Ueno-san wa Bukiyou (How clumsy you are, Miss Ueno.)

As the head of her middle school's science club, it's only fitting that Ueno is also a brilliant inventor. With devices that can convert any liquid into drinkable water, deodorize the most foul smells, or even generate dark matter to be used as a means of concealment, it seems like nothing is beyond Ueno's capabilities. However, she doesn't invent these devices for the advancement of mankind. Rather, the one force that motivates her is love, the only phenomenon she can't quite figure out.

Ueno is head over heels for Tanaka, her nonchalant fellow club member. Yet, because she is too nervous to confess her love and he is too oblivious to notice her affection, her love life is completely stagnant. In Ueno's mind, if she could just expose him to perverted situations, then surely he'd get flustered and fall for her, right? Assisted by her stone-faced classmate and dedicated wingwoman Yamashita, Ueno employs her many inventions on Tanaka in a lewd manner in hopes that he may one day understand how she feels.

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Ueno

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Serizawa, Yuu
Japanese

Yamashita

Main

Kageyama, Akari
Japanese

Tanaka

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Tanaka, Aimi
Japanese

Tamon

Supporting

Izawa, Shiori
Japanese

Tanaka, Yomogi

Supporting

Itou, Miku
Japanese

Unogawa

Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka
Japanese

Kitanaga

Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka
Japanese

Narrator

Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko
Japanese

Minamine

Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana
Japanese

Tanaka, Mizuna

Supporting

Oomori, Nichika
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Shimizu, Kanako

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Miyajima, Kouhei

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Fujii, Takahiro

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Tsukimisato, Tomohiro

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"Hirameki Heartbeat (閃きハートビート)" by Miku Itou

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	1: "My Pace Science" by Ueno (Yuu Serizawa), Tanaka (Aimi Tanaka), Yamashita (Akari Kageyama) (eps 2-3)
	2: "Love Me Science (ラブミーサイエンス)" by Ueno (Yuu Serizawa) (eps 4-5)
	3: "Houkago Traveler (放課後トラベラー)" by Ueno (Yuu Serizawa) (eps 6-7)
	4: "Cosmo Lumina (コスモルミナ)" by Ueno (Yuu Serizawa) (eps 8-9)
	5: "Bukiyou Sensation (不器用センセーション)" by Ueno (Yuu Serizawa) (eps 10-11)
	6: "Kokoro no Furiko (心のふりこ)" by Ueno (Yuu Serizawa) (eps 12)

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Jul 27, 2022

hexashadow13

Recommended

tl;dr: A series of short comedy skits that have decent humor but are somewhat repetitive and have no substance beyond that.

This anime is composed of short skits all of which are solely focused on comedy. Each episode is about half length, nine and half minutes if you take out the OP and ED, but each of those episodes is also split into two so each of the skits if four to six minutes. These skits are centered around a middle school science club led by a tsundere girl named Ueno who’s trying to get fellow club member Tanaka to fall in love with her through ... the use of various inventions. The English title for this translates the word 不器用 as clumsy, but from what I understand it’s meaning is broader than simply awkwardness of movement as it’s usually used in English, but rather encompasses being prone to screwing things up in general, which is a much better description of Ueno in this anime. She always screws things up for one reason or another, which is where the majority of comedy comes from.

There’s some variety to the comedy, though it is still pretty narrow. The majority of the screwups arise from Tanaka simply not doing what Ueno had planned and her attempts at trying to force it just not working. She’s pretty hot headed and stubborn and usually keeps trying regardless of how things continue failing, which is a core part of the humor. There are some instances where she actually seems to be one the track to succeeding, but she ends up getting cold feet and running away, which I found pretty amusing and think that combined with her other somewhat pitiful traits made her pretty likable.

The other core aspect to the comedy is that Tanaka is completely dense and despite it being pretty damn clear that Ueno is in love with him and trying to get him to fall in love with her as well, he doesn’t notice in the slightest. This is pretty common so I didn’t find it much of an issue in and of itself, but I will say that I found Tanaka to be a lot more rude than the typical dense to romance anime character so I actually felt pretty bad for Ueno at times to the point it blunted the comedy. And without the ridiculous kindness that usually accompanies the denseness in such protagonists, Tanaka is pretty unlikable, so in the end I didn’t actually have any investment whatsoever in there being any progress, which is a good thing because absolutely no progress was made.

There’s some variety beyond that due to a host of other characters of varying importance. The main one is Yamashita, who is the only other science club member and thus always present, though her involvement is usually pretty minimal and generally pretty random. There are also various others that visit the science club to get inventions to help them with whatever problems they’re having, but none of them have enough presence to matter all that much beyond spicing things up here and there somewhat. The inventions too have a good amount of variety, ranging from being based on sci-fi psuedo babble to straight up fantasy. Overall I would say the comedy is decent enough throughout. Still, in the end most of the comedy seemed to veer into being at least somewhat lewd, but not all that much, which resulted in the comedy overall feeling pretty repetitive.

The art and animation are pretty weak and overall the anime does feel low budget, but since it’s a series of short that shouldn’t be too unexpected. The bigger problem I think is that the art style really doesn’t work all that well with the ecchi focused comedy. The soundtrack wasn’t all that great but was unnoticeable most of the time so I guess it was okay for what it was. The OP was decent and though there were many EDs most were surprisingly great. I was especially fond of Love Me Science and Cosmo Lumina.

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Apr 7, 2019

TheHentaiKing

Mixed Feelings

Just personal scratch.
Advised, possible spoilers.
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Art: 7/10
The art was pretty good. I thought that the overall quality was clean. The proportions and anatomy checked out too. The environments (mostly the science room) looked good. No nature showcases or panoramics. Impact shots looked fine. Facial expressions were way too cute. Supporting details and extras also looked good and were nice additions that the manga didn't have.
Overall, the art quality was pretty good and there wasn't too much for me to complain about. The art was adapted well from the manga.

Animation: 7/10
Animation was pretty nice too. General motions looked fluid. Gestures and natural movements ...

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Mar 25, 2019

Jus1294

Not Recommended

Ueno-san wa Bukiyou was a show that piqued my interest whilst browsing through the seasonals before they began to air. It seemed like it'd be a decently funny slice of life comedy that I might get a few cheap laughs out of. What did we get? A short, unfunny waste of time. I figured since I have yet to a review a show of shorter episode time length, I'll give this a shot. Without further adieu, here's my review on aforementioned show.

To start off we'll begin with the story, there isn't much here due to the nature of Ueno-san but I'll elaborate so you guys ...

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