YES. I actually relate more to Kumiko more than any character ever. The show is strangely very important to me. It's my favorite piece of media. But it is definitely worth it to watch the rest in good quality. And I'm not sure where you are at with Japanese or still studying, but the novels are very good reading material!

And I was worried about being thought of as too negative for the audio thing, but I'm so glad someone else relates lol. I actually did a ton of audio editing on clips I used for note cards for Japanese. I had a whole pipeline for AI noise reduction -> ReplayGain (which thankfully Anki supports). I hadn't heard of demucs, so I'll check it out. I used a few open sourced ones, but then I just turned to my pirated Adobe software.

And it is crazy to me that streamers seem to not care about sound that much, but I do know that most people don't notice the same things as me, so I get it. The bigger ones all seem to use the same bass-boosted mic and either no compression, or so much compression I feel like I'm trapped in a box with them. My favorite streamer, Northernlion, has the worst audio and refuses everyone's cries for him to fix it, but he's funny enough to get away with it.