Medaka Box

Medaka Kurokami is, in the truest sense of the word, perfect. Beautiful, intelligent, and athletic, Medaka's dream is to make others happy. So when she runs for Student Council President of the prestigious Hakoniwa Academy, winning the election with 98% of the votes is only to be expected.

The very first thing the boisterous new president does is set up the "Medaka Box," a suggestion box allowing students to submit any kind of request for assistance. Together with the cynical Zenkichi Hitoyoshi, her childhood friend who has been strong-armed into helping, Medaka fulfills these requests at a ridiculous rate. For every job completed, she adds flowers to the student council room, with the aim of filling the entire school. However, the two are about to find out that helping others may be a lot harder than they think as they begin to uncover a devastating plan centering on the academy and even Medaka herself!

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Kurokami, Medaka

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Toyosaki, Aki
Japanese

Hitoyoshi, Zenkichi

Main

Ono, Yuuki
Japanese

Shiranui, Hansode

Main

Katou, Emiri
Japanese

Kikaijima, Mogana

Main

Kayano, Ai
Japanese

Akune, Kouki

Main

Namikawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Nabeshima, Nekomi

Supporting

Kotobuki, Minako
Japanese

Unzen, Myouri

Supporting

Park, Romi
Japanese

Miyakonojou, Oudo

Supporting

Katsunuma, Kiyoshi
Japanese

Hitoyoshi, Hitomi

Supporting

Onigase, Harigane

Supporting

Ohashi, Ayuru
Japanese

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Beniya, Yoshikazu

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Saeki, Shouji

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Watanabe, Jun

Sound Director

Takamura, Yuuta

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"HAPPY CRAZY BOX" by Minami Kuribayashi

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"Ohanabatake ni Tsuretette (お花畑に連れてって)" by Medaka Kurokami (CV: Aki Toyosaki)

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Mar 21, 2021

hexashadow13

Recommended

tl;dr: A show with some potential in terms of smaller aspects, but that is lacking in that it’s a character focused show that only has one particularly interesting character.

Medaka Box is an anime that isn’t really bad at anything, but is great at very little as well. It’s the story of the titular character Medaka who is incredibly overpowered. However, she isn’t the protagonist, rather the protagonist is someone that is much more normal and is basically just following along, Zenkichi. Medaka is pretty great. She’s just in general pretty likable due to how positive and powerful she she is and pulls off a lot ... of pretty amazing feats over the show. She’s also shown to have some depth with her rage form. Still, it never really feels like she gets character development. The protagonist fares even worse, wherein he both doesn’t seem to have much depth, nor does he get any character development. He actually has less to him than most of the characters in the show, including the prominent side characters.

The way the show is structured is essentially that the student council gets a series of requests that each lead them to get involved with one more side characters. Through doing so, Medaka and the rest of the council essentially push these side characters to grow. This is incredibly straightforward and simplistic, but it gives the side characters character arcs and clear character growth. A few of those characters end up becoming main characters and joining the student council, so outside of the main two the main characters do have character development, but this development is entirely frontloaded and there is never any development beyond that after they join the student council. As a result, in what feels incredibly strange, whoever it feels like are the main characters at the time never get any character development. Medaka feels like a strong enough character to power through that and still be interesting and easy to get invested, but none of the other characters are, and thus in terms of characters the cast doesn’t feel very strong.

There’s also nothing like any sort of overarching plot, rather just small stories that focus on characters, so even if these individual stories are mostly decent enough in and of themselves, holistically they don’t add up to all that great of a plot. There’s a lot of good comedy, equally held up by Medaka and the jokester character Shiranui, but it doesn’t quite feel like it’s enough to make the show great. There’s also some pretty exciting action, but it only shows up for an episode near the end of the show, so that isn’t enough to hold the anime up either. Thus while there’s definitely some good there, it overall still feels kind of lacking.

The art and animation were decent enough but not exceptional. There were some pretty interesting designs though. The OP was solid with a decent song and visuals that fit quite well with a bunch of somewhat hidden Medaka’s throughout. The ED was decent enough. The soundtrack wasn’t particularly memorable but it did what it needed to.

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Nov 27, 2014

Monjoex

Mixed Feelings

Oddly enough, I found myself enjoying this show more than I thought I would. Far from perfect, it still has it where it counts with its witty humor and “out there” characters.

According to fans of the manga, the anime really didn’t cover a lot of ground. More or less the majority of it was introducing the characters and developing them as they interact with each other in a case by case sort of way. The last, oh let’s say, third of the series is the first story arc.

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Oct 4, 2021

Resting_Bonfire

Not Recommended

Medaka Box

I watched the anime first and read the manga afterward out of curiosity. And as I expected, the third arc in the manga (right where the anime left off) is the best. Everything that comes before and after is almost a waste of time.

But wait! Medaka Box is a "satire" anime manga, right? Shouldn't this be entertaining in some way then? It parodies shounen/manga cliché, character stereotypes, cliché scenes are poked fun at. Everything is present. Even the use of the "plot armor" aspect, in terms of plot.

What could go wrong?

First and foremost, the type of humor is completely forced ...

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