Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls

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English: Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls

Synonyms: Sega Hard Girls, Hi-sCool! Seha Girls

Japanese: Hi☆sCoool! セハガール

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 8, 2014 to Dec 24, 2014

Premiered: Fall 2014

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 22:00 (JST)

Producers: Sega

Licensors: Discotek Media

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Other

Genres: Comedy, Game

Duration: 11 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.53¹ (scored by 4,210 users)

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Ranked: #5601²

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The story of the anime will revolve around Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, and Mega Drive, who have just enrolled in SeHaGaga Academy at Tokyo's Haneda Ōtorii station. They are given an assignment needed to graduate by a suspicious teacher, and to clear this assignment, the girls need to enter the world of Sega games. The girls must try their best to graduate without incident.

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Adaptation:	Gendai Nihon ni Yattekita Sega no Megami ni Arigachi na Koto
Side story:	Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls Special

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Sega Saturn

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Takahashi, Minami
Japanese

Dreamcast

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Ichimichi, Mao
Japanese

Mega Drive

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Izawa, Shiori
Japanese

Genesis

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Tano, Asami
Japanese

TeraDrive

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Inoue, Marina
Japanese

Mega-CD

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Mikami, Shiori
Japanese

Mega Drive 2

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Yamaoka, Yuri
Japanese

Mega-CD 2

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Hayashi, Saori
Japanese

Super 32X

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Kano, Yui
Japanese

SG-1000 II

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Oozora, Naomi
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Sugahara, Souta

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Ichimichi, Mao

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Takahashi, Minami

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Izawa, Shiori

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"SeHa Gagaganbacchau!! (セハガガガンバッちゃう！！)" by Dreamcast (M.A.O), Sega Saturn (Minami Takahashi), Mega Drive (Shiori Izawa)

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#1: "SeHa Gagaganbacchau!! (セハガガガンバッちゃう！！)" by Dreamcast (M.A.O), Sega Saturn (Minami Takahashi), Mega Drive (Shiori Izawa) (ep 1)
#2: "Wakai Chikara (Sega Hard Girls Mix) (若い力 -SEGA HARD GIRLS MIX-)" by Naomi Oozora, Yuu Serizawa, Mai Aizawa, Minami Tanaka, Haruna Momono (eps 2-13)

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Jan 2, 2015

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

prinn (All reviews)

31 people found this review helpful

2014 was a bit of a drought for me, so when I saw Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls, not only was it a surprise, it was probably my favorite anime of 2014.

The episodes are 10 minute each, about the classic Sega systems, the Mega Drive (Genesis in U.S.), Sega Saturn, and Dreamcast, imagined as girls attending "Sega highschool," where they enter old skool Sega games and interact with other Sega characters from Virtual Fighter, Sonic, Golden Axe, Phantasy Star, etc.

I think this show is particularly for the retro gamer. If the idea of knocking someone silly with a huge Dreamcast controller, or seeing the Sega systems read more

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Jan 4, 2015

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 1

BanjoTheBear (All reviews)

22 people found this review helpful

(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)

As we all know, anime is a medium filled with a vast amount of ideas. From romantic-comedies involving "eighth grade middle school syndrome" to swiping at poetry cards, there is no shortage of shows willing to try something new. Another medium is exactly the same way: video games. Manly third-person shooters, plumbers jumping from platform to platform, and even intergalactic adventures are a small sampling of what video games have to offer. Some are hit or miss, and some even go down as legends. But in order to play these games, a game console is often required. In read more

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Jul 28, 2015

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

literaturenerd (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

One of the great things about anime is that the story could be about absolutely anything! Unfortunately, this means that some anime choose some REALLY stupid subject matter. Sega Hard Girls is an anime about the different generations of Sega hardware undergoing anthropomorphism into little moe girls. The Sega systems must graduate from Sega High School in order to enter the real world as consoles. Yep! This is going to be an odd one. I think Sega rediscovered the same bag of drugs they used to make Toejam and Earl!

The main characters are Mega Drive, Saturn, and Dreamcast. However, virtually every piece of hardware that Sega has ever made gets at least a cameo appearance. The girls play classic Sega games in order to receive points and graduate upon winning 100 points. This means that each episode will spoof a different Sega game and the art style will change to match the game in question. Unfortunately for non-Japanese audiences, a lot of the games spoofed in the show were either Japanese exclusive releases or games that were released internationally, but were only really popular in Japan. In other words, non-Japanese gamers are going to miss a LOT of the jokes and references. I will give the show credit for including dozens of different Sega characters and games, but I would have personally enjoyed it much more if I actually knew more than 1/5th of the games being referenced! I grew up with a Sega Genesis and I recognized: Dynamite Cop, Altered Beast, Sonic, Virtua Fighter, and Puyo Puyo (which was released in the US as Mean Bean Machine). The best spoof in the show by far is the Virtua Fighter episode in which they make fun of the horrible camera angles, ridiculous looking sprites, and terrible voice acting. That was actually funny for people who have played the first few Virtua Fighter games.

Since Sega underwent a massive collapse and no longer makes hardware, the show predictably is ripe with self depreciating humor. Saturn is always getting screwed, Dreamcast is a nerd who always wants to show off her internet feature, but only has dial up. Gamegear has anemia and collapses from exhaustion every 5 seconds. Megadrive is constantly feuding with her self obsessed American clone Genesis, who is a redneck that only likes sports and beating people up as opposed to games featuring a plot. The greatest feature of Dreamcast is that her clunky, giant controller is basically indestructible. Some of the jokes are actually sort of funny, but "misses" are far more frequent with this show. That is of course assuming that you grew up as a Sega kid. If you weren't a Sega kid than ZERO of the jokes are funny.

Overall, this was an unusual idea that could have perhaps worked with better direction and a bigger budget for the CGI effects. People who grew up with these old video games will appreciate some of the references and laugh at a few of Sega's little jabs at its own failures. However, I couldn't actually say that this show was excellent and you should try find it online immediately. Just watch Wreck-It Ralph instead. You'll be glad that you did.

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Feb 11, 2015

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

ArdeZK (All reviews)

6 people found this review helpful

Are you a SEGA fan? As in, a die-hard sega fan that knows a lot about the company's history and has played a lot of its excellent first party titles?

If so, keep reading.

Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls is a CG series based on the character designs of the antropomorphized versions of sega consoles released throughout the years (hence sega hard[ware] girls) made by KEI, of Vocaloid fame.

While the artworks were done for the entirety of the hardware lineup, SeHa follows only the antics of mega drive, saturn and dreamcast, the flagship consoles for 4th, 5th and 6th generation respectively (while it does acknowledge the other girls' existence).
Characterizing a piece of hardware may have been a daunting task but with the memorable designs behind them and some inside jokes about each girl's technical capabilities, this series manages to do so fairly well.
Their characters are done quite decently and succeed in what they must do: they're cute, cheerful, naive at times and fun to look at, but unfortunately don't come off as too memorable or particularly likeable: they all seem quite stale and could have used a little bit more color in their personalities, but given the scope/budget of this project they're acceptable and manage to do their job fairly well.

Environments are all taken from real games where they spend a few episodes in, same as the music, for the most part.The few actual academy shots are quite simplistic but nice to look at, and make for a good backdrop for events to unfold. The plot while episodic has a larger scope and manages a very heartfelt conclusion for anyone who is a fan of everything SEGA has done over the years.

Some episodes are quite blatant advertising for other current SEGA videogames for modern platforms, but they're few in number and manage not to stick out like a sore thumb amid the countless references to old school software. It's a necessary "evil" given, again, what the actual budget was for something made clearly from fans, to fans.

It's not a long series: it lasts little over an hour and possibly less than this review, so I'll jump straight to the point: is SeHa worth watching? It depends. Are you a SEGA fan?

If you answered 'yes' to that question, my answer to yours is 'absolutely'

If not, you will definitely not understand the appeal for this series, and honestly, there's nothing wrong with that. It's an extremely lighthearted series that is just pure and sweet fanservice for anyone in love, like many, with the memories collected during the years with one's own hardware. But for anyone else, it's just a mediocre title made with miku miku dance.

Yes, I gave it a 6: it's mostly an objective score and speaks of the overall quality of the series that is not up to par to larger scale productions and has some issues related to its aformented small budget. It is however very enjoyable: it manages to make you smile, have some bittersweet nostalgia and get a little sad when it's over.

It's not a life changing experience, but ever since i saw this, whenever i booted up my dreamcast to play, I found myself smiling.

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