Teekyuu

Teekyuu is all about the wacky antics of four schoolgirls—Kanae Shinjou gets bored easily and often breaks the laws of physics to get what she wants; Nasuno Takamiya is incredibly rich and knows how to make things go her way; Marimo Bandou would probably get arrested from her actions like eating panties or kidnapping children; and Yuri Oshimoto, their ordinary junior, rounds out the eccentric bunch that forms the sole members of their school's tennis club.

Despite their interest in learning the sport, the older girls prefer messing around, while Yuri, being the only one who actually knows how to play and the most mature in spite of being younger, has to deal with her seniors' out of control behavior.

When these four girls come together, insanity ensues in this lightning-paced comedy about a tennis club that doesn't really play tennis.

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Bandou, Marimo Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Shinjou, Kanae Main

Mimori, Suzuko Japanese

Takamiya, Nasuno Main

Narumi, Kyoko Japanese

Oshimoto, Yuri Main

Watanabe, Yui Japanese

Takamiya, Father Supporting

Takahashi, Shinya Japanese

Yucatan Supporting

Takahashi, Shinya Japanese

Tenchio, Keikiya Supporting

Machida, Hirokazu Japanese

Itagaki, Shin Director, Sound Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, In-Between Animation, Key Animation, Character Design

Watanabe, Yui Theme Song Performance

Narumi, Kyoko Theme Song Performance

Konno, Yasuyuki Sound Effects

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Dec 23, 2012

Yukariki

Recommended

If you're smoking too much SHAFT anime and can't stand normal anime (e.g. non-SHAFT animes), watch Teekyuu. It's about a bunch of girls on crack playing tennis. The director's the same guy who did Ben-To and also did some episodes of TTGL. So you know it's gonna be absurd to the max.

And what does the show make you feel after you finish 12 episodes of greatness?

It's kind of like a gentle wind.
It's kind of like a delicious rice cake.
It's kind of like a clamorous city.
It's kind of like a precious everyday.

That's how awesome Teekyuu is. Smoke Teekyuu everyday, people.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Apr 17, 2018

pomegranit

Mixed Feelings

This anime was a wild ride. I watched this because of my sudden interest in 'shorter' and 'crack' anime, and this definitely delivered. The show will take almost no time to watch, but it's funny enough to keep you entertained.

There really isn't a story line. There are only four characters pretty much, and the entirety of the show focuses on whatever they're up to.

The art is alright. While the main characters are differentiated enough, the backgrounds aren't done very well and the animation is choppy and closer to stop motion. I have no idea whether it's intentional, but it annoyed me at first. ... I was able to tolerate it after a while.

The sound was alright, but some of the voice got grating after a while. The opening theme (it's only like 30 seconds, does that count?) is catchy and I don't really like it because it's the kind of song that isn't generally redeemable but it just sits in your brain and torments you. The background music could get annoying at times.

I enjoyed the show enough to keep going. I'm a person who needs to finish everything they start, so I will probably be watching the rest of the seasons as well. It's very fast paced-- looking away even for a split second will throw you off.

I would recommend this if you: like crack, like panty flashes (ew), like friendships in groups of girls, like absolute trash lol, like shorter animes/episodes

I would NOT recommend this if you: came here looking for a sports anime, wanted something serious or long and drawn out (the amount of seasons is misleading), don't like crack and stupidity

Have a great day everyone!

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 19, 2015

literaturenerd

Not Recommended

How can you review an anime where each episode is only 2 minutes? Very briefly of course!

Judging by the cover,Teekyuu seems like a typical "slice of life" anime about a girl's tennis team. The kind of anime that fans of the genre call, "cute girls doing cute things". However, it is actually a profoundly unfunny attempt to spoof those types of anime in the same way that Kill la Kill spoofs fighting shonen series and Panty and Stocking spoofs intentionally offensive American gross out cartoons. This means that Teekyuu's method of spoofing is of course to take as many cliches from the target genre as ... possible and cramming them into 2 minute chunks. If you would ever like to see what would happen if the director of Kill la Kill and Panty and Stocking decided to direct Lucky Star, then THIS is the series for you!

The fact that Teekyuu's writing and style of spoofing so closely resembles the works of Imaishi Hiroyuki isn't a coincidence. The director of this series is named Shin Itagaki and he was a co-worker of Hiroyuki's at Studio Gainax and worked directly under him in the production of Panty and Stocking. Itagaki then left Studio Gainax at about the same time Hiroyuki left to found the studio Trigger. The difference between Teekyuu and Kill la Kill is that Hiroyuki has control of Trigger and was able to spend a considerable amount of his new studio's budget on things like decent animation, a decent soundtrack, editing, LOTS of marketing and hyping etc. Hiroyuki also had the huge advantage of name recognition and a cult following who were going to eat up his next series basically no matter what he did. On the other hand, Itagaki has no name recognition and lacks a faithful following. He is the Yotaphone up against Hiroyuki's Apple Iphone. Another problem is that Itagaki does NOT have any control over the budget of the studio he works for (MAPPA). Studio MAPPA spends virtually ALL of its budget on Hajime no Ippo: Rising, so this project was basically made on about 50,000$ budget. If Kill la Kill had severe budget constraints, it would be Teekyuu. Therefore a 4/10 quality anime quickly became 2/10 quality.

You would think how unfathomably shitty this anime is would result in it being a failure right? WRONG! The great thing about having no budget, is that with a little luck and perhaps a tad of misleading advertisement, you can make a handsome surplus. Consider that while Big Rigs Over the Road Racing was objectively one of the worst PC games ever made, its tiny budget allowed it to make a shockingly large profit off poor fools who liked truck racing games and picked it up without really knowing anything about it. In the same way, people who love "cute little girl" anime picked up this abomination and it made an absolute mint compared to its almost non-existent budget. It was so successful that MAPPA greenlit seasons 2, 3, 4, and a 5th may be in the works! When utter bullshit with zero budget makes bank thanks to misleading advertisement, that makes me a SAD PANDA! (dated joke is dated)

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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