Hajimete no Gal: Hajimete no Bunkasai

[“It’s your typical, average, everyday school festival” Episode]

There’s nothing remotely special about this OVA. Its content is as dry and stale as the Sahara Desert. The plot is simple, unoriginal, and unremarkable. Here is a list of noticeable cliches in this OVA:

– Main class of the main characters run a maid cafe.
- Spent many minutes in the girl's changing room with the girls groping and guessing each other bust size.
- "The legend of the school dance" event
- Lots of backstabbing to prevent Junichi from dancing with Yukana at the school’s folk dance
- "Haunted House" event
- Lots of random running around scenes
- Random literal pits ... fall solve main characters’ problems
- In the end, it doesn’t even matter because Junichi and Yukana dance together.

Everything else is unremarkable: the characters are unremarkable, completely brain-dead, and one-dimensional, the art and animations are unremarkable and are as generic as any other romantic-comedy, and the music and sound design are unremarkable and fails to add anything new.

Even the fanservice is unremarkable: boob grabbing and groping, panties scenes, boobs jiggling, and finally lots of cleavage.

Enjoyment: An unremarkable episode for an unremarkable series.

This is getting as high of a review as it is because of the dub, it is like an abridged series with how they've done it, it's hilarious!


Story:


There isn't really a story in the OVA, much like most OVAs, but just showed how strong the relationship truly is between our favourite power couple.


Art:
...

The art is colourful and clean, the characters are vibrant and distinct, each with their own styles of hair, features, even eye colour is clear.


Sound:


The opening and the ending music is super catchy and really nice to listen to as a whole, it is something you can rock your head to and pretend that you know the lyrics.


Character:


Yukana Yame - A stereotypical gal that is actually a lot more innocent than she lets on and is, as a whole, a very wholesome person.

Junichi Hashiba - A shy and quiet boy who likes to eye up girls other than the one he is dating but still only gives her proper respect/acknowledgement when they talk to him.


"There's a reason I'm single and it's called my face."

They should've just include this with the regular airing of the parent anime.
that's how I see it, and quite frankly it ain't that bad when we see them 3 stooges and the 3 bimbos try their best to sorta disrupt Junich X Yame relationship for a while, this start off with in a school that has a fair and a cafe where girls were made to dress someone else in their class. But them again, it's Yui's rendering of her alter ego "Boa that started the attraction since we see her panty as the start of the anime, form their on it was the lesbian ... Ranko who starts to stir things up with her hands as she grope the boobs of Yame, Nene and Yui and that's the climax, the rest were nothing more of anti-climatic when the 3 stooges and the lesbian Ranko conspire to keep Junichi and Yame apart , but in the end it backfired due some students who decide to put up traps around school and in the end yame and Junichi get's to be together and yes, it was quite predictable, so how did I rate it?????

Mediocre 5, Story:

The OVA was still connected to it;s parent anime.

Mediocre 5, Art:

Well, imo I had enough of their panties from the parent anime, and still no nipples.

Mediocre 5, Sound:

I need not say.

Mediocre 5, Character:

I need not say also.

Fair 6, Enjoyment:

Well, it was nice to see something like this which is the extension of the parent anime.

fair 6, Overall:

Well, it ain't that bad, but it ain't that good either.

Kaching!!!!!

The great thing about this OVA is it's a mostly self contained story that you can pick up on what's happening pretty quickly, and still manages to resolve its conflicts. Thumbs up, if only more full seasons did the same.

The story is pretty much straightforward. Junichi and Yukana's and friends are in a couple of embarrassing situations at a school festival, all while the friends are screwing around with Junichi and Yukana's relationship.

Individual points.

The story is a little light, it's trying to get a lot done in a little time so the plot seems rushed.

The characters are well done, but ... only in the context of the original series. There's fun elements you just won't pick up on unless you saw the main series.

Art and Sound are at the professional levels of most current anime releases. Nothing special but well executed.

Final Verdict: It's a quick 23 minutes of fluff with a laugh or two.

Hajimete no Gal: Hajimete no Bunkasai (2017)

Must have been a nice show for Boxing Day.

In terms of the OVA, we have a typical school festival.

Maid cafe, haunted house and dance for eternal love. You know the drill.

The only difference is the sinister plot of the friends that as you expect doesn't work out.

... We get a cult of paedophiles all wanting loli pictures from the paedophile guy and one is a 37-year-old man who feels happy for being such a person because he is congratulated for seeing a certain picture on the wall.

The ecchi scenes are as you would expect and do not disappoint. The OVA overall has a better quality of animation than the whole series even though it is virtually the same. You just get less of the awkward angles in this one.

We get a nice ending to this series and it is an alright OVA. It is somewhat redeeming of the series.