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Nov 27, 2019
Jungle de Ikou... I legit think this is the first anime I watch with such contrasting elements, even knowing beforehand that it's a full fanservice anime... anyway, let's go.
I don't know if this review can be considered a spoiler warning or not, as I'm going to be very direct with some points. Read with discretion (or just jump to the last paragraph, where I do my veredict).
Jungle de Ikou is a very poor anime, even for its main objective: fanservice.
The Story is interesting enough, or at least the synopsis got me in that way. But it's literally wasted in every way possible, not even just
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in favor of the fanservice. I even feel the whole title, synopsis, and even the anime opening is a sort of bait, but a really bad bait. Or maybe it's just me, but I'm going to be really honest here: what would you expect from an anime that introduces itself with a sort of "tropical" ambient and characters, or that its own title literally translates "Let's go to the Jungle!"? At least I expected something related to a jungle, indeed. But sadly, it's completely the opposite: it gets ambiented in a damn city. Knowing this, is there even something bad else worth to say? Yes, the story can't solve itself. There's no need to elaborate in each episode after knowing this. In short words, they just wasted a interesting plot.
About the Art & Sound, I have no big issues with. Pretty decent for the age, catching OST (including the opening and ending) and overall decent. Indeed, the art was an appealing factor for me to watch it, I really like this kind of old anime artstyle, like tall/big eyes or stuff (like Slayers or GS Mikami, for example).
Now, speaking about the Characters... damn... as I said before, how contrasting elements had this series. The "main cast" is decently designed for me, every character had a proper role, the problem about them is the lack of development (which of course goes hand in hand with the lack of story development), or even just the focus of them. Like yes, you expect fanservice, therefore a busty girl bouncing her chest, but not even that is really well done.
Enjoyment... nope. I sure laughed in some scenes or something, but not anything else. Nothing much to elaborate in this point, honestly.
Then... it's overall a 3 for me, sadly. And I say sadly because I had decent expectations about this anime (yes, decent, not even good expectations). But it couldn't even reach the decent spot. To be fair, it was probably a mistake from my part, to have some kind of expectation about it, but I really tried to watch and analyze this without any (or the less possible) previous knowledge/critique.
I can't recommend it at all, unless you fully psyched up that it's a bad thing, before watching it. Because it's actually bad. The worst thing of all is this was officially licensed in the US, hilarious in the weirdest way possible.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Nov 26, 2019
So, well... AIKa.. we all know what this show is about.
Before beggining with the review, some small notes: I remember have vaguely watched this when I was young, in the regional (latin america) Animax channel. Nowadays (I'd say 10 or even more years later) I decided to actually (re)watch this for real.
And don't forget that besides all things, this is a fanservice anime. With this thing in mind, let's go:
AIKa is a very decent show for being a pure fanservice show.
The story is good in escence, but it sadly gets developed according to the fanservice, and NOT viceversa, therefore I feel that it has
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A LOT of potential, which was of course wasted in favor of the pantyshots and stuff.
Art was okay too, same for the sound, it's overall decent considing the years this anime came to be. The openings and endings are very good, indeed, I really like them.
Now, I'm a bit iffy speaking about the characters, like yeah, the main cast is cool for sure (except one damn character which appears in the second half which is COMPLETELY USELESS) but again, the lack of story development directly affected the eventual character development we could have seen.
Enjoyment... oh boy, from where I do begin with... Well, as I said, this is a fanservice anime. Fanservice is sure enjoyable yes, but it would be a lot (and I mean A LOT) more enjoyable if they were developed at par with a good storyline progress. I mean, they're just 7 chapters after all, and they're not "empty" speaking of progress, as in every chapter there's a lot of things going (after all, the story begins and gets fully concluded in those 7 chapters), but everything happens that fast that it would be a lot better to calm the story down and develop it slowly, rather than just throwing up everything in just 7 chapters (becuase believe it or not, I really believe that with a good storyline progress this could easily give for 12 or more chapters).
Then, overall it's a 7 for me. Enjoyable for sure, more than I would expect with my already said poor previous knowledge about the series. But it definitely could have been better. A lot better.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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