Yumeria

The story revolves around a young man, Mikuri Tomokazu, who has vivid dreams of strange enemy aliens coming to attack him in a bizarre dream world with floating land formations. A young girl who speaks only one word - Mone - with superpowers appears in the dream to save him for the present peril, and later materializes with him in real life. Over time, the girls in his family, his girlfriend, and a strange girl named Neneko also become part of his dreams and all have their own unique super powers there. The dreams recur, and the enemy appears to gain strength, requiring ever more ... effort from the embattled young women to repel them. Eventually Mikuri comes to realize that the dreams may foretell the possibility of the enemy aliens coming to destroy the Earth in real life if he and the girls cannot defeat them in the dream world.

Many people have complained about the quality of this anime. Admittedly the plot line is a little weak and somewhat hard to follow, and fairly unbelievable at that; but even so, the story is enjoyable and entertaining. There is lots of humor to keep you laughing too. One caution -- this series has more than its fair share of fan service and I would give it a strong PG-13 rating. If you enjoy harem anime you may just like this one.

Yumeria should come with the subtitle "an adventure in mediocrity", when it comes to games NAMCO (usually) try and to do something different or at least attempt to put an original spin on a tried and tested formula (see the Tales series), but with regards to Yumeria, there's doing things by the book and then there's copying the book word for word. Whilst it manages to avoid some of the major harem clichés, it falls slap bang on to every one for the action/magical girl genre like a combine harvester in a minefield.

The story is too poor to analyse in any real detail, just ... some lame protagonist and his magical girl friends save the world whilst ignoring a lacklustre love interest sub-plot that never develops. The harem parts of the series aren't littered with fanservice, so at least that's something. That's pretty much all there is to the plot, what little there is incredibly generic and if you can't see the plot twists coming, maybe it's time to stop wearing pants on your head. Despite this it's pretty well paced, episodes don't get ahead of themselves and the series ends when it should.

The animation is of the modern anime standard; it gets the job done but hardly leaves the viewer drooling. The dream world where much of the series takes place is pretty bland as well as having a hint of "The World" from .hack about it. The real world is nothing to rave about either. The special attacks are pleasing to the eye, well at least they are for the first ten times. Characters designs are solid for the most part if lacking in the imagination department. A special mention is needed for the Faydoom, the enemies of in the show. The are possibly the least threatening looking enemies in anything ever, they're literally oversized pieces of Lego that shoot lasers.

Soundtrack was surprisingly good, background music really suited the series and certainly added to the situation. The opening theme "24 Jikan Aishiteru" by Moyu Arishima & Tamaki Nakanishi is decent despite some ghastly animation during it, the ending theme "precious treasure" by Masumi Asano is real treat though. Voice acting is good enough although 'Mone' can getting a little irritating after the first one hundred times.

Considering the majority of the cast is female, it speaks volumes that the only likeable characters are the two male ones, one of which is the class teacher, a minor support character who brings some good laughs to the series. The female cast play their stereotypes well, whilst being as generic as possible. If the plot wasn't so predictable, the characters are still so dull its hard to sympathise with them all.

Yumeria isn't the most enjoyable of series, it's a struggle to get through some episodes, there are few good comedy scenes and few decent fight scenes, but the shows eagerness to show the same transformation scenes and special attacks can get really annoying. Overall it does just enough to keep the viewer interested, despite being generic, predictable and nothing already in many other shows, deserving of a 5.5 really.

lazy dumb kid of class, with no real aims drive, or ability, goes to sleep one night and dreams of helping a girl fight a battle against a mysterious creature. Wakes up the next day next to her in bed, as all virgins do.

Daily he is pulled into this world revealing this s the only place he is special after his lonely friendless, parentless, shut-in lifestyle leaves him just with his guardian so often. Suddenly and stupidly his house is regularly filled with a hodgepodge of girls in typical harem fashion from pre-teen loli to teen to his guardian who he ... used to want to sleep with and regularly grope.

It's the usual tropey useless person to hero idea that some anime's push out. His teacher hates him, and regularly physically attacks him, no one cares, his teacher throws a bomb at him, no one cares. His teacher wants to video a 12-year looking girl in his guardian's care, no one cares. If is someone out there who would have no reason to save the world, this is it.

After bringing the girl from the dream to the real world, and knowing she understands nothing, can't communicate, can't do anything to properly understand, she is of course enrolled in school where she continues to understand nothing and draws like a 5-year-old, but miraculously is in our main characters class.

The stupidity of the anime continues as the MC is attacked by the girls, he recharges in battle at stages, including a mallet to the head just so 2 lolis can have time with him, and he continues t go back for more. The stupidity of writer, animator, director, etc shows, and makes this period look like people only cared about ecchi, harem'y moments like the nudity as the girls change from clothes to combat outfits, showing a really sad period for anime. Sadly it makes even early 2000's CLAMP productions look great.

The quest becomes one to save the world, and it repeatedly drones on, with his harem of underaged to legal girls and no one cares as usual in such programs bare his teacher, who would rather molest them instead.

The ecchi is poor at best, the animation even worse, and a waste of time of a storyline that offered many opportunities. As of today, it meets the standard as the worse anime i have ever watched and i have watched many 2's and 3's/