Episode 1 is bad because it is a badly forced tragedy. Normally for a tragedy to happen there is a bad guy to cause it, but that is not the case here. Everyone is normal, which makes the main character and the childhood friend look braindead. Thus the tragedy feels very forced by the author, like everything could have been avoided if the MC and childhood friend had functioning brains. It feels like a badly written soap drama plot where bad things only happen because the characters are unbelieveably stupid.
Good thing is the rest of the episodes have almost nothing to do with EP1, as it is more like a backstory than a start. So please just start watching from EP2 where it is made up of short stories and actually gets good.
