Kodomo no Jikan (TV)

I'll be honest here, Kodomo no Jikan is not the most normal animes I've ever seen but it is worthy of a review. Now this anime does takes sexual innuendo and pushes a lot and puts it onto a level of adult and child and even a little of incest in between which is where I found it to be somewhat weird.

Story 2/10
What can I say, this anime doesn't really have any major conflict or plot development. Its mostly just about the three girls: Kagami, Kokonoe and Usa harrassing there teacher Aoki ever day. When I said the sexual innuendo was present I meant ... it was coming from the children not the adult in question which just makes it even weirder than it already is.

Art 7/10
It was good and very realistic indeed. It wasn't too heavy and it usually fit itself into every situation. Can't really say whats holding it back but meh, it just seems generic though thats not to say that it was bad just generic.

Sound 8/10
Music for intro and credits were very good to be honest. They fit into the anime but I didn't really felt moved by them after listening in a couple of times through but damn that little rolling sound of their logo at the intro scares the shit out of me every time.

Character 7/10
Hmm the characters here are quite unusual. Our three main girls are in the third grade but seem very affiliated with sexual slang and terms which I don't know means anything but it really bothered me. It makes me wonder, where did they even acquire such knowledge. However they were still somewhat of an enjoyable bunch of friends. Kokonoe is in love with the teacher Aoki and forces herself upon him with harrasment and even goes as far as kissing him on the lips its kind of disgusting but yet at the same time I found myself laughing at some of this stuff. It beats me but they did a really good job of modeling child-like shenanigans. Other than that the character development was present but I didn't really feel like it took off any until the final episode.

Overall 6/10
Kodomo no Jikan is one of those animes that sticks holes in your morals if you got any but I did find it enjoyable to say the least. At first glance I was actually not going to watch it when I thought most of the character relationships were going to be the other way around [man on child] but was relieved when it was a child's doing. Though I do feel like there is something missing in this anime. The story if any, just didn't feel fulfilling at all and everything I saw was kind of expected from the git go. If you wanna watch something a little different for once I totally recommend this for you but don't take any of this anime to heart.

(OPTIONAL INTRO)
(So, to be honest, I had a really hard time judging and scoring this show. I can tell you right off the bat that it can be well-deserving of a 1/10, but I wouldn't bat an eye at someone giving it a really good score, like a 7 or an 8/10. This just goes to show how controversial this can become. So I'm about to explain why I scored this a 6: something that was thoroughly enjoyable / easy to watch, despite being so for a myriad of reasons.

I MYSELF go "WTF is this guy thinking, writing a reiview this big?! No one ... gives a shit", but I now understand what's the feeling of having such urge to say so much about something - even if it's about this dumb lil' show)

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START OF THE REVIEW

The main problem presented here is: this anime lacks identity. The first half is entirely what you probably signed up for when you saw the tags "ecchi, comedy, school", read the description and saw three very young little girls on the cover - like the good MAL user you are - and so, that's what you get: a third grader hitting up on a new, 23 year old teacher - Aoki sensei - who has that clueless, dumb and generic look of a typical 2000s school anime character.

The important thing to note here is the attitude of the main girl (Rin) right in the first couple of episodes: she shows her panties to the dude, asks him for kisses, to hold her tightly, etc., and, with that smug face of hers adds a "what if I screamed right now?" to the mix. She's one cunning little bastard, I tell ya. Of course, the dumb man just does not know how to react to this, because he most likely just came out of college without friends, bullied and not knowing what's it like having a girl on his lap - just kidding, there actually is some sort of reasoning behind this, but more on that later.

THIS is where the "fun" really kicks in: episode 6. One could watch this episode by itself, and I can tell you it'd still be a pretty damn good episode. When did this turn into a full-on drama?? The pure shock made me stay glued to the screen...

[Not that I think it matters but SPOILERS AHEAD]

...Rin's cousin, Reiji, lost his parents young, and went to live with his own cousin Aki, Rin's mother. He eventually developed feelings for Aki and they were working very well as a family of 3, but then Aki got cancer, and died - hey, that was pretty sad - right after Reiji settled as an adult capable of sustaining his own family. The words he remembers the most from Aki: "protect Rin for me".

Alright, so, after an entire episode of drama, I had to know where this was going, and the short answer is - it went down a mostly dramatic route. These are the ideas presented here, and the core of the series:

>Rin and her cousin Reiji have a dark past, and to sustain her, he has to work, leaving her alone at home a lot;
>This leads to Rin being in need of affection*;
>Reiji treats her in a quite mature way for her age (this isn't very fleshed out);
>This supposedly leads Rin to have such attitudes with Aoki-sensei;
>Because Aoki-sensei is a sad lil' pussy (who gets called "virgin" by his own 8 years old students) he can't react accordingly, as an adult, around Rin because she acts in a mature way;
>This means he doesn't stop Rin from being on top of him, or from showing him her panties constantly, from kissing him, etc.
>Reiji, due to his obsession with protecting Rin, snaps when he sees she is so affectionate with Aoki-sensei;
>After some conflict, Aoki-sensei learns to act in a more mature way around his students (ambiguous), Rin is not that horny anymore, and Reiji snaps out of his yandere mode.

This is the core "message" of the anime, and I'm gonna tell you: it's not THAT bad. The teacher is a loser, and that's made VERY clear throughout the series: he has a cute as hell, busty teacher always clinging up to him and he doesn't make a single move, cringey as fuck; he is completely dominated by 8 years old girls, letting them mock him and control his actions, you get the picture, so, when it's also made VERY clear that Rin isn't just another lil' kiddo that just wants a smooch from a grown-up to see what it feels like, it's understandable how flustered he gets around her actions.

*This is important, and it's a flaw the anime has, as well as the lack of identity I mentioned earlier: Rin acts as an adult - she goes out shopping with her friends, knows very well what sex is and teases an adult by using transparent nightwear - so, sure, it kinda justifies her teacher's attitude towards her (kinda), but that doesn't mean she'd logically try to kiss him, get so intimate with him, flash her panties and act all girlfriend-ish around him in such extreme ways(the ecchi). For this to be acceptable even for comedic purposes, she'd need to have an even darker past, where she'd be teased by her dad to do lewd things for her as he explored her innocence in a very creepy way, or something like that. Without such criteria, the ecchi/comedy parts of the show turn out to be shallow and lack real purpose other than appealing to lolicons or enjoying it for pure shock value - one could literally skip the first half of the series and come out with a more positive impression of the plot of the series, I'd say.

Kodomo no Jikan goes from a dumb pedo ecchi comedy to a full-on character drama with snippets of - actually kind of appealing - psychological tension, always with a generous dose of cringe to the mix, and that makes for a very weird, "hard to judge how I feel" experience.

Now that the main things have been said, I'll make it very clear - I had a fun time watching this:
The comedy made me go "WTF, NO WAY! THAT DIDN'T JUST HAPPEN!" mixed with uncontrollable laughter EVERY single episode (except for episode 6); its midway point made me actually care a respectable bit for the characters (Rin and Reiji) and it actually had a decent sort of psychological approach that I enjoyed, especially for the fact of not seeing it coming.

Do I recommend this? Yeah. Totally. The amount of reactions this show can pull out from any person is insane - be it despising it with all your heart, making you laugh a whole ton, or getting sexually confused (xD) - and that by itself makes it worth the shot.

This anime is the weirdest thing that happened upon me recently, not because of the amount of loli blackmail contained but because of how this anime will take you from holding a knife to your eyes to trying to deal with the amount of emotional weight that is dropped onto you.
It is a good story, if you can get to that. Every character is given a backstory that fits them and defines why they are the way they are, except our main character who is just this boring guy who really needs to figure out what he wants to do with his teaching career.
There ... are two different kinds of episodes in this series, the kind that will follow the same trend of:
1:Teacher guy gets yelled at by someone and told to toughen up
2: He toughens up
3: Kids make fun of him and the loli blackmail begins
4:Teacher guy doesn't want kids to make fun of him and lightens up
5: Class gets good grades
6: Teacher girl fails at asking out Teacher Guy
7: repeat.
Then there are the second kind of episodes that decide they want to rip out your heart then give you a bionic heart so you can live a little longer so they can tear out some other organ you need to live. The mothers backstory was one of the most shocking and unexpected things I have seen in an anime in a long time and now have a permanent fear of paper swans.
The characters were the best part of the series, as it didn't really have a plot besides "Go to school and try to seduce your teacher" I feel like all the characters were given time to become important, as long as you watch the OVA and second season to show you the past of some of the less important characters. Renji is probably one of my favorite normally insane people in anime but he needs to get over his fear of scissors, this isn't Kill la Kill she isn't going to hurt you with those things.
The intro and ending themes were really good, they had me hyped up for every single episode with that giant spinning e in the beginning.
Overall this series is great and gives a pretty strong message about not looking down on kids for just being young but their past and how mentally stable they are, you just have to look past the rather large amount of sexual jokes made by third graders, which i recommend because watching Renji fall apart is one of the best things I've seen in a while.

THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER FREE!

What can I say that hasn't already been said about Kodomo no Jikan?

Probably not much.. but I love the characters so much, both the teachers, as well as Kuro, Mimi, and Rin (I love those names as well). I initially started the series out of sheer curiosity, and I got a little worse than I had expected. It kind of felt like the demonic love-child of Toradora and Boku no Pico.

It took me a very long time to complete Kodomo no Jikan even though I had the full first season plus the OVAs readily accessible for at least a month before ... I completed it. I just couldn't take such high doses of children my baby brother's age being so lewd.. but what got me through the series was the comedy. If I wasn't crying, I was laughing. Not many anime have made me literally laugh out loud more than once or twice. I laughed at least once per episode; sometimes it was because of the absurd situations, or Kuro-chan's elaborate name-calling.

Towards the end of the season, I was loving all the serious background story!

Overall, I really had a love-hate relationship with this series. I still am not entirely sure how I feel about it, but I can say I wouldn't change the fact that I completed it.

so much virgin shaming in kodomo no jikan
just feels mean
OK he's 23 so what
all the girls make fun of him
that main girl keeps wanting to fuck him though (might solve the issue)

OK you can remove kodomo no jikan from your ptw one of the main characters is gay and it just keeps being brought up.
female,
and it's annoying like in bocchi but x10
and its the cool goth loli looking one 😔
... >what is the lolicon to yuri ratio like?
well when kokonoe talks about liking sensei, kagami often looks jealous or angry and says something about liking her instead once she leaves
it's a lot more present than let's say the bocchi retardation to Yuri ratio
it's not Yuri since it's not reciprocated but just annoying
and it's not really funny enough to carry it
ugh big breast loli
zzzzzzz
houin the teacher who likes him is brain dead
the girls are cute, kokonoe is a bit alien looking but would still be able to finish.