Ame-iro Cocoa

Anyway, my grade is pretty high. It's a short one but I guess I cannot compare short ones with long ones. I really liked the idea and I can see a potential in this one. I would actually like for them to make a longer version.
I liked the art very much and the boys are just to nice and they are all different types of people. I come from a country where coffee shops are very popular and people like to go out and have a cup of coffee with friends. I think that's why I partially liked this and I liked how the guys ... were bonding randomly while all being completely different type of people.
It was short and sweet. All I can say about it.
And also...I don't know if I'm the only one but it reminded me of Free! so much.

Ever felt so unmotivated in life that you were too tired to watch even one episode of an anime? Well if that's the case Ame-iro Cocoa may help cheer you up a bit. You may well even end up having some motivation to make yourself enjoy a cup of coffee.

Rainy Color is where our cute young boy Aoi works at as a coffee maker. There are three other boys who hang out at the cafe talking and gossipping about various things and that's pretty much the story.

Aoi, our young coffee server is a shy boy who is often mistaken as a girl. Shion is ... his senior who works with him. Ryota is a happy-go-lucky guy who hangs around the cafe a lot and to his opposite is Kei the cold-hearted guy who for some unknown reason, seems to dislike Aoi. There's the owner of the Rainy Color as well but even for such a short amount of time the show covers he's only seen twice the entire series, in the second episode and the last. However, he appears in the opening song and is seen laughing hysterically for some unknown reason. The characters are neatly drawn in this anime, the backgrounds are kept simple and plain.

There's a twenty five second long OP for this two-minute anime and if you see it that way the quarter of the show is covered by the song itself. But the song is pretty nice infact, and there's very little music in the show. Even if it's a very short anime the voice actors used in it are pro's. Miyano Mamoru, well known for several of his voice actings, plays the role of Ryota in Ame-iro Cocoa.

Normal souls would find it pretty hard to comprehend this and I can feel them as there's pretty much nothing to be gained from watching this. This makes Ame-iro Cocoa share a similarity with another one of the short anime, Pupa. However, the two are vastly apart from being similar as Pupa tends to make itself known to its viewers for a long time using some other kinds of means which I wouldn't want to mention. As short anime's come and go Ame-iro Cocoa will certainly not be remembered, but yet this is one anime that can not be loved nor be hated.

I'll be completely frank, this anime is utterly boring. I watched the whole thing again after it was complete, thinking, that maybe I'll find something interesting about it. But nothing.
I was almost glad it was only 2 minutes an episode, that's how bad it was.

There is pretty much no story here.

The art is simple and animation is basic, nothing interesting about it at all.

The characters are completely plain. There was no character development, basically everything stayed the same the whole show.

The sound was close to alright, it was calming and set the mood right but that doesn't make up for the anime at all.
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Overall it's a 3. I didn't enjoy it at all and I'm pretty sure many wouldn't either. It has nothing special about it and nothing interesting happened at all. Just a waste of 24 minutes.

If you want to watch short anime I would recommend Orenchi no Furo Jijou or even Ai Mai Mi!, at least THOSE are interesting shows. (Guys, even Pupa was more fun to watch than this. FREAKING PUPA!)