GJ-bu is based off of a “4-panel light novel” (aka, a collection of short 4 page stories) written by Araki Shin, who has done nothing else of note. It tells the story of a certain boy (Kyoya) who was apparently forced to join the Good Job Club, or the GJ-bu. This is a club who's purpose they never tell us, as most of the times they just sit around and do nothing.
And I mean nothing. Literally the whole show,one short scene at Kyoro's house, oh, and a small part at the cafe, happens inside that damn room .In a way it's like K-On, where all they do is eat and talk, but at least K-On pretended to have a story. GJ-bu just goes from skit to skit to skit. One skit they're combing hair, the next skit they're dressing up in swimsuits (yes, the beach episode doesn't even take place at a beach), then they play doctor, then they look at Kyoya's sketchbook, and then they comb hair some more (every girl seems to get their hair combed in this show somewhere by the way). Sure they are a few connections and running gags, but most of those are not very entertaining and original (oh, the maid likes to spin! Mao is short and gets pissed a lot! The rich person doesn't know how to eat cup noodles! HAHAHA!). And everything about this show is not entertaining. It just abuses the characters' main traits over and over and over again.
Let's take a look at them, shall we? They tried to make Kyoro the only sane man, which might have been nice, but his voice has no emotion at all in it and sounds so bored, and being the only sane man, his goal is mainly to comment on how absurd each situation is. He's the only boy in this show, making it a harem by definition, and it's true he does seem to go from girl to girl to talk, most obvious in the last episode. Then there's Mao, the tsundere, who is of course short. There's also Shion, the calm smart girl, Megumi, the calm reliable girl, and there's Kirara. She eats a lot, and due to the fact she's originally from Canada she speaks in fragmented Japanese, and not very often in the first place. There's also a green-haired girl thrown in about halfway through, but they barely show her anyway. She's just basically another tsundere though, so yeah. Two tsunderes and two calm girls. How entertaining. There's also a maid, and three sisters that belong to random members of the cast. Those don't appear much though, and the only one that is okay is Kirara's sister, who can only speak in (bad) English but can write perfect Japanese on a white board. Which does make a little sense considering she could've just picked up kanji or something, but still.
The voices were rather annoying and tried to hard to just be the cliché the character was and nothing more. On the music, I don't recall any from the show itself, but on the opening and ending themes... The opening starts out really neat with this cool rap... But then they start singing in these emotionless off-tune voices, and yeah, it sounds really bad. They are four ending themes for some reason, with varying degrees of how good those are (ending 1and 3 are bad, ending 2 is actually really neat sounding and 4 is decent enough I suppose).
The animation however was rather bad. The character designs weren't best to begin with, but at random times you could see thick black lines around them, which never looks pretty. And it seems the amount they move gets worse and worse every episode. They must of wasted too much money early on or something.
I think GJ-bu might of worked as one of those 3 minute episode anime, but with full length episodes, it just gets boring so fast. I have seen a good amount of slice-of-life anime, and GJ-bu might be the worst one I've seen, with Kill Me Baby as its only true rival. If you enjoy the characters more than I do, then it's worth a watch, but I can't recommend this to anyone else.
