Sanrio Danshi

Kouta Hasegawa is a completely normal high school student who likes his Pompompurin stuffed animal, a Sanrio character modelled after a Golden Retriever, which his grandmother gave him when he was young. However, an incident in which other kids accused him of being girly for liking Sanrio characters made him ashamed of his attachment to Pompompurin.

Through a series of unexpected events, Kouta ends up meeting others at school who also like Sanrio characters—Yuu Mizuno, a flashy boy who is popular with girls; Shunsuke Yoshino, a member of the soccer team; Ryou Nishimiya, an underclassman who is a library assistant; and Seiichirou Minamoto, the student council president.

Through his new friends, Kouta learns that there is no need to be embarrassed for liking Sanrio characters; and together, they aim to create a play for the cultural festival in order to transform his normal school life into a sparkly one.

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Mizuno, Yuu Main

Saitou, Souma Japanese

Yoshino, Shunsuke Main

Oosuka, Jun Japanese

Hasegawa, Kouta Main

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Nishimiya, Ryou Main

Kagura, Kitsune Japanese

Minamoto, Seiichirou Main

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Tsuchiya, Tadashi Supporting

Suzuki, Chihiro Japanese

Kouta's Mother Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Matsuo, Tomo Supporting

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Sugami, Naoki Supporting

Hatano, Wataru Japanese

Machida, Yamato Supporting

Kishio, Daisuke Japanese

Miyagi, Souji Producer

Matsuoka, Takanori Producer

Hagiwara, Ryousuke Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Assistant Producer

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Mar 24, 2018

momo9

Recommended

Sanrio Danshi is a pretty relaxing show with some conflict that each character eventually goes through. There is a lot of promoting of Sanrio merch and Puroland, but that's expected from an anime about Sanrio. Despite that, it had a nice message throughout the series: liking things that other people might think is not acceptable for your age is ok. I find that kind of relatable myself when I know people who think anime is for kids only, but fortunately I've found friends my age or older who appreciate anime. All the characters were quite different but they all loved a different Sanrio ... characters. The story overall is a pretty simple typical school show involving boys with similar interests hanging out, so it didn't leave a big impression compared to other school shows. If you want a show that's relaxing with a bit of conflict in each episode, try this show out.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 20, 2018

sofabulous

Mixed Feelings

Sanrio Danshi is like Free! if instead of swimming they bonded over commercial corporate mascot characters. It's weird.

It's super weird how there’s SO MUCH commentary on this show is about soft masculinity or something because of how much ANN/etc hates harsh masculine men and not on the weird emotional connection to corporate products that is MADE by that same corporation in order to push MORE emotional attachment.

Listen, I'm not the type to preach to you that capitalism is evil, but a show that's entire purpose is to attach sentimentally to corporate product is weird. And I kind of hate how good the character design, ... art design and color design is for it. It's great. It's absolutely beautiful to look at.

Man, it's weird seeing a show attach real emotions to straight up corporate products. Attaching positive feelings of your dead grandma to a corporate product. At least when it's The Products Are Characters, you're attaching sentimentality to the product THROUGH character. You like the keychain because you like the character.

This show is just straight 'here's characters who have entire emotional journey and emotional attachment is to Straight Up the product itself.' It's weird. I'm going to KEEP overusing the word weird because I can't find any other way to describe it.

They cement their bond by going to a real world location store and they tell you what it is I think. It's just. Weird.

Episode 7 was an okay ad for Puroland I guess.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 7, 2019

Nid_Vicious

Not Recommended

Since it’s pretty clear that this Anime shows a lot of Sanrio stuff etc., I want to focus on everything else. This review might contain very minor spoilers.

So, I watch a lot of darker or more serious stuff, so I try to balance it out by watching comedic or downright silly stuff. A lot of people wrote that this show was lighthearted, so I thought OK, why not.
The subject matter of the first episode was not that lighthearted, to be honest - I was actually touched because I’m a bit sentimental that way. The first episode left me thinking 'well that's not lighthearted at all'.
It ... starts out pretty serious with a sob story about the protagonist and how his weird complexes destroyed his childhood memories. The next backstory of another character (whose relationship with his sister has a weird, incest-y vibe) is also ‚sad‘ (you know, their shameful hobbies aka. Sanrio gave them hard times, I guess).
While it seems ridiculous, one could still at least kind of relate to the fact that there are certain things that are expected from you when you grow up, and that you’re supposed to leave childish things behind. Staying true to yourself is not an easy task, and the first 2 or 3 episodes kind of conveyed this feeling, which made me think that this show might not be as silly as it sounded.
Anyways, it all quickly goes downhill from there.
As it happens with a lot of 12 episode anime, conflicts are resolved within the episode, except for the main protagonists struggle. He can’t seem to stop being a selfish and whiny bitch about his life, even though everyone around him is constantly trying to reassure him…of himself, I guess…? Even the friends he dumped in the beginning as soon as he found his new group of friends.

The rest of the show is a typical high school anime that has a typical message (being: friendship is important) I’m not saying that these kind of stories can’t be enjoyable to watch or whatever, but it just…wasn’t. It was cringe. Towards the end, I just had to force myself to continue watching it (I barely ever quit anything I watch)

One thing that stood out in a kind of positive way was the soundtrack (the score, not the OP etc.) Weirdly enough, mediocre or even bad shows often have pretty decent music.

That’s it. In the end, it’s a pretty forgettable anime with forgettable characters (except for the Sanrio characters, obviously).

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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