Giji Harem

[TL;DR: A lighthearted romance romp with an interesting gimmick. While the art and animation leaves a lot to be desired, it's easy on the eyes and on the kokoro as well. A fluffy "boy meets girl" slice-of-life story without incessant melodrama and surprisingly real, heartfelt moments. It's short and sweet, only 12 episodes, it's an excellent choice if you are looking for something warm and fuzzy to watch on a Sunday afternoon!]

I like stories that don't try to be more than they are, and Pseudo Harem fits the bill perfectly. A light slice-of-life romance anime without all the fluff. The gimmick this time is "why ... would you need a 100 girls in your harem, when you can have one with a 100 personalities?". Not in a clinical sense of course, but that she is a very talented actress who can switch character tropes on a whim. Tsundere-chan, Imp-chan, Spoiled-chan, Cool-chan, Demure-chan, you'll never know who you gonna get. It's like dating a dozen different girls at the same time, but without the guilt! It's a match made in heaven, especially if you are into that sort of thing.

The anime is very light on fluff, we are jumping from vignette to vignette, straight to the point, and while it's great to have a story with progression which is never boring, the change is sometimes quite jarring. Not giving the audience enough time to immerse themselves in the scene, jumping from a heavy romantic moment to comedic relief and back again is a bit of a whiplash sometimes. Which is true for the writing as well, the anime switches gears faster than Takumi in Initial D, as we often go from emotion-filled tension to slapstick play-acting and than back again in seconds, just leaves your head reeling. That being said, the scenes and dialogues are great, they smell very "based on a true story" and easily moves you in unexpected ways. I love the fact the humor is also very light, no low-brow toilet humor or needless raunchy fanservice bs, it's all very "safe" which doesn't mean it's colorless or boring but it lends itself really well for a lighthearted romance story like this.

Now, I do have to mention the art style, which is also really...um...light. It's very basic, light pastels and absolutely no needless lines. Especially the backgrounds sometimes look like they've been outsourced to the nearest intern and the quality can be very inconsistent between scenes. The low framerate and janky animations also follow suit. It's not terrible, but it's obvious the anime was made on a budget, and while it doesn't really detract from the enjoyment much, they could've done a lot better.

All in all, Giji Harem is a really enjoyable little romance story without any of the huge rollercoasters of bigger productions. The gimmick is interesting and fun, the story is nice and steady, the characters are cute, the humor is totally non-offensive, it's a really safe bet if you are looking for something light and fluffy between all the melodrama-drenched heavy stuff. I wholeheartedly recommend it!

at first it has a good and interesting concept, but when it get to episode 4/5 it started to become boring.

well first thing, i wathed this because hayami saori do the VA for the female mc and the interesting cooncept which she does wide variety type of voice acting in this one anime

the story begin with female lead interested in mc and try to knowing him better and she started to fall in love, kinda thing, but there is nothing special about the mc, though rin explains why she loves the mc it just didn't go forward at all, at first it was funny with ... skit and comedy, which rin copying many girls type characters like tsundere and the other type, and she sometime confessed her feeling through acting with different type of character, but when you repeatedly served with the same thing you got bored.

the execution is that not that good either, even though the ending are kinda unique for me, because saori herself sing it, but other than that the animation and music is kinda mid

well, if you want to watch an school rom-com anime with no drama and full of vanila, this was for you, but if you were bored through watching this in the middle you can just listen to this like a podcast

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I don’t get it—the premise of the anime is already bad, so why did I even watch it? I was expecting it to be bad, so why was I surprised to find out it’s actually bad?

The pacing is extremely fast, and that bothers me a lot. Things happen so quickly that I can’t even process what just occurred. Many "important" scenes were extremely rushed, like the one where she confesses to him. They literally cut that scene in half and only show it in the final episode. Instead, the anime focuses on the most embarrassing moments possible, leaving everything else behind.

The male protagonist is kind ... of cool, you know? He has his crazy ideas and weird moments, but overall, he’s just a normal guy.
Now, for the girl, on one hand, she’s normal, but I just can’t accept how she does so many ridiculous things without feeling embarrassed yet feels ashamed about accompanying the guy to college.

Absolutely nothing in this work stands out besides the secondhand embarrassment.
The art is terrible—the protagonist’s friends are so ugly that I laughed every time I saw them.
Except for those few seconds of manga advertising, the art itself is awful. If the anime’s art had just been the manga animated (as shown in the ad breaks), I wouldn’t complain.

The characters, as I said, are as simple as they come, with the girl being the only somewhat different one.

But some moments are actually kind of nice to watch, and the only nice moments are the NORMAL ones—when the scene isn’t unbearably cringy. This anime only got a 3/10 because the last episodes have a slight quality jump, making them genuinely enjoyable to watch.


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não consigo entender, a premissa do anime já é um pouco ruim, então por que eu assisti? Eu já estava esperando que esse anime ia ser ruim, então por que fiquei surpreso ao ver que ele é realmente ruim?

o ritmo é extremamente rápido e isso me incomoda muito, tão rápido que as coisas acontecem e eu não sei o que aconteceu, muitas cenas "importantes" foram extremamente rushadas, como a cena onde ela se para ele, onde eles literalmente cortaram a cena no meio para só mostrar no último episódio, o anime acaba mais focando nos momentos mais vergonhosos possíveis e deixando pra lá os outros

o cara protagonista é até que legal, sabe? ele tem suas ideias malucas e seus momentos estranhos, mas em geral ele é só um cara normal
Agora pro lado da menina, ela por um lado é normal, mas não me desce a ideia de ela fazer tanta coisa ridícula e não sentir vergonha, mas ter vergonha de ACOMPANHAR O MANO NA FACULDADE

Absolutamente nada nessa obra se destaca, além da vergonha alheia
A arte é horrível, os amigos do protagonista são tão feios que me faziam rir toda vez que os via.
Exceto aqueles poucos segundos de propaganda do mangá, a arte em si é horrível, se a arte do anime fosse literalmente só O MANGÁ ANIMADO (como mostrado nos intervalos para propaganda) eu não reclamaria.

Os personagens, como eu disse, são os mais simples possíveis, sendo só a menina a mais diferente.

Mas alguns momentos são daorinhas de assistir, e os únicos momentos daorinhas são os NORMAIS, quando a cena não é extremamente vergonha alheia, esse anime só recebeu um 3/10 porque os últimos episódios tem um saltinho de qualidade, sendo realmente agradáveis de se assistir.