This review was originally written on September 20th 2021 The subgenre of anime Cute Girls Doing Cute Things has gotten a bit of a bad reputation over the years...and some of it is for good reason. Most anime companies see it as an excuse to market moe girls who act younger and dumber than regular high schoolers do. While anime has always been a tool used for advertising at some point there are just as many anime that prove you dont have to be soulless in doing so. Unfortunately Aiura is one of the worst CGDCT anime Ive ever seen. Its literally about three girlsAyuko Kanaka and Sakiwho just go to school hang out have pointless cringey conversations that devolve into weird nonsense and make Kanaka into the butt of their jokes. Thats it. There is literally nothing to this anime at all. None of the characters are memorable or likeable in any way whatsoever. Theyre all a bunch of onenote stereotypes who are as bland as wheat toast. Ayuko is the short girl who gets mistaken for a grade schooler Kanaka is the peppy cheerful dumbass whos always the butt monkey Saki is the straight man and...oh lord that one teacher Wakatsuki...dont even get me started on her. Her whole purpose is to be a cutesy moe shortstack who has a higher pitched voice than her students and mistake the very reasonable and mature male teacher for being a pervert based on an absolutely baseless assumption. God I wanted to smack Wakatsuki so hard in the face. Worst character in the entire show. Seriously I can name several other CGDCT anime that have much more effort put into their characters than Aiura does. Honestly the shows only real saving graces are the lusciously detailed and fluid animation and the fact that every episode is two minutes long. I mean the background art is colorful and bright very easy on the eyes and the actual motion is as smooth as butter...with the occasional obvious CGI of course. Its kind of weird learning that Aiura was animated by LIDENFILMS as their most recent project is the admittedly very uglylooking Farewell My Dear Cramer. I mean the difference in animation styles and the care put into them or in Cramers case lack of care is unbelievable. Plus Im glad every episode is only two minutes long save for the opening and endings which are both only 1 minute long. If this show had episodes that were half an hour long it would have worn out its welcome long ago though considering the show is pretty bad already thats not saying much. The soundtrack is...fine for the most part. The background music and the ending theme are nice but dear lord that opening is so bad Not only is it badly sung its basically a ripoff of a crap ton of other anime openings that are similar Also the actresses singing it are clearly straining when they try to sing really fast and high pitched and the end result makes it sound like tin foil in a root canal. I mean you have to TRY to be that bad. It actually hurts to listen to Basically Aiura is a bland lazy terrible sliceoflife moe girl anime thats best left forgotten. I can recommend several other sliceoflife anime that are way better like Flying Witch Place Further Than the Universe LaidBack Camp and even Aoi Hana and Hitohira Seriously anything thats better than this piece of crap. Do yourself a favor and dont watch Aiura. The episodes may be short but theyre not worth your time at all.