Ueno-san wa Bukiyou

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 Main

Serizawa, Yuu Japanese

Yamashita Main

Kageyama, Akari Japanese

Tanaka Main

Tanaka, Aimi Japanese

Tamon Supporting

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Tanaka, Yomogi Supporting

Itou, Miku Japanese

Kitanaga Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko Japanese

Ueno No. 13 Supporting

Serizawa, Yuu Japanese

Unogawa Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Minamine Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Miyajima, Kouhei Producer

Shimizu, Kanako Producer, Planning

Fujii, Takahiro Producer

Tsukimisato, Tomohiro Director

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Dec 12, 2023

loby_the_pirate

Recommended

If you don't like this after the first episode, you should probably stop watching.

This is a degenerate comedy about awkward and clueless middle schoolers, where the main character creates "science" devices in order to woo her love interest. In each episode the device fails in some way that is spectacular, usually in a fairly predictable way. This anime understands that this type of humor gets old really fast, and makes each episode short and to the point. Each episode is really like 2, 6m episodes in one, as longer than 12m at a time might be a little much at once.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 7, 2019

TheHentaiKing

Mixed Feelings

Just personal scratch.
Advised, possible spoilers.
Opinion & Informal

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 ... looked believable. Quick sequences looked good too. No selective framing, dropping frames, shortcuts, etc. Not really any impact sequences. Overall, I thought the animation was consistently above-average.

Characters: 7/10
Characters adapted well from the manga. I thought this show did a great job in giving life and personality to the characters from the manga, especially the main character, Ueno. The VA for Ueno really deserves praise for how well she did voicing Ueno.

Plot & Development: 6/10
Follows the manga pretty closely while taking some liberties in presentation to add punch or flair. Outside of the adaptation and just looking at the narrative itself, this story surprisingly has a lot of adult themes. It doesn't hold back any punches when it comes to deliberate service shots or lewd content, but the humor is very slapstick and cute. If there's one thing I like about this show is how cute the reactions of Ueno were. Overall, a fine adaptation. Not much else to say.

Music: 6/10
The bgm was fine, that particular hype theme did its job. The soundboard was also fine. No sound design to note. I liked some of the ED's.

Conclusion: 5/10
Adaptations of episodic stories turn out like this usually; not really introducing a lead-up to a conclusion and just ending the show as is. That's fine. There wasn't a dedicated conclusion really. The end of the show was just the end of the last particular skit that was adapted. One example of recent memory was Asobi Asobase.

Overall: 6/10
This was mostly just a personal taste sorta thing. I really liked how cute Ueno and her shenanigans were. I'm definitely going to pick up the manga again or watch an S2 if that's ever a thing. Overall, this adaptation was well done. I didn't personally find too much comedy in this, but it was hella cute.

Edit: 4/8/2019
Grammar and flow corrections

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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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 ... can get the gist of it. The basic premise is more or less a group of middle school students in a Science club create new experiments . Ueno subjects the other two, Tanaka mainly, to her concoctions in some sort of elaborate ruse to get Tanaka to partake in lewd actions of affection towards Ueno. Meanwhile, Yamashita is mostly a bystander of the others shenanigans. This repeats for the entirety of the 12 episodes, with each episode split up into two separate experiments. It's fairly simple and non-convoluted if that's up your alley, but with it being impeccably formulaic, watching one episode is basically seeing all of them.



Next up is the characters, with there being three main characters. Ueno is uh, a rather perverse character. As I mentioned before, she has a crush on the male MC Tanaka. Her experiments ranged from trying to make Tanaka consuming her urine to him eating her panties (alright Japan). Anytime her crush is finally about to go through with her experiments she chickens out and REEEEEE's in typical tsundere loli fashion. Tanaka himself is either the biggest airhead savant ever created or just so fed up with Ueno's shit that he acts like he's completely unaware of her intentions. I honestly can't pick between the two and I probably don't wanna know. It's not so much of a dynamic of his personality, it's more so of a driving force in the shows "plot". Not really much of you can describe about him other than that it got old quick. Yamashita is long-line character in the deadpan trope. These characters are always hit or miss for me, and it's on the latter end of that spectrum this time around. She gives me hints of Yuki from Haruhi and Mai from Nichijou. More or less there to play along with Ueno's shenanigans, she as well doesn't contribute much of anything.




Lastly, I'll group the art and sound/ost together: Honestly, there isn't much to complain about here, it's incredibly run of the mill in both categories. Nothing really stands out in a good or bad way; it's just there.




Pro's-

Short run time, so even if it's not your cup of tea you can finish it in a couple of hours at most

Falls along of absurdist comedy, which I typically enjoy unfortunately not in this case


Con's-

Jokes are incredibly off-putting

Characters are quite bad

Formulaic nature ruins the longevity of the show


Recommendations: Takagi-san; a more light-hearted sweeter version of this show without the lewd jokes.

Asobi Asobase; A group of middle school girls doing shenanigans in their club-has more mature styled comedy like Ueno-san.



Thanks again, for reading my reviews everyone. I hope this have given you some insight if you want to indulge into this show or not.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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