I decided to pick up Girls Bravo because it was apparently similar to another show, which is a personal favourite of mine, namely "Nagasarete Airantou". Within the first 3 episodes I realised that actually those two animes have nothing in common whatsoever, except perhaps that the protagonist in both these animes is a shy, introvert boy.
The "story", if you want to call it that, is fairly simple. A young boy named Yukinari who suffers from gynophobia (fear of women) and who's bullied by women on a daily basis, is one day transported to another world called "Seiren" by a pink haired girl, Miharu. While it may not look any different from our world there is one big fundamental difference and it's that men only make up one tenth of the overall population on Seiren. In other words, women outnumber men by 9:1. As Miharu tells our protagonist, "wars" frequently break out because the ladies on Seiren fight for every man to the bitter end.
You can imagine what happens to the poor boy when he's thrown into such an environment, bear in mind that apart from his unfortunate illness he's also a shy introvert who never had any (pleasant) contact with women. Now this is a pretty good scenario and it would have worked for me (it did partly) but the makers of Girls Bravo have screwed up an anime with such a good potential with over-the-top wackiness.
To illustrate it for you, I'll attempt to accuratly describe one of the scenes that stuck to my head the most: "Yukinari and his female companion Miharu, are surrounded by what seems to be hundreds of women who chased them when they realised that Yukinari was a male. Out of fear for the safety of the male protagonist, Miharu causes what can only be described as a nuclear explosion. Yukinari is then launched hudreds of feet into the air, smashes into a house, which then procceeds to hit him with its shutters. Yukinari flies accross a bridge and into a river, the current of the river is so strong that poor Yukinari smashes his head againts everything on his way, bleeds like an elephant, is milled in a water wheel, stuffed into a pipe which then transports him to a bath in some house... and we hear sad, touching music. The kind you'd expect to hear at the ending of Elfen Lied."
What the fu... that's way too whacky, even for an anime. I like comedy a lot, especially the kind of comedy you find in anime but for god's sake, Girls Bravo just doesn't know how to compile a proper scene. Comedic scene with sad music and way too much blood spouting everywhere just doesn't appeal to me. And Girls Bravo does this all the time. Weird scene + unfitting music = sheer awkwardness.
The good thing is that they ease off a little bit near the end of this season and try to get things right but again, the last episode is just downright ridiculous. You feel as if you're watching a Hentai. By the way, that's another thing about Girls Bravo, constant sexual jokes and lots and I mean lots of nudity. Expect to see bare breasts and panty shots in-between gunfights and awkward conversations.
Apart from that, art was pretty good. Some of the animation effects suprised me, like the translucent water effect. When you consider that Girls Bravo came out in 2004, it's absolutely astounding that they bothered to put such high-end effects in it.
With all this in mind why am I giving it a good score? Because the idea was good, partly because I haven't seen anime in a very long time and I don't want to start by giving out bad scores and partly because I actually like the male lead in this series. Hence, the score is 7.
