Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!

I like this anime because it is childhood friends turning into lovers. Every episode is funny, and the characters are interesting. I love every episode, but my favorites were "When Tomo puts on a swimsuit and Abandoned Cinderella". I did enjoy the genres romance and comedy, their faces were funny, and the two characters have romance feelings for each other. The art is good. The characters are cool and tomo is strong and a tomboy. Her bast friend Misuzu is scary and smart, and Carol is an air head and very cheerful. Junichiro is Tomo's love interest, he is nice and strong. His flaw was ... that he didn't see Tomo feeling for him at the beginning of the series and later on in the series he realized that he has romantic feelings for tomo.

Boy oh boy, do I like some campy romance? Yes I do!

Tomo is a girl! is light hearted, simple and comedic romance high school story.
Whole story and gag source is that titular girl is brutish, karate tomboy, and her love interest, Jun, a childhood neighbor, is also thick, sporty, karate bloke. And they know each other since childhood.

Supporting characters are Tomo's best friend, a machiavellian sociopath flat goth-loli-like Gundou, cute airhead, but actually cunning emotionally closed imported blondie bimbo Carol, her love interest and cousin (sweethomealabama.mp3) Kousuke, who is girlish, blonde weakling, and Tatsumi - a happy-go-lucky pushover to fill the gaps, and is hinted ... viewers should ship him and Gundou.

Rest of characters are: two basic bitc... girls, some hoodlums, and carbon copy mothers of main cast, plus young, less feisty Heihachii as Tomo's father.

Show starts with Tomo confessing to Jun, and Jun, an average teenage boy, totally thinking a girl confessing to him is a declaration of mutual, ever male bond friendship. You know, the regular and normal interaction of normal teenagers around the world.
Later on hilarity ensues as Gundou plays with socially inadept Tomo, and she is so thick, she takes it as helping, because Tomo is a girl! but also: very bad at reading people.

Like in most high school rom coms, pacing and avoid progression to check all the tropes of the trope list is getting painful. Adding how quality drops between episodes 4 and 12, with a huge bump in some scenes, makes it harder to swallow.
There's beach, clothes shopping and clothes shopping for a total makeover, needles exposition and backstory flashbacks, lots of deus ex and out of character turns of events, just to push the story to redo the sins of filling the show with checklist items and fillers, and again.
If it were not 13 episode series, it would suffer a lot, but as a reasonably short series, few things can be looked over. It does drag a bit in the finally though.
The worst part is pointless drama at the finale.
It does not serve a purpose, there was no build up, and there is no reward.

Strongest part of the series is voice work of Rie Takahashi as Tomo.
Personally, her screaming is on par with Hina Kino as Honda Hanako from Asobi Asobase, and there were few scenes I kept on rewinding to just listen to that beautiful, husky yelling in character.
Other voice cast is good to proper. They overdid a bit Carol and her mother, I understand it was conscious decision to push the trope and exploit it, but it wasn't over the top, and not really parodic. Just bit too much and not in a fun way.

Weakest parts were music, very safe and sounding like it was taken from dozen other shows, and quality of animation.
Troughtough the series Jun goes from thin boy to lean or even bulky middle aged man within few scenes, and fashion choices of mostly polo shirts really aged him weirdly. It bothered me a lot.
And not only Jun, but in the finale episode, both him and Tomo looked more like 20-40 year olds in few scenes rather than teens.
It was uncanny and certainly, made the finale episode less rewarding.

Background art was good but few shots were overused, most likely due to budget cuts.

TL;DR:
Tomo is a girl! surely is light hearted and silly show, many probably know trough "rawr X3 uwu" voice over the manga panels meme. But in the end, it is flawed production. Problems and resolutions characters are experiencing makes this series a bit retro, and if not for gaming handheld and wireless ps controllers, one could tell me that action took place in late 80s or earliest 90s and I would not have a reason to not believe them.
It is enjoyable show to a degree, but like I said, you need to just be very ok with how unoriginal and tired the genre is overall.
Was this to be your first romcom show ever, I would rather advise to watch something else, but not sure what actually since too many shows are just pretty much same these days...

I enjoyed it, but it is 5+/10 show. It's not mediocre, so a bit stretched 6/10 because Tomo's voice is perfection (and they didn't turn her into brut klutz, just slightly thick-ish idiot). Still, it feels like a bit of a stretch of a rating.

In general, is a forgettable anime. Typical romantic comedy without any difference from other regular shows of the same genre, the only difference with them is the plot of "a really strong tomboy as main char" and all the jokes will be around that idea. The story is left with an open end, it won't get a second season and nobody will care about that.

This anime passes without trouble or fanfare, not being good or bad, simply mediocre. It's like popcorn without salt, you can eat it but it won't taste at all.

Regular art and animation, regular characters, regular plots. If you enjoy most of ... the animes from this genre you probably will enjoy it, maybe you will even love it. If you where looking for something better than the average this won't be your show.