What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)

Not sure if the running gag/recurring theme of Maika managing to do her job by accidentally saying mean things with a scary look to the customers when trying to be nice to them is that funny to me honestly. It makes sense given she is raised to be a cartoonishly sheltered tradgirl but I simply feel awkward watching her be all like:

"I'm going to be nice to the customers!"

Then accidentally saying something mean

then having the customers being 'happy' about it (euphemism)

Then her being "no, I didn't mean to say that!",

With everyone else reacting like: "You're playing a sadist character, you're doing your job right."

(Also IMO the times where she does play her character deliberately feel like plot magic.)

I would have found it interesting it if there was some more focus on the other characters going about their jobs (although I can imagine the time constraints for the 12-episode format on that influencing that choice). They were only very occasionally shown doing their jobs, mostly to play a gag, although they definitely were funny, most so the Mafuyu rejection one IMO.

Is not introducing 2 of 7 (arguably) main characters until halfway through the show unusual?

I liked the episode where Mafuyu and Kaho study together since it shows the 2 characters interacting together in a more personal manner and would like more of that if the anime ever gets a season 2.

The intro is definitely catchy. Still skipped it a few times tho tbh. The outro is neat (and 90% about Maika, who is clearly the "main-est" character.)

The beach episode came earlier than I expected.

"He may look like like a girl, but he's 100% a man otherwise!" Dino does a redpill moment /s (Hideri is an "Otoko-no-ko" character, alternatively known as a "trap".)

"Black hair is justice. I regret nothing." (Line from somewhere halfway in the anime from the manager/Dino talking to a cop about Maika)

I found this moment Based.

The manager being depicted as attractive is a bit cursed in relation to his character.

The moment where the manager tries to corner Maika in her work was to me one of those moments where you just need to cringe through if you don't stop for a moment to collect yourself to be honest.

Various characters reporting Dino to the police throughout the show for something he does (mostly out-of-context but not always) is amusing.

The "horny jail"-esque gag of Mafuyu not allowing (16 year old) Kaho to read 18+ work and similar moments are amusing, if requiring a large amount of suspension of disbelief and perhaps being a bit rude.

There weren't that many moments where Hideri actually interacted seriously beyond just being an idol

"Dino has an Aunt?" (shown in a picture where you would guess he had a wife)

The Mutandine line is quite funny.

Miu being the character with all the fantasies (euphemism) is greatly amusing. (Although I feel we don't see that much of her beyond this gag.)

The episode where the dog (one of the characters that pops up in the show) goes through similar feelings as Dino does is amusing.