Yumeria

Yumeria is your typical harem anime. Loser guy with no girlfriend finds mysterious girl and suddenly has girls falling all over him. While there is nothing particularly remarkable about this series it does everything well enough to be a solid series.

The story is weak but has just enough to keep you interested throughout. Since the series is short the lack of any real story depth doesn’t hurt it too much. Nothing earth shattering or original and the plot twists are predictable and simplistic. Tomokazu and his friends find themselves thrust into a dream world where they have to do ... battle with monsters trying to break through to the real world. While this sounds like it might be exciting with lots of battles and action there isn’t. While a lot of episodes have battles in them they are usually very short and doesn’t really pick up until the end. Yumeria also tries to be a romance as well but doesn’t see it through to the end. Pretty much all of the romantic elements are left open at the end. As with most harem genre shows there is plenty of panty shots, boob jiggle, and echiiness but it is all pretty tame.

Characters are fun and enjoyable, though they are a bit underdeveloped. The story leaves a lot of questions about the backgrounds of the main characters and the back story that is given is simple and not very detailed. Still they all manage to develop their personalities well and by episode 4 all the main characters have been introduced. There are very few supporting characters but the one who really steals the show is Ishikari, Tomokazu's teacher. He has a number of hilarious lines.

Visually Yumeria is mixed, some of the animation looks really great but at other times it falls flat. Particularly in the opening animation the characters look odd compared to how they are drawn in the rest of the series. The OP and ED songs are ok, nothing really great just ordinary. The background music though is terrible. It sounds dated and just didn’t fit. Voice acting was pretty good, though Mone got pretty annoying by episode 5.

There are a lot of far worse shows than this out there. Still it does have a number of laughs. If you want a solid series to enjoy than this is a good pick, but just don’t expect anything new or groundbreaking.

This anime can stand on its own. The story is fairly straight forward, no fillers. It kept me interested throughout, heck I watched all 12 episodes in an evening.

The characters were enjoyable. There wasn't much beating around the bush as far as romance was concerned, which suited me quite well. Nobody "did" it (Like the first episode of REC!), you still have the blushing and accidental bath scenes. It was just refreshing to have people like each other without dragging it on for eons. The classmate and the elder sister type were especially enjoyable. The younger characters were quite fun as well.

I'd say the ... balance between story, humor, and fighting were pretty well done. Perhaps a few of the "power up" sequences were a bit repetitive, but hey thats how they got some brief ecchi in. There honestly wasn't THAT much. I think it was just the right amount, for those who aren't a big fan of that.

The art suited my tastes . Beautiful, not too young, cute.

Some con's perhaps would be if you're into fighting, the repetitive "powers" probably wouldn't do it for you.

I had originally scored 7's across the board, but in writing the review, i'm going to bump up a few.

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.

Let me put it this way. Have you ever seen Power Rangers? of course you have. Everyone has seen Power Rangers. Now picture Power Rangers only in a very perverted way. Thats Yumeria. All of the "Rangers" are well endowed women. which seems interesting. but its really not. The girls tramsform into their fighting outfits and use different "Power Ranger Like" weapons to fight of oddly made enemies. so thats about all i have to say. If the idea of Perverted Power Rangers appeals to you. then you should watch this show. Other wise stay away!

I had a blast watching Yumeria. Being a person who is rather tired of the harem genre, I was surprised that I loved this show as I much as I did. While it doesn't boast many new ideas than what's already been done, it's comedy feels a bit refreshing, the art is very vibrant and beautiful, the girls in the show are all lovely, and there is enough gratuitous fan service to satisfy without offending.
What sets this immediately from other harem titles that came out around the same time here in the U.S. (Marburaho and Girls Bravo), is the personality of Tomakazu Mikuri. He's ... still as much of a loser as any other character you've seen, but unlike Keitaro in Love Hina, Kazuki in Maburaho, or whatever the kid's name in Girls Bravo was, Mikuri has a solid sense of comedic timing that goes beyond just seeing a girl naked in a hot spring and doing a double take, or being on the receiving end of a super kick for seeing panties (that's all still intact, mind you). He's a pretty refreshing character whose more well-rounded than other guys, and I compare him to Tenchi, who is also a bit underrated in the same respect. All five girls are running cliches that you've seen elsewhere, but that doesn't mean they aren't fun. Here's a brief cap of them;
Mone: Speaks only one word, borders on kawaii overload at times
Nanase: Mikuri's sexy guardian, pretty ditzy, but is she hot!
Mizuki: The brainy girl next door, bashfulness makes her really cute
Kuyou: Mikuri's childhood friend with little sister appeal rather than love rival.
Neneko: Probably would've been cuter if Mone didn't exist, but they gel well.

Pick and choose them as individuals, but as a unit, they are all enjoyable. The abusive homeroom teacher is awesome as well.
The animation is pretty slick, even if footage is reused for the ladies' transformation scenes (I didn't complain, these girls are worth leering at in my book), and the character designs are full of life, especially Nanase, who bounces around more than a D.O.A girl. The final two episodes do some really nice visual tricks that are kinda cool, and the action plays out pretty well placed without getting too cluttered or confusing. The dream world put me in the mind of a backdrop ripped out of .hack//SIGN, but it's surreal nonetheless. Whether it's for the beautiful girls or....oh hell, it's the girls...Yumeria is great to look at. Take that, super-skinny girls in Burn Up W.
Most of the humor is partly due to the English dubbed track. Most of the voice actors do a pretty decent job. Chris Patton, a voice actor I hate (it's an understatement just how much I don't like him) is alright as Mikuri, and Britanny Karbowski does a great job at accentuating Mone's....well, "mones" to reflect what mood she's in. It's not super impressive, but it's the little things like that to make it less monotone.
IN CLOSING: Yumeria is one of the last harem-themed comedies I enjoyed before they began to overflow the anime market, deluding the formula with carbon copies (Samurai Harem spawns Onimari Himari) simply existing to show girls in compromising positions. It's light-hearted, fun, not too perverted to make you feel dirty but gives enough for great eye candy, the girls are sexy and cute and entertaining (except maybe Neneko), and tiny bits of suspense and intrigue happens early on to keep you interested in the plot, even if the story is a bit flawed. All in all, this is a pretty solid title.

STORY: 7
ART: 8
SOUND: 7
CHARACTERS: 8
ENJOYMENT: 8
OVERALL SCORE: 8 out of 10

PROS: Lovely girls (that Nanase is foxy), well balanced comedy, a lot of fun
CONS: Might not be ecchi enough for some, a weird poorly explained climax

(Be advised that I only watched five episodes before dropping this anime. However, that does not mean that I didn’t do my research.)

Yumeria certainly isn’t an anime that I’d watch again. I actually couldn’t even watch it all the way through. I lasted for maybe five episodes, and then I finally realized that nothing new was going to happen, and that this was just some harem/ecchi wannabe.

There’s nothing wrong with harem or ecchi, if it’s executed well. If the anime wasn’t filled with clichés, had a good story, etc., then I would actually be glad to watch. If it was cliché, but everything else was ... great, I would also watch. However, Yumeria was just barely executed decently.

I found the story to be lacking. I actually liked the first episode—I laughed a little, and I thought it would get better—but there’s simply nothing added to it. When I think of fighting monsters in a dream world, I think beautiful graphics, great transformations, vivid attacks, unique twists. Yumeria has none of this. Maybe I was too hopeful.

Speaking of beautiful graphics and vivid attacks, the art did almost nothing to execute this. The animation was, in most parts, a bit faulty. Some things were drawn fairly well; a majority of things were not. For example, in the opening, the characters look different than they do in the actual anime. They just seem drawn wrong.

In retrospect, I didn’t like the art style in general. If that’s what you like, then, by all means, take my opinion with a grain of salt.

The music—I can’t really comment on it. I don’t remember any music in the episodes that I watched. The opening song wasn’t my thing; the ending song I never stayed to listen to.

For Yumeria, characters got the highest rating at 7. I hate Tomokazu, our typical "normal" perverted main character... Except when he interacts with Mone.

The girls were bearable, not necessarily because they were unique (they aren't unique at all - we have the biggest lolita, the cute one, the shy one with feelings for Tomokazu, the obnoxious busty one, and the obsessed stalker) or seemed real but because I thought they were amusing, and I liked the way that they interacted with one another (just not with Tomokazu). They were sort of funny.

The girls in Yumeria are generally quite kawaii. Mone is my personal favorite. She's just adorable, though a little obnoxious. The transformation scenes were probably the best part of the animation—I thought they were fairly cool.

Plus, I love me some cute anime girls—just like my absolute favorite character, Ishikari.

Ishikari's just amazing… HE should have been the main character. Like seriously.

Overall, Yumeria isn’t an anime to watch if you want something great and jarring. It isn’t good to watch if you want to see some good, hardcore ecchi, either. If you’re someone looking for some good light ecchi—nothing explicit—then you’re either going to have to find those diamonds in the rough or wait until you’re ready for the real stuff.

If you want something light-hearted and slightly amusing, and you’re open to laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of the Yumeria, you might find this fairly enjoyable. Just don’t expect much, if anything.

This story is very underrated..One could say that Yumeria is anime for Erotomans or sth like that.But what we have here?Many good things from with person can take great pleasure and have simply a lot of fun.The characters have got many personalities and even if the world and plot is simple overall this anime will make one's day:) I recommend it!

Take any ecchi, sci-fi anime, remove ALL of the story and character depth, and you get Yumeria. This is anime was produced solely to fill the dead space between commercials. To put another way, don't waste your time.

This was just a simple show which is okay but in this case boring. I made it to the end but that is not saying much.

Story: A simple plot of beat the bad guys and make sure they do not get into the real world, easy right? However, the characters did not make it seem like it was that important and were more concerned with drama in the real world. Since there were only 10 or 11 characters that were really shown I did not really care about keeping track of names. The fight scenes were lazy. The transformations into their outfits were the same ... thing each time like it was just a copy and paste so the makers of the show could save on the animation budget. There was not much to keep track of for the show was that simple.

Characters:

Tomokazu: He was bland hand was just acted as if he really had nothing to care for, by that I mean responsibilities. He was a nice guy and cared for the people around him.

Mizuki: I liked her to a degree. She was Tomo’s main interest. She is the typical nice girl that feels the same way about Tomo.

Everyone Else: Bland/okay but not really worth paying much attention to.

I think it's fair to say this anime is frankly mone, you know?

Remember all those harem animes with that one little sister that keeps repeating "oniichan" over and over, well replace that with mone and add a few "frankly" and "you, knows?' in there and you got yourself Yumeria.

But in all seriousness its a decent show thats for the most part light hearted, if you enjoy a decent harem anime then give it a shot.

The only thing i'd say could be better is the animation but its from 2004 so my standards for HQ 4k animation wasn't very high. The sound is also quite poor ... but same situation really, i cant recall a single anime from before 2008 that had good sound.

Watch this show for the mone

Yumeria is an Anime based on a Visual Novel of the same name made by NAMCO (Yes, the same NAMCO that made Pac-Man and Ace Combat). If there is one of the most mediocre harems that could be, it's this one. And needless to say, I wasted 3 days of my life watching this.

Story: 5/10
The story follows Tomokazu Mikuri who on the eve of his 16th birthday has a dream where he's in this strange world. In this world he sees a young girl fighting some evil force. He wakes up only to find the same girl of his dream having slept next to ... him. The entire anime basically revolves around him and the harem of girls fighting against this force in the dream who try to make it to the real world. The story is relatively boring and cringy (at points) up until the last 3 episodes where things gets better in terms of plot.

Art: 6/10
The art was nice, but nothing was necessarily special about it. There were scenes of fanservice, but nothing stands out from the animation.

Sound: 5/10
The sound was mediocre, no songs during the episodes really stood out. The OP was pretty crappy, but the ED was very good, and in fact, the ED is one of my favorite EDs in all of Anime.

Character: 4/10
Knowing this is a harem with magical girl aspects, don't expect characters that'll make a lasting impression. Mikuri is your typical 16 year old pervert who is the protagonist and is the center of attention, Mone is one of the two "lolis" of the series who just says "Mone" (and that gets annoying after the first episode with her repeating it), Mizuki is your typical shy childhood friend who tends to be critical of the perverted Male MC but has romantic feelings for him, Nanase is the family guardian/cousin of the MC who has romantic/incestuous feelings towards Mikuri, Kuyou is basically Nanase's smartass younger sister, and Neneko is the other "lolis" who is in love with the MC and calls herself "Mikuri's wife."

Enjoyment: 4/10
The episodes are, as I said, pretty boring, with only the last 3 episodes really sparking my interest. It's pretty sub-par for an Anime and it's not very appealing.

Overall: 4/10
A typical harem anime with magical girl aspects was not the best thing I've seen. The only good thing to enjoy from this anime is the ED. That's it. The Ending Song. If you want something with meaningful characters and a good plot, just avoid this.

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.

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/