Gi(a)rlish Number

College student Chitose Karasuma is determined not to do boring things as she enters the adult world. To this end, this bad-mannered beauty barges into a facility that trains would-be voice actors and actresses, somehow landing a job at "Number One Produce," a seiyuu agency managed by her older brother, Gojou. In Chitose's mind, she's poised for greatness, but finds herself at a loss when she continues to only get minor roles. As she clashes with other girls in the agency, including a cunning airhead and a girl with a Kansai accent, Chitose is about to learn that there's more to succeeding in this competitive industry than she imagined.

(Source: ANN)

Karasuma, Chitose Main

Senbongi, Sayaka Japanese

Katakura, Koto Main

Ishikawa, Yui Japanese

Shibasaki, Kazuha Main

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Sonou, Momoka Main

Suzuki, Eri Japanese

Kugayama, Yae Main

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Kuzu-P Supporting

Nakai, Kazuya Japanese

Karasuma, Gojou Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Sakuragaoka, Nanami Supporting

Satou, Amina Japanese

Shibasaki, Mother Supporting

Tamura, Seiko Japanese

Kokakura Supporting

Ogura, Mitsutoshi Producer

Tanaka, Junichirou Producer

Hayashi, Toshiyasu Producer

Amano, Shouta Producer

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Mar 23, 2021

otaku86

Recommended

The main character in this is the cheeky Chitose, an aspiring voice actor. She's a breath of fresh air in this genre where the leads tend to be very wholesome characters. It's not that Chitose is a bad person at all, but she's quite the arrogant, self-centered, brash individual. Her conversations with her brother, Gojou, is by far the most interesting thing in this anime because we get to see how far Chitose can go on thinking very highly of herself.

Girlish Number is a show about a group of voice actors, most of them just getting into the business. We get to see a little ... bit of their daily lives, talking with the producers, the recordings sessions and the conventions. The characters are interesting enough and the plot gives ample space for character development so it's always fun to follow this people around.

There's this one scene where the girls meet the author whose's work is the base for the anime they're recording and they do their very best to avoid him. I wonder if this particular scene comes from personal experience or was just a moment of brilliant inspiration. I wish there could be more awkward moments like that between authors and actors.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 12, 2024

PrincessLutrinae

Mixed Feelings

Kinda bad in its reveling in anime stereotypes, weak characterisations, and a seemingly deliberately unlikable protagonist. The story had weird pacing, and didn't end at a time that felt like a natural perfect end to the story. However, it was watchable, and I finished it thinking it was alright.

The in universe anime had a cool title tho, millennium princess and the Kowloon overlord, sounds like it slaps. However, found it a bit odd in the whole show, we never see the voice actor for the Kowloon overlord. They state it's a harem show, and make it clear there should be a male protagonist, but his ... VA is never even a background character. I know it's a show focused on the girls, but when we have male producers, managers, and light novel authors, I thought it would make sense to at least have such a va as a minor supporting character. Perhaps they just forgot to include one?

Annoyingly, the subtitles were done to suit the most anal anti localisation nerd, with Wikipedia style notes popping up on screen and forcing you to pause and read just to explain a pun that makes no sense in English. Of course, they could have changed the exact meaning of the line but replaced it with an English language pun that gets across the same message, but nooooo.

"Lol, Kuzu, more like... Garbage... Amirite guys?" *
* Huge infodump of context about how war criminals are called garbage in Japanese and that name kinda sounds like the Japanese word for garbage that's different from the Japanese word for trash and AAAAAAAA just make up an English pun for the love of goodness!

Many times a little localising could have helped, but clearly this was one for the dorks, and I feel that a lot of the Japanese intended comedy didn't carry over super well when you have to have the joke explained to you in an on screen paragraph. Sure some localisation can go too far at times, but in this case, it would have been very warranted to avoid these weeby infodumps that had me reaching for the pause button every 3 minutes. Still, I did appreciate them putting themed subtitles over diegetic text so just I know what the signs and written notes say, as opposed to some anime, like Bleach on Disney plus, that just don't translate on screen Japanese at all, and leave you to simply miss important information.

Still, if any of this is half accurate to the real anime industry, it does explain why filler arcs are a thing. I assumed like live action, they'd make a show, finish it, v then release it on TV. This seems to imply they're using the South Park method of making episodes in the week it airs and rushing it out as the go, not having even started episode 10 when 1 airs. this makes sense with Japan's toxic work culture and crunch practices, but seems like a really stupid way to make a show that's any good.

Also I gotta say, they treat voice actors with such reverence in this, with fans weebing out over them like idols. I can honestly say I've never given less of a crap about who the voice actors are in literally any project ever, and even, I don't want to know, as if I start to recognize their voice in everything they do, the whole of media will feel a same sight smaller, and break immersion. Unless you're Trey Parker or Matt Stone, it's highly unlikely I would ever recognise the name or voice of a voice actor in anything, much less care. Not too say it's not an important skill or type of acting, as it is, but it's not the kind of skill where I'm interested in the celebrity of the person doing it, that's irrelevant to me.

Overall, meh, no strong impact on me, no story that will stick with me, and I'll forget v quick. But it was fine.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 4, 2024

alexg2222

Not Recommended

Ironically this anime is about the harsh truth of making anime, and that not all of them will be good, but there is a lot of work put into making one.
So IMO they kind of had a weird sense of humor by basically making fun of their own anime.
IMO this anime is bad.
But like i said , since i know the amount of work that was put in, i will give credit where credit is due. I like the Character design and art. The animation was decent. But that is about it. The anime is boring AF. We have to w8 all the ... way to the last 2 episodes for something to actually happen, and even that is very short lived.
It was very hard for me to go all the way through to the end of the anime, but i made a pact with myself to watch any anime i start all the way to the end, even if it is bad. I came across a few anime that started kind of bad but it got really good later on.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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