This story is a comedy parody of sort focused around a tom-boy like character in Ookami Ryouko. It follows her and her friends around their adventures surrounding their sort-of club called the Otogoi Bank. This club is tasked with solving any and all problems ranging from love life to thug life. Of course, most of the members are female and a couple of pretty boys as well. There is even a cheeky narrator breaking the fourth wall occasionally and pointing out certain aspects about the characters such as flaws in their personalities and the boob sizes of the girls.
There is of course a self-insert character that confesses his love for Ookami and blindly follows the adventures and becomes the main secondary character within the Otogi Bank. Sad to say, most of the characters and points within this show is pretty shallow. There are a few highlights such as the importance of friendship and believing in yourself, but they do not outshine how bland the show is. This is not a show about any real character development, but more of something filled with an occasional gimmick and something to get a few chuckles out of the viewer every now and again.
The characters art, backgrounds, tone of the anime are nothing real special by any means, but there is not anything to complain about either. Ookami herself as the main focus and whenever the show dives away from the self-insert character is another one of the higher points. She has three main friends and when the shows decides to focus on how they help Ookami and progress any sort of character development or push the story is alright. For some reason, the show likes diving into backstories with as little information as possible to try to get some feeling out of the viewer such as Ookami’s own past with sexual abuse. Things like this remains a mystery without a resolve. Much of the show when it does have something to make this show deeper and better is mostly ignored or is confusing such as Ookami’s struggle with femininity.
Basically, when Ookami-San and Her Seven Companions is done and over with, this show is not terrible nor do the flaws kill the show completely. However, this is ultimately incredibly average and is not worth watching. Too many questions linger without resolve, Ookami is as confusing a character as ever, and a few of the episodes could basically not exist. Just skip this one and save some precious time to watch something more worthwhile.
