I was looking one anime download page when I saw title "Naisho no Tsubomi". I wanted to know what kind of anime it is, so I clicked the title and read what kind of story there was. "Fifth graders thinking about pregnancy, period and the strange feeling around boys..." It sounded pretty interesting to me, so I downloaded all three episodes and watched. I guess that fifth graders are little too young to have period and first kisses, but ~
Animation style was really cute ! It wasn't the same as almost every anime has nowadays, it was cute and definitely different. Even if you think it cute, it was sometimes pretty annoying and some face weren't looking right to the moment. Their hair and clothes were cute, mut face... not so cute as I could have thought. But the first kiss was really cute !
When I looked the voice actor in MAL, I noticed that there were many good names around. I knew almost all of them, or I have heard their voices somewhere, so it was nice to watch their speak in little different anime. But it was little shame that there weren't backgroundmusic. It would have bring some new atmosphear to this serie.
Because of the number of episodes were so small, you really don't get to know all the characters. It is just a scratch. Even if Tsubomi is almost in every act, you don't know what kind of things she really likes or how she became friends with Rea or why she was so good friend with boys. Saya was the only one who you could get known better, but in the end you don't know why she just disappeared sometimes. It would be so much better if there has been some more information about characters.
This anime is not really funny. It's hilarious is all about that, that fifth graders are shouting "penis" all over the school. Or that, that Tsubomi is watching her friends tits and thinking why there is hair in the "special place". But there isn't any other funny things so you can't enjoy it really much.
But still, it was some new experience in anime so I just had to give it eight points. And maybe it was that too, that Saya resembled Nadeshiko from Shugo Chara! ? I don't really know, but this was something new for me and I guess that there isn't really much animes, which are similar to this.
