I know it's not actually a good show, and honestly speaking I can't think of a reason why I'm even watching it other than "it's good blog fodder". Or rather, blog fodder to talk about, in the sense that I can kind of discuss the stuff around the show without actually talking about the show itself.

The second season of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, oddly subtitled Purezza, is the sort of show that I'd be happy to watch, but do not exactly watch to be happy. It's somewhat lower than the comfort food of anime I watch; overall, it's suitable for background noise, both in the visual and aural sense.

It is not offensive to my tastes, which I admit sounds like damning with faint praise. It's not, honestly. It's kind of a non-recommendation, in as neutral a sense as I can engineer. It is not alien to me as most mecha series are, and it is not directly insulting as many anti-moe shows feel like. It simply rests in the surprisingly small pool of Okay-ish. It's there. I don't have anything else to say about it.

And yet I watch it anyway, because it is not offensive. When you want to watch something, anything, that you haven't watched before, and you're surrounded by stuff that are incompatible to your tastes, then you take what you can get.

Perhaps, if I were in another mood, I'd be more ebullient in my praise. But for now, all I can say about Purezza is that I do not dislike it. And for now, that's all I can ask for.