Wotutu's Wonders: Review: Happiness!

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This in an anime I've tried watching on and off for months; it's based on a visual novel (usually meaning deep and emotive plots), it seems to have high quality animation and very original character designs and consists of magical girls. It seemed to be everything I'd enjoy in an anime.... however..

It's never a good sign when you get half way through episode two and decided "yeah... I don't need to do laundry... but I think I'll go do that now". Also not a good sign when you've tried watching it from the start 6 times over 3 months and your mind refuses to take it in. Not to mention the derp-singing I do when I hear that theme tune that makes me IRONICALLY not happy at all.

*shudder*

At first things seem a bit fishy... weak storytelling.. animation a bit subpar to what I imagined (I mean, come on! It's 2006 animation, I've seen better in some 90's stuff!) Tropes are in full force- the blonde twin-tailed tsundere best friend who is a bit of an uppity... witch ^^;

Anri in particular is a character that I cannot stand. The girl is a walking, volatile trope. She just wants to do everything better than Haruhi.. like.. as far as finding her friend's intended Valentine just so she can usurp her?? WTF!

When Haruhi was little she was saved from a group of bullies by a boy who used magic. She saw a fortune teller who told her she would give him a valentines chocolate and blah blah. The story is essentially her hoping to find the boy who saved her. I quite like this kind of plot as I find it very sweet. But that utterly gets swept to the side by what I can only describe as filler episodes with a vague subtext of underlying plot.

When the anime suddenly remembers the main plot-line, things do get interesting. However the huge drag that is the first 8 and a half episodes deterred me so much that I had a reluctance to keep watching. Never a good thing.

Without spoilers.... this plot line is messed up. It goes:
Promising.
Boring.
Boring/endearing.
WOAH SLOW DOWN WHAT?
WHO??

As far as visual novel adaptations go I'm so so disappointed. The characters were essentially shallow, place-holders, with only one or two showing any form of development through the 'series'.
I wish could say at least it was entertaining, but I didn't laugh at all and the only emotional part for me was Tama-chan.