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Jul 24, 2024
Harenchi Gakuen is one of the earliest signs that Go Nagai was a mad genius.
An absolutely deranged yet creative man who was willing to go anywhere and everywhere, going out of his way to write the most insane thing you could possibly follow with some of the worst scumbags you could imagine.
You find yourself confused as to why you care about these strange little creatures that are meant to be human but come off more as some sort of ancient, vengeful spirits that will haunt your dreams. That is not a joke mind you, the whole night after I binged this series I was
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left tossing and turning as I dreamt about Yamagishi and Juubei, as well as Bearded Gorilla, practically torturing me through shenanigans.
This series not only started a whole new genre, it caused a shift in the culture. It pushed boundaries in fiction, completely going against what was "allowed". Was it perhaps a bad idea to create such a perverted series in a magazine largely targeted at children at the time? Perhaps. However, if it wasn't for bad and controversial ideas, it wouldn't be a Go Nagai manga at all!
I do have some genuine issues with it however.
The art style is REALLY old, most of the characters are designed just like other gag characters of the time and that may certainly put you off with how disgusting some of these bitches look.
The third part of the story really really takes a dive into boring territory, I don't think Nagai ran out of ideas or anything, but I was not quite as engaged as I was during the second or even early first part.
The Harenchi war arc was absolutely mind blowing but definitly felt like it came out of nowhere, almost like one massive rant as Nagai got himself into large media trouble for the creation of this manga. It almost felt like he was trying to prove something, to really blow people away in a literal sense. This may just be a silly manga with upskirts and naked little girls, but just like any other manga it had sweat, tears and blood put into it.
It's not Nagai's best work, but goddamn, I don't want to imagine what the world would be like if Harenchi Gakuen didn't exist.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 21, 2024
It's not bad, it's just so...frustrating.
Mairu feels like a real person, she's so flawed and often times annoying but in a way that interests me and made me want to follow her antics. I wanted to see if she would grow as a person, realizing that not only are the people she dates flawed, but she herself has many negative sides as well.
She is a young girl experiencing love and relationships for the first time.
Mairu was not just ugly on the outside, she was also ugly on the inside, but she didn't really see it until she began touching upon adulthood.
She's selfish, she's often
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too submissive, she has difficulties properly explaining herself, she's very emotional and she often chooses awful choices for herself because she doesn't know what to do otherwise. She can't just turn her heart off and forget all the memories, Mairu wants to stay true to herself but at a certain point she's caught in endless chaos from all these bad choices.
Overall, it's very difficult to sit through, even if it might be worth at the end. I can't sit through another story where Mairu humiliates herself again and goes through so much suffering that it gives me second hand embarassment and just bums me out in the end.
Someday the manga may be fully scanned, but I don't think I can return to it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 21, 2024
Hey, do you love crappy melodrama featuring characters whose personality is about as deep as a sidewalk puddle? Do you enjoy stories that go at a cheetah's pace yet also have absolutely nothing interesting happening? Do you want to see how hard I can slam my head against a wall until my brain bumps against my skull?
Mikuni is so fucking annoying to follow.
Every chapter, she cries, that is all the main character does. EVERY. SINGLE. CHAPTER. Mikuni can't do anything besides whine, complain or weep because she got involved in the dumbest misunderstanding that could've been resolved in 5 seconds if she would've just
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used her mouth to speak.
The romance is BOOOORIIIIIING. Chino gets no characterization besides loving Mikuni (for some reason???) and Nishizono is no better. In the late stage of the story he gets a totally dramatic and oh so sad backstory. It SUCKS and Miku manages to fix everything by the next chapter through once again whining and sobbing, also a bonus thing that happens offscreen.
Another reviewer for this mentioned their theory that this story might've been intended to be longer, but I say the complete opposite was the case. Aside from the premise there was zero planning seemingly, by the third chapter it really felt like the author ran out of ideas.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jul 6, 2024
I do not understand how someone could swing so strongly yet absolutely whiff so badly.
Imagine watching a cheetah continously run on a treadmill, accidentally stumbling over his own four legs at once and then rolling off and slam against the wall, to which his dead body slowly falls and plops onto the ground with a uncomfortable squelching sound. This is the experience you get while watching Tadaima, Okaeri.
The family fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks, with the exception of Hinata who is a goddamn baby that never does anything.
Hiromu constantly gets cuteness overload from the "adorable" shit his malewife and kids do, and I was not charmed by
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it, quite the opposite actually. Anytime he began raving about how much he loves his family I got bored, I was so tempted to skip scenes with him because I knew exactly what was gonna happen with this bitch.
Hikari, not that cute. Yeah I said it, there are many moments where he was just flat out annoying. He's like so aggresively likeable to the point he becomes unlikeable. Hikari is like half the reason as to why I hate Hiromu because most of the time I couldn't understand wtf I was supposed to be feeling. I mean, I DID know that I was supposed to find him adowable and get a cuteness overload just like Hiromu but it NEVER happened.
Masaki exists, that is all I have to say about him. Out of the three he is probably the worst because of just how little I cared about him and his stupid ass backstory. Awwww, people were mean to you and said things that hurt your feewings? :( Awww so sad. I GET IT, IS THE ANYTHING ELSE I COULD GET OUT OF THIS CHARACTER??? No, no there is nothing.
Eventually I just got so frustrated with the main characters and wanted to drop this shit already, but I stayed for one reason and one reason only: Yuki. He is the best character, he is adorable and I wanna see him get backshots from Matsuo.
The twins were pretty funny too, but they appear really late into the series and only have one episode that actually focus on them.
If you like watching men kissing and being in a loving relationship, this is for you. Sadly, I have certain interests and OPINIONS that prevent me from enjoying things like a normal person.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jun 21, 2024
Romance is difficult to write. When you're young you are inexperienced and tend to write relationships that you fantasize about, whereas when you're old you tend to write relationships that likely based on your own in some way. There is really no limit as to how you can write a romance and how far you can possibly go.
But holy hell there is NOTHING here.
It's generally difficult for most people to write a romance where the main couple is already together, in order to have a story or premise for an episode you need to have some sort of conflict, but you shouldn't depict your main
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proper couple constantly having fights or problems because eventually the audience might get annoyed and wonder why tf the two are together in the first place. When you have a will they won't they or slow burn it's generally regarded as fine, it's all about the push and pull after all.
Shuzou and Ine have been together for 50 years, the two know each other in pretty much every way. Perhaps they haven't had many "romantic" moments due to being a couple in the boonies during 80s ~ 90s japan in their youth, but it's clear that the two love eachother more than anything.
So what ends up happening most of the time? Fuck all, that's what.
It's random shenanigans based on the gimmick of "lmao what if old people were young again", which is a fine hook but loses steam INSTANTLY due to just how passive and nonchalant everyone is.
Nobody seems to care or react much to the sudden age regression, many jokes outside of the incest ones would work perfectly fine without the gimmick and instead could be about just a regular young couple that happens to act old fashioned, the setting doesn't help much either as the countryside is generally pretty old fashioned so Shuzou and Ine don't have to worry about how they will fit into modern society while in a youthful state.
It's just so fucking boring, so much time feels like it is being wasted due to unfunny jokes and bland characters. I only watched an hour worth yet I swear the episodes feel so much longer. That issue however could be due to the really, really, really awkard direction. Scenes will play out of order or will linger on something despite it having no impact emotion wise or joke wise. I get it's not the highest budget production, but dear lord it was so obvious whenever they were using animation tricks such as only showing the heads or very slowly panning up on a character.
Just not very good :/
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jun 2, 2024
Man I don't even know where to begin.
My feelings on the Death Note manga have been not exactly positive, not exactly negative, sometimes EXTREMELY negative until I calm down and remember AO3 exists and I can just read a way better "what if" ending or sequel that somewhat has the same vibes as the manga story without all the bullshit from the second half.
It starts off as a truly amazing 9/10 story until it trickled down all the way to a 5, part of me even wanted to go lower but that felt too harsh. I legitimately do not understand what went wrong in the
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writing process of the post time-skip but whatever it was, I am so fucking glad that the anime skipped most of it after all.
There's not much I can praise that hasn't been praised before in the other 90+ reviews here already, L and Light have a truly amazing cat and mouse relationship, the art is gorgeous and the overall gothic aesthetics really tickled my fancy, but too fucking bad most of it gets forgotten half way through the fucking story when the main antagonist(?) fucking dies.
That's not all, perhaps I am nitpicking but...have you ever heard of Chekhov's gun? Y'know, the rule that says you should only focus on things in the story if they're gonna be setting something up later? You should only bring up something interesting if you're gonna actually DO something with it later on?
The Shinigami realm pissed me off.
WHO is the Shinigami King? Why does Ryuk seem to hate the guy? If Light doesn't go to heaven or hell once he used the book, where the hell did he go then? If a Shinigami can die, can they be born too? If there is a realm full of death gods, is there such a thing as a realm full of life gods? Why do dried apples grow in the Shinigami Realm, does other fruit grow there too? How and why???
They bring up all these questions inside me, yet there are never any fucking answers as to what the Shinigami Realm is or even WHAT exactly a Shinigami is beyond the basis of "a Death God" and nothing more. Perhaps I'm asking questions that shouldn't exist, but the story actively brings up tidbits to make me interested in it.
Overall, make sure to drop the story shortly after L's death. The rest really doesn't live up to what came before.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 11, 2024
Pearl Boy is frustrating because it gave me blue balls and the ending pissed me the fuck off.
The last season is full of constant whiplash moments, it keeps getting darker and darker until it feels like you missed a chapter somewhere because how tf did we get to this point. Why is this a action series now, I thought this was a drama?
Most of the side characters that were prominent at during S1 and S2 get completely shoved to the side or their little subplots just seem to have been forgotten. SPEAKING OF FORGETTING, wtf happened to Dooshik midway through??? Again it feels like I
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missed a chapter somewhere, somewhere at the start of S2 he just like completely changes in almost every single way. His design, his personality, his reason for going to the countryside, it's all completely different.
My mind couldn't catch up with what the fuck was even happening anymore.
The sex scenes are ok, like they're fine I guess. They're not bad but not amazing or anything. Towards S3 we get a TON of scenes of the main pair fucking but it's usually always in the same way, and I just do not fucking like the designs so I can't get into it. The panty chapter was neat tho gotta say.
Last point, the designs. I do not like them. This is purely out of preference, my opinion is not law.
I just...I just do not like the lips.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 16, 2024
Futakoi is difficult to sit through.
The cast is way too overblown due to the gimmick, and because of that some members of the harem basically had no goddamn screentime.
The Chigusa twins for example fade completely to the background once their episode was done and over with. Lala and Lulu were just there for comedic relief, same goes for the teacher twins. The Shirogane twins are the most interesting and overall best girls, but due to them coming into the series late they also very quickly fade as we have to focus on the very, very boring "main" girls.
The Sakurazuki twins have the same gimmick
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and behave in the exact same way, one is always just echoing the other and they don't really do anything to standout. It is the same character just copy pasted for threesome fantasy purposes. While they work well with other characters and added some decent comedy due to their stupidity, their extreme similarity makes any scene with them feel sooooo sloooooow.
The exact same problem goes for the Ichijo twins but even WORSE. They are both the typical "kind" girls and also the token osananajimi. Aside from a little in fighting that comes to a head later on, they are just BORING, there is no other way to put it. They are plain pieces of untoasted wheat toast.
Harem series are very much about the quality of the girls and how much they manage to charm you, so having twice amount the girls should've given this a decent leg up and get a wide appeal. However, due to most twins acting the exact same together or having a very lackluster dynamic you are left with nothing more than wasted potential for a otherwise decent premise.
It doesn't help that the main guy is a coward who keeps romantically leading all the girls on (ON PURPOSE) only to then pussy out whenever things get too real and he has to actually make decisions that could impact him. He had to be guilt tripped into doing the right thing and even then it seems like he's just gonna get away with being a dipshit.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Apr 10, 2024
It's a silly, stupid comedy that goes all out with over the top reactions and absolute dipshit characters.
Sometimes you might think that a character has a brain but NO, they are just as stupid as the rest of the cast.
Yoshiko manages to be annoying but in a charming way. She's just so highly energetic and constantly gets up no matter how many times she gets beat down (literally) by Akkun. There were certain characters that I wish could've gotten more screentime or perhaps SOME sort of development, since there actually are some storylines that get a conclusion, but overall I think the author
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managed to squeeze a ton out of the initially simple line up.
A negative I could give is...the same face syndrome.
Now, personally I think there is nothing too wrong about finding a specific face and using it multiple times on different characters. Sometimes it can work by giving them small tweaks such as different eyelashes or unique pupils/iris. Heck, if you change the hair and body up enough it can also work.
But...many times the characters will have very similar expressions. THAT same expression. Over and over and over whenever they are reacting to something ridiculous. It got a little annoying.
Overall though, it's a really funny manga and I hope it can get a sequel of sorts someday!
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Apr 6, 2024
While I was watching the series, I initially thought that it was doing way too much. It was trying to focus on SO many characters and subplots that seemingly don't connect at a first glance. What is Arajin's problem? What is Matakara's damage? Why is Mahoro so obsessed with Marito? It gives us hints and sprinkles but actual concrete conclusions are sparse.
It wasn't until the last episode where I finally understood wtf even the story was about. This whole time I thought it was leading up to Arajin getting over Mahoro in order to connect with his childhood friend again, making me really dislike the
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build up as on every single turn Arajin treated Matakara horribly or just ignored him.
Let me tell you, it is not a good sign when the one thing I am most looking forward to each episode is the gag with business man visiting the bar. Even though the conclusion was obvious, it was one of the few storylines that actually gets a goddamn conclusion of some sort.
There is so much build up with no pay off, I was dreading the last episode as I thought to myself "there is no way they will manage to end every conflict in one episode", and if they did it would be awfully executed and rushed likely. Instead, it seems to be setting up for a second season or perhaps an OVA...which I don't believe will happen any time soon. :/
I feel like a lot of my issues with the story wouldn't exist if the first episode was entirely about Arajin's and Matakara's childhood. As back then, Arajin wasn't such a constant, useless jackass who just goes with the flow and Matakara's relationship was just blossoming with Arajin.
We could've actually understood why Matakara seems to trust him so much and why ,after so many times of blowing him off, he still forgives Arajin so many times and believes they can hang out again.
Also what the fuck was up with Mahoro.
Seriously we get zero clues about why she loves Marito so much and why she sympathizes with Matakara the moment he brings up his own Onii-chan. There seems to be SOME reason but to me it wasn't executed well enough to understand...or maybe it's gonna be explained in the aformentioned second season they seem to be going for? Which...again, I don't see that happening anytime soon or....maybe even ever.
She was such a frustrating character as she was such a prominent character and even has the whole ED dedicated to her, yet she doesn't really do anything worth of note.
This show has a lot more negatives than positives so far, it wasn't god awful but it wasn't exactly pleasant. It had potential that it could've eventually achieved had they not juggled so many characters at once and kept the "serious drama" to a minimum. Seriously it was so much better when it was more comedy focused.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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