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Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included is a new anime that you should definitely check out. If you're the kind of person who likes extremely cute and adorable girls...this is that one anime that might even become one of your favorites this year.

It's adorable moments and relatable characters give it a sitcom vibe in a harem setting, and fans are really going crazy all over it. Does this subtle approach, when it comes to harems, really work? Let's find out!

What is it all about?

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Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included follows Shintaro Tokumitsu as he spends his days in his small studio apartment, paying off rent, working at a restaurant in the evenings, and attending his high school lessons in the morning. His life is pretty by the book, and his schedule for most days is usually set, but all of that goes out the window when suddenly, he sees a literal angel... sleeping on his balcony!

Tokumitsu finds out that this angel, Towa, to be exact, appeared from the heavens and wants to study humans to find out what makes them happy. She arrived just yesterday, and because she had no place to stay, she decided to sleep on a random balcony, standard anime stuff!

Towa drops hints at Tokumitsu to let her stay with him, but well...he's a bit reluctant. After seeing how innocent she is, though, he genuinely gets worried about what might happen if she comes across someone bad, so he takes her in! From then on, their unexpected journey begins!

Enjoying the little things in life

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This is where Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included shines the most! This anime makes its fans feel extremely comfortable. The genuine happiness in doing simple everyday tasks like buying groceries, cooking, washing clothes, or having ramen together with someone that you genuinely care about feels just amazingly awesome and refreshing, even rejuvenating. Shintaro and Towa feel all of that throughout the first season, and all of us get to have that second-hand happiness and comfort through them.

There are a lot of scenes that portray them doing happy-roommate-stuff together in proper slice of life style, and all of it is adorable to witness. Of course, there is romance mixed in with all of that, but that's never a problem, is it? We all love the roommate trope in romance novels.

A harem that changes everything!

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There have been a lot of harem anime lately. The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You even broke records when it comes to numbers. So, what makes Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included's harem special in that sense? Well, it's the fact that it actually might not even be a harem. Let me explain!

Sure, all the female heroines like Shintaro, the MC of the series, but well, they all just hang out together as friends. I kid you not, these heroines...they're genuinely friends with each other and like hanging out together. They even have fun friendship moments together outside of their relationship with Shintaro. Their characters and personalities are much more realistic and fleshed out because of this.

Shintaro can be a bit boring anyway, so having a cool group of heroines around him, each cooler than the next, is seriously adorable to witness. It's a true sitcom situation. Some of the girls have supernatural powers too, so there's that added twist to keep you even more engrossed in their character. You'll definitely end up putting at least one of them in your favorite waifu list.

Is it worth watching?

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Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included is a great watch. You can binge it in one weekend. Make sure to have a lot of snacks with you though; the food animation will definitely end up making you hungry. If you like light comedies, good characters, and cute friendship moments, this is the anime for you.

Sure, it has a harem twist, and it is supposed to be ecchi, but let me break your bubble right here—it really isn't! It has very light and subtle fanservice moments. What it has plenty, however, is a lot of wholesomeness.