star Challenge consisted in analyzing live-time the asteroids in Okinawa as in the actual proceeding in actual telescopes, Ao found a way to covertly accompany her darling to the event. Both girls get to experiment how the technical aspects on how to watch asteroids, which they knew a couple of, are the key to fulfill their dream, and while not getting to the promised land at the end, Ao and Mira get even more determined to discover a new asteroid. Art (10/10): Doga Kobo's sweet and very colourful art is always a pleasure to the eyes, the girls are extremely cute and adorable, and especially the design of Monroe-senpai is the finest out there. No weird animations were showed, there's a lot of fluid animation on the movements. The backgrounds and especially the ones with starry skies are a luxury to watch, since I don't know much more about astronomy nor the astronomical sky, I'll say that most of the better known northern sky constellations are spot on (I can just watch the Cruz del Sur rather than the Ursa Major), also the strata of the core samplings and the rocks were very well drawn and actually made me smile because of the correct details. Sound (8/10): The "least" noticeable aspect that goes hiding is the sound; as in many Doga Kobo animes, relatively new seiyuus get the main characters, with Megumi Yamaguchi (Hifumi Takimoto in New Game!) doing Ao, and Tomoyo Takayanagi (Hana Shirosaki in Wataten) as Mira. The more established Nao Touyama (Karen Kujou in Kiniro Mosaic) and Sumire Uesaka (Sanae Dekomori in Chuunibyou) get to voice Sakura-senpai and Monroe-senpai, respectively. The opening is pretty average for someone of the stature of Touyama, and the ending is also very average, but both can be very serviceable due to the extremely mild ambiance of Asteroid. The background sounds give small touches to the relaxing nature of the anime, nothing too loud or too opaque, just there to support the show. Characters (9/10): In Doga Kobo animes, the characters are the stars that shine the most. Each one of the girls has a defined personality and never gets overly aggressive or raunchy, which gives a sweeter calm for the viewer, their relationships are pure and cute, sometimes yuri-esque. I’ll only talk about the Earth Science Club members. Mira Konohata is an energetic girl who has a fascination on astronomy, principally in asteroids, she’ll do anything to help her friends, be it in the astronomy section or not. Her close relationship with Ao is the driving force of the plot. Ao Manaka is a very serious girl, who rarely expresses emotion, acting rationally while investigating the intricate details of the universe, but hides her deep crush on Mira that it wasn’t born the day they reencountered, rather from the very first time they meet. However, in contrast to the more hostile silent girls of other anime, Ao is very friendly with her colleagues. Mai Inose is the least visible girl out there, but her presence is fundamental to maintain the order of the things in the Earth Science Club after the graduation of Monroe and Sakura. Geology and cartography are her specialties, which makes her a little distant toward Ao and Mira. President Mari Morino is elegant and graceful, but has a very playful side that appears in the most critical situations; Monroe-senpai is well versed on astronomy and wants to be an astronaut. Vice-president Mikage Sakurai is rough, but never violent, rather playful, always willing to explore the wonders of the lithosphere; Sakura-senpai is always available to help the club. Chikage Sakurai, like her sister, is literate on geology, but also on geomancy, only differing with Mikage in being energetic. Yuu Nanami is a sullen short haired girl which has a somber past due to natural disasters, so she now studies meteorology to help people take correct decisions concerning weather catastrophes. Enjoyment (10/10): When I was a student quite a few years ago, learning about the outer space, the stars and the celestial bodies bored me to death, ironically, Asteroid in Love made me feel some love for the universe that is mostly based on the surgical combination of something more close to my major, which is geology. The girls and the very digestible theoretical explanations of the secrets of the asteroids and the lithosphere gave me a weekly dose of educational science cuteness. In the common denominator of modern cute-girls-doing-cute-things anime, the yuri subtext has become a staple in the plot, which in many cases, had become the central aspect of many recent shows…

Koisuru Asteroid is a fairly by-the-numbers entry to the "cute girls doing cute things" genre. This time it's centered around a schools natural science club, and follows a group of friends - including two girls that have reconnected years later, after a chance meeting where they have made a promise to discover and name an asteroid together. The art style is nice, the characters are cute and the episodes are pretty chill, as is par for the course for this type of anime. What else is there to say though... Well, for people who enjoy this kind of anime it's serviceable enough and fans of K-On! or Non Non Biyori for example, might find more enjoyment here than I did. In my own experience though I found it lacking. It covers a lot of the same ground that shows like those did, but lacks the dry humor of Non Non Biyori, or the character depth and musical hook of K-On to keep me interested. It's talked about, but there's not a lot of emphasis on exploring the science side of things, nor the romantic undertones that are hinted at early on. The show is just kind of...forgettable. And even now I'm finding it hard to remember any of the character names or anything that happened in the episodes. Not the worst thing I've ever watched, but could have used an injection of comedy, romance or more in-depth use of the natural science plot to make it stand out a little more.

It’s always a bonus when an anime resonates with things you’re genuinely passionate about. Koisuru is the first anime I’ve ever seen to deal with my first love of astronomy and by all accounts, it did a damn good job. When it comes to Doga Kobo shows we know what we’ll get. Cute girls doing cute things, occasional yuri ships and wholesome content that makes you want to go out and find your own niche group of friends. Koisuru delivered on those expectations and more. Not only were we treated to wholesome interactions between the cast on their adventures to discover and name an asteroid, but we actually were treated to extremely accurate information regarding astronomy. Entire segments of episodes are seemingly love letters to the field, including useful tutorials and other tidbits for amateurs wishing to gaze upon the cosmos. In usual Doga Kobo form, we get gorgeous bright colour palettes throughout the series with consistent character models and quality animation. There’s not much to speak of from a technical perspective with these types of shows as they mainly revolve around character interactions and dialogue. The blend of the usual cute girls doing cute things with the educational aspect really made Koisuru standout and resonate with me. I believe that if you have any interest at all in learning about space, astronomy or science in general, this is a great show for you. It’s a really fun, wholesome and educational journey of friendship and discovery. It’s nothing revolutionary or mind-blowing, but it accomplishes everything it sets out to do and the story it tells is a fun one. Koisuru gets 9 asteroids out of 10 from me.

I'm in love with astronomy, so I searched for an anime that will focus on something like that and I found out about this anime. To begin with, I cannot say I didn't enjoy the anime but there's a lot of things lacking. As astronomy lover, I expected a lot of nice landscapes and space scenes, something like Kimi no Na wa, but that was not the case with this anime. The plot is interesting, but the story development is obviously not that good. I would say that sound was okay, whereas I was not in love with the art style. I don't know, but the art style was very strange to me, they had dark purple strokes and some colors were uncommon(I believe I am not used to different stroke colors because black ones are mostly used). In conclusion, I would recommend this anime, especially to Astronomy lovers! Even though I didn't enjoy the anime at all, it doesn't mean you won't. This is my first review of an anime, so please have a bit of mercy. :)

This anime is so cute! I might be biased mainly because I adore cutesy animes, am interested in space exploration, and am a lesbian. But, I think it's a great production nonetheless. It's perfect if you're ever bored during summer or if you don't know what to watch. The plot itself isn't hard to follow and is more of a leisurely watch, the art style is perfect for the overall vibe, the characters are very adorable and have admirable personalities, and it overall just made me very happy to watch. I think if you're looking for light, comedic, and uplifting animes, you'd most certainly enjoy this one. Thank you for the outstanding show!

Koisuru Asteroid Is a great show and if you like slice of life, it would be a good fit. It’s one the of the shows that you don’t need to be interested in the subject but you can still enjoy it. Story10/10 The story was what made me watch it in the first place,It was pretty interesting. It’s about a girl who once meets a boy while out camping and the boy talks about asteroid and found out her name is a asteroids name but there was no asteroid with the boys name so she decided to find a new asteroid and name it after him then a few years later they meet again and she found out that boy was a girl and stilled continued to find a new asteroid. Art 10/10 The art was good. How they draw the characters and settings and they especially did a great job on drawing the stars in the sky and it was a really colorful and nice art style. Sound 9/10 The sound was good as well and the voice actors did a good job and the OP and ED songs weren’t that bad as well. Character 10/10 The characters I pretty much liked all of them. You got the heroine a cheerful character and then another main a quiet and shy but knows a lot and a senpai that is kind and another senpai who is kind of a tsundere. Enjoyment 10/10 It was a really enjoyable show for me and if it sound interesting to you, you should probably try it out Overall 10/10 It’s just high school girls trying to complete their dreams even if tough and that’s pretty normal about anime’s but it’s pretty different depending on what and I have not really seen a show about asteroids before so I guess you can also learn a bit.

Do you like astronomy? Do you like geology? Do you like cute girls? Do you like those cute girls to be doing things in a manner that can only be described as "cute"? Do you like heavy yuri undertones? Well then Asteroid in Love is the series for you. If you like CGDCT and/or shoujo ai then I'm sure you'll like this show. If you like astronomy or even geology then you too will probably be able to get some enjoyment out of this show. If you don't like any of those things then this ain't the show for you, feel free to move along.

Kirara shows for me are occupy one of two states. What this means is they are either some of the best anime I have ever watched (K-On, Yuru Camp, Hidamari Sketch), or incredibly mediocre with nothing better to offer (many many other shows). Koisuru Asteroid is, unfortunately, as boring as they come when it comes to CGDCT. I've had similar experiences with Rifle is Beautiful last season and normally I would have done the sensible thing and stopped watching after a few episodes. And yet somehow I kept pushing myself to watch this, because, similar to Rifle Is Beautiful, this is made by a renowned studio that I do so love, and by a team whose previous work I did enjoy immensely (being Wataten). Which made this whole endeavor extra disappointing. The series does begin with a pretty good first impression, with the soothing yet slightly ethereal main theme playing in the background in Mira and Ao's flashbacks punctuating the mood and atmosphere brilliantly. Having read the manga and having been thoroughly unimpressed with how boring the source material was, I was initially pleasantly surprised at the change in tone and direction when it comes to portraying scenes from the manga. Everything has been given a more dramatic tone to it and the jokes were noticeably muted (the original jokes weren't funny anyway so nothing of value was lost). However, you can really only go so far with good animation and a decent soundtrack. The plot and character interactions are just incredibly boring. Ostensibly it's a show about Mira and Ao wanting to find an asteroid with a budding romance promised in the title. While they do sort of go about addressing the main arc throughout the series, the writing simply isn't good enough to hook the viewer into caring about the two. I'll be honest, my favourite characters have been Sakura-sempai and DUCE (now running a newspaper club) because they have been the funniest and are at least dispensing jokes and making the show feel somewhat alive. The show even wasted the initial premise of Mira thinking Ao used to be a boy in their first encounter, never to be brought up again except in very rare one-off moments that don't lead anywhere. The geology vs astronomy club rivalry thing does get brought up sparingly, but it not getting developed further again squandered any potential it might have had. It's a lot of wasted potential and I've spent most of my time just admiring some of the direction choices and editing in this instead of focusing on the actual character drama or moment-to-moment setpieces offered by the show. Ultimately, it's just a mediocre show with some nice moments here and there. As with Rifle is Beautiful, it's a textbook CGDCT show that offers nothing special and brings nothing new to the table beyond being themed slightly differently from the many other CGDCT shows based off of Kirara. 5/10

This is a review of the anime and manga series, Koisuru Asteroid (KoiAsu). I will principally focus on the anime, and do note that there will be spoilers for this series. Now what is KoiAsu about? To put it simply, it covers the Earth Sciences club, and the members as they carry out activities about geology and astronomy. We have Morino (Monroe-senpai), Mira, and Ao on the astronomy team, and Inose and Sakura on the geology team, with Chikage and Nanami (interested in meteorology) joining the team later on in the anime. For both Mira and Ao, they have a common purpose for joining this club: Years ago, when both were young, they had made a promise to each other to find an asteroid and name it Ao, as a result of Mira sharing a name with the variable star Mira (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira), but Ao not sharing a name with anything. Story: Now KoiAsu the manga is a 4-koma, and as such, the anime has a lot of original stuff not seen in the manga. The anime does this very well, with the general plotlines of the story and characters generally remaining the same, but however there are a lot of mini details added to it that really make the series pop, like for example Inose’s rather slow sidestepping or after Inose’s first event as club president, showing how Inose’s blur photos were due to her nervousness. Now, the studio for this anime is Doga Kobo. Doga Kobo is known for adding a bit of yuri to the CGDCT animes they watch (but obviously not converting it into a yuri anime). Suzuya is the main driver of the yuri in the anime, with a lot of implied yuri scenes being instigated by her, like ”confessing her feelings” to Misa, or getting Mira to tell Ao a pickup line when they visit her because she’s sick, on top of the fact that Mira mistook Ao for a boy when they were younger, which was already in the manga. The manga name might be “Koisuru Asteroid”, but the characters go beyond just sticking to their own respective fields, with the geology team learning more about asteroids, and vice versa. This shows when Inose, during the Earth Science Olympiad, is able to answer the astronomy questions easily. On top of just the club itself, the anime also shows ||Inose’s interest in geology, and Suzuya working at the bakery, and how she is inspired by those in the Earth Sciences club, helping them during the cultural festival. The manga also expands on the anime. The anime contains and usually focuses on directing the story in a way that made you feel emotional. There were many moments where things got more interesting, such as Ao's moving away, or before that, we have the end of the cultural festival where Ino got promoted to club president, and the anime attempted to cut out a few jokes just to make these moments at the end feel genuine, and worth watching. Unlike many other CGDCTs where many girls felt slightly shocked and surprised, and at the same time they were like 'yeah it's just a joke and the end and we're not serious about any of these after all', the method of flowing a story's tension and the like in KoiAsu anime overall left a lasting impression on me. The manga is where more jokes (especially ones that are omitted from the anime) work better - it's a normal 4-koma read after all, and also the place for latest update of most of the parts getting adapted and animated. Characters: The characters undergo good character development throughout the anime itself. For example, Ao goes from being a nervous person when speaking due to a past mistake, to someone who has the courage to attempt to join the Shining Star challenge despite not meeting the requirements and asking her parents to let her stay with Mira so they can continue to find an asteroid together. Inose gradually becomes more confident after being made club president, from someone who was unconfident about taking the role, to being able to take on the Earth Science Olympiad. Art: Now, I’m not a great judge of art. However, 2 scenes stand out in my mind: The ED, which shows the different characters at home, then young Ao and Mira together, then the characters observing the night sky. Fun fact: The storyboard for the animation in the ED was created by the same storyboard artist who worked the Chika dance in Kaguya-sama, Naoya Nakayama. Another scene which stands out for me is where after Inose finds out why she took bad pictures, she gradually turns and puts her head on the table. Sound: Again, I’m not the greatest judge of VAs, but I can tell you that the ED (Yozora) is an absolute masterpiece and one of my favourite anime EDs, especially when paired with the outro mentioned above. Enjoyment: Overall, I really loved the anime, it really makes topics like astronomy and geology (which can be highly technical) enjoyable to the average watcher. The anime is one of the 3 animes (the other being K-On and Takagi) to make me feel sad at its ending, and that’s one of the reasons I love it.

This anime had me sceptical at fist it had a low rating but the animation style looked really good and the comedy right up my ally. This anime had a very good start having an interesting twist instantly hooking me. After that, I can agree that the pacing is a little over the place much different to a lot of other "slice of life" anime not giving a proper "A day in a life" sections ("a day in a life" referring to a section that is the main character average day.), as well as the sense of time, is a bit off. Other than that the whole anime is amazing the art is beautiful, the information on astronomy and archology is very interesting, the characters are all cute and cool and play normal anime tropes well, the comedy is really funny (At lest for me.) and the over arching story is a roller-coaster of emotions. All in all Koisuru Asteroid is the best documentary I have ever watched its made with 25% funny jokes 15% information on astronomy and archology 40% A cool relatable slice of life 30% roller-coaster of tanagers finding themselves and 100% cute anime girls! 9/10

The show telling me how cute girls doing their cute thing. Its funny, how two different club become one. Like sky and the earth? A big challenge there, but they manage to put all the problem together so fast. How cute with what they are doing, i can't stop smiling, i can't stop tearing my eyes. Maybe i dont have any interest about the concept to the astronomical thing, or even the geology one. However, with just looking to their activity, i just feel refreshed, a nostalgic memories to bring back by this show. I had the same feeling to Suzu-chan at some scene though their activity together. Yet, repetitive moment got blown up sometimes, another cute character show on to fill the blank. A bit sad with Mira and Ao can not find their dreams. But no problem girls, just enjoy your time at your big family, and be fun with your life. Then, your dream abour asteroid can coming as a bonus. Yes, had a fun, like Sensei there. Dang, a bit rushed, but i can't do anything to change the duration of the episode. And i can't really ask about the other season, i will be realistic about the trafic watch through this show. Some souls may judge this whole series as a boredom. And some devils shall call this as a cringy thingy. I can't help, but wish other anime should follow these concept, i like this. I like how cute girls doing cute things. Lol I may add some critics about some points. First, their repetitive and cliche way through their club activities. Second, their end not much ended as my standard too. Its somehow feel blank in to my heart. I can called it as an open ending one, thats not good to stop the show in that way. I know the studio might planning to get other season, or make this anime into a cliche cliffhanger show. But, i dont feel thats the strength point over these, and can not make any improvement toward the whole series. Its good to show how two senpai get their graduate, its my strongest plot in this show, some melodrama dont be too hard to put, right? So, maybe the end can put it too, even get the ssteroid one as an ending. I know, thats shall be impossible. But, its a fun, why not bring more fun to end this series? Okay, enough, thats my thought. Gladly i found this before move on to other season. This show prove me to never judge the book by its cover. Well done, you get my 9. With that, i may put up other section as an average 8 point, because i can't take any other words. Yes, 8 as an Overall, plus one point for my respect to make such a lovely series. Well, its time for me to move on.

A review of Koisuru Asteroid from an aspiring earth scientist's point of view. WARNING: Can be VERY LONG and have minor spoilers. May gush on about some things as well. The review really only starts in the 3rd paragraph. Koisuru Asteroid is a fairly typical CGDCT anime. But it is a typical CGDCT anime that dreams. It dreams to help others discover, wonder, and pursue. Whether it be knowledge, human connections, introspectiveness - this anime was made with a clear goal of allowing its audience to appreciate these aspects while providing an extremely relaxing, heartwarming, and endearing little tale about people who have aspirations in their lives. I love this anime. I went into it only because it had a slight whiff of geology involved (which is the field I am studying and is a subject hardly seen in anime outside of disaster anime which in itself is rare) as well as being a CGDCT anime - a genre I believe is probably one of the safest choices and has a wide variety of stuff to offer. I had the expectations that it would only have the earth sciences club as a contrived gimmick to get them together that would be shoved to the back room and only be used as a setting for wacky high-school girl shenanigans that you see so often in anime. Colour me surprised when they not only didn't drop their gimmick - but they made it the focal point with the sciences becoming the major theme of this show. In addition they also cut down on the wackiness that is prevalent in most anime of its ilk. I feel like this anime was honestly made just for me. I haven't felt this connected to an anime since Yuru Camp almost 2 years ago. Getting my personal adoration for this anime out of the way, lets start with the actual review. Ao and Mira are the main characters of this show. Having previously met when they were younger - making a promise to each other to find a new asteroid in a flash of impetus - they reunite in highschool in the Earth Sciences Club - still holding on to their promises made years before. The Earth Sciences Club was formed from a merging of the old Astronomy and Geology Clubs thus delineating the main fields of natural science that will be explored throughout the show. The story itself is quite normal for a character-driven CGDCT show as well. Most of the episodes have the Earth Sciences club members do fairly typical slice-of-life stuff like a club barbecue, a beach episode, a school-festival episode etc. but with an added mix of science-related activities in line with their club. From here on the anime gets pretty schizophrenic with its pacing. The pacing never settles down on one thing and sometimes there are up to six different things happening each episode. This was adapted from a 4-koma manga so its not particularly surprising but this anime seriously never knows when to stop throwing us around the different stuff the various characters do - either together or as individuals. As much as I like each individual story, it just isn't very well put-together. The problems from this become apparent as the story feels extremely broken up with some character development as well as some sub-plots (yes there are those) being lost in the mess and never really gets expanded upon. Suzu and Misa as well as the relationship they had (as well as the one we yuri-baiters wished they have) were pretty hard casualties of the horrible jumping-around. Most of the other characters get away with it due to the sheer screentime they occupy but I really would have liked the anime to have more structure and actually remember to resolve and look into some of its plot-threads. This is the primary gripe I have with this show and one which would definitely turn off people from watching it because, through the wacky pacing, it never looks like anything is getting done by the characters. The characters are, however, the aspect of this show that carries it far and beyond what I expect from a CGDCT show. They're all your fairly typical CGDCT character tropes and you really shouldn't expect this anime to be breaking any new ground in characterisation but I'll do my best to describe them. This anime gives them something special though- introspective thought. Because they have the ability to reflect on themselves they become vessel that carries the central themes of the show. They become far more human than almost every other CGDCT cast of characters. It turns the anime from a quick-paced, rapid-fire comedy with plenty of gags into a grounded, down to earth (hehe see what I did there?) slice-of-life that cares about how it handles its characters. How this impacts the anime is subtle but it is noticed in the plethora of emotional build-ups and the actions the characters do after making a profound discovery. They create new goals for themselves, they become curious about others as well as open up to others about themselves in a very natural way. This anime perfectly illustrates each character's own unique personality, motivations, and trials they have to overcome. Each one of them (well, Ao and Mira make a pair but whatever) have their own field of science they want to get into. The anime not only shows why they want to do so but also how it affects their daily lives in that they can apply what they learned to create their own allegories and lessons. Even through the anime's blinding pacing, it gives us great little stories and encounters of each character and what lessons they take away from it. For the sake of structure on this already-long review I'll split the individual analysis of characters into Geology Side and Astronomy Side GEOLOGY Sakurai Mikage and Inose Mai are on the geology side of the club. Obviously my favourite 2 characters because of geology. This anime perfectly demonstrates how their interest are weaved into their lives. If you watched the anime thinking they were caricaturing geologist with their weird actions, you're wrong. Of course Mikage has an extensive rock collection because I and many of my classmates have. Of course they would observe the smooth rock while they're relaxing in the hot-springs because I would do that to to any rock on the side of the road that interest me. The generally stoic and careful Mikage has always viewed geology as a hobby but never had any clear goals in life. Her tsundere tendencies are very typical of her character type but she makes it hers alone due to having a well-applied personality. Throughout the show we see her interest in geology evolve by seeing the passion of the other club members. Having never seen her geology knowledge applied outside of her own closed world view, she begins to appreciate what her ability to conduct research can do. In episode 5, with Mira as the impetus, she slowly breaks out of her initially-closed-off self and starts to appreciate what she does for others as well as what others did for her. Its a slow but significant piece of development for her as she also starts consciously guiding others both as a normal highschool girl and as someone dabbling with the earth sciences. She's a great baseline for the anime of being a normal person who wants to be a scientist. Always being careful - she is initially scared to expose her hobby to others - always thinking it "isn't good enough". This is a feeling that doesn't just apply to sciences but to anything you can think of. It makes her relatable. For Inose, science was a way for her to discover her confidence. She grabs a good amount of time in early eps and almost the entirety of episode 8. She is easily one of the most endearing characters because of her design and quiet, worry-wart disposition. She also can't handle a camera well which is very cute. Her interest comes from geological mapping and she uses science as a way to improve herself by gaining confidence. The anime perfectly shows how she grows from her experience. The quote "Sometimes it's better to do something familiar than to force yourself to try something new" that stuck with her was so…

Asteroid in Love: Wait, it’s About Space, Right? Hello, everyone. I’ve developed a good few interests over the years, various hobbies that I enjoy spending my time with. One of which, I’m doing right now. I think they’re a very important part of life, and I’m sure most of you would agree with that. A lucky few may even turn these passions into careers or turn them into something more viable in their everyday life, but for many, that won’t happen. However, they are still incredibly rewarding experiences and life would certainly be far worse without them. I was never a very passionate person when I was younger. I didn’t have all that much I liked. I was stuck in my own incredibly small world and never tried to get out of it, partly because I didn’t know how but I also just didn’t want to. I pretty much liked video games and that was it. The only thing that really got me through. And for a long time, I was ok with that world. The problem is, and this is something I wish I could tell my younger self, is that that world is small. It’s a shallow, tiny, unimaginative world, and that I shouldn’t have confined myself to it. I should have tried to branch out into the rest of the immeasurably huge world there is. I would have told myself about all the amazing things that my idiotic self was missing out on. Eventually, my thick skull understood, I started to experience various different hobbies, and soon the small world I knew seemed to be just that, “small.” I remember when I first read a book, like an actual novel, and liked it. I appreciated what it was. I understood it. It made me discover this whole new world that I never knew existed. It was eye-opening. And as a byproduct of that love for literature, I now have a passion for writing. Something, believe me, I never thought I’d have. I was about the farthest thing from a writer in my mind, but when I stopped to really think about it, it kind of started to make sense to me. My point is, these various passions you can discover in life can not only be fun or rewarding, but they can also broaden your horizons, they can change the way you think. I bring this up because I have a recent passion I’ve found in the past year, and I honestly can’t believe it took me this long to realize it, because the objects of that passion I see, quite literally, every single day...or night, I suppose. I have a newfound appreciation for stargazing and really the universe we live in altogether. I never really looked up, or at least I don’t feel like I ever did. When I looked up earlier this year and spotted Orion, it was like I actually saw something up there. It was no longer just nothingness like I assumed. Something that used to look so empty to me suddenly lit up with life. I no longer saw glowing dots, I saw Taurus, Auriga, Canis Major, I even saw a shooting star! I didn’t see dots, I saw life made up by those dots. I then started to read up on some of them. Now when I look up, I see animals, heroes, gods, and monsters, stories about those characters, various epic legends about them. I went from seeing an empty sky, to a beautiful sea of stars, stars that built constellations, that bring epic stories to life. I saw life up there, and from that, I understood how incredibly small I really am. Most clear nights, if I can, I go outside for about 40 minutes, weather a storm of bugs, grab a chair, and kick back under the stars. I just stare up at them mindlessly and I feel content. I understand how small this world really is and it makes me feel at peace like nothing can bother me. I don’t have a care in the world (or any other!), even if something is bothering me that day. It erases everything. It’s almost like a reset. It is the most relaxing experience I have ever had in my life and it has been right above me the entire time. It was like my eyes were truly open for the very first time to the wonders of the universe that we are in. If you never have, please just go out one night and look, really, really look. I know not everyone will have the same experience I did, but I know some will, and for them, it will make a world of difference. “I don’t care about some space rocks?” I hear you, very angry random person, saying. Why do I give you my life story? Well, because that’s how I make it personal and all. Ahem! Besides that, you like anime, don’t you? Why are you reading this if you aren’t? Maybe you’re the real space cadet here, not me. Asteroid in Love was a 2017 slice of life, comedy, romance(?) yonkoma series (four-panel manga) written by Quro, which as of now is their only work. As time went on the various shorts were compiled into three separate volumes, before, in 2020, an anime was made. It was produced by Doga Kobo, known for YuriYuri, Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-Kun, Plastic Memories, Himouto! Umaru-chan, and various other moe and non-moe series you’ve likely heard of. They even did 11 Eyes, apparently. That was a trip. It also had a really stupid name. It was directed by Daisuke Hiramaki, who has worked on various anime in regards to animation and even directed an episode here or there, but this is the first time being a director for the entirety of an anime. Before we get started, I wanted to bring up my brief history with Asteroid in Love, because I do have one. I had actually started watching Asteroid in Love earlier this year when it aired, but at the start of the third episode, I dropped it. Why? I’ll talk about that later. Still, I wouldn’t have done that now. Maybe I was in a bad mood that day? I think I just had a lot of current anime I was watching at the time and I needed an excuse to drop something. I absolutely hate doing that. I’d rather suffer through something just so I can put it on my watched list. I mean, that’s why I watched Girlfriend Beta. If you enjoyed that series, more power to you, I wish I did the same. I wanted to drop it immediately. Anyway, expect more of my dropped series to show up in the future. They’re worth checking out. Sometimes your opinions may even change. Will this be one of them? Who knows? I sure do. One night on a crowded group camping trip, ditzy, cheerful young Mira sees a boy sneaking off into the forest alone. Curious, Mira follows only to find out the boy’s name is Ao and learns he left the campsite to get away from all the noise and enjoy the stars. Not knowing much about the universe, Mira starts asking question upon question, all of which Ao answers with ease. An already astonished Mira is even more amazed when she learns of a star named after her. This makes Mira wonder: “Ao, is there a star with your name?” Disappointed to hear that’s not the case, Mira wants to name a star after him. Ao says that’s nearly impossible, the only real possibility would be to name, not a star, but an asteroid instead, although the chances are slim to none, especially for such young children. But if there’s one thing Mira’s good at, it’s not thinking, it’s taking action. “We’ll discover a new asteroid together and name it Ao.” And after that night, Mira never ran into Ao again. Since then, Mira has always had a fascination with stars, and during her first year of high school, she decided to act on it and join the astronomy club. Unfortunately, that club is gone. But all hope isn’t lost. It merged with the geology club, to become the “Earth Sciences club.” Neither club wanted to do this, causing some friction between the club’s members. Regardless, Mira joins only to find out that Ao is a member as well. Finally reunited, the two are resolved to fulfill their dream of discovering an asteroid, and take part in various astronomy and geology activities along the way. Asteroid in Love is a slice of life anime with an almost all-girl cast, bar a few characters, many of them old men for some inexplicable reason. This should be enough for you to guess how the plot plays out. It’s the characters just living their lives, occasionally with astronomy or geology involved in it. Originally, why I …

"Everyone has their own things they love and their own special talents, their own unique world. If you are by yourself you only have your own world, but when it connects together, the possibilities spread out endlessly before you. Just like the vast, unknown cosmos." Koisuru Asteroid, the one and only thing in this spring that makes me think that "is this really not yuri with this kind of disclossure?" but glad that it wasn't in the end(YUP! DOGA KOBO STRIKES AGAIN!). The story follows at Kinohata Mira that made some promise to Manaka Ao that bounds them until they met again at highschool. Not your usual slice of life thing, Mira got Ao pumped up by having the same huge dream that is to find an unknown asteroid and name it by Ao (blue in English), Because there was asteroid named after her. After meeting Ao in Earth Science club and when she finds that she remembers her and their childhood dream, Mira and Ao found new believe and spirit in finding their own asteroids. With their senpai and kouhai help they life their life in highschool with new light everyday. There is ups and downs but the way they helped each other to fund solution in every down and enjoy every little up in their daily life. The storyline itself are too cute to not be a yuri but their character did collide each other to make the story vast. One of the best abnormal slice of life anime out there.

Koisuru Asteroid was... to be honest, it was kind of a let down. I wouldn't go so far as to say I went in with high expectations, because I didn't. However, I still expected... something. Anything at all. A story of two girls wanting to fulfill their life-long promise of finding an asteroid together. It has the perfect set-up for an astrological yuri anime! Which is SO my aesthetic, y'all! However, Koisuru Asteroid did NOT deliver, unfortunately. The characters are cute, sure, but so is every slice-of-life character design. They don't have too much personality outside of regular tropes you can see from any other show. Meaning, they don't offer anything creative or new here. They also just dump random characters in, for whatever reason, making it even harder to care about the original group they offered in the first place. The show has a slow pace and is packed to the brim with information. Which is fine and good, but when there's little else going on with the story, it becomes redundant and uninteresting, unfortunately. I say this as someone who is extremely interested by astrology and space! There was too much information with absolutely no pay off. I wish I had more to say about what I enjoyed, but there really wasn't much. Some of the jokes were funny, I suppose. Some of the characters were cute. But nothing memorable that I'm going to take with me from it. I didn't think it was going to be my favorite anime this season, not by any means, but I at least hoped Koisuru Asteroid wouldn't just be some other series I'll probably forget about entirely in a month or two. Too bad.

Quick version: If you're looking to laugh and finding a funny slice of life anime, this isn't an anime for you. The passion element and aesthetics are what stand out the most in Koisuru Asteroid. So unless you're into anime about passions, and unless you care much about immersion from aesthetics, you'll find it pretty boring since the story is rather slow and the characters aren't loveable by their traits alone. But if you do, you'll enjoy it very much. TL;DR: Koisuru Asteroid isn't a slice of life anime that will make you laugh so hard as other CGDCT anime do. It never intends to be. However, Koisuru Asteroid is an anime that will make you fall in love with each character's passion, and dream. Koisuru Asteroid is a relatively slow-paced slice of life anime with characters that may look generic and boring at first sight. As the story progresses, we slowly learn about their dreams and get deeply attached to their passions. Unlike most CDGCT anime where we normally quickly fall in love with cute girls for doing cute funny things, in Koisuru Asteroid, we fall in love with the girls not merely for their characteristics or traits, but for their passions and continuing journeys. Aesthetics of Koisuru Asteroid is also something that has to be mentioned. The nature of this anime isn't to give you excitement, but to immerse you with the beauty of the girls' dreams and discoveries. And to do that, the creators of Koisuru Asteroid give you an excellent vibe using calm colour tones, relaxing art style, sceneries, and beautiful music. Koisuru Asteroid isn't an anime that you'd expect from an ordinary slice of life anime. Instead of giving laughs as the main selling point, it gives you passion.

Story 8/10 Two young girls meet while gazing at the stars they both quickly develop a love for astronomy they soon make a promise together that they will one day together discover an asteroid however they don’t see each other again until they both join the Earth Sciences Club in high school reunited they follow their dreams while learning a lot about each other their friends in their club and the world of science. A really fun heart warming story that I smiled my way through. Art 8/10 A really good art style which fits the show perfectly. Sound 7/10 Fun bubbly music with voice acting and sound to match. Characters 8/10 A cute cast of lovable characters who all share different hopes and dreams from the students in the astronomy group and the students in the geology group they mix together very well and learn a lot together especially about each other and this helps them individually as people and allows them to follow their dreams which would not have been possible if they were apart. Enjoyment 8/10 This is just a super fun and cute show. Overall 8/10