(haven’t watched Spice Of Waifu yet; I’m just not in the mood for it)

Pom-Pom Girls, episode 1

Parkour Does Not Work That Way. Also, how exactly do all the girls dye just the underside of their hair? Anyway, if you can suspend disbelief about schoolgirls whose jumping (and, more importantly, landing) abilities make Chell look flat-footed, this looks like a straightforward underdog sports story where six girls come together to try really hard and overcome all obstacles. So, cute cheer girls doing cute cheer things on the way to a cute cheer competition, while managing to keep their cute cheer school uniforms from showing off their cute cheer panties.

Verdict: I can’t decide if using magical parkour and weird hair to distract attention from the story is a good thing or a bad thing.

Meanwhile, here are six cute train girls doing cute train things:

Shy 2, episode 2

First half is a standalone school-mystery story, with Our Shy Gal hanging out with a new girl we’ll probably never see again. Second half introduces another new girl, but this one’s a keeper, since she’s in the credits. Teru and Iko lead her through a montage of fun things to do, until the foreshadowed petty crime spree breaks the spell and leads Our Slashy Runaway Rich Girl to make a few confessions. And then A Wild Ninja Appears.

By the way, when they hang out together in street clothes, Teru’s definitely the butch in this Obvious Oblivious Yuri Couple.

Verdict: more non-super time like this, please; they need to build up enough goodwill to make it past the Kufufu that is sure to infest the plot soon.

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