Hajimete no Gal

Depending on whether you watch the sub or dub of this show, you may actually enjoy it. To a degree.

Firstly, I love this anime. It has cute moments, nothing particularly aggravating throughout, and if you watched the dub- most of the irritating misdirects are played off into funny moments. Outlandish jokes a few times even, where it really gives the same energy as Ghost Stories.

That said… The pedo jokes, rushed ending, and lack of consistency with romance leave a lot to be desired. I mean, really… Why are these girls just jumping all over him? Why isn’t the main romance interest bothered whatsoever? Why is ... it that this man is absolutely the worst loser of all time and still can’t catch a break when he’s seemingly doing everything in his power…

It’s a train wreck. But for a few laughs, and a happy ending. I’ll take it. I wish there was better, but we’re scraping the barrel. If you like any of it at all by the end of episode 1, you’ll find it okay.

Honestly, I only stuck around for the valley girl accent.

If you're like me, you probably decided to watch this show purely because of the sexy kogal on the cover. Rest assured, she is easily the best girl of this show and is every bit as bad as you're expecting, I just gave this show a 5/10 because it doesn't really try that hard, and it's not particularly memorable outside of the beautiful black queen and the startling number of jokes about pedophilia.

Those jokes, by the way, were probably the funniest part of this show and they only got funnier/more disturbing as the show went on. You wouldn't think a show about Gals would be ... so heavy with something so sickening and unrelated but I got some laughs out of it so I can't complain.

I can't complain about this show at all really, its perfectly fine as a background watch (occasionally looking up for the fanservice), it just doesn't do anything substantial with the potential it has. The comic relief boys who are friends with the MC are all tropes that have been done to death (and way better in Prison School I might add), but they still made me laugh plenty.

We have some fun setup with all the girls being tangentially related to the Gyaru lifestyle, and some really fun slang being used both in the Japanese and English dubs, but those aspects of the story peter out fairly quickly in service of some really generic romcom plots that are just okay at the end of the day. They get the job done and the finale pulled a heartstring or two, but still it was nothing to write home about.

My ideal version of this show would've gone a lot further into the Gyaru lifestyle and just featured a lot more of the girls doing badass Gyaru shit. I like how the heroine is considerate towards the nerdy MC, but still I will honestly probably forget most of this show in a year, sadly.

This seems like the type of show that walked so another great show could run, I just haven't found that show yet.
Due to all the midness, I would recommend watching a YouTube compilation of this show over watching the actual show, if anything. If you absolutely must watch it, don't torture yourself by reading subtitles, either get some japanese immersion like I did by going in raw if you're a japanese learner or put on the dub and let the vocal fry wash over you til you're golden brown.

The only thing I enjoy in this anime is the scene where the boys pretend to be soldiers.

But it's the same as other heroine gal stories where she turns out to be pure even though she dresses like a total *****. The story is very badly written, the reason why the heroine accepts MC is very unreasonable, the development of their relationship sucks, the conflict at the end of the story is also forced (seriously why did they add that douchebag).

Although there are some things that can be enjoyed, there are also many things that's unbearable to watch. But this is what you usually get ... in a title like this, I gave it a low score because there is nothing new to offer in this story. Don't waste your time, there are many more interesting gal titles.