Decent first episode. I can certainly feel for the girl. Life just kind of passed her by. Definitely feels like a person easy to feel some empathy for. She tried to set herself up to have people reach out, but couldn't gather the courage to go further than that. It did kind of work, but not exactly. And even when it did, she still had understandable struggles.
I do kind of hope that there is a bit more focus on the musical performances. Though I could see it just being a setting for the character interactions.
Decent enough. Though I'll still put it behind the true Hitori Bocchi
.