Wagamama High Spec

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English: Wagamama High Spec

Japanese: ワガママハイスペック

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 12, 2016 to Jun 28, 2016

Premiered: Spring 2016

Broadcast: Tuesdays at 01:10 (JST)

Producers: Hobi Animation

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: AXsiZ

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Comedy, School

Duration: 3 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.41¹ (scored by 11,077 users)

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Ranked: #9516²

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Popularity: #2834

Members: 28,932

Favorites: 38

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Synopsis

The adorable girls of Ousui Academy's student council love to spend time with their crush, Kouki Narumi. But what happens when he isn't around?

For the student council, consisting of otaku president Kaoruko Rokuonji; headstrong Ashe Rufflette Sakuragi; quiet computer programmer Toa Narumi; and Toa's best friend, the impish Mihiro Miyase, it means they will have to keep themselves entertained. Wagamama High Spec offers a glimpse into the girls' lives as they get into amusing—and sometimes risqué—hijinks at their school and around town.

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Background

Wagamama High Spec is set after Madosoft's third game, officially abbreviated as Wagahigh. The visual novel game has five authors: Mojasubii, Ryusuke Mutsu, Nissy, Coyote Hayama, and Hato. On April 28, 2016, the game's full version was released for Windows. A sequel developed by Madosoft titled Wagamama High Spec Over Clock was released on August 25, 2017 for Windows.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Narumi, Toa

Main

Gotou, Mai
Japanese

Sakuragi, Ashe Rufflette

Main

Sakuragawa, Megu
Japanese

Rokuonji, Kaoruko

Main

Honda, Mariko
Japanese

Miyase, Mihiro

Main

Ousaki, Chiyo
Japanese

Staff

Shimizu, Satoshi

Director

Enomoto, Takahiro

Sound Director

Nakamura, Koujirou

Series Composition

Nomura, Masashi

Character Design

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"High Spec Days (ハイスペックDays)" by Haruna Ooshima

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Jun 27, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

HidamariSeashore (All reviews)

35 people found this review helpful

(WARNING!: This review may contain one spoiler, even though there should be a low risk of spoilers with an anime like this. I'm not sure whether I should consider it a minor or major spoiler, but either way, read at your own risk.)

....Why? Just why? Why would you do something like this? I mean, adapting a visual novel and not getting the protagonist to appear even once? Why would you do that? All questions aside, the only reason I watched Wagamama High Spec was because it was adapted from a visual novel that, at the time of its announcement, had not yet been released, and I was curious to see how they would pull something like this off. However, when it was announced that each episode would be 3 minutes long, I became concerned, as another short visual novel adaptation that I've seen, Final Examination Kujira, tried to cram the entire visual novel into it and, for the most part, failed. However, Wagamama High Spec was even worse; it didn't even follow the plotline it was supposed to follow!

Before we begin, I should explain what Wagamama High Spec is SUPPOSED to be about. Kouki Narumi is a high school boy who is the writer of a weekly manga; since this manga is an ecchi romantic comedy, he keeps this fact a secret to everyone except his sister, Toa, and her best friend, Mihiro Miyase. One day, the Student Council President, Kaoruko Rokuonji, reveals that she knows his secret (and that she is the manga's illustrator). Despite the objections of the Vice President, Ashe R. Sakuragi, Kouki joins the Student Council in an effort to keep the secret. It's kind of a cliche scenario, but something at least a bit charming could be born from this, right?

Wrong.

I must start by saying that the animation isn't too bad. It could be better, but with AXsiZ not having worked on a lot of anime yet and this being a short anime, I won't put too much heat on it. This anime goes without an opening theme, and the ending theme, "High Spec Days", is at least decent. The voice acting isn't too bad, either; there isn't much I can say beyond that, but at least they did well with their respective roles.

Now, time to get to the REAL issues with this anime. First of all, you know how I mentioned "Kouki Narumi" when I was describing this anime? Well, it's possible that he appears in the visual novel, but in the anime, he's not there at all! It's bad enough that Masaya, the protagonist of "Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm", was barely there in the anime adaptation of that visual novel, but Kouki, a.k.a. Unappearing Protagonist-kun, isn't in his anime at all, and every excuse in the book is given to keep him away! He appears to have an appearance in the very last episode, but since he doesn't have a design or voice, that doesn't count as an actual appearance in my book. There is also the issue with this anime not sticking to the plot; instead, we see the girls, who, while somewhat interesting, barely get any character development, doing their own thing. Normally, I don't have a problem with this, but come on! Stick to the script at least a little bit, people!

Overall, Wagamama High Spec isn't a good anime at all, not to mention an unfaithful adaptation (as far as even someone who hasn't played the visual novel yet can tell). If you want to see how an adaptation can go so terribly wrong, watch this. Well, here's to hoping I don't see anymore Unappearing Protagonist-kuns!

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Aug 12, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

fatalbert357 (All reviews)

24 people found this review helpful

I'll be very clear with you right from the start. This anime short is an ADVERTISEMENT for you to go play the visual novel. This is the ONLY reason for you to watch this show, so DON'T watch Wagamama High Spec if you don't plan on playing the visual novel. You WILL be wasting your time.

For me, as an avid visual novel gamer, I've already heard about WagaHai getting an English translation from Sekai Project before the anime short was even announced. I watched this show just to check out the girls and the premise before the English patch is released for the game and read more

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Jul 11, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 1

Hotair10 (All reviews)

15 people found this review helpful

What can I possibly say about WagaHai..... This "anime" was nothing more than an advertisement for some mobile game called KakoTama. The synopsis has nothing to do with the anime, as the "protagonist" isn't in any of the episodes until the very last one, in which he doesn't even really show up. The episodes are marked as 3 minutes long, but in actuality are only half that, with the majority being the outro and advertisement.

Honestly, this show was nothing but mislead hope. The story sounded like it could be something interesting but wasn't covered in the slightest. There wasn't manga written by any of the read more

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Jun 27, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

LegendAqua (All reviews)

8 people found this review helpful

You read the synopsis right?...about that protagonist, he's not in this...yeah.

Wagamama High Spec is by in large a typical "cute girls doing cute things" anime short and bar none that's all they do with some quirky punchlines here and there.

Wagamama High Spec's comedy does fall on the closing punchline and it does hit for the most part and considering that it only has a 3 minute screentime each is probably why.

In terms of characters, they are all stereotypical however the cast do have some chemistry with each other thus the comedic moments hits at times and if an anime can make LA laugh it's kinda read more

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