Alternative TitlesEnglish: Majikoi - Oh! Samurai Girls Japanese: 真剣で私に恋しなさい！
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 2, 2011 to Dec 18, 2011
Duration:
23 min. per episode Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
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SynopsisIt's one thing to honor your ancestors and keep old traditions alive, but there IS such a thing as taking it to a ridiculous extreme. In Kawakami City, having a samurai ancestor and enormous 'fighting spirit' isn't just an interesting fact, it's a huge part of how you end up being ranked on the social totem pole. That, in turn, rolls over into the school curriculum. Fortunately, that's something the local kids like Yamato Naoe have learned to deal with by forming into small 'bands,' (that's the samurai type, NOT music). However, while the delicate sexual balance of Yamato's group seemed fine when there were three girls and four boys, the sudden addition of two MORE girls starts to send everything spinning out of control!
(Source: Sentai Filmworks) |
Related AnimeAdaptation: Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!
Alternative setting: Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de
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mdz
79 of 153 people found this review helpful
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12 of 12 episodes seen
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| Overall |
2 |
| Story |
1 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
4 |
| Character |
2 |
| Enjoyment |
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[contains some mild spoilers, some suggestive language, and some comparison to the visual novel]
What a slaughter.
Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai (TV) is one of the two visual novels that was adapted this fall season. In comparison to Mashiro-iro, which was a decent adaptation, MajiKoi’s adaptation was pure shit. In Mashiro’s review, I stated that Mashiro was considered an “average visual novel”, which made the mediocre storyline understandable. But, MajiKoi doesn’t have the luxury of using the excuse “the visual novel was bad”, it was considered a great visual novel (8.71@VNDB). In other words, it was a great source with great potential.
Now, why exactly does the adaptation blow? Is it because they adapted it into a generic harem instead of an enjoyable slice of life? Or is it because they completed slaughtered the characters, and developed the cast of respectable female characters into homogenized whores craving the main dude’s dick. Well, it would have to be a mixture of the two; but predominantly the latter.
Now, I can understand that Western tastes and tastes in Japan differ. They like excessive fan service, I find it irritating. There’s an obvious difference, but it’s bearable for the most part; it’s not as prominent as it could be. But there’s a limit to everything too. When every other scene is censored due to nudity, it’s basically blatantly insinuating “Fuck you, buy the blue-ray release”. It’s probably a really effective way to catalyze sales in my opinion, but it’s still a douche thing to do. That could be ignored if the other aspects of the show was actually adapted decently, but they weren’t. .
My first major gripe would be the harem aspect of it. The first arc of MajiKoi, before branching out and choosing individual path, was essentially, a slice of life. It’s really extenuating more on friendship then it is with the individual intimate relationships, it’s reminiscent of AnoHana in a way. The main arc in the visual novel basically contains little to no romance and it’s not hindered by infatuation until you begin to branch (but that’s still only with one character). The arc is more than enough to be animated into twelve episodes, it took six hours to read. That’s reading with skipping the majority of the voice acting, basically spamming enter. It’s inevitably understandable on why they would adapt MajiKoi as a harem over a sexless slice of life (It’ll probably sell well), but it was still something that could have been done.
Now, the second gripe that basically ruins the visual novel, is slaughtering the characters. It’s similar to reading a book and developing the “ideal archetype” of the character, only to see it getting completely revamped in a movie adaptation. By slaughter, I don’t mean some slight miscalculations, it’s some pretty noticeable stuff. Some pretty notable ones would include the main character, Yamato. Now, in the visual novel, the main character is basically portrayed as an intelligent, devious tactician when it comes to facing everyday challenges; that carries on over in the anime. But in the VN, he wasn’t lusting after his friends, and his philosophies were more complex. In the anime, he was basically painted as a kind person as a kid when it came to taking in Miyako. In the visual novel, he just mentioned that she could stay if she wanted, it wasn’t through any good will, he was a nihilistic kid, I don’t think he really cared. On the other hand, each female in the visual novel had their own individual personality, in the anime, they’re basically homogenized into lusting after the dude(most notably Chris, she hated his devious dishonorable personality initially in the visual novel, however, in the anime, she doesn’t mind it). In the VN, they thought of him as a friend, and nothing more unless you pursued it while branching out.
Objective Score: 2/10. It’s a disappointment. It did one of the worst things you could do in an adaptation, it slaughtered the character. It turned something with little fan service into something based off of fan service. Action was actually the focal centerpiece in the anime, in the novel, it’s more of an underlying theme.
Subjective Score: 4/10: If you didn’t read the visual novel, you might actually like this. Most people reading the visual novel will probably dislike this immensely, it slaughtered the personalities of the majority of the characters. I guess you’ll like this if you like action, boobs, and cliché characters (excluding Miyako, she’s basically the only characters that’s pretty damn awesome in both versions, but then again, adapting a chick who’s going after the dude probably wasn’t the hardest in comparison to the rest). read more
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dannyzam
24 of 55 people found this review helpful
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12 of 12 episodes seen
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8 |
| Story |
7 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Character |
10 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
We have Lerche's adaptation of the Minato Soft's adult visual novel that was originally release in 2009 for PC.
The first episode is full of action, the next ones are full of fanservice, but then we have this comedy drama overload with a bit of action, and it's not a great combination.
The art is awfull compared to the VN, but that will always happen, anyways, Mayumi and his co-workers made a great job.
The music goes perfectly with the scenes, Katsuhiko-san is good with his work on this and Mirai Nikki.
Every character is different, specially the female ones. personally, I fell in love with Koyuki and Kazuko, Mayo is so cute (kawaii) and that thingy called Kuroko it's so random. Also, I'm a big fan of Asakawa Yuu, she made a great job with Momo, and even when i hate Yuko Goto's voice, she's wonderful with Yukie and Matsukaze.
Enjoyment? well, besides this genre mess, it was a good anime, and I know that the VN is 100% better, but if I have the chance to buy the BDs, I will... read more
Recommendations
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Okay first of all high school of the dead is no where near close to Hyakka Ryouran: samurai girls ........ ones about zombies the others about samurai ..... but neways these two are most certainly comparable in the samurai girls fighting sense each series has female fighters that are surrounded by one guy. and not only that each both consist of love triangles amongst the bunch. To sum it all up I found both of these to be very much a like only real difference is one is taken from modern days while the other is taken from a more ancient time period.
Both animes feature samurai girls. One is in a modern setting while the other takes place in a somewhat older japan. Both are harem/ecchi as well. Majikoi has better humor compared to Samurai Girls.
Both have fighting and use of powers.
Both have same ecchi content.
Maji de Watashi ni Kio Shinasai! Has school life where Samurai Girls just has life in a dojo .
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Battles between characters where nobody gets seriously Injured, but is still acted out as overly dramatic.
over load in female cast and televised fighting...maji de is more serious in the fighting than Dog Days
Similarity checklist:
Girls who can really kick ass, checked.
Martial arts, comedy, romance and action genre, checked.
Multiple babes who has feelings for the male lead, checked.
Fierce fighting among large groups of army, but no body gets killed, checked.
2 main bad chicks who spells "TROUBLE," checked.
Dissimilarity checklist:
One has an extra school genre and the other has magic and supernatural genre, checked.
One muchacho (male lead) is the other anime has a love interest, while the other has one, but always gets rejected,checked.
The muchacho (male lead) in the other anime has the capacity to fight, while the other one prefers to used brains over boron, checked.
The muchacho in the other anime has a group of friends who look out for one another, while the other one relies on himself, his powers and one of of those girls who has a crush on him, checked.
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Opening Theme"U-n-d-e-r--STANDING!" by Endoh Masaaki, Kitadani Hiroshi, Misato Aki
Ending Theme"Kimi no Shinken o Choudai (君の真剣をちょうだい)" by Asakawa Yuu, Gotou Yuuko, Hyousei, Itou Shizuka, Tomonaga Akane
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