Alternative title(s): One Room, Hiatari Futsuu, Tenshi-tsuki.
Manga Adaptation by Okuruto Noboru
Streaming on Crunchyroll

Premise

High school student Shintaro Tokumitsu lives alone, studying and working by day and living a lonely existence at home at night. However, his life changes when one morning, he wakes up to find a girl fast asleep on his apartment balcony – and when he discovers that Towa is a literal angel sent by God to study mankind (and repay Shintaro’s kindness by bringing happiness into his life), things will clearly never be the same.

Artemis’ verdict: Watch Oh My Goddess Instead

If you’ve seen any show where a struggling male high-schooler/college student/salaryman lives by himself, working hard all day and just doing his old-fashioned best to get by, suddenly finds himself living with a fantasy/supernatural/sci-fi creature disguised as an in-universe gorgeous young lady who decides her mission in life is to make said male MC happy by any means necessary, you’ve probably seen them all. Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included is absolutely no exception.

About the best I can say for it is that it knows exactly what type of show it is and wastes no time in getting there. Towa (the pure-hearted angel) is down to her underwear within the first couple of minutes – and no, that’s not the first time this episode she will be – while Shintaro (the high school everyman) is the high school student with a heart of gold, a monthly budget to keep and, you guessed it, zero in the way of homemaking skills. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of cooking and cleaning to come in the episodes ahead, albeit possibly with plenty of tomfoolery as Towa (see also: walking ‘born sexy yesterday’ archetype) figures out her way around a human kitchen while not setting shit on fire or what have you. Going by the OP/ED, there’ll also be a bevy of other young women in Shintaro’s life in the near future, whether supernaturally inclined or not, so the viewer can also expect plenty more in the way of close-up cleavage, thigh, and panty shots.

I’m not saying there’s no way to do a harem show right, and I’ll also note that I wasn’t particularly offended by anything that went on in this premiere. I was, however, mentally checked out within about 5 minutes. Trust me, you’ll know long before then whether this is the kind of show for you.

Jel’s verdict: Back to the Old Ways

I guess there is a certain nostalgic charm to watching a magical harem show in 2024. You see kids, before the days of every show being in a video game fantasy isekai setting, your magical girlfriends came to your world. They would just show up at your house. You didn’t need a cheat skill or to be good at anything all, just be a dude with an apartment that your parents pay for while also being conspicuously absent from your life. Bonus points if you’re really unaware of your surroundings, clumsy while carrying fluids, and/or have a terrible bowl cut.

That said, “better than isekai trash” is not a very high bar. Most of these shows were bad back then, and this one does nothing to differentiate itself. The characters have zero personality and everything follows the magical girlfriend formula. The biggest twist was when when the main guy inevitably wakes up to see the girl sleeping next to him, not because she was in his bed, but because I assumed the episode would end there and shuddered to realize there was eight minutes left. So yeah, I think most people reading this will want to pass.