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"Sport climbing is a sport that makes use of both the body and the brain to climb walls. Kasahara Konomi, a master at puzzles, just happens to discover her school's climbing wall, and it looks almost like a colorful sort of puzzle in her eyes. This fateful encounter brings big changes to Konomi's life! With her teammates in the Hanamiya Girls' High School Climbing Club, Konomi races for the top in this passionate climbing story!
Source: crunchyroll"
Genre(s): Sports, Shounen
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Do you like jacked girls? Doesn't matter; you will when you're done watching this... I have a soft spot for sports shows, and this one lands the tropes just right. The prickly integration of casual interest versus the oh so Japanese manga mindset of "only those who are committed are worthy to partake" made an entertaining introduction. Production wise, this is about as low budget as it could get away with without being called outright ugly... but the limitations show. I don't know if rock climbing is oversimplified or given too much credit in reducing the route to the concept of a puzzle insofar as to be a puyo-puyo style visual metaphor, but I'm digging it so far.