Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate (Love, Election and Chocolate)

Yuuki Oojima is a member of his high school's Food Research Club, whose main activity is eating snacks bought with funds allocated to them by the school. However, this peaceful and wasteful lifestyle is under threat as the upcoming student election draws near. Satsuki Shinonome, a major candidate and the head of the department of financial affairs, campaigns on a platform that includes disbanding meritless clubs such as the Food Research Club and redirecting their budgets to proper ones.

Understandably, the Food Research Club is in an uproar over this development, with president Chisato Sumiyoshi vowing to preserve it. But what can they even do to stop the highly competent and popular Satsuki from getting elected?

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Adaptation:	Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate
Sequel:	Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate: Koi Imouto!
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Gibu, Yuuko
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"Signal Graph (シグナルグラフ)" by Annabel

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"Kaze no Naka no Primrose (風のなかのプリムローズ)" by Ceui

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Dec 29, 2014

Kilodragon

Recommended

At first, I was trying to find some mediocre romance comedy harem anime, which can give me tons of boobs and laugh for example, Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Mao or Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica to name a few. I mean it's Christmas now, and I am still single, watching anime at home. All by myself.......... I needed anime to comfort me. :(
Anyway, I then came across this oddly under rated anime Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate :3

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At first glance, the plot might be one of your normal, slice of life school anime. I first thought so too, but then ...

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Jul 26, 2013

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Love, Elections, Chocolate.

On the surface it seems like a typical highschool drama. There's a boy, he's part of a club, and that club is going to be disbanded if they don't do something! When I see a story like this what it comes down to typically is how enjoyable the characters are to watch. Coming into this I knew the anime wasn't my typical selection: It's not in the top 1000, and it's rated 7.4. But I found the anime to be enjoyable overall.

If you're trying to decide whether or not to give this a try, I'd say be ready to accept a certain amount ... of tropes and cliches. I'd say it's not a masterpiece, it's not great. It had a lot of flaws. But I found it enjoyable, and it has a happy and romantic ending.

To begin, this is based off of a visual novel by the same name. As such, it suffers a quite a bit from "all sorts of females are inexplicably in love with the main character" syndome (ironically not so much the club members). It feels very scatter brained because you can tell where there would've been multiple routes for different heroines in the visual novel; however these are not pursued in the anime. This leaves the Main Character feeling rather weak and indecisive at times. For the majority of the episodes though you have a slice of life show about a guy trying to get elected, with occasional bits of drama sprinkled in. The plot and drama really heat up in the last stretch of episodes, and this is when the show is at it's best in my opinion.

The art/sound were both well done but nothing to be amazed at. They don't detract from the storytelling, and the music does a good job of setting the mood at the right times (mostly).

The anime would've been better if it had focused on one primary female heroine, and if the main character felt a bit stronger and decisive. It did feel like the story had gaps, it was as if there was too much story to fit into 12 episodes (again, probably because it's based on a visual novel in which all of this could be explained in more detail). Still, it did something I find few animes doing these days and that's end happily. And I liked the fact that it didn't try to spring a new romance into the fray mid way through. Despite the fact that the M.C. feels pretty weak in his convictions (towards potential romantic interests) at times, the anime ended romantically as I think it should've.

Based on enjoyment alone I'd give it a 7, but I think overall I have to go with a 6. I by no means feel like this was a bad show, but you've gotta be ready to accept it for what it is: a nice little story about a club trying to get their friend elected president with a little bit of plot to intensify the romance at the end.

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Oct 23, 2012

RyugaHellsing

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Tthis anime is very much like it's in the respect that it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. The plot is broken and feels rushed to say the least. The score is lackluster and the characters are little more than boring stereotypes. Almost everything about this show screams 'average'. To be honest, I would've been happy if it was indeed average. But i was terribly disappointed.

The biggest problem with Senkyo is it's setting. it is simply put, laughable. Students control EVERYTHING in Takafuji Academy from staff appointment to budget management. in fact, there is no sane adult to be seen during the course of ... the entire anime. It really is preposterous to even assume that 17 year olds have the requisite knowledge to manage a large educational institution. As if this were not enough, the politics surrounding the student council elections is grossly exaggerated. Backstabbing, scheming and attempted murder are what this show considers 'real politics'. Wait a minute, did the writers forget that the story is set in a high school?

The plot doesn't do anything to ameliorate the boneheadedness of the setting . in fact there is almost nothing apart from the dull politicking to the plot. of course, it is dull because it isn't done right. We don't see Oojima making valid points to support his cause, instead we see him giving supposedly inspirational speeches while forgettable music plays in the background. To be fair to the anime, it is worth mentioning that it does bring to the fore serious issues such as student harassment. But it doesn't go anywhere with it. No solutions are provided to the problems the show points out. I'm inclined to believe that the writers never even tried to come with any solutions. This is because the show turns into a lame thriller around the 10th episode. It seems as if all the drama was placed there just so that the anime could avoid discussing the more serious issues that it had brought up.

Most of Senkyo's characters are boring one-dimensional stereotypes of the worst sort. There are several females surrounding the protagonist as is to be expected from a harem. But only two of them are worth writing in any detail about. Chisato, the childhood friend is probably one of the most self-centered, whiny and psychologically unstable females in anime I've had the misfortune to witness. Unfortunately, she is the main heroine of the show. It really is a shame because Satsuki, Chisato's competitor and Oojima's political rival is so much better than her in every conceivable way. Satsuki's back-story although cliched, is incomparably better than chisato's, which is laughable to say the least. Speaking of back stories, did I mention that they are the only form of character development there is? And to be absolutely honest, these little splashes of character development feel quite prefunctory and often have no bearing on the plot whatsoever.

The art, animation, ost and voicework are all pretty average. Nothing much to write about here.

Some people might excuse the myriad flaws of this horrendously blighted excuse for an anime due to the fact that it is a mainstream harem. But there are a lot of mainstream anime out there with a more cohesive plot and better fanservice.

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