The template for Uchi no Kaisha no Chiisai Senpai no Hanashi is pretty obvious.  Anime has a long if not especially deep track record with workplace comedies.  More recently and perhaps most directly here, one could cite Senpai ga Uzai Kouhai no Hanashi, a workplace romantic comedy with a height-gap central premise.  I enjoyed that series a lot, and I’m generally a fan of this sub-genre when it’s done well.

Unfortunately, for me Uchi no Kaisha no Chiisai Senpai no Hanashi was not done especially well.  The titular (sorry) sempai, Katase Shiori, is more a device than an actual character.  She basically vamps for 22 minutes in a way no actual person actually would.  And the kouhai, Shinozaki Takuma, spends his time engaging in erotic fantasies about her and hiding a boner.  In short (sorry) it’s all pretty crude and artless, and I didn’t find much charm in any of it.

Comedy is like that – it either works for you or it doesn’t.  Wotakoi did, Sempai ga Uzai did.  This didn’t.  One can analyze all day long, and I think I can come up with some pretty concrete reasons why those series are way better than this one (like having characters with actual lives and motivation and not just avatars).  But in the end it comes down to fit – and this one doesn’t fit me.  It’s not a huge disappointment as this was pretty far down my expectations list (dead last in fact) so no point in spending any more time working it over.