Ueno Juri and the Five Bags

1) The girl with the guitar case was fine, quite an entertaining spectacle for 3 stars. 2) My hopes were high, the elevator scene was awesome and I was looking forward to more episodes, because the quality had thus far been going up (3.5 stars); except the opposite was true. The second episode was the highlight of the series and nothing better came after that. 3) The neighbor Akira wasn't bad either, such a classic from life about a decision one should make, and here just came a nudge for [text cut off] let's say almost 3 stars. 4) Only then I was knocked off by the short story “On the Road", where I almost didn't last long enough for its cameo. Ueno Juri is cute and all, but the cinematography just turned me off it (1.5 stars). And then 5) when Ueno wanted to cook, we even have the theme from Groundhog Day for another day, but it's so all abbreviated (also putting such an idea into 25 minutes ok, but it probably needs a different treatment) and too naive. For me this story is about 2.5 stars. If I calculate the arithmetic mean, it comes out to 2.7 stars for the whole thing, so basically 3 stars by a hair. (11/08/2017)