Ranked #5816

Ultimate Girls

Story 5/10
There is relatively no story to this show but what they have came up with and how they manage to execute the show was done the "best they could" with the 10 minute time span and ultraman universe. Minus the really lame drama in between the action.

Art 7/10
The giant monsters are drawn with just enough detail to go "oh wow" and the way they 'tastefully' cover up the main characters naughtybits is pretty slick as well.

Sound 7/10
Most of the sound consist of crashing noises, crying and screaming. So nothing really special. Well i did like the transform song and sound effects that accompanied it.

Character 7/10
I love the way they mold ultraman esque monsters with elements of comedy and ecchi. You can tell this is where they put all the time and effort in. And in a giant monster anime, that is what its all about. From a doujin monster to even respected illustrators get the giant monster treatment. Its amazing what they can pull of in 10 minutes...Too bad they just cant fight.

Enjoyment 8/10
I really enjoyed the overall experience. Dont get me wrong this show is definitely not for everyone. The basic formula for this show is ECCHI + GIANT MONSTERS + LOLIS = Ultimate girls. So if those elements arent your thing, then by all means avoid this show. But frankly i love ecchi and i love lolis, but i dont love giant monsters as much... but slap ecchi giant monsters, and for somereason they're interesting to me.

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This review contains minimal spoilers! (Not that there is a lot to spoil…)

Story- Ultimate Girls’ story revolves around 3 girls who have been given special powers to fight random monsters that attack Japan every Monday. They have the ability to grow Godzilla-size, but the catch is that the longer the girls remain in giant form, the more their clothes start to disappear (how wonderfully ecchi! ^^). It would have made for a fun, humorous story with ecchi moments scattered throughout the plot, however, somebody made the bad decision to try to add a romantic plot line into the storyline which revolved around two of the Ultimate girls (Silk and Vivian) and the other Ultimate girls’ brother, whose name is unimportant. Attempting to add a somewhat serious subplot into a ridiculous anime hurt Ultimate Girls’ story more than it enhanced it. This made half the episodes quite boring to watch as meager attempts at adding a romantic plot kept interrupting the fun of the rest of the show.

Art- Most of the artwork wasn’t very exciting to look at and the colors that were used were very childish- they included primarily bright reds, blues, and yellows. The parts of the show that artwork was given any serious focus or attention to detail were during the ecchi moments. This is where most of the effort should have been focused anyway since most people watching this series would probably be watching it for gratuitous amounts of fan service anyway. Besides that, there isn’t much to comment on in terms of art, I suppose the action scenes were animated well enough and the setting was appropriate, even though it included too many childish colors.

Sound- I’m not sure how to even properly comment on an ecchi series’ sound, but I’ll give it a shot. The background music wasn’t very noticeable except song that sounded like a remix of some traditional middle-eastern song. I have odd tastes in music, so I personally enjoyed this tune even though it didn’t fit in with the series at all. The opening song was quite unoriginal, with stale female vocals, a guitar, some drums, etc. I couldn’t be bothered to listen to the ending song, so I can’t give a competent comment on it. Sound effects were fun: I loved over-exaggerated crash noises that went off during the fight scenes. It made some of them quite funny and memorable, particularly when the first monster smacked Silk with the Eiffel Tower and she came crashing down to the ground. XD And, of course, all the high-pitched ecchi noises were properly included in the show as well.

Character- I would have been fine with minimal character development so that the producers could have spent more time focusing on the funny aspects of the show, but the sad attempts at character development ruined this. We had all the stereotypical ecchi characters- the ENF (embarrassed nude female) as Silk, the “mature woman” as Vivian, and the wild/crazy Haruhi-esque girl as Tsubomi. Each character really did not have much depth behind them and there wasn’t much to work with when trying to form a romantic love story between the characters and Tsubomi’s brother. Each character reacted in a typical matter to certain situations, displayed a minimal range of emotions, and did not grow in any way throughout the story.

Enjoyment- The anime was fun for its humor and ecchiness, but the boring love story really took a lot of the enjoyment out of the series, making it a boring watch for a good six or seven episodes (over half the series!). My enjoyment died the more I watched the series until I was ready to take a long nap by episode 12. *Yawn*

Overall- Ultimate Girls was fun to watch for a laugh with friends, but trying to take it seriously really ruins the fun factor and leaves the viewer with feeling bored and unsatisfied. If you are looking for some fun ecchi-action, Ultimate Girls is for you, but if you expect any sort of developed plot to go along with it, you will likely be thoroughly disappointed.
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