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I would compare watching YowaPed to when someone puts small amounts of a laxative in the food you are eating, and then just excitedly waits for you to completely shit your pants. At the same time, the first third of the season looks quite pleasant - they sometimes poke fun at sports anime tropes we have seen a hundred times, and the main protagonist’s character’s naivety and over-the-top enthusiasm is entertaining, and his transformation from anime otaku to cycling otaku is really plausible, as well as his interaction with new co-competitors and the formation of new friendships. The second third of the season is in the spirit of preparation for the main race, being less comedic than in the first part of the series, portraying the characters getting fitter in an effort to achieve their goal. Here, however, the complete inability of the creators to build up any suspense begins to manifest itself, which is a fundamental shortcoming in the case of sports anime. The last third of the season is excruciatingly painful, due to the fact it is dominated by over-the-top and completely demented scenes contradicting (not only) the laws of physics, a cruelly slow pace, characters seemingly written after ten beers, who pull power-ups out of their asses, but they also lose or gain energy according to the whims of the screenwriter, and the audience simply does not know whether they should really stand for this, laugh at it, suffer or yawn with boredom at it. The day before the main race, the character is on a drip, and the next day they almost collapse again, but all they have to do is sing a song, and an 80-kilometer (?) race in the mountains is suddenly completely fine? There is a guy who has a fancy name for his left and right breasts, because he is in love with them, and lovingly chats with them in the middle of the race? There is a racer unable to overtake anyone from the left, just because in the past a rabbit ran into his path from the left … I could go on. In addition, the series lacks any real ending, and the story ends about 400 meters before the finish line (WTF?!) and the audience has to learn the results in the second season. If it was a straight-up parody of sports anime from beginning to end, my rating could have been something else, however, this was an altogether considerably tortuous anime, and lasted two and a half years - which was exactly how long it took me to watch all of it. So I am refusing to watch the next season, thanks, and only highly recommend it to all masochistic sports anime deviants. (14.03.2021)