Okusama ga Seitokaichou!

When the "plot" is more important than the plot, you know you're dealing with a second-rate show. Okusama ga Seitokaichou! isn't the type of title that requires any sort of in-depth analysis to explain, it's pure fanservice in animated form. With that being said, this review will be brief.

The 1st episode of Okusama is perhaps the biggest troll of the 2015 summer season. It caught many by surprise and rightfully so, as it seemed to have devised a way to get past Japan's impenetrable censorship law, leaving its rival ecchi titles in the dust. While most shows were caught up in the red tape ... of censorship, Okusama was delivering the 'goods' with no filter whatsoever. This prompted many viewers to loosen their belts for what was expected to be a "plot"-driven ecchi title that wasn't afraid of going the extra mile to please the audience. But just as quickly as it garnered attention, it seemed that it couldn't maintain it, as the following episodes showed that the initial climax was well behind us. Lack of censorship, the only benefit Okusama had going for it, was quickly stripped away, bringing with it a tidal wave of flaccid onlookers. And as the buzz dissipated into a soft murmur, Okusama fell in line as yet another xerox copy of the same ole shit that has come before it and will continue to be produced long after its 15-minutes of fame was up.

Like most ecchi comedy series, the story of Okusama is basically the same setup seen countless of times before. A guy is forced into some odd relationship with a girl under circumstances that he has no control over, lots of sexual comedic mishaps happen, yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill. It's the tired trite that makes up a majority of the shows within this genre. The only purpose of the narrative is to compress as many titillating encounters as it possibly can in the limited time-span given.

The cast, as to be expected, is composed of one guy and a plethora of girls. The only girl of relevance, Ui Wakana, serves as the main love interest and also the source of grief for our protagonist. The rest of the female cast can simply be defined by a personality quirk and their breast size.

Possibly the only saving grace for this title is its protagonist Hayato Izumi, as he's among the very few ecchi leads that aren't afraid to take action if his hormones boil over. Of course, he pussies out like any other beta-male, but he still does a lot more than other counterparts delegated to his role. But even with that being said, don't hold your breath, as the TV release was still censored to all hell, with raunchy scenes being swapped out for what I can only describe as collage screenplays (sometimes live-action), leaving the audience to only imply what might be going on. It's more frustrating than funny since it defeats the purpose of it being an ecchi. Watching censored ecchi is like watching an action movie with all the action scenes being blacked out. It's utterly pointless, and really, that's Okusama in a nutshell, utterly pointless.

Overall: 2/10

If you just want some fanservice or enjoy being cock-teased, then look no further, as Okusama seem to be dead set on doing just that and nothing more. But honestly, with ecchi shows like Prison School, Highschool DxD and Queen's Blade around, it's hard to even recommend this show even on such simple merits. In this day and age, Okusama is already antiquated.

My Okusama ga Seitokaichou! review. OPPAI

My ratings:
Story: Pathetic 1.
Art: Good 7.
Sound: Fair 6.
Character: Poor 3.
Enjoyment: Good 7.
Overall: Pathetic 1.

For an 8 minute and 12 episode anime, this was really not a good one, so no more BS. Story (up), the plot was as basic as it can be, it just involves a girl moving into the guy's life and thing were never the same....you might say that there really isn't a story at all, so it was really as pathetic as it can be. Art (up) tbh the rating I gave was for the fanservice since it was the only thing that makes this anime ... fun to watch. Sound (up) well I simply have nothing much to say about the sound except that I do find the opening and closing theme befitting in this anime. Character (up) what can I say, this anime is just all about Ui Wakana and Hayato Izumi, whom I always wish that they just start banging on each other and not just limit it to foreplay, thought I also like Rin Misumi I jaz basically see her as a 5th wheel. Enjoyment (up) basically it's the fanservice and the titillating scene that were the enjoyable part of this anime, everything else are just BS cu'z it was just all foreplay and no actual banging, overall (up) it was really too pathetic even in it's manga form, frankly they should have went hentai with this thing, so that those whom would wanna play with there joy stick can do it in the comfort of their lonesome.

Oppai!

If you're just watching it for the uncensored version, then you're fine. But for the rest of us, even if this was just a mini series, it doesn't really offer anything new. There's really nothing much to say.

Story: There's not much really to talk about this show because it's a short series, and nothing much at all happens. It's about a pair of couples who promised to marry their children to each other, basically. And now Izumi has to live with and is apparently married to Wakana Ui, the student council president at their school.

Art: It's consistent throughout the series. If you're watching the uncensored ... version it's the better of the two since you're not hindered with annoying censorship. The coloring and the animation is alright, serviceable at best.

Character: This is show's weakest points. Izumi Hayato is every reluctant brown hair male protagonist archetype. It's no excuse that I say there's nothing much to say, because there's nothing much to say. Everyone is pretty derivative, and don't pull that fanboy shit on me defending it. Wakana has no range as the heroine, unless you're counting the teases. But that's not at all character. The rest of the cast such as the disciplinary committee and Wakana's parents are simply rushed in and rushed out. They're just there.

Enjoyment: Characters are average, simply making the ecchi average or worse. It's no enjoyment if the characters themselves aren't anything special to boot.

Overall: There's nothing to say, really, I really do mean that. It's not the worse thing I've ever seen, which if it were, I could criticize this show much further and elaborate my points. But this is just Ayy lmao.

Another day, another ecchi comedy, this one based on the manga by Yumi Nakata (oh?) & directed by Hiroyuki Furukawa (oh...)

It's not uncommon for odd couple romances in anime to employ some contrived means to quickly get our odd couple together before just as quickly forgetting about it. My Wife is the School Council President's (Okusama) devise is handily put in the shows title, just in case you were wondering how Ui & Hayato could possibly find themselves embarking down the road to romance that it's clear from the start they will be taking. As Vice-President of the Student Council, Hayato finds himself reluctantly ... serving under the leadership of Ui, who won the presidential election on a platform promising to bring love to their school, which bans relationships between boys & girls. As if Hayato's day couldn't get any worse, that evening he finds Ui at his door, her stuff on her back & an email in her hand, announcing that they are to be married. What a setup!

Well no, not really, because that would imply Okusama makes any use of its setup at all. Instead, we're treated to yet another by the numbers ecchi school rom com where the only thing that really distinguishes it from its peers is the one paragraph synopsis you read before watching it. There's nothing about the "marriage" between Hayato & Ui that couldn't just as easily have been explained away by, for instance, an administrative error by the school causing them to share a dorm room. In the end, all it's there for is to establish that Ui is Hayato's "girl" & the story, such as it is, will go through the usual list of love triangles, wife husbandry & "innocent" misunderstandings that every high school romance seems to have to go through, ecchi or not.

It's not often that I find myself thinking "I wish they focused more on the story" when it comes to ecchi comedies like this, but Okusama is an exception because, somewhere in there, there's a decent sounding little story that could be going on. Ui's goal of bringing love back to the school, facing off against the more prudish & busty (because that juxtaposition is funny. I SAID ITS FUNNY!) Rin, head of the disciplinary committee could have led to an amusing clash of personalities as they battle for the morality of their classmates. Even when it's clear the main reason for Ui's enthusiasm is for the "humorous" contrast it creates with her complete cluelessness about what lovers actually do when she's with Hayato, it could have still told a decent, if less original story.

Indeed, the framework for such a comedy is there, but it's so lazily put together that it undermines anything the show might be going for. The usual romance tropes are here: Ui having made a forgotten childhood promise; Rin having a personal reason to oppose Ui with the tenacity she does; a love triangle which serves to create misunderstandings between the three while also ultimately showing Hayato why he's better to stick with Ui; an assortment of other girl characters that get in compromising situations with Hayato to shake things up a bit - It's all there, all thrown in with little care & with little effort to set it up or to show how it impacted on the characters afterwards.

Everything feels like it's just going through the motions, the minimal effort required to get us between contrived ecchi scenes where we're treated to the usual ecchi girl logic like "Oh, my love rival gave you her panties? Well, it seems the logical thing to do would be for me to let you take mine off in this back alley!" Nothing about Okusama has the goofy charm of 'Golden Boy,' nor the shamelessness of 'Haganai' or 'Highschool DxD.' It doesn't really even measure up to Yumi's previous adapted work 'Chu-Bra,' which was nothing special but at least made some effort to distinguish itself & actually run with its premise. & all this is before we get to the matter of how the show approached it's TV censorship.

Now, it is possible to watch the episodes uncensored if you want to (& clearly a lot of people on Crunchyroll did), which renders this a somewhat moot point. None the less, it's worth mentioning because Okusama employed possibly the most obnoxious method I've yet encountered. While one comes to expect light lines & black bars in ecchi shows, at least until the BDs come out, Okusama opted instead to cut the scenes from the show entirely, replacing them with "wife theatre" a stick puppet show that looks like it was originally conceived as the preview skit after the end credits. The jokes aren't funny, aren't clever, go on ridiculously long &, perhaps worst of all, aren't really being used to censor anything particularly lewd or pornographic.

In the final episode, for instance, we're subjected to a two minute skit where the female cast fight JRPG style against footage of a kitten (taming the pussy hahaha!) which gives the impression that it's replacing a full H scene. Yet in the uncensored version it turns out to have simply being replacing a twenty second boob smother that includes, shock horror, a nipple slip. I haven't gone through every omitted scene to check, but I doubt I missed anything to merit it being removed entirely rather than simply blurred or blacked out. The art isn't bad, by any means. But really if that's what you're here for you might as well look for a compilation of the ecchi scenes to avoid an hour of "plot" getting in the way of what you're after. Quite why Furukawa went with this, I have no idea. Maybe it was supposed to give the illusion to the viewers that this show was dirtier than it turned out to be. The result, however, was to make the show even more of a chore to sit through that it already was.

But even without Wife Theatre, there's nothing to recommend about Okusama. It's not as lewd as it tried to imply. It's premise is wasted, it's story pedestrian & it's characters are dull. The only thing to say in its favour is that it's 8 minute episode length means you can watch the whole thing in under two hours, shrug you shoulders & move on.

To be fair, the edited version gets a 3/10. This is not anything towards censorship or whatever. The edited version has a little corner of manic energy that fills the time instead whenever a blatantly sexual thing that can't be edited occurs. This gives the creators a chance to be creative and FUNNY. The rest of the show is about an idiot with zero spine or willpower who gets his face and crotch crammed into extremely forced situations that are unfunny, unentertaining, and unsexy. Then he wonders, without clarifying situations or talking to anyone, "Why does this happen to me?" I wonder.... /"Tiny" Lister voice

Just ... beyond the bottom of the barrel as far as harem sex comedy, which is saying something. The designs are plain, the characters are all one flat note, and the situations break the bounds of reality. For example, a storm forces two of the character to shelter. They discover their shelter is a love hotel. Instead of taking ten seconds to maybe sprint to a cafe or something, they instead decide to check into the love hotel even though they are not a couple. After taking a shower and getting into a bathrobe, the girl does not realize a vibrator is attached to the hip of the bathrobe. Breaking the laws of physics, the vibrator makes its way into her kitty cat and through blatant idiocy, is started up. The way this series tries to make comedy is like someone murdering a person with a chain gun and making it look like a hanging.

I only got to chapter 7 because I literally fell asleep while watching. It is amazing that someone payed anyone to animate this bunch of shit, even the animation is crap.
I thought it would be funny when I read the synopsis, but I couldn't have been more wrong.
I only got to chapter 7 because I literally fell asleep while watching. It is amazing that someone payed anyone to animate this bunch of shit, even the animation is crap.
I thought it would be funny when I read the synopsis, but I couldn't have been more wrong.
I only got to chapter 7 because I literally fell asleep ... while watching. It is amazing that someone payed anyone to animate this bunch of shit, even the animation is crap.
I thought it would be funny when I read the synopsis, but I couldn't have been more wrong.
I only got to chapter 7 because I literally fell asleep while watching. It is amazing that someone payed anyone to animate this bunch of shit, even the animation is crap.
I thought it would be funny when I read the synopsis, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

Yeah this show is trash. But its short trash. So there's that. But between the problematic character motivations (This girl is starving for his D just because her parents told her to be his wife, the main character isn't a perv but will sexually assault a girl just cos, etc.), the awful cutaways during what are obviously sex scenes, and very little if any depth to the characters, plot, or themes. Theres just not much to really sink one's teeth into here.

I'd only reccomend this to the loneliest of neckbeards whose waifu's are on hiatus this season. Mostly because the main character is so ... self-insert it felt like fanfic at times and I know neckbeards like those types of shows. Watch Shinomoeta instead folks.

3/10