Jungle de Ikou!

First, I wouldn't rate this anime as R, PG-13 would be more appropriate because there's no sex and the most revealing thing we see is Natsumi's panties. I really loved this anime because there were plenty of moments that made me laugh and the characters are so great I just wanted to keep watching.

The story is great because when you first here about Ongo from the old man that gives Natsumi her powers you automatically assume he's going to be evil and the antagonist of the story, but his personality is the complete opposite of what I expected. Furthermore, the old man's warning foreshadows ... the ending which made me wonder how could a character as funny as Ongo be evil? Plus, the anime has a good fluent plot despite the fact it's only three episodes long, I've seen some animes 50 episodes long with worse story than this.

This anime also follows a pattern I've seen with magical girl animes which is the heroine has very poor control of her powers. Magic was the source of some of the funniest moments is the anime because I could never tell what would happen next and I was amazed at how fast things started off calm and turned into a catastrophe.

The only thing I wish is that this anime was longer because I really wanted to know these characters more. Also, there are some parts in this anime, particularly the dance Natsumi does, that may have been too ecchi.

This anime isn't for everyone because there's some parts some people might find too dirty, but the anime isn't just about boobs and can be really funny. Plus, the whole anime is only 90 minutes long so it's the perfect thing to watch if you have nothing to do. I really hope they make a sequel some day.

Jungle de Ikou! reminds me of those 1980s so-called novelty one-hit wonders on the radio... A piece of entertainment with no real depth, no real soul and some agressive silliness, but not without a certain charm.

This three-parter OVA series from the 90s is admittedly bad on many aspects, but its goofiness and lack of pretension can make it a passable guilty pleasure. Its jungle themeing is mostly an excuse to show characters in revealing outfits (when they are wearing any) and to provide as much fanservice as it could. This goes the same for the tribal dancing the characters use to transform or to use ... their powers but the fact that they are teenagers makes the whole process lap into cringe-worthy territory.

The story is basic and not particularly well-developed and so are the characters. Only a few of them provide any interesting dynamics and none of them have deep personalities. None that are well explored in the series, anyway. The characters are portrayed as archetypes, not individuals. And they seem to be defined by their interactions with each other, rather than on their own. Yes, Natsumi and Takuma seem to enjoy bickering each other, but so what?

This is typical material for Chaos Project, which also made fanservice-heavy OVA like Variagle Geo and Futari Ecchi. So watching it depends on the type of attitude and expectations you get from this kind of material. It can make for a good time while you're watching it, but it's not really one you'd be keen on watching again.

Jungle de Ikou... I legit think this is the first anime I watch with such contrasting elements, even knowing beforehand that it's a full fanservice anime... anyway, let's go.

I don't know if this review can be considered a spoiler warning or not, as I'm going to be very direct with some points. Read with discretion (or just jump to the last paragraph, where I do my veredict).

Jungle de Ikou is a very poor anime, even for its main objective: fanservice.
The Story is interesting enough, or at least the synopsis got me in that way. But it's literally wasted in every way possible, not even just ... in favor of the fanservice. I even feel the whole title, synopsis, and even the anime opening is a sort of bait, but a really bad bait. Or maybe it's just me, but I'm going to be really honest here: what would you expect from an anime that introduces itself with a sort of "tropical" ambient and characters, or that its own title literally translates "Let's go to the Jungle!"? At least I expected something related to a jungle, indeed. But sadly, it's completely the opposite: it gets ambiented in a damn city. Knowing this, is there even something bad else worth to say? Yes, the story can't solve itself. There's no need to elaborate in each episode after knowing this. In short words, they just wasted a interesting plot.
About the Art & Sound, I have no big issues with. Pretty decent for the age, catching OST (including the opening and ending) and overall decent. Indeed, the art was an appealing factor for me to watch it, I really like this kind of old anime artstyle, like tall/big eyes or stuff (like Slayers or GS Mikami, for example).
Now, speaking about the Characters... damn... as I said before, how contrasting elements had this series. The "main cast" is decently designed for me, every character had a proper role, the problem about them is the lack of development (which of course goes hand in hand with the lack of story development), or even just the focus of them. Like yes, you expect fanservice, therefore a busty girl bouncing her chest, but not even that is really well done.
Enjoyment... nope. I sure laughed in some scenes or something, but not anything else. Nothing much to elaborate in this point, honestly.

Then... it's overall a 3 for me, sadly. And I say sadly because I had decent expectations about this anime (yes, decent, not even good expectations). But it couldn't even reach the decent spot. To be fair, it was probably a mistake from my part, to have some kind of expectation about it, but I really tried to watch and analyze this without any (or the less possible) previous knowledge/critique.
I can't recommend it at all, unless you fully psyched up that it's a bad thing, before watching it. Because it's actually bad. The worst thing of all is this was officially licensed in the US, hilarious in the weirdest way possible.