Miru Tights

-Introduction-

Ecchi is a genre loved by a lot of people and hated by others.
Most of the time an ecchi anime is also an harem anime and it features a male protagonist which attracts every girl in that series.
Usually, the focus in ecchi series is woman's chest. Every time.
Also, most of the time the animation in those series is bad.
Aren't you tired of these cliches?
Miru Tights is a breath of a fresh air and a masterpiece in anime. This is definitely is the one. The show that saved japanese animation from creativity bankruptcy.

-Story-
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Miru Tights doesn't care about dumb expedients to start a useless plot. It shows us separate stories. The daily lives of highschool girls.
No main plot. It shows us the beauty of quotidianity.
This does not mean that the series is plain and boring. Did you actually think that?
The anime isn't shy and surprises us with unexepected plot twists and breaks cliches.
Shots aren't the usual dumb coincidences. Seriously, everyone is tired of coincidences.
They are natural.
Example: a girls is walking. The skirt doesn't randomly fly away. The camera gently shows us the situation from different points of view.
The girls' dignity isn't thrown away. Their distinct beauty remains solid and substantial during the whole series.
As we progress through the series, you're gonna find out something: Miru Tights's episodes are not randomly put. They are actually connected.
You're gonna find out that there's a major plotline. An actual timeline. Yes.
At some point, the anime takes an unexpected twist. From a tights-only anime it becomes more different. Not gonna say much more since I want you guys to experience it yourself.

-Art-

As a fan of his art, I wondered how my favorite pixiv artist's art would be adapted in anime form.
Luckily, I wasn't disappointed. His character design is portrayed with loyalty and justice towards his drawings.
Talking about animation, I was pleasantly surprised.
Usually, ecchi series have subpar animation from low-budget studios and that's bad. Yokohama Animation Lab is an exception.
This series has excellent direction and godlike animation and production value.
The ecchi scenes are intelligently thought and animated. The shots are perfectly put together.
I wish Yokohama Animation Lab makes more anime in the future, because they have an excellent technical value.

-Sound-

Miru Tights knows how to deal with people.
You're not watching this series to listen to its opening. Miru Tights knows that and doesn't have one. It goes straight to the point.
We have a short intro instead. In this introduction girls are walking and a legendary sentence is said: "Miru Tights". The focus during this intro is, obviously, legs.
As for the voice acting, like most of the time, it's actually very well done. In episode 8 you'll hear the peak of its dub. Not gonna spoil, though.
When a scene is supposed to tease you, the voice is actually really teasing.
After 3 minutes of godlike stuff, we have a short relaxing outro. There are different versions of it, too! The animation during this ending theme is based on, of course, legs.

-Character-

Series like Baccano, Durarara and Boogiepop focus and develop more than a couple characters at the same time. However, Miru Tights is the absolute master of introducing perfectly new characters. It shows us new characters every episodes and all of those characters have a three-dimensional personality and are realistic. Male characters aren't cliched and there isn't even a silly useless harem lead. Girls are independent.

-Final Thoughts-

Miru Tights is a masterpiece.
It's a beautiful story about coming of age, discrimination, freedom of speech and a lot of other themes.
Perfect in every aspect, I can safely reccomend Miru Tights to literally everyone. Kids, adolescents and adults. Girls and boys. Even people who don't watch anime. Everyone will like this because of its qualities.
This anime changed my view of what a true masterpiece is. I'm speechless honestly.
Anime like this make me think "Wow, anime isn't dead".
This is the one. The anime that saved anime.
Wow.

“Thicc thighs save lives, but thigh highs will be my demise” -a man of culture.

As a short form ecchi series it’s not bad in that it doesn’t tone down the content past episode one as there are quite a few steamy scenes later on in the series. All in all though there really isn’t much worth diving into. It’s girls wearing tights. Seriously, almost all of the shots are focused on either their legs or feet. If that’s your thing, it’s a good way to kill 20 minutes. If it’s not then (you are clearly not a man of culture) that’s ok.

Each episode is ... four minutes of school girls and sometimes a teacher wearing tights that don’t leave much to the imagination and being very very flirtatious while doing it. I’ve never had a fetish for that kind of thing till until the sensei enters the room and all of a sudden I feel like I am being seduced. Seriously can we please call 2019 the year of the sensei.

I give Miru Tights a 6 out of 10 cause it’s mighty fine.

Legs are great. They are especially useful for walking and shit like that. But there's more than meets the eye! No, wait, wrong situation. There is more than their functionality because they can also be aesthetically very pleasing to look at.

Legs are not my fetish number one. Stockings may hypnotize me occasionally and perhaps blood has escaped my head after witnessing cute lil toes under ideal circumstances. However, I do appreciate certain aspects that are related to the way legs are portrayed more consistently. I love it when anime girls get on their toes to reach upper shelve, or to give a hug or kiss. ... Garden of the Words has some of the most memorable leg-scenery where they are neither hot nor cute but not not neither either, it's weird but I liked it. I am also a huge fan of tickle-attacks which gives soles special value. Point is: legs can be replacement for men's lost dreams and give hope for better tomorrow.

But I didn't especially enjoy Miru Tights. It doesn't offer anything new nor does it deal with already existing leg.. gimmicks in very interesting manner. In fact, it makes the whole concept of leg fetish seem quite a dull and meh. Legs exists, some like them, end of story, not a big deal. This seems to be its message, or at least that's how its execution can be summed up because its take is very neutral and it does not do specifically anything to get your attention, other than have legs for those who like legs because legs. Basically, it takes legs for granted instead of showing respect or giving them the value they deserve.

There has been quite a few ecchi-ish shows about variety of different fetishes and the likes. Many likable half-seriously or full ironically. One thing in common in both: men of culture memes as mindset. This show really did not do it for me unlike most of the others. The art is ultra bad, especially the color pallet is awful, the girls are 5/10 at best. There is nothing original in the art department. Not a single girl, piece of clothing or leg scene that stands out. To be accurate, I did like one lesbian leg scene, but it wasn't animated, the camera zoomed into a desk and all there was left was the distant voices of girls doing gay things to each others. The one thing I wanted to see wasn't there.

To continue with the art. Unless you like black, partially transparent pantyhoses as much as bank robbers do, there is not much for you here. As a whole, its art approach is very bland, making it boring to look at. Many of the leg scenes are still art work with camera roll-over or alternatively 8 fps animation. You can find more variety and better artwork at literally any popular h-website. Including SFW content which Miru Tights is all about.

The main thing that even makes watching this different from browsing stills at any hentai feed are the story events, but they are nonsense. Girls stare at their own legs, play with torn pantyhoses, or try out bunny costumes for the sake of it. One single event often taking the entire episode. The stories are identical yet completely different each time yet still identical.

You can find better leg footage from most seasonal shows that offer fanservice or ecchi traits, which makes this very pointless since the only thing it really wants to spotlight can be listed in its weaker sides. If there's anything I could praise, episodes 06 and 07 because cats and tickling, so there's your +1 and +1, mainly because giving this a lower score would imply it achieved something ultra bad, but it didn't even manage to do that.