Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Anime Review: High School Girls

Ok, everything on this anime looks very generic, title name. Check. Theme of anime. Check. Characters. Check. In fact, this is a show designed for one thing to showcase a rooster of standard characters in a standard theme with typical settings and predictable outcomes.

HOWEVER, High School Girls still has a bit (abeit very low) of hope, the humour is crude and tasteless and thats its USP. The humour like talking about bikini lines, lesbian love, pubes, sex etc.. are covered in this series and though somewhat shocking for a theme like this, its strangely somewhat appealing for me. Its crude but i like it, its tasteless but its harmless fun. Its not high profile stuff but at least it carries the show forward with fair few laughs throughout, despite the first episode being very crude, its somewhat dies down and panty showings are far less common (thank god)

However, plainly obvious by the aura of genericness it holds, High School Girls fails in many respects, generic cast of characters, no story, comedy is only for a designed and acquired taste and it doesn't excel in animation or OST (though the OP and ED are great, especially the ED). The bad overweighs the good in this respect but this show's crude nature is its charm (if that made any sense to you at all)

Overall, slightly fun, despite it being very very plain.

6.5/10
Grade: C+

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