There seems to be an unusual degree of melancholy to the selection of cute girls doing cute things shows on offer this season. I felt it first with Yakunara Mug Cup mo and now even more acutely with Super Cub.
This is a quiet anime—quieter than any I’ve seen in quite some time. There’s little music. Sparse dialogue. Few inner monologues at all. Subtle changes in facial expression convey most of Koguma’s thoughts, and the drab colours and persistent silence do a fantastic job of mirroring our protagonist’s empty, lonely existence. It truly lives up to the episode’s title: Nainai no Onna no Ko (The Girl with Nothing).
