Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Next

The Neighbor's Club—a club founded for the purpose of making friends, where misfortunate boys and girls with few friends live out their regrettable lives.

Although Yozora Mikazuki faced a certain incident at the end of summer, the daily life of the Neighbor's Club goes on as usual. A strange nun, members of the student council and other new faces make an appearance, causing Kodaka Hasegawa's life to grow even busier.

While they all enjoy going to the amusement park, playing games, celebrating birthdays, and challenging the "school festival"—a symbol of the school life normal people live—the relations amongst the members slowly begins to change...

Let the next stage begin, on this unfortunate coming-of-age love comedy!!

(Source: ANN)

Kashiwazaki, Sena Main

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Mikazuki, Yozora Main

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Shiguma, Rika Main

Fukuen, Misato Japanese

Hasegawa, Kodaka Main

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Hasegawa, Kobato Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Takayama, Maria Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Kusunoki, Yukimura Supporting

Yamamoto, Nozomi Japanese

Takayama, Kate Supporting

Katou, Emiri Japanese

Yusa, Aoi Supporting

Ise, Mariya Japanese

Kashiwazaki, Pegasus Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Ougi, Jiyuu Producer

Yoshinuma, Oshi Producer

Kitahata, Tooru Director

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Feb 13, 2013

Entrapped_

Recommended

First of all, I'd like to say that I'll be giving a normal review this time, no more weird ass insights and comments.

HELL WHO AM I KIDDING, here we go, so Boku wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai NEXT, or I Don't Have Many Friends. From the name alone you'd think, damn is this some weird ass anime about finding friends? Well, it is, for the most part anyway. For those that haven't read the damn synopsis - lazy bastards, Haganai NEXT is about our good friends from the neighbors club, namely Sena, Yozora, Rika, Yukimura and the only guy - Kodaka, who think they ... don't have friends (or so they believe) so they stick together and "practice" things that normal buddies would do -they totally have no friends. Now that I've got that out of my way, ONTO THE REVIEW!

Story: 9/10
 So like, Kodaka, as you should already know is part of the Neighbors Club, they're always embarking on funny -and sometimes extremely weird adventures with each other. The story itself seems pretty normal, but the way it's shown is NOT, it has enough comedy in it to keep me entertained the whole time, laughing my ass off, yet enough plot to keep me hooked on the damn show - something a lot of animes fail at. Horse Heads, Blonde Wigs, Meat, Bald Wig-thingy, and even a Mayo Chiki! references are all included in this anime, I'd say that with all of these things it really, REALLY deserves a 9/10

  In Short: Great laughs all around but enough plot to keep a viewer hooked.
  
Art: 10/10
 What can I say, I loved the first season, and the second season's art is even better. No shit I'd give it a 10, the colors provide for a vivid and enjoyable anime watching experience, they blend well and really show the character's personality off. Just viewing it makes my eyes feel nice, it's eyecandy bro.

  In Short: Shit dude, just read the actual Art rating, it's pretty short - Vivid and Enjoyable.

Sound: 9/10
 This is probably because I've grown too used to the voice actors, but I'd say they make the characters sound the same as they look. The chatter between characters is a pretty big thing here, and the voices of the characters really play a large role in the comedic scenes, like "voice imitations" and sound effects. I don't skip the intro, meaning it's pretty good. I would have given it a 10/10, but I feel that it's lacking something, so for now the best I can do is a 9.

  In Short: The voice actors were chosen well and the sound effects really aid in comedic scenes.

Character: 10/10
 Now, for me, there are a lot of things that make a comedy better, one would be perverts. They're the butter (bread and butter, it's the butter) of comedy, whether it be Nikaidou Arashi from OniAi, or Kirche from Zero no Tsukaima, they always provide for a lot of laughs, that's where our resident perv-I mean scientist comes in. Boobs, would then be the bread, allowing jokes to be made about how large the characters mea- I mean breasts are, or how small and neglected they look. Obviously, we're missing an integral part of a harem - the childhood friend, but have no fear, because Yozora appears! Yozora, (one of my favorite) the weirdest of the club, is also Kodaka's childhood buddy (Season 1), and also creates most of the jokes/parodies that appear in the anime. Being the only guy, Kodaka would obviously be the center of attention - A.K.A. the harem boy, and as usual he doesn't even notice (lucky asshole). Lastly, what would a comedy be without the
unsure-gender-person Yukimura!, (well it gets solved but whatever). The large amount of  comedic potential in these characters are MASSIVE, and they're, well in my opinion used properly, not just throwing in excess characters that would usually make things funnier, but actually make things worse.

  In Short: All the characters you would expect from a Harem-Comedy anime, the perv, the boobs, the guy, the childhood friend and the gender bender, but used to their maximum potential.

Enjoyment: 10/10
  Friday, friday gotta go home on fridays. Extremely hilarious, amazing characters, there was never any doubt that I would give it a 10 in enjoyment was there, I mean I did mention how funny I found this anime, didn't I? Finishing each new episode leaves me craving for more, what's the new skit? what's happening next?

  In Short: wake me up when the next episode airs

Overall: 10/10
 Now, before you go on blabbering about how it doesn't deserve a 10, I'd like to say that THIS IS A REVIEW, by ME, not by YOU, god damn it people. Boku wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai NEXT, overall is an amazing show, it may have some minor errors here and there, but it's still an enjoyable watch. I recommend you pick this series up and follow it as it goes. cheers

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Apr 1, 2013

Nasty001

Mixed Feelings

Be My Friend Shiranai furi shitatte
Be My Side Zenbu kidzui teta yo

Haganai NEXT......Finished, frankly I don't know what to say about this anime's last episode and it was quite a disappointing that it ended in a cliffhanger, ok, so no more beating around the bush, how do I rate this anime, well, here's how:

Story: Good 7.

Since this was the continuation of the previous season, it still follows the same plot but with a couple of revelations along the way. Except of course with the romance genre, things are starting to heat up as the members of the "Neighbor's Club" are now competing for ... the guy's affection be it directly or indirectly, which btw studio AIC Build has left us wondering as to what happens next, now that 2 new competition has arrive in the anime........ a little bit late that is.

Art: Good 7.

Ok, for the most part, there seems to have been some changes with the character's illustrations, ok so Yozura's hair is short given that she had it cut from the previous season. But, the changes I see has something to do with the uniforms, from the previous season the girls wore the a matching green skirt and green blazer, now they don a plait skirt and cardigans , well for the main cast the this. It would have been nice if this anime's illustrator be consistent, since the girls do go to St. Chronica Academy, instead of cardigans, maybe they should've wore the school's standard green blazer and it would have been nice for once to see Kobato in her compete middle school uniform, also, I don't dig as to why Yukimura now that she was confirmed to be girl would still be in a boy's uniform. The consolation here is that we get to see Rika in a whole new different form from a geeky girl to a hot babe and we also get to see Yozura's more hotter in plain clothes, only to change into wearing a track suit. But what make this anime's art good was the seemly part where the female cast are going commando.

Oh, I still hate the way how Kodaka was illustrated, pretty obvious that illustrator Shōichi Taguchi has no idea what a typical western delinquent would look like. Frankly, Kodaka looks more like a dork than a bad boy.

Sound: fair 6.

I simply like the opening theme, but for Kate's voice doesn't seem to match her character, since according to info she's 15, but her seiyu sounded like 20, in that case director Toru Kitahata should've cast her as a twenty something adult, instead of a teenager which make it difficult to understand why someone in her age is a nun.

Character and enjoyment: Good 7.

The characters still maintains their usual roles except that we don't get to see anymore of Sena do the usual Parting Shot Fit....you know where she would say "AHO, AHO, YOZURA, AHO, BAKA , BAKA WAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!" and then she dashes out, you have to admit it was very funny, in fact episode 8, I've wish that Yozura would have done the same thing when she dashes out of the room and saying "AHO, AHO, SENA AHO, BAKA, BAKA, WAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!." Also, it was very funny that Yozura get her share of getting grilled and we see that Sena was getting the upper-hand and that's what makes it enjoyable.

Overall: Fair 6.

Thought for the most part, this anime did provide the laughs and the gags, though I would have like to give this anime a 7, was the fact that it has an open ending it left us audience hanged and wondering if there will be another season or does writer Yomi Hirasaka and Misaki Harukawa wants us to focus on the manga, either way it is up to us audience to wait and see.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 22, 2015

ratchet573

Not Recommended

Story

Haganai NEXT is everything you loved about Haganai…minus everything you loved about Haganai. Rather than focusing on the Neighbor Club doing fun things like the first season did, this twelve episode fiasco decides that the club room is way more fun. So what we get is a slog of an anime with no redeeming qualities aside from the fact it ends.

If I were to rate the story, I’d give it a nonexistent out of five. The beginning of this season is nothing but episodic garbage where Sena likes Kodaka, Yozora likes Kodaka, Rikka likes Kodaka; so on and so forth. There’s some humor to ... be found, especially in the club’s one outing to an amusement park, but what little is there is not enough to sate even the biggest fans thirst. Later on there’s a minor plot about making a film for the cultural festival (a la Haruhi Suzumiya) but that only leads to an anticlimax and then segues to the worst ending I can possibly imagine a harem having.

I’ve bitched about bad harem main characters before. The idea of the character not picking a girl is tied to the whole “fantasy” thing where you as the viewer need to put yourself in his shoes and decide. That’s the essence of many visual novels and I don’t think the folks who make anime understand that story telling in a visual novel works because, in the end, you’ve picked a girl to go with after being ambiguous and deciding for a while. In an anime, you cannot stay at that ambiguous phase. It’s annoying to have a show that boils down to a guy needing to decide on the girl he wants to date and then the show says “Nope”. Then what’s the point? Is the point of having a harem to have a bunch of platonic relationships that go nowhere and mean nothing? As a viewer, it’s boring. I’ve put myself in his shoes and obviously he needs to be dating Sena! I decided that, like, the first episode.

What pisses me off even further is that Kodaka is betrothed to Sena. Yeah, they were childhood friends before he met Yozora. And Sena wants to marry him; she’s in love. And what does he do? He fucking runs away! This leads to Rika confronting him on the rooftop of the school in one of the most meta/stupid scenes I’ve ever seen. Rika is controlling metal balls with her mind and telling Kodaka what a pussy he is. It leads to a huge action scene that you’d think would end with Kodaka realizing that, while dating one of them would break up the club dynamic, who gives a shit when you’re hurting more people than you’re helping?

Nope, instead we end with Kodaka approaching Sena, possibly to decide to be with her, probably not. It doesn’t matter because we get a stupid goddam interruption by their phones. Did I mention this series likes to end scenes where we could see development by abruptly having a phone ring or a rush of air breeze by?

In the end, Yozora has run away after Sena’s confession and all I can say is good riddance. With her out of the way, why not FUCKING MARRY SENA?

Or don’t and instead wait for the third season…that never came thank God.

Characters

One of my biggest problems with NEXT comes from Kodaka and Rikka, both of whom have obviously changed a little between season one and two. Kodaka is more perverted now, while Rikka is kind of a yandere. It’s a minor thing but very noticeable when you watch both seasons back to back.

If you want to see more about the characters, read my review of the first season. What they boil down to is Yozora’s a bitch, Sena is awesome, Rika is funny but nuts, Kodaka is a pussy, Maria is an annoying loli, Kobato is just kinda there and Yukimura the he/she maid is actually a she but wants to be a he.

Also, I want to mention Kate, Maria’s big sister. She’s a nun who drinks a lot of cola and is ridiculously hot…until the first anime fart joke I’ve heard since Naruto. She walks away after ripping ass and says “Oh, that’s a wet one!”.

And the Lord said, let your boner recede into you and come out the other side like a tail. And it did.

There are also a couple new characters in the student council but they make such minor appearances and have so little character I won’t even worry about it.

Animation

On top of everything else being a downgrade, the animation has also taken a plunge. It’s not bad at all but the crispness and beauty of season one has given way to cheaper looking animation.

Sound

The opening and ending are pretty average. The English dub continued to be a decent substitution for the Japanese version, though Kodaka’s voice actor annoys me, and not just because of Kodaka. He sounds so dumb and the whole performance is phoned in. At least everyone else seems to be enjoying what little the script has to offer.

Entertainment

If forcing your way through something is entertaining for you, then go ahead and be my guest. But Haganai NEXT was nothing new or interesting, it was a painful downgrade from the first season. I think the most entertainment I had was watching my friend burst a fucking vein in his forehead at how pissed he was at Kodaka. Though I think I burst one as well.

Overall

If you watched Haganai and wanted to see the further adventures of the cute cast, then you’re going to be pissed with what is presented here. It’s a downgrade in every department, has no redeeming qualities aside from an occasional laugh, and fails on every front to provide you with a satisfactory romance, nor a satisfactory slice-of-life experience. It’s plainly obvious this was made to cash in on the success of the first season with no care given to anything about it.

It’s the worst sequel I’ve watched in a long time and one of the most disappointing anime of the past couple years. Do yourself a favor and neglect its existence.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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