Aho Girl

Yoshiko Hanabatake is an idiot beyond all belief. Somehow managing to consistently score zeroes on all of her tests and consumed by an absurd obsession with bananas, her senseless acts have caused even her own mother to lose all hope. Only one person is up to the task of keeping her insanity in check: childhood friend Akuru "A-kun" Akutsu.

Though he bemoans the ridiculous behavior he has to endure, the studious but terrifying A-kun is always ready to put an end to any stupidity Yoshiko gets up to, with no qualms about using physical force. Unfortunately, no matter how many times he attempts to knock some sense into her, the girl bounces right back to her usual shenanigans, even dragging in some other eccentrics along for the ride. Try as he might to rein in her nonsense, every moment is unpredictable with Yoshiko and her profound idiocy on the loose.

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Hanabatake, Yoshiko Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Akutsu, Akuru Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Sumino, Sayaka Supporting

Harada, Sayaka Japanese

Fuuki Iinchou Supporting

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Hanabatake, Yoshie Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Eimura, Akane Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Kurosaki, Ryuuichi Supporting

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Akutsu, Ruri Supporting

Senbongi, Sayaka Japanese

Oshieda, Atsuko Supporting

Satou, Rina Japanese

Hiiragi, Kii Supporting

Maeda, Rena Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Furukawa, Shin Producer

Ishiguro, Tatsuya Producer

Miyagi, Souji Producer

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Sep 19, 2017

DarthInvader

Recommended

*No Spoiler Concise Review*
TL;DR: An idiot girl getting into endless shenanigans that keeps viewers just laughing till their precious buttocks fall off.
[Story: 4/10 , Characters: 8/10, Art: 8/10, Sound: 6/10, Enjoyment: 9/10]

What is Aho Girl? What isn't Aho girl? Should I even watch this anime? If you think this anime looks stupid and the premise you've read on MAL sounds dumb then you are even more of an "Aho" than the main girl is in this anime. Seriously, Aho Girl (Idiot Girl) is your classic boke and tsukkomi style comedy with plenty of slapstick. If you just want to turn off your brain and laugh ... your ass off, this is definitely that show. I have never seen so much savagery in anime. The brutality is absolutely barbaric. It's just gag after gag after gag. One of the best 15 minute ab workout ever. Your sides will hate you but they will thank you.

This is your classic yin-yang sort of anime where the characters and the story directly compliments each other. One can't live without the other. Though there are numerous characters introduced as the anime goes on, the main characters are, Yoshiko, a masochist idiot beyond all belief, and her childhood crush A-Kun, a genius sadist beyond all belief. Every time Yoshiko's idiosyncrasies rises to a peak, A-Kun brutally punches it down to normalize the situation. It is this exchange of quit pro quo that makes this anime so hilarious. Even though viewers might feel bad for Yoshiko because of all the sufferings she endures due to her stupidity. However, she's literally the anthropomorphized genderbent version of Patrick Star. Not to mention she deserves every bit of it.

Each episode consists of few short gags. Even though you know it will feature some sort of idiotic stunt from the MC, needless to say, each gag remains fresh despite reusing running joke here and there. As the show goes on, we are introduced to various side characters ranging from Yandere Killer Mom to Tsundere Lewd President to Kuudere Dumb Sister to Overtly Charismatic Doge. At first they appear smart however as the show goes everyone but A-kun slowly becomes an idiot. There's a popular fan theory from avid manga readers that it's all A-Kun's fault. He sucks the intelligence out of everyone around him. He has like a 20 foot radius that sucks away at least 50 points of intelligence from everyone who enters. True or False, well that's for you to decide.

Anyways, the art & animation in this anime is pretty good. The studio did great justice to this anime despite it being an anime short. It's beautifully hand drawn and all the characters somehow stand out from one another. Not just the character design, the seiyuus in this anime heightened the enjoyment factor even more. Specifically the seiyuu of Yoshiko. She did a fantastic job. The OP and ED songs are funny and compliments the comedy style of this anime. The background score didn't stand out much but that can be overlooked.

Overall, if you are looking for a short anime with endless comedy gags with no clear story or plot but just laughter, then this anime is for you. It's slightly lewd, slightly dramatic but over the top comedy. Anyways, give it a watch and tell me later how great your abs look from all that laughter.

Btw, did you know that "Baka" and "Aho" are synonyms. People who live in the eastern half of central Japan (Tokyo, Yokohama, Chiba) generally use Aho whilst rarely using Baka when serious. This is reversed in the western half of Japan, (Osaka, Kyoto,) resulting in some minor arguments between Tomins (Capital Citizens) and Osakans.

P.S. Thank you for reading. I hope you found this short and supaishi review helpful!

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 12, 2019

LurimaLasiaf25

Mixed Feelings

Just a reminder that i had no intentions in watching Aho girl in the first place as just reading the title alone already made me thinks that its one of those shows that are not worth my time at all. The reason i made a decision to watch it is because a friend of mine always telling me to give it a try because apparently its one of the funniest commedy anime to date. Well guess what? i was absolutely disappointed from the begining until the end and right now im going to write a review according to what i think about Aho Girl ... aka Stupid Girl

Story

what story? since this is a comedy anime there is no story at all. if i actually want to give a brief explanation on what you are going to expect, its about an absurd and remarkably stupid girl (hence the title of the show) named Yoshiko who has an IQ less than the emoji movie's rotten tomatoes ratings that apparently suffers mental disorders. The reason why i mentioned this is because she is really that stupid always makes dumb decisions which could left the viewers disgusted. the entire show revolves around her insane daily lives with her friends who also had absurd personalities which i will cover later in the characters section. and thats about it. each episode is relatively short which lasts for about 10 minutes in total and is divided into specific sketch sections and they are all the same.

Art

There is nothing much to be said here since the artstyle is just plain to look at. i do kinda like the character's designs though especially the girls. They looked really great most of the times. Overall, its your standard animated artstyle that you had already seen several times in dozens of anime.

Sound

Im going to start with the openings and endings. As for the former, well you could say that its the only good thing from the show. I do appreciate the animators who creating a distinctive version for each of the episodes meaning that the sequence animations of the OP will change from 1 episode to the next but the song still remains the same. The ending song on the other hand basicially just merges with the ending sequences in every episode. Voice acting is pretty standard for the most part.

Character

This is like one of a few comedy anime that i found the characters loathful and had no substance at all. Especially the queen of idiots, Yoshiko aka the monkey who cant think wisely than a 6 year old child because basically she is a teenager with mind of a child heck even some children are far more intelligent than her. She is the childhood friend of Akutsu ( A-kun for short) also one of the main character who dont have any friends because the grim expression that he always potray which makes others to stay away from him and seemed to keeps continuing abusing yoshiko whenever she did something idiotic. Now many people would think that its unjustified for him to always hit her whenever he can but if you think about it,no matter what you say to her, it will always comes out from her ears so hitting her might be the only way to shut her up. HOWEVER, he does not need to act rude to his other friends for no reason especially Sumino, the only normal person out of the cast. While she is a kind girl and always wanted to sort problems out i found her quite unnecessary to the show as everything that she did always ended up with a failure. The other side characters are just there without contributing anything to the show at all. The only characters that i like are A- kun's little sister and the dog.

Enjoyment

I do admit that i chuckled a bit in the first early episodes but thats about it. There is almost nothing in this show that is universally funny. when i said universal im talking about slapstick comedy which majority of the people will find it hilarious but the usage of it in this show is absolutely very low effort to the point it becomes irritating and extremely repetitive. Yeah we get it that the monkey likes to eat bananas. yeah we get it that the monkey loves to show her panties to A-kun like heck.

Overall

So far this is by far one of the worse comedy anime ive ever watched and that is saying something as i found the anime Cells at Work even funnier than this unpolished turd. I'll rate it a 5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 19, 2017

bmoore07

Not Recommended

Hidden beneath the antics, the one-liners, and the pop culture references, Aho Girl’s goal is obvious even to the untrained eye; it desires your attention. “Look at me! Look at me!” Aho Girl screams, waving its arms and jumping about in a frenzied, excessive, and desperate manner. In doing so, this show has managed to not only work but endear itself to the audience as well. Quite a few seasonal viewers have been smitten over this show and, at first glance, it’s easy to see why. Aho Girl is energetic. It’s straightforward. And it’s occasionally charming. However, Aho Girl is also painful to watch.

First and ... foremost, this show is simply not funny. For Aho Girl, which largely subdues its aesthetics in an effort to emphasize its writing, this is a severely damaging flaw. Aho Girl fancies itself an extravagant comic extraordinaire yet it never fully ventures into the absurd; it’s as if Aho Girl is frightened of abandoning its slice-of-life roots and as a result is rather hesitant of displaying signs of vivaciousness. The instances where its comic genius sparks to life are memorable in their own right (the homage to the Power Rangers, in particular) but they are few and far between. It hardly helps that Aho Girl, like most mediocre comedies, is obsessed with explaining the jokes to you; with every act of mischief, there’s not only a character (read: the “self-insert”) elaborating on the details of said act but there are also occasional cues from Aho Girl itself that tell you how the act was intended to be funny. As this show can attest to, even comedies can be guilty of infodumping.

From the first episode, Aho Girl is engaged in a war against common sense. This is a show that prides itself in its intentional stupidity; for Aho Girl, lapses in judgment and instances of in-the-moment logic are par for the course. A carefree attitude and general acts of silliness are a major source of this show’s appeal. That said, Aho Girl underwhelms when it attempts a serious approach; it’s as if the show doesn’t understand its audience. Most viewers appreciate Aho Girl because of its slapstick humor, because of the amusing eyecatches, because of its short runtime and, yes, because of the fanservice. I doubt that these viewers picked up Aho Girl for the half-baked, insipid, and monotonous moments of insight that ultimately result in little but wasted time. These moments of insight are not only executed poorly but their suitability is subpar; Aho Girl tends to observe the most trivial matters, like a low score on a quiz, and overexert itself when it should be focusing on the more important problems, like the abusive relationship at the center of it all.

Every problem that arises from Aho Girl stems from the disastrous dynamic between its protagonists; it’s the repugnant elephant in the room that Aho Girl’s fanbase has condoned, glossed over, neglected, and outright ignored at times. The cast members are defined by a single trait but no cast member has as damaging a trait as Akuru Akutsu (the “self-insert”) and Yoshiko Hanabatake (the show’s poster girl). Yoshiko’s defining trait is idiocy while Akuru’s is anger; while Yoshiko compensates for her lack of intellect with a can-do attitude, Akuru offers little outside of his constant rage. There have been plenty of characters similar to Akuru, like Last Exile’s Alex Row, that have provided substance, versatility and growth to their cast beyond their brooding tendencies and hair-trigger temper. Akuru, however, is feeble in comparison; he makes little effort to express himself beyond screaming matches and physical abuse. When he encounters a problem, Akuru explodes. When his friend attempt helping him, Akuru becomes spiteful; he insults, he torments, he belittles, he punches, he kicks, and he hurls expletives at his friends simply because he perceives them as annoying. Sure, Akuru apologizes once in a while but he never bothers to change. Honestly, why should he? The other cast members, specifically Yoshiko, and Aho Girl itself by proxy have long since accepted this as rational behavior. That the show has treated Akuru’s abusive tendencies as a gimmick, that the show’s fanbase has little reaction to it, is sickening to me.

There is a place in this world for Aho Girl, where it can exist without scrutiny of any sort. Aho Girl has established itself and thrived in GIFs, in Vines, in reaction videos, in memes and in the Weird Side of YouTube. It is there that Aho Girl’s positive traits can flourish. However, under any sort of analysis, Aho Girl not only leaves you unsatisfied but more than a little repulsed as well. This show, allergic to depth and disgusted by morality, is at best mildly amusing and at worst one of the biggest disgraces of a thoroughly mediocre season. Aho Girl makes a spectacle of itself - presenting faux-meaningful observations; idolizing its vapid female lead; overindulging in panty shots; deploying one tired, overused cliché after another (the sister complex, among others); and fishing for attention - while accomplishing absolutely nothing in the end. While its peers in the comedy genre have pushed boundaries, expanded horizons, enlightened its fans, and revolutionized the medium, Aho Girl has contributed little beyond munching on bananas.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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