Student Yoshiki Maeda attends Baremon High School and quickly discovers a clique of handsome idol-level students who vie for his attention. Along the way buildings randomly explode.
With deliberately atrocious half-assed art (no backgrounds, awful character designs, and a main character who is very literally a blank slate with no facial features whatsoever), ridiculous characterization, and an non-existent plot, this silly anime presents a light critique of typical reverse harem shounen-ai anime. It ridicules the defined jawlines of the love interests, the stereotypical character types, and the overly-invested supporting characters.
At its extremely short run-time with about 2 minutes of content per episode, though, the parody doesn’t have the chance to be especially deep or meaningful, certainly nothing on the level of Ouran High School Host Club or Gakuen Heaven, which are more effective parodies of the genre. However, Gakuen Handsome is good for a few laughs if you are a fan of the anime style it’s parodying.
