The animation and color palettes are gorgeous, the soundtrack is great, and the story is both cute and poignant, revolving around an amateur artist, disgraced former idol, said former idol’s fangirl/stalker, and a failing vtuber starting a band but focusing mainly on their personal alienation and anxieties instead of the music/performance side of that. The four main characters are all pretty unambiguously queer too.
Cons: might be yuri bait, and the rare fanservice shots are weird and tonally out of place with the rest of the story. There’s also five episodes left in the season so there’s plenty of time left for it to milkshake duck and retroactively ruin the first half.
I’m trying to remember what was in the first two episodes, there’s the opening scene in the first one where Mahiru’s sister is trying to film her in her underwear for ??? reasons, and then episode two is the fangirl who steals Kano’s bag and sniffs her clothes? I don’t remember anything else or anything particularly yuri until like episode 5 where Mahiru starts trying to work out her feelings for Kano - even Mei’s obsession with Kano is subdued and not particularly horny. Episode 3 is where the pathos starts getting heavier and it finishes introducing the main cast.
I didn’t go into it expecting yuri and it wasn’t until episode 5 that I went “wait, is this yuri bait?” and two episodes on from there and I still can’t tell if it’s yuri or bait. Kano and Mahiru are both very clearly crushing on each other, and articulating some of that, but it’s still just dancing around the subject.