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My first impressions of the just aired ep1.

Spoiler for not actually much to spoil, putting it in tags just to be prudent:

All star casting of Ueda Kana, Horie Yui, and Tamura Yukari certainly lives up to their credibility.

Only qualm I have is Hazumu's (Kana) voice when he's still a guy. It's too high pitched for a second year high schooler, would have preferred the kind of low tone Kana did for Kotoha in Gokujou Seitokai.
That plus Hocchan being Hocchan and Yukarin being Yukarin, kinda reminded me of Kurumi and Miyako from PaniPoni and Nanoha and Hayate from Nanoha A's, but the threesome are surely capable of accomplishing great things for this series.

No opening song, probably due to spoilerish scenes, but then we get eufonius singing the ending song. Wait a minute, I thought that was supposed to be the opening song. As much as I like eufonius' style, the song didn't have much of an impact on me.

As for the plot, typical Akahori Satoru craziness and comedy blended into a developing romantic situation, not necessarily yuri. Credit him with originality.

Art isn't spectacular, it's passable for this type of genre, hope it doesn't break down in subsequent episodes.

Other things noticed were the use of native English seiyuus (no Engrish, folks), and the notion that TV Tokyo somehow laxed their censorship restrictions (not the fabricated nude scene, but the frontal bra shot seen in the preview, which I haven't seen recently on this station)

Since this replaced Aria time slot-wise, and will probably be replaced by Aria 2 in Spring, expect it to be 13 eps of fun.

All in all, an enjoyable show and I hope someone pick it up for subbing.