Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!

This is indeed ...
a Yuri work, which is one of the things I like most.
If you truly enjoy CGDCT and wholesome SoL then this show is for you.
there is nothing to talk about the story because its own genre has already spoken for it.
only one thing left to talk about is Miyako (the main character).
She is a cute girl with some talent that makes people around cannot hate her, a shy cute otaku.
even though she has some weird fetish.
we indeed agree that she is attracted by a little girl, you guys may see it as something very disgusting but no.
being a lolicon doesn't mean that ... is bad, especially in Fiction, because we never see anything about sexualize in this show.
yes, Miyako may fall in love with Hana (probably in some romantic way), but know this:

_"Even a scumbag would never dare to treat the girl he truly loves badly"

So why put your hatred on a fictional character?
Things always need to be separated between what is real and what is fiction.
this show clearly has an edge that cannot happen to pass.
IRL you may see something as disturbing as some ped* dude trying to rap* a child but as I already said, you'll never see it in this show.
So let's just put everything aside.
this show in general and Miyako in particular, don't deserve any hate.

In overall, Wataten gain 8/10, I prefer a ship with Miyako and Koko because they are very cute and both also have very interesting personality but whatever by the author's will.

Not really spoilers so not marking it as a spoiler, but this review does mention that certain episode numbers are "X type of" episodes. (Beach type / Camping type / School Carnival type etc). So if you consider that to be a spoiler, consider yourself warned. If you, like me, do not, than proceed.

On the surface this is a cute sweet slice of life about a mostly shut-in shy college student, her sister, and her sisters friend she thinks is cute and wants to dress up on cosplay outfits.

ON THE SURFACE.

If you're a child watching it that's probably all you get. If you ... scratch JUST beneath that surface you pick up STRONG pedo vibes from the girl as she gets warm fuzzies and heart poundies looking at the ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT. She makes her a large focus of her life and will basically do anything for her approval. Think of her a pedo with power-reversal tendencies.

IF YOU TAKE THE MAIN CHARACHTER OUT OF THE SHOW, it's sweet and fun and a nice slice of life. (Lets not get into how everyone just brushes off the hyper-stalker-obsessive-to-dangerous-levels "best friend (she didn't know she had)" who is obsessed with the main character in return.

The art is decent for the genre and style, not exactly dynamic but works perfectly for what it's trying to do. The music is great and I would heartily recommend the musical (children stage production style of musical) episode 11. The voice acting is on point, at times scarily so. It's a "little" weird though that not a SINGLE person in the show, any of the young kids, the 2 older ones, or anyone, seems to have a father. Males just do not exist in the show. Not even as other people sitting in the desks at school. Fellow students, fathers, whatever, they just don't exist.

I take that back, 4 were cosplaying as ninjas for a theatre troop for about 15 seconds. I'm ASSUMING they were male from build. But hey, given the rest of the show I could be mis-gendering them. If that's the case those characters have my apologies. (There weren't even any male teachers or people hosting booths at the school carnival.)

It was just, weird.

The sad thing is I actually enjoyed the show. But I had to seriously keep mind-wiping myself of how just down-right CREEPY the mind-set of the Main Character was. It wasn't "oh this sweet thing, how cute and precious, I must protect and nurture". It was "ooh she's cute, I'm getting heart poundies and want to hug and squeeze and do things with her" vibes. Just .. Wrong.

But like I said, if you can mind-wipe that aside when it comes up, the rest of the show is quite good. Disturbing still in places, but good.

Your mileage may vary.

TLDR: I think this show is overall not worth your time and it's a shame I have to say that.



Review:
This is my first ever review on MAL and this show TRULY has made me want to go out of my way just to share my opinion on this. I heard about this show back when it released and I never planned on watching it till I heard from word of mouth, just how awful and "pedo-like" it is. Which is why I wanted to watch it. To see if it's a similar situation to how twitter reacted to Uzaki-Chan or something. But before we go ... into the problems. Lets address it's strong points. Which it has a few.

The art style is absolutely great. Combining that with the smooth animation gives the viewer a very colorful and soft picture. I love it. I rarely see animation in anime to be as smooth as it has been with this show. It likes the difference between 30fps to 60. It's night and day. Odd to see from a show like this. Onto the story. The concept I don't think is bad. It falls in line with being a cutesy SOL. (I know haha laugh at me for talking about a slice of life story.) I got Yuru Yuri vibes, "kinda," from the plot and the characters which is a compliment since I found Yuru Yuri to be really good. It does land into the space of being a moe show.

However, we can't go on any further discussing this show until we address the elephant in the room... Hoshino, Miyako. To summarize her character, she's the older sister of Hinata and basically is the main character. As the description of the show says, she is absolutely socially inept and can't even say a single word to ANYBODY without stuttering or straight up shutting down. Through various encounters Hinatas friends show up and they all start hanging out. Basic stuff. But MAN. Miyakos character is a massive problem. You're telling me, she can't go up to the fucking McDonalds cashier and ask for no pickles on her burger, yet she can literally splooge in her pants in front of these elementary schoolers all day. She tries to get the group of children to wear the clothes she makes (primarily dresses or maid outfits, that kinda stuff) and look up their skirts, WITH A CAMERA. One of the girls even gets disgusted with her behavior and is like "Yo... Can you please not do this in front of us?" AND WHAT DOES MIYAKO DO??? Bribe them with sweets... and it works... There was a scene where a police officer even stops her because she's hiding in the shadows just taking screenshot after screenshot of these girls without their knowledge or consent. Another scene, one of the girls gets scared during a sleepover and asks her to walk her to the restroom and she even OFFERS TO FUCKING HELP HER IN THE BATHROOM WHILE SQUIRMING HER FINGERS.

Miyako has a lot to her character if you push her weird fascination with kids out of the way. She's a very reliable person and when she puts her mind to it. She can actually do something useful for her friends and family. There are actually parts in the show where you can see her becoming more comfortable with showing who she is and I acknowledge that. I wanted to like Miyako because I feel like she COULD be a good character if every second of the show wasn't her fantasizing how to get jiggy with these girls.

Brushing that aside, the slice of life genre can actually be a really interesting theme for an anime when done correctly. Examples of this being K-on (though I didn't personally enjoy it too much), Gabriel Dropout, and Gakkougurashi. Some of the many things I'm tired of hearing is the "BRO DID THE GROCERY STORE ARC HIT DIFFERENT????" or the "HAHA 12 EPISODES OF THEM DOING FUCKING NOTHING SLICE OF LIFE IS BORING GO WATCH THIS BASIC ASS SEASONAL SHOUNEN THAT'LL ONLY BE AROUND FOR 2 SEASONS MAX." Like most genres, as long as you can make it entertaining and have it fit the genre it's suppose to be, then it should be alright. Sadly, this show seems to run out of ideas a lot. It's repetitive at best and annoying at worst. I understand they're just kids so they don't have the means of doing a One Piece type adventure and it's suppose to be a "feel good" show. But I don't think that should deflect criticism. To be frank, I'm bothered at how most of the episodes just revolve around them eating and dressing up for Miyakos fetish sessions.

I don't know about this show. I know I compared it to Yuru Yuri, but EVEN THEN. I don't think most people who do enjoy SOL or cute girls doing cute things would like this too much. I rated it a 3 but if they just didn't make Miyako who she is, then I would give this a solid 6 maybe a light 7.