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Mar 16, 2024
This show is overrated albeit I still like it and would recommend it. There isnt a whole lot of CGDCT to choose from lately, so this is about as good as you'll find if you're looking for something somewhat recent in 2024 that isn't a sequel. The show plays heavily on the social anxiety of the MC, and your other usual tropes such as the broke character, character who admires other girl way too much, etc. The girls are cute and the gags enjoyable enough, just not exceptionally so. I love that they're keeping CGDCT alive and relevant, but quite frankly I cannot wrap my
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head around any rating close to 9. The plot of having to get x better at something by y date is done often enough that if it's not something extraordinary, it's just... forgettable. If the show is going to be over an 8.5 it better have some unforgettable scenes, it didn't for me. YMMV, some people may find something special in this, but it is lost on me, temper expectations.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 15, 2024
5 red headed quintuplets. Such a self serving premise is usually reserved for eroge and hentai. At best my expectations were for a fun show and hopefully they would keep any cringey drama scenes under wraps, a la perhaps a Nise-Koi. Surprise, surprise, the show has a lot of drama, but it is well done or if it has grounds of being bad, the show does it in such a way that I felt as if I was in on the joke and able to enjoy a gag either way and learn about their quirks. In this way, every scene is teaching you more and
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more about the quintuplets, and it seldom gets boring, as each have a very distinct personality to contrast with their similar looks. At the end of it, I don't find myself overly doting over any one character, but I feel as if I have a vested interest in all of them, almost like they are family. Every girl is fleshed out and feels like a person more than a character. Perhaps I haven't given other shows enough of a chance, but I think it has the best characterization in a romance in recent years.
An observation I made is that the show may have more in common with slice of life shows than romance, as the show is just as much about the bond between the girls than they are with MC.
I put off the show for 5 years based on outside appearances, this ended up being the most character driven rom com with the most depth I've seen in possibly the last 10 years. The array of characters and gags kept the show more interesting than a lot of your higher rated more "serious", rom coms I've seen lately, but also deft enough in the drama scenes to separate it from your typical harem.
If you are an enjoyer of anime rom-coms or harems and have been putting off watching the show, definitely give this a try. It's a top tier show based on characterization.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 14, 2020
High energy, slice of life show with a theme around idols, but the genre probably doesnt fall into "idol", as songs and performances are very far and few between. Very rapid fire gags featuring cute character designs and endearing personalities and mannerisms to boot. Some gags and situations go a bit far! Lots of yuri undertones for sure, so best to be comfortable with some suggestive scenes. For those familiar with and who enjoy this type of show, this was a real hidden gem.
I say the character designs are cute, but the characters personalities are a bit... refreshingly rotten. My Japanese friend called it a
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"Dirty Hanayamata", which is another older show with similar themes, I couldn't stop laughing at how true that comment felt. Of course if you're familiar with the slightly "fallen" character tropes Ochikobore uses, you'll still find the girls plenty cute, maybe even more so, but the show isn't outwardly trying to charm you with it's cuteness, it's more about exploiting the less than ideal parts. The gap between what you'd normally expect of a popular pristine idol and the reality of the our featured "Dropout" Idols, that's where the majority of jokes fall. In this sense, I would say Fruits Tart is mostly a parody over all else.
Not so high quality are the actual Idol performances. These segments are little more than panning stills of the characters on stage to a couple interesting choreographed parts animated. The inserts barely play over a minute if that. If you're expecting a high quality idol show about dropout idols redeeming themselves with a somewhat rich storyline, well, the plot is there, it just isn't taken too seriously, it even seems to be the punchline more often than not.
Okay, so seeing the score on MAL below a 7, and the show being on no ones radar coming into the season, I think it's very easy to pass this show up , but if you're a fan of slice of life, borderline unwholesome but high energy gags, if you find the character designs to be cute, and you don't expect anything out of the idol performances, this show is really good. Although the sleepy princess show seems to be the runaway cute girl show of the season, and I admit, that show is dang good too and very enjoyable, I find the girls of Fruits Tart to have more personality and more fun. This was likely the most enjoyable show I watched this year. It's not a legendary CGDCT show, but it's pretty close and on my short list of really good shows that do this sort of thing well and keep the viewer constantly entertained. Definitely worth giving a couple episodes if you enjoy similar shows.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 1, 2020
If the thought of watching hentai offends you, run now. JUST. RUN.
Technically the show isn't hentai, but yea, it is. Ishuzoku Reviewers offers up everything the dark side of anime culture has to offer. Mainly: Tentacles, Beastwomen, and Lolis.
What I find fascinating about Ishuzoku Reviewers is that it's a perfect fusion of two genres. Long have we had meaningful eroges that would evolve into H scenes where one could release their tensions. Finally, now Ecchi Comedy viewers have what they've been waiting 30 years for. No more watching bouncing boobs with affixed eyes. Only to be frustrated by impromptu tea cups, or blinding
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lights that seem to originate from St. Elmo himself, forcing a night to devolve into a search for decent hentai only to have to settle for seafood attacking washboards. This, all because previously said Ecchi Comedy show would never take responsibility. Well, Ishuzoku Reviewers TAKES RESPONSIBILITY.
I find the two male characters forgettable, stereotypical males. Who are however perfect for the ensuing sexual innuendo, the two main quirks being their differing taste in certain older women types, a memorable joke that hasn't quite caught on for me. I must say their escapades and opinions are definitely original. The world that Reviewers has created is believable and not just seemingly created to serve the purpose of one thing or the other, it has a solid base, with rules even among the most depraved of places. The show is fresh and convincing. The female characters or at least female looking main heroines I should say, might have the most room for character development, I have never seen a futa taken even semi-seriously, even if its one with a sly grin, until now.
The comedy is fun, the hentai is explicit and good - I don't think I would watch if it was one or the other, but the combination works really well, and I do think Studio Passione finally has a hit. It's going to take a certain kind of person who has dwelt in the cesspools of Doujinshi, Eroge, or Hentai, truly someone who has spent most of their time in an higher plane of enlightenment to appreciate the show, but eh personally I don't take anything too seriously. And if you're one who's curiosity is piqued and not offended so far, you may find yourself amused going down this dark, damp, rabbit hole.
Would whole-heartedly recommend to the most rotten of the bunch. But caution others to enter at your own risk.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 31, 2020
Well first off, as an ardent MMO player, the game is clearly broken in a million ways and not to be taken seriously as an example of game design in any way, shape or form. With the price of things nowadays I assume the developers must not have been able to hire a QA team. OK, after watching six episodes, what the core of the show is, is an Iyashi-kei or healing-type series. I could be wrong, but Bofuri has built up my trust and that even when it threatens with a punch, they'll pull it back before I can tense up. Bottom-line, I am
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liking this show more and more every week. Bofuri is wholesome, with very little fanservice, it's truly a feel good slice of life with an MMO theme. Just don't take the game part of it too seriously, obviously there's no way that Maple would be the first to exploit those things in the first few episodes, if we're being realistic.
Ok, so if we suspend belief and get past the origin story, what we find is well-meaning characters and a lighthearted foray into the show's VR game world, New World Online. The characters are likeable enough, if a bit generic. Indeed the selling point seems to be Maples complete lack of MMO experience and how her seemingly newbieish decisions breaking the game. So far the story has been constrained almost solely to the MMO world, and the MC, Maple's experience in it. No RL drivel to up the stakes, just a normal, broken MMO, with a normal girl who finds a new exploitable action seemingly every minute. A great show if anime RL is too much and you just want to escape to an MMO while in an anime.
Is this a show that's going to revolutionize the genre and be talked about for years to come? Very doubtful. But if you're not beyond watching a show purely for smiles and enjoyment, this is recommendable. Basically moe meets MMO, and not just for an OVA, but an entire cour. I for one am totally on board as I always wished for the mmo part in the Lucky Star OVA to go on forever. So far it is good at what is does, maybe you can use it as a palette cleanser of sorts.
Also Maple = Konobis' Usami, Risa = Yuuki Yuuna's Karin. Someone had to say it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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