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Synonyms: DIY!!

Japanese: Do It Yourself!! -どぅー・いっと・ゆあせるふ-

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 6, 2022 to Dec 22, 2022

Premiered: Fall 2022

Broadcast: Thursdays at 00:00 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, AT-X, TV Tokyo Music, Avex Pictures, BS11, Sumitomo, MAGNET

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: PINE JAM

Source: Original

Genre: Slice of Life

Themes: CGDCT, School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.46¹ (scored by 37,725 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #1933²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1984

Members: 102,204

Favorites: 541

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7.46

Ranked #1933Popularity #1984Members 102,204

Episodes: /12

Synopsis

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has led to the development of cutting-edge technologies that have rapidly evolved the world. As a result, schools have begun incorporating these technologies into their curriculum, leaving behind the ways of the old. One such institution is the elite Yuyu Girls' Vocational High School, where both Serufu Yua and her childhood friend, Miku "Purin" Suride, have applied. Although the tech-savvy Purin is accepted to Yuyu High, the accident-prone Serufu is rejected and enters the traditional Gatagata Girls' High School instead, driving a wedge into their friendship.

On her way to class one day, Serufu gets into a bike accident, and Rei Yasaku, a passerby who attends the same school, fixes her damaged bicycle. Serufu later finds out that Rei has a passion for old-fashioned crafts and is the head of the school's Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Club—which is in danger of closing due to a lack of members.

Realizing that this may be her chance to repair her relationship with Purin, Serufu joins the club in hopes of creating projects that could bring them together once more. As the DIY Club welcomes new faces, Serufu learns to build not only handicrafts but also new friendships along the way!

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Background

Do It Yourself! was released on Blu-ray and DVD in four volumes from December 23, 2022 to March 24, 2023.

The anime's official partner Takagi, a tool manufacturer from Niigata, participated in the Japan DIY Homecenter Show 2022 exhibition of home living products held at the Makuhari Messe center in Chiba from August 25 to 27. At its booth, the company distributed uchiwa fans for free with Do It Yourself!! illustrations.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yua, Serufu

Main

Inagaki, Konomi
Japanese

Juliet Queen Elizabeth VIII

Main

Oomori, Nichika
Japanese

Suride, Miku

Main

Ichinose, Kana
Japanese

Kouki, Kokoro

Main

Takahashi, Karin
Japanese

Yasaku, Rei

Main

Sakura, Ayane
Japanese

Hikage, Takumi

Main

Waki, Azumi
Japanese

Serufu's Mother

Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko
Japanese

Kurage-san

Supporting

Gouda, Hozumi
Japanese

Purin's Mother

Supporting

Mizuno, Risa
Japanese

Shii's Mother

Supporting

Akesaka, Satomi
Japanese

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Oowada, Tomoyuki

Producer

Watase, Shouta

Producer

Hirahara, Yuito

Producer

Mukaitouge, Kazuyoshi

Producer, Planning

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Opening Theme

"どきどきアイデアをよろしく！" by 潟女DIY部!!

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Ending Theme

"続く話" by Serufu (CV: Konomi Inagaki) and Purin (CV: Kana Ichinose)

Reviews

Dec 5, 2023

Smilomaniac

Recommended

Much like its protagonist, the show is wholesome, charming, silly and positive. The art is endearing, the characters are colorful (if a bit trope-y) and the message is a simple but effective one - You can do things yourself and you'll appreciate the effort and result if you keep at it.

It is a warm and engaging show that will fit you like a warm blanket during autumn. Not a masterpiece, not an instant classic, but plenty good enough to enjoy and lift your spirits. Often a show doesn't need to be more than this.

From a critical stand point, the writing isn't great.
The characters have ...

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Feb 3, 2023

SteffChris

Mixed Feelings

I REALLY wanted to like this one. The art style feels very special, the world is interesting to some extend and watching some DIY sounded fun.

The art style is 10/10. Obviously it does not look like Violet Evergarden or any other series that is so clean. But the palette and the way it’s made is gorgeous. Just feels completely different.
I am in Love with the ED song. Man, it feels so heavy and relaxing at the same time. While the cat and the dog (forget it’s names) are building the guitar…

That’s about it unfortunately. I enjoyed the first 3-4 episodes. After that i had to ...

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Oct 19, 2022

Gween_Gween

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

Do It Yourself is one of the most disappointing anime of this season. When you see the animation, you meet striking designs, relaxing compositions, lively and naturalistic gestures, and lovely lightning. The anime visually invites you to comfiness. However, the anime doesn’t live up to its technical ability. Do It Yourself is just a set of gimmicks and themes attached to an unoriginal setup that leaves no amazement whatsoever. It is like a viral Tik Tok recipe. Yes, it looks good, but they didn’t care about delivering the flavor, and you ended up eating a bunch of parmesan cheese.

The main shortcoming of the series is ... the awful character department. The main character, You Serufu (Yes, it is a dumb pun), is the typical careless girl who lives in her dreamlike universe. Cool, that character works, as most CGDCT uses a character that is either dense or clueless for a comedy effect. No biggie. However, You Serufu's actions lack any wonder or anticipation around them, her character is just an unstoppable wrecking ball of fluff, she is Yui Hirasawa after a bad trip of ayahuasca. She will obviously keep messing up and getting injured as a formulaic comedy act, while the rest of the cast will evidently start to mesh because of her outgoing and careless personality. The issue is that the remainder cast plainly lacks the necessary presence or tools to make her character shine and interact. Like, You Serufu didn't even stutter when her childhood friend said that her club activities were a waste of time and outdated, dude? How emotionally stunted one has to be to not show emotion after that? How can the series throw that and go business as usual after that?

The series desperately needs a character that brings her to earth or transforms her fantasies into something funnier or more reflective. We don’t have Rin Shima personally growing while teaching her, nor Konata to mess with her and create ingenious punchlines, nor Ritsu to be her partner in crime and create a memorable duo. The characters are just as artificial and cartoony-independent as her, so their chemistry is painfully absent. As the chemistry is lacking, the dialogue transforms into a muddy debate between low-quality representations of CGDCT tropes. The interactions are comically bland. Like, please, just give You Serufu a chainsaw and give me some high-quality injuries to get more of that nurse and stop the nonsense conversations.

The ultimate consequence of the generic characters is the absurd predictability of the series. When you watch the second episode you suddenly realize that this anime is ridiculously telegraphed. You can copium about the first episode and state that it was a bad start, maybe they copied the literal structure of any run-of-the-mill club CGDCT beginning because it is a reference to the medium or because they lost the original script. Sadly, the second and third episodes are the same. The second episode presents Takumin as a shy character that looks towards a group of friends with melancholy. Meanwhile, You Serufu and Rei Ayanami need people for their club since that is the plot of every club anime ever (Not a spoiler). If you do two-plus-two then you know exactly how the episode will progress frame-by-frame. Why? Because Takumin is not a girl that happens to be shy. No, she is an archetypal introverted girl that happens to exist to expand on the value of friendship (And because shyness is moe). Her character is predictable and dull, Queen Elizabeth (This is a real character, don't inhale glue kids) too.

Takumin representation of the value of being with others is not an isolated case either. Do It Yourself tries to naively attach themes to each character, and it massively fails. The anime is simply not creative in developing the topics, to the point that even integrating them is counterproductive. Example. When you witness a pseudo-futuristic setting in a DIY anime, the first thing that should cross your mind, just five seconds in after watching the third drone.obj, is:

They will clearly do a Handmade v/s Computer-made argument, right?

The flaw is not that it unmistakably does that. The shortcoming comes from the ridiculous soulless discourse of Miku to explain the topic to the people who didn't notice the theme after watching her practicing 3D printing in high school (So jealous, fuck 3rd world). The problem with this anime is that it thinks it is doing enough by mentioning stuff. The presence of a commentary doesn't replace the need for clever blending. The anime pretends that delivering these themes and designing quirky characters (Such as a girl that says meow? Sorry, I can't still wrap my head around her) is enough to capture the viewer.

The show doesn't develop out-of-the-box comedy, the dialogues are just inherently skeletal and dry, and the progression is traced from "CGDCT for Dummies: How To Make Your Own K-On". This anime is a pass. No, it is not unsalvageable, the animation is frankly alluring to watch, but that would be it. The development will not be deeper than doing some handcrafts, guided by rudimentary and uninspired motifs that will spoil the entire episode and leave no relevant impact. It is not charming, it is not humorous, it is not endearing. It is not a good CGDCT.

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