Love Lab

They do not know anything about love but they are not afraid to just make stuff up! At first, it seemed like this show had a typically stupid narrative featuring cute girls doing cute things. They have their own secret club and they are researching the world of romance and love they are so ignorant of. I occasionally chuckled at the silliness of their seduction techniques and strategies and that was it. Likewise, I was not really feeling the initial whiff of drama when Eno and Sayo were trying to uncover this secret club. In addition, I found that everything was resolved way too quickly and easily, in other words, it was not really as dramatic as I was hoping for. I did not find the first five episodes very impressive, they were kind of average, sometimes amusing, and sometimes incredibly stupid. From the sixth episode onwards, however, I thought it visibly improved, partly because the narrative involved a second pair of girls, this time from the Newspaper Club, who basically wanted the same thing as Sayo and Eno (to expose the girls from the secret club), only they took a more interesting and responsible approach to it, and in the end, they even gave the girls quite a hard time. However, most importantly, from the sixth episode on, actual boys start appearing in the show! Suddenly it was all much more fun to watch the girls' naive illusions as they met reality, the results of those relationships, and all the even more absurd situations that arose as a result. In other words, it was mainly when the boys turned up in this anime series about cute girls (I know, it sounds very strange...) that made it a much better and, most importantly, very entertaining show for me. I was laughing almost all the way through from that sixth episode to about the tenth one, and even the screaming, crying and exaggerated melodrama in the final episode could not spoil how I felt, good feelings about the show. It is just a shame that it did not pay much more attention to the relationships involving Riko x Nagi and especially Maki x Yan. I really enjoyed that part of the show a lot and I would like to see some of those insane seduction techniques tried by the girls to do romance in real life... Therefore, in the end, thanks to the entertaining second half, I wound up pretty satisfied, and if there were a follow-up sometime in the future, I would be sure to check it out. 6.9/10. (12/08/2018)