Niche sport themed, slice of life drama with mostly male high school MCs. Some life lessons, male-male affection, abundance of family dramas, elegant drawings/animations, nice music and dark plotlines.
A passable watch for a mature teen anime or if these tags are what you're looking for, but more of a missed opportunity otherwise.
While the sport gives it a reason to exist and allows for some character developement, in some way it takes away so much space that could have been spent much better. Indeed, who cares about soft tennis? They could have played curling, chess or beer pong and nothing would have changed... Big commercial successes usually are insufferably bad but just for the sake of marketing analisys: even if sport themed series may not be over as a genre, this is certainly not the angle from which we will get the next "Attack n.1", "Tsubasa" or "Slam Dunk". So why forcing people to spend more than half of the running time watching this drivel?
