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.
