Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to The Animation

Mangaka san to Assistant san is a slice of life harem comedy depicting the life of a perverted mangaka who makes the monthly manga "HajiCafe" with his assistants. It's a nice comedy. The animation and art is pretty good and the characters are all likeable.

Story 7/10:
Not much of a story. The 12 episodes pass by showing different situations of the team. Just like in Lucky Star, Danshi Koukousei and Nichijou, this anime also shows different skits. Almost every skit is funny and nice to watch.

Art 9/10:
I really enjoyed the animation and artwork of this anime. The character designs were really amazing. It looked kinda like ... the average anime should. Not much fancy but not too dull to make it look bad. Nonetheless, the character designs are really amazing for a short anime series. Really enjoyed watching the characters.

Character 8/10:
Our protagonist and mangaka, Aito Yuuki is a pervert. Not those perverts which you hate but one of those who are cool and funny. He can be thoughtful sometimes but his pervertness ruins the mood. A really funny character.
Each of his assistants has her own special personality. Some of the girls get more screen time than the others due to their importance or relation with Aito. But each girl gives the show it's own unique twist.

Enjoyment 8/10:
Just as enjoyable as any other comedy anime. You've got your average events in check e.g. beach event, hot springs event, Take care of me I'm sick event etc. The animation is really nice and comedy is laughable. It's quite an enjoyable short series which is a good time pass with loads of laughter.

Overall, a splendid comedy short to watch with a nice dose of eye candy.

Pantsu! This is what this anime was about. It was a slice of life harem/comedy/ecchi without an actual over-arching plot. All episodes had 3 sketches mostly focused on things like misunderstandings, accidents etc. in which boobs and (especially) panties were well represented as in any ecchi show. It was mostly alright entertainment, nothing too serious, at times bit too generic and hence predictable.

Characters were pretty stereotypic. Main character Aito Yuuki is perverted mangaka who is especially interested in panties. He has several female assistants and female editor with whom he used to be classmates with. Most of the time Aito says and does stupid things ... that makes those girls angry. Yet he is trying to be kind and decent fellow, he just can’t help himself. He often apologizes and begs for forgiveness. In the end all those girls actually like him, most in very tsundere way though, cheerful, although bit airheaded Rinna being an exception, she openly adores her ”sensei”.

Aito is very dramatic and obsessed, so mainly the comedy was about his mad fetish for undergarments. I think nothing especially rememberable happens in this show. Some situations are pretty weird, and potentially funny, but I have seen so much ecchi comedies that I cannot say this would’ve been especially fun or creative in that regard.

Story: 3 Poor
Not story to speak off, as usual in comedies romantic developments doesn’t happen and there is no over-arching plot really.

Art: 7 Good
This looked nice to me, no complaints. Nothing special though. Generic but good style.

Sound: 5 Mediocre
Seiyuus were good, there was lot of screaming and stuff and voice acting often sounded funny, even though nothing especially funny was happening. OP was good but ED was very long, bit boring and it’s style didn’t suit to this anime at all. It was too soft, emotional and slow compared to this anime. I had to skip it almost always. That’s why only Mediocre.

Character: 6 Fair
Stereotypes, tsunderes, sadists, perverts. Yeah not very unique characters.

Enjoyment: 6 Fair
It was okay, offered some laughs

Overall: 5 Mediocre
Not a bad show, but it had nothing especially good to make it stand out from the rest. If you love panties this anime might be for you though. I don’t personally adore them that much to be honest, so overall is only 5 this time.

This is an anime about a man and his dream. His dream of panties. Seeing panties, smelling panties, touching panties.... Yeah that's honestly most of what this show is about. Oh, and a there's also little stuff about making manga. But it's ecchi manga about panties anyway. Each episode is divided into three or four different scenes, and almost all of them deal with panties and Aito's love for them in one way or another.

This is a harem anime about a mangaka of an ecchi manga and the girls around him. His three assistants (though two are hardly ever seen actually helping his manga at ... all), his editor, and several other minor characters. The main character, Aito, is absolutely ridiculous. His emotions seem bipolar and he can quickly flip from being a perverted idiot to a sympathetic and kind mentor in the blink of an eye. His voice during many of the perverted scenes gets so high it's annoying (though I will give credit to his voice actor for having excellent vocal range) yet at other times he can be quite likable. He has balls of steel and, unlike many male protagonists in ecchi anime, has almost no fear of asking to see a girl's underwear or to touch them (in fact he even succeeds a couple times).

As for the girls, they are mostly archetypal, though they do break out of their archetypes and become unique on several occasions. Aito's main assistant, Ashisu, is the girl who least fits into any archetype. She is Aito's main love interest (of course she would rather die than feel the same way about him). Being an assistant, she has dreams of debuting and becoming a real mangaka. She has a love-hate relationship with Aito which can range from her going along with his perverted schemes to acting like a dominating yandere around him. Mihari is Aito's editor and friend from high school who has long had a crush on him. Aito has no clue of course because Mihari is your typical, lovable tsundere. Rinna, a well-endowed airhead, and Sena, a spoiled-rotten weakling, are much less important and only have a few important scenes despite being main characters.

The animation is fairly well done for an ecchi anime. Despite all of it's focus on panties, the amount of ecchi content is probably not as much as you're expecting. There are more moments with sexual innuendos and Aito asking to see panties than there are actual moments of near-nudity. The character designs are average and since most of the anime takes place inside of Aito's apartment studio, the characters are usually seen close up and tend to avoid being shown with minimal detail when far away from the viewer like many shows do to save some of the animation budget. Still, this means there are not too many scenery changes, though there are still a beach/hot spring episode and several trips to lingerie stores in the mall. As for the sound, the music is typical an for ecchi and comedy anime. Most of the time it is light-hearted, but it can get intense to match Aito's bizarre outbreaks. Still, it does nothing more than fit the mood fairly well at the time and is often unnoticeable.

"Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to" is a fairly entertaining, simple, and short (12 minute long episodes) ecchi comedy. If that's all your looking for, then you've found something you'll enjoy. If you're looking for one of the best ecchi shows out there, or something with tons of nudity, then you'll probably be disappointed. The show does get a little better as it goes and as you grow somewhat attached to the characters (I personally enjoyed Mihari with her crush on Aito the most and I was happy that there was an entire episode dedicated to that). Also, if you're going into this expecting a lot of focus on making manga, you would be better to check out something like Bakuman as this only occasionally focuses on how tiring the process can really be.