Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys

-- This review contains spoilers. Only read if you have finished the series. --



I'm gonna get straight to the point, because quite frankly there's not much going for this show. This one of the worst things I have ever seen.

Basically, two people who happen to look alike decide to switch roles and do the other person's job. In a really dumb way, it somehow manages to work. The female lead goes to an all-boy school that is made for fighting - I guess - because they're never in class to begin with. Anyway, through sheer stupidity of the side characters, they support her and ... believe her, along with two other characters that know her identity. In the end, when it's made apparent that her secret is known, she decides to not reveal anything whatsoever, and it somehow manages to work out, again.

Not only was the story terrible, but the action scenes were incredibly dull as well. The viewers are also expected to believe that she successfully beat everyone with no real explanation to it. Not only that, but she has a past history with one character in particular, but nothing ever really happens with them.

Long story short: I understand you're the main character, but there's no way things just magically work out like that. Besides the obvious things, one may struggle to realize what the point in all of this was.

I asked myself if this anime really deserves 10/10 before posting it, but the fact is I thoroughly enjoyed it - being an Otome fan, this anime has hit all the right buttons:
1. Main female character has a lovable personality and not annoyingly immature or stupid
2. Amazing voice acting by star-studded seiyuus
3. Doki doki (heart pounding) moments e.g. Kabe-don
4. Beautiful art style of all main characters e.g. Ikemen types for Otome fans to swoon over
5. Humour = hilarious at some parts
My only disappointment is that each episode is only 8 mins, but it's common for Developers to introduce Otome game with a short anime. I ... can only hope the psvita game ever gets translated into English so that I can buy it. All in all, if you are an Otome fan, this anime is for you!

Story: 8
A relaxing anime with episodes that are only 8 minutes long. A story about friendship and lots of funny scenes involved as well. Every episode is just to show character development for the main characters. Fighting scenes are short but pretty good!

Even though it is kind of a harem anime, there is no romance involved at all which is what I'm looking for. Kenka Banchou Otome can be quite predictable and Hinako will talk to the viewers a lot through this thing called the "4th wall".

Character: 8
Each characters are different and have unique personalities. I don't really have much to say about them. ... My favourite character will be the actual Hikaru. Even though he does not appear a lot, he's my favourite because of his cute and carefree personality.

Art: 8
Art is pretty good for me. Bright colours and quite detailed. Background scenes are average.

Sound: 8
Really great opening and ending music. The creators are also pretty smart to include the animation in the opening song to get us to listen to it every time instead of skipping it like I always do.

Enjoyment/Overall: 8
Found myself enjoying this anime a lot and something I look forward to every week. Well, you cannot expect much out of this anime as I think this is just a promotion for the actual game. From what I heard, the game had much more than the anime itself. Also from how it ended, I'm hoping that there will be a second season to this xD