Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE!

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English: Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!

Japanese: 美男高校地球防衛部LOVE!

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 7, 2015 to Mar 25, 2015

Premiered: Winter 2015

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 01:40 (JST)

Producers: Sotsu, Pony Canyon

Licensors: Ponycan USA

Studios: Diomedéa

Source: Original

Genres: Slice of Life, Comedy, Parody, Magic, School

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 6.87¹ (scored by 27,179 users)

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Ranked: #4216²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1906

Members: 74,343

Favorites: 464

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Synopsis

Why should girls get to have all the fun? These magical boys are here to save the world from the loveless... at least that's what the pink wombat who gives them their magical powers wants them to do.

In Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love!, the main characters are the members of the "Earth Defense Club" at the Binan High School, though all they really want to do is hang out, goof off, and relax at the nearby Kurotama Bath. One fateful day, though, a pink wombat appears out of nowhere and forces these five high school students to become "Battle Lovers" and protect Earth from a trio of villains who are taking orders from a green hedgehog. Over the course of the series, the Battle Lovers will take on a variety of fiends, including the chikuwabu monster, a chopstick phantom, a monster remote control, and plenty more strange enemies!

Will the heirs to the throne of love be able to protect Earth from those who want to destroy love? Or will the Earth Conquest Club fill the world with hate?

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Adaptation:	Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! Novel!
Sequel:	Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE! LOVE!

Fukuyama, Jun
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Staff

Takamatsu, Shinji

Director, Sound Director

Kosaka, Harume

Episode Director

Kimura, Yasuhiro

Episode Director, Storyboard

Yokote, Michiko

Script, Series Composition

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Opening Theme

"Zettai Muteki☆Fallin' LOVE☆ (絶対無敵☆Fallin' LOVE☆)" by Chikyuu Bouei-bu (Kazutomi Yamamoto, Yuuichirou Umehara, Toshiki Masuda, Koutarou Nishiyama, Yuusuke Shirai) (eps 2-11)

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Ending Theme

#1: "Zettai Muteki☆Fallin' LOVE☆ (絶対無敵☆Fallin' LOVE☆)" by Chikyuu Bouei-bu (Kazutomi Yamamoto, Yuuichirou Umehara, Toshiki Masuda, Koutarou Nishiyama, Yuusuke Shirai) (eps 1, 12)
#2: "I miss you no 3 meters (I miss you の３メートル)" by Chikyuu Seifuku-bu (Takuma Terashima, Hiroshi Kamiya, Jun Fukuyama) (eps 2-11)

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Reviews

Mar 24, 2015

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

somaisbatman (All reviews)

169 people found this review helpful

I've noticed a trend with myanimelist. Works of anime that act as parodies of genres are often taken way too seriously and get poor overall ratings. Binan, which we will henceforth refer to as Magical Boys, suffered this treatment as well. Up until the final episode aired, this show was stuck with a 6.7 rating. Does it really deserve this little? Nope, it's actually one of the best things that aired this winter.

Story: 7/10
Magical Boys is very cyclical up until the very end, and I think that's why it turned a lot of people off initially. For the most part, it uses a fight-of-the-week setup, an obvious homage to the magical girl genre, but just like in those shows, this can lead to a predictable, repetitive show. However, each enemy is unique and the last episode throws a spectacular plot twist, so if you can put up with this style you'll be in for a good time.

Art: 8/10
Very colorful overall, the art in this show is consistent and bubbly. It's very pleasant, and all of the characters are pretty much color-coded so you'll never get confused.

Sound: 7/10
I like the opening, it's very peppy and catchy. The same can't be said for the in-show music, which was mostly forgettable, and some tracks just keep getting used over and over, another homage to the magical girl genre that comes out as a pain instead of nostalgia.

Character: 9/10
When first introduced, the main characters are as one-dimensional as can be. Red magical boy loves snuggling, blue magical boy is lazy, pink magical boy is all about girls, yellow magical boy loves money, and green magical boy has no traits whatsoever that I remember. Some characters are introduced and immediately established as the villains. So why did I give this a 9/10? All of the characters are vividly memorable, and bonds between them develop or are revealed throughout the series. All of the side characters shine as well. My personal favorites are Goura, red magical boy's older brother who runs the hot springs, and Mr. Tawarayama, the magical boy's teacher who is probably dead. All of these characters are designed to have one strong trait, and the show plays to this very well, and there wasn't a single character I didn't like by the end (except for the photography club, those jerks)

Enjoyment: 8/10
Like its magical girl predecessors, Magical Boys has some predictable fight scenes. Those aren't why I stuck around though. A good portion of each episode is banter between the characters, and it's often pretty funny or just bizarre, and often segues into the villain's motive. Speaking of villains, they're diverse and just as strange as the conversations.

Overall: 8/10
Magical Boys is a much better experience then many people expected it to be. You may come for the mahou shojo parody, but you'll stick around for the general wittiness, self-aware humor, and overall comfy atmosphere that emerges from watching this show.

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Mar 24, 2015

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

swirrlix (All reviews)

67 people found this review helpful

"The Magical Boy Anime." I remember seeing the announcement for this show on my Tumblr dashboard and thinking, "This show is going to be a mess, I want to see how bad this show is." Spoiler alert: it wasn't bad at all, actually pretty great in fact.

STORY:
The story revolves around a very set pattern, every episode the bad guys create a new monster, the Battle Lovers have some sort of conflict within themselves, and they solve it while defeating the monster "with love!" While this may seem like it would get boring after the first couple episodes, I found myself enticed every week. I knew read more

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Mar 27, 2015

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

rampao (All reviews)

57 people found this review helpful

I don't always write a review, but when I do, it's for THE Magical Boys anime, Binan Kokou Chikyuu Bouei-bu! Love! (Handsome High Earth Defense Club! Love!)

I first saw this anime as a recommendation to another anime that I've recently watched, and I was aghast upon seeing bishounens wearing frilly clothes and magic wands. Then my heart skipped a beat. Could it be? Yes! It is! Finally, a Mahou (Bi)Shounen anime! I quickly went to Youtube and searched for their transformations, and for the next few minutes, I found myself laughing and shaking my head at the ridiculous scene that followed.

At first, I was read more

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Mar 24, 2015

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

chesudesu (All reviews)

51 people found this review helpful

Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! is a parody on the mahou shoujo genre. The elements it mocks are obvious and the characters actually acknowledge it - unlikely heroes flashily transforming into their ridiculous costumes with out-of-this-world powers battling monsters-of-the-week while upholding their valiant virtues of love and friendship. As a quirky deconstruction of the style, the series manages to pull it off with as few hitches as possible.

Even the construction of the episodes is a parody. It is all in the episodic nature of the monster-of-the-week ploy, leaving a few hints of the over-all plot until unveiling it, albeit slowly, in last few episodes, read more

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