For the elf celebration episode:
(Major spoilers) The main series was actually pretty good. Yes, it was leading middle schoolers and promotes incest, (which is obviously a no-no) but regardless I liked it. It was kind of a guilty pleasure show that I actually kind of enjoyed. The music was really good, the animation was actually surprisingly great, and there were mostly competent writers. For this episode, animation and music for some reason get twice as good, and then they hired a grade school writer to write the episode. Like what the HELL was this episode! The main series was only laughably bad because ecchi and incest, this was laughably bad because of how terrible it was. The biggest thing is that there is a music number in the middle that makes no sense. The thing elf was singing about only happened like 30 minutes before she got on stage, and a musical production of that scale would take months of work to produce! And then elf's mom, who is basically used as a stupidly basic villain, is just like "ok that music number was pretty cool, do what you want." And then for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON elf and mc dude are in the middle of a park when it lights up and they get surrounded by pretty lights while sentimental music plays while she confesses her love. Like what was going on. These lights have a great sense of timing. They completely forgot about the rest of the side characters too, like that other girl that confessed to mc dude and eromanga sensei. And then do they kiss???!? I don't know?!? Why would they kiss?! Why would they need to imply that? I just don't know what was going on and it was a terrible episode. Also, where I watched it (gogoanime for anyone wondering) had just terrible grammar and stuff for the subtitles. It was incredibly easy to tell that the person doing the subs wasn't great at English. Honestly, this episode was so bad it was good, and I had a great time watching it.
Episode 2:
This episode is almost disappointingly normal compared to ep 1, but honestly it's better than every other episode from the main series, almost by an order of magnitude. It's extremely cute, it's funnier than normal, there are one or two genuinely touching moments, the music, subtitles, and (surprisingly good) animation go back to normal, it has almost no ecchi scenes, and only hints at an incestuous relationship. It also had a fun reference to the ed. I don't think these two episodes could have been any different! The first one was the worst episode they could have made and was fun because of how bad it was, and this was the best episode they could have made and was fun because of how good it was. Both of them I would give an 8/10.
(Major spoilers) The main series was actually pretty good. Yes, it was leading middle schoolers and promotes incest, (which is obviously a no-no) but regardless I liked it. It was kind of a guilty pleasure show that I actually kind of enjoyed. The music was really good, the animation was actually surprisingly great, and there were mostly competent writers. For this episode, animation and music for some reason get twice as good, and then they hired a grade school writer to write the episode. Like what the HELL was this episode! The main series was only laughably bad because ecchi and incest, this was laughably bad because of how terrible it was. The biggest thing is that there is a music number in the middle that makes no sense. The thing elf was singing about only happened like 30 minutes before she got on stage, and a musical production of that scale would take months of work to produce! And then elf's mom, who is basically used as a stupidly basic villain, is just like "ok that music number was pretty cool, do what you want." And then for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON elf and mc dude are in the middle of a park when it lights up and they get surrounded by pretty lights while sentimental music plays while she confesses her love. Like what was going on. These lights have a great sense of timing. They completely forgot about the rest of the side characters too, like that other girl that confessed to mc dude and eromanga sensei. And then do they kiss???!? I don't know?!? Why would they kiss?! Why would they need to imply that? I just don't know what was going on and it was a terrible episode. Also, where I watched it (gogoanime for anyone wondering) had just terrible grammar and stuff for the subtitles. It was incredibly easy to tell that the person doing the subs wasn't great at English. Honestly, this episode was so bad it was good, and I had a great time watching it.
Episode 2:
This episode is almost disappointingly normal compared to ep 1, but honestly it's better than every other episode from the main series, almost by an order of magnitude. It's extremely cute, it's funnier than normal, there are one or two genuinely touching moments, the music, subtitles, and (surprisingly good) animation go back to normal, it has almost no ecchi scenes, and only hints at an incestuous relationship. It also had a fun reference to the ed. I don't think these two episodes could have been any different! The first one was the worst episode they could have made and was fun because of how bad it was, and this was the best episode they could have made and was fun because of how good it was. Both of them I would give an 8/10.
