Back in summer of 2017, there was a anime called Tenshi no 3P that was about a teenage boy who made music in FL Studio and found himself in a harem involving little girls because of it, and like most harem titles, sexual humor persisted. For that reason I went into Ryuuou no Oshigoto, The Ryuo's Work is Never Done, expecting a repeat.
The anime starts out with a teenged boy named Yaichi Kuzuryuu becoming the Ryuo, basically the shogi champion, three months earlier. Yaichi himself seems like a pretty nice guy to be honest, and I would like to see more male characters like him in the future. He's really just the unfortunate main character of a harem anime.
One day, Ai Hinatsuru, who was saw his match at her family's inns that just so happen to hold the tournament that declared Yaichi as Ryuo, breaks into his house. She says that it's so no one who be suspicious of him doing weird things and that's thoughtful of her and also dumb of her, but either way she still broke into his house. So the interesting thing about Ai is that she herself is a shogi prodigy of sorts, even though she's only been training for three months she is already really good, maybe even better than Yaichi, that is a refreshing to see considering that teenage boys usually excel at whatever they do way more than anyone else because. That's the end of the sentence, people just write these story like that.
So after playing a match with her, he feels more alive then he felt in the last three month. So he takes her wanting to be his disciple seriously. So after she cooks him breakfast she enters the shower, and you can forget about how considerate she was. So not only does she enter the entry with no clothes on and continues to stand as if nothing is wrong, but the peer of Yaichi, who trained alongside him, Ginko Sora, is at the door and she has the key to his apartment so he tries not to let her in but of course Ai pulls him back, he falls on top of her, and then Ginko misunderstands the situation.
So after Ginko tries to kill Yaichi and the two girls get into a argument with one another, they decided to go to their sensei's, whose name I don't even care enough about this anime to look up, dojo to settle what should happen next. So it turns out that their sensei actually received a call from the Shogi Association about how her parents thought that Ai might end up going to Yaichi's house and didn't bother to tell him about it, because how else would this anime have it's perverted shenanigans?
Sensei asks why Ai didn't just go learn from someone who lives in her hometown, because she lives a few cities away apparently, and she says it's because Yaichi was so cool. Wouldn't it had made more sense for her to learn how to play shogi BEFORE you go after the guy she likes? So apparantly the sensei refers to his disciples like their children and Yaichi keeps referring to Ginko as sis, weird.
So they go to the Shogi Association so Ai can learn to play shogi proper, Yaichi has to go to a match and that is when we're introduced to Ayumu Kannabe who is a chuunibyou, a person with delusions of grandeur, and has a alternate "knight" persona. Even though Yaichi finds this lame, Ai thinks this is cool but instead of falling for him she just pledges her loyalty to Yaichi, because we can't have two love interests for someone who isn't the main character because harem anime.
So once they go to the classroom and I see the friends that Ai will undoubtedly make, I immediately think that this would of been better as a shojo anime about a little girl who wanted to play shogi. That would of at least been watchable, and it would of made for a much better sports anime. If shogi counts as a sport, not that it matters because that won't happen. Oh well, personally I didn't enjoy it but I can't say I'm surprised about how it turned out, I'm sure some people out there will enjoy this title though, they can feel free to, just leave me out of it. That is all for this post, but be sure to check out my take on  Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san and Kokkoku if you haven't previously, and I will return on thursday to give some more first impressions. Thank you for reading, have a wonderful day.