Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi

Having just moved from Tokyo to Hokkaido, high school student Tsubasa Shiki decides to explore the picturesque winter landscape he could never experience in the nation's capital. It only takes a moment for Tsubasa's idealized view of Japan's northernmost prefecture to crumble, as the sheer cold and frigid air quickly overwhelm him. While trying to find the way to his new home, Tsubasa runs into Minami Fuyuki—a talkative and friendly Hokkaido native who, despite the cold, is wearing a short skirt. The girl wastes no time in striking up a conversation, and Tsubasa comes to realize that the winter weather is not all that is too much for him to handle.

The next day, Tsubasa is shocked to learn that not only is Fuyuki in his class, but her seat is also right next to his. Swept along by Fuyuki's persistent advances, the young man soon becomes captivated by both life in Hokkaido and the beautiful girl determined to get closer to him. As he deepens his relationship with Fuyuki and meets other fashionable girls from his school, Tsubasa finds out that Hokkaido gals truly are adorable.

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Fuyuki, Minami Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Akino, Sayuri Main

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Shiki, Tsubasa Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Natsukawa, Rena Supporting

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Fuyuki, Mai Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Hina Supporting

Kubo, Yurika Japanese

Fuyuki, Momoko Supporting

Nagae, Rika Japanese

Asuka Supporting

Nagai, Mariko Japanese

Shiki, Hirotaka Supporting

Takatsuka, Masaya Japanese

Matsuo, Takayumi Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Kaneko, Hayato Producer

Matsumoto, Takuya Producer

Yoshida, Norio Producer

Yamakawa, Norio Producer

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Aug 28, 2024

lycoping

Recommended

This anime is what happens... or would happen... when a local tourist commission writes an anime.

This is a bog-standard rom-com about a boy who moves to Hokkaido, meets a gyaru with stereotypically huge "assets", gets shown all of the local delights, including, to some degree, said gyaru, and then the typical romantic comedy happens.

Make no mistake - the MC in this anime isn't Shiki or Minami, it's Hokkaido, or more accurately, Kitami. We get shown the mascots, get shown their local food and mint, even are taken to a rather lovely park with lots of very beautiful pink flowers. It's a beautiful anime, ... and it does do its job of showing Hokkaido off admirably. But that's really all it does.

Shiki is a typical anime MC protagonist who overreacts to every situation even remotely involving a girl (but to his credit manages to recover pretty quickly). That gets really annoying. Can't we have an anime where the boy doesn't flip his lid whenever he gets a glimpse of flesh? And Minami is a bubbly, outgoing typical female big-breasted protagonist who likes the MC for some weird reason. And then there are the other female protagonists who seem to like the MC for a weird reason too. This is inexplicable, considering the only thing the male MC has going for him to distinguish him from any other bog-standard bland MC character is, he can play the piano.

Now, as a pianist, I am biased to think that there are few pantsu-droppers quite as effective as being able to play the piano, but in reality, he has nothing else going for him - the fact that he's managed to snare (somewhat) at least three different female characters is inexplicable.

But, Hokkaido wins in the end.

It's not an awful anime. You could do worse. It does its job showing off Hokkaido, and as a side effect, being a generic rom-com without much to differentiate itself from any of the others. But you could do better, too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 5, 2024

D_1_0

Mixed Feelings

Well this anime is ok but I hated the ending the main gyaru is ok but the otaku is best girl.

Although the anime did hook me,in if it had uncensored ecchi I believe it would enhance the experience apart from the otaku, gyaru and the history buff all the other characters are under developed and boring.

The reason I hate the ending is because of how anti climactic it is I understand that it's supposed to be a meta joke but it still made me annoyed and the gyaru didn't undergo any character development and she is like Nagataro (I have only watched the first ... episode of nagataro).

So I guess the anime is ok but even though I have not finished many romance animes this is ok the best score I could give this is a 6.5/10 or a c+.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 26, 2024

1nvader

Not Recommended

Weak. Just weak. You have a blonde gyaru with a funny accent, that should already be a massive win, so I don't understand how it's possible to mess this up this badly, but here it is.

The whole show is like a broken record. Guy meets up with gyaru, they eat something, "UMAAAAAAAAA~~!", guy gets embarrassed, the end. This is every single episode of this show. If you ever had the feeling anime (especially slice of life) is running off of a template, this will amplify that feeling 10x, except the template is only 1 page long.

It's just a waste of time and that's coming from ... the guy who's very easy to please with just "haha funny booba sound effect" moments. It's not thought provoking, it's not cute (enough), no CGDCT, it's not even lewd, it does not even have comfy feel-good moments that any slice of life should have. The most you get out of this anime is one snippet worthy scene with the gyaru's mom. Otherwise it's so repetitive it gets annoying.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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