>I'm not sure if I'll end up checking out
>Project A-ko, it doesn't seem super interesting to me either.

The first one is very silly, and was originally scheduled to be part of a somewhat infamous Japanese series called "Cream Lemon" - the earliest hentai series, really - and then it got de-porn-ified. It's light fluff, and there's a lot worse ways* to kill an hour and a half.

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* Like some of the original Cream Lemon series! It wasn't good.