Creating an atmosphere often takes a lot of planning, visual effects, detail beyond detail, and meticulous planning. Just look at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, which blended neon colours with deep shading to provide the electronic dystopian feel for Night City, or Arcane, which presents the grim realities of Zaun by muddying the colour palette used for backgrounds.

Both of these anime deliver compelling atmospheres for their narratives through complexity in art style but Do It Yourself!! takes a more straightforward approach - not to say the artwork lacks detail, but rather that the calm nature of the art style produces less visual noise to set a completely different atmosphere.

Do It Yourself!! builds a comfortable atmosphere through a warm palette presented in a watercolour scheme with incredible detail to help develop the story before any dialogue is used in a scene. The best example of this is in the unique character designs, such as Serufu, who has messy hair and bandages to illustrate her clumsy nature, but by comparison, her childhood best friend Miku has straight-cut black hair and a neat uniform to show her composure.

The same attention to detail is paid to backgrounds to create the same atmosphere. This can be best seen in Serufu’s house, which has more wooden and traditional features, as well as her pets that greet her at the door when coming home from school. However, in comparison, Miku’s house is sleek and modern with concrete features, and she is greeted by Kurage-san, who’s a small jelly-fish styled robot that acts as a house servant.