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QQ Sweeper is about a family of cleaners who go out and keep the world clean, not just in the physical world, but also people's minds. Fumi is a girl with no family and nowhere to go, after searching desperately for a live-in job she finally (through a weird turn of events) ends up working for the family as a cleaner in training.
As a disclaimer, I read volume 1 of Queen's Quality before I read QQ Sweeper. I was unaware of these volumes until midway through volume 1. From what I've gathered, QQ Sweeper is considered a sequel to the series, but also not really. ... TLDR; for some reason, the manga's name had to be changed, though it's not clear because even the author herself is unsure of the reason why.

Pros:
· All the main cast is very likeable, and even the antagonist are to some degree likeable. No one really feels like a one dimensional character, they all have their uniqueness, but aren't solely defined by it. Fumi often makes mistakes and tries to learn from them, sometimes she slips back into her old habits, which feel very real for your everyday person.
· The issues going on in the manga are a parallel to real life mental health issues and with Japanese notorious problems with how they treat mental health I am all for a series that attempts to tackle this in a way that is knowledgeable to the average reader.
· The art is very charming, and I love some of the more simple facial expressions. The art improves a lot in Queen's Quality, but even in QQ Sweeper, the art is something I look at fondly.

Cons:
· Too short, I know this is kind of odd to say considering Queen's Quality exist but standing on its own it's way too short and leaves things unresolved.
· Sometimes things can be a bit complicated to follow because they are trying to explain it at the moment at the best of their abilities while not taking away from what is currently going on.

Overall, I am more excited to jump back into Queen's Quality after reading QQ Sweeper. Reading Motomi's side panels about things that were going on around her while working on the manga filled me with joy. I love the duo of Fumi and Kyuutarou and I want to see where there journey leads to!

One thing that I'd like to note is I watched this as a dub as irl friends begged me to.

I really don't know what to say about this series. I intended to write this sooner but I've been so on the fence with how I felt about it that I just couldn't write this. However, I feel my overall score is more then fair considering the suffering I feel like I went through for this anime. Please do not watch the english dub, I beg you.


I have read a few of the good and bad reviews for this series after finishing to help me collect ... my thoughts on it and there is one thing that really bothered me about this series that another review mentions. This show really really feels like it degrades women. I mean it's bad! I couldn't believe they made Haruhi the bad guy because she actually helped the girls in the beach episode. I couldn't believe that more people thought she was male because she's not all that feminine outside of how she talks to people. For how many times I felt insulted of them degrading women in this show I was really shocked to learn this anime isn't that old.

For the art I wanted to give it a good score, I appreciate how detailed some of the background are for this series but the over all style felt like something that fell out of the 90s. In fact, this whole show made me feel like I stumbled in to 90s Japan. I couldn't believe the show was originally aired in 2006, I had to do quadruple takes at MAL's info.

Sound gets a 4 just for how terrible the opening and endings are. To me this is a huge deal considering that you are forced to listen to these at the beginning and end to every show. Earlier I said don't watch this in English and for me that's mainly because of the OP and ED. Ironically I didn't mind the English voice actors and found them nice and appropriate for the character they were betraying.

My biggest problem with the characters it the lack of development they get. I kept waiting and hoping for them to grow out of their cookie cutter personalities but just when you saw hope they'd rubber band back to their old ways which I found frustrating to watch.

My overall enjoyment for the series is pretty down the line. There are some times when I would smile and giggle at something in the show and at other times I wondered if I was done with the series yet. For this I gave it a 5 which I feel is as neutral as I can be for this show.

I know a lot of people hold this show in a high regard and that's great but it just wasn't for me.

This review is spoiler free.
With season one going off with a bang I was really looking forward to see season 2, however I knew the series was getting 25 episodes and a tournament arc. I feared the tournament would drag out and we would have to sit through 25 episodes worth. I like tournament arcs but I think too much of a good thing makes it bad. However this is not the case as the tournament arc only takes up half of the season.
One of the things I felt season 1 lack in most was the fact that it had a huge cast of characters ... and many were glossed over to save time in 13 episodes. The tournament arc showed us how to use it correctly in finally giving those characters somewhat of a backstory so we could finally connect to them. In the second half we get more time to not only develop the heros but the villains as well.
The music to the series flows very nicely as I sit here and enjoy the series all of the music really gives the atmosphere of what is currently going on. Whether it is the tournament where the music is loud and quick beat or we are hanging out with the villains and it low and creepy it really gives you an atmospheric mood.
The animation is really well done, I found myself yelling to my fiance about the action shots(which really annoyed him while he played video games ^^;). Every action shot had me amazed at how they could so nicely make a flow to show movement it may have not necessarily have shown us. You really couldn't help but be pulled in. While even it the more relaxed scenes and comedy sequences showed a very simplistic but not half drawn style.
The story really does a good job balancing serious with light arted comedy well in not being over done. Overall this series has manage to break the mold of hero animes we've been getting the past few years where the main character will fail and it's ok. I have really enjoyed season 2 and anxiously await season 3. For that I give season 2 a 10/10.

From the very beginning this anime draws you in with it's beautiful art style, regardless of being an artist or not the smooth details and bright colour are bound to entice you. I watched this series from the first episode airing to waiting 6+ months for each new episode. Even now as I completed episode 3 I am left with teary eyes for it. Sadly the story does take a back seat in this case because you are more likely to continue watching due to the art and music. The artwork and music really show why it took 6 months to make however the characters ... are not bland either. The characters stories are really touching in conveying their emotions to everyone's individual circumstance. In 3 episodes I was brought to tears twice due to Chise's series of unfortunate events. The show has made me very interested in the manga and I am not a big manga reader. I really recommend a series like this to anyone who loves art and aspires to be an artist. It also holds a rare spot of being a 10 for me.

When going into this series I really didn't know what to expect, it's only 6 episodes but it also took two years to make. When looking at the art for the series you can really see why it had taken them 2 years to finish this OVA. The art is beautiful and so is the music to each episode. I found the music to be quite the touch a scene needed to really impact the story. However that's where my compliments to this series end. At times the blend between 2D and 3D felt jarring and brought me out of the story(though this may be ... due to being an artist for a living). I found the over all plot to be way too confusing and feel it would've been better told in a 12 episode series over 6. Everything felt rushed and didn't give me proper time to built up and allow me to get invested in the series. The characters all felt very bland besides the older detective, and at times the other characters came off emotionless compared to him. I feel I would've enjoyed this series more if it was longer so it gave us more time to get to know the characters. As far as recommending it, I can only do so knowing that the series is 6 episodes which make it easy to sit through for a couple of hours. Otherwise I recommned skipping it and moving onto something else.

Going into this series I couldn't help but be weary as the series falls under the shounen genre which is always notorious for dragging out longer then necessary. On top of this the show exceeds 50 episodes which usually guarantees the show will drag out. To my surprise Sket Dance kept me entertained from the beginning to the end. While there were times in the series I felt the story was stagnant and I questioned what this really had to do with the series as a whole. This was bound to happen with the huge cast the show has. Still there were times the series ... got surprisingly dark and genuinely surprised me with how heart wrenching it could be. As for music I found other than the openings and ending, to be pretty forgettable. The art was very pleasing to look at especially for its age, but I felt sometime in the middle of the series the art tweaked itself to look different though I never figured out what. By the end of the series you really get a sense of growth for the characters and I do think the amount of episodes is necessary to achieve this sense of growth, however I can't look past the times in the series where I feel it drags out due to slow pacing. If you are thinking of giving this series a watch I recommend giving it a chance as it was over all a fun series to watch.