School of the Healthy Alas, although I am not a fan of school themes, but this title dragged me into its soft depths.
It is surprisingly pleasant, soft and fresh, and, paradoxically, not too boring. Of course, you will not find there strong confrontations, stands, fights not for life, but for death. And you will find very soft pastel tones, weak but cute animation (it is usually characteristic of such genres) and an attempt to teach the viewer to find joy in small everyday affairs.
But I found an interesting second bottom in this series. I risk being accused of excessive Deep Meaning Syndrome, but in these two girls it is quite possible to break down according to Jung and analyze for the Apollonian and Dionysian principles. I will not say that it was laid by the author, but this is quite a human archetype, so it could be there “of itself”.
Yuko Ayoi is a typical example of Dionysus - she is alien to long-term projects, just homework for her is already a punishment and for everyone it seems not far away. But in fact, she is simply talented at least in life itself, in a joyful perception, a vivid display of the Divine spark with her life.
Mio Naganohara is much less bright and talented, but much more disciplined, “Apollo”, who works long and seriously on solving complex problems, breaking them into smaller ones.
And so this tandem works, implicitly overcoming difficulties in school and gradually moving into adulthood. This is the kind of therapy that's designed to show us that we can do it and we can do it. This may not always be true.
7 out of 10