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"I just know that tonight again, my brother will be calling me from outside the window.


Help."

First off - the elephant in the room: there's sex. Lots of it. But I don't get how poeple are surprised by this if the whole story is about a "no strings attached" (read: sexual) relationship, it's even in the synopsis. But it isn't an ecchi/hentai type of sex, in my opinion the sex scenes are there to show the sexual relationship the story is about, as - you know - showing a s e x u a l relationship without s e x would be ... hard. Though some of the sex scenes may be hard to swallow (if you get what I mean *cough cough*chapter 14*cough cough*), so this may not be a suitable read for the faint of heart. But enough about that.
What a terrific manga.

Story: 9
The manga is about two teenagers, who both went through their own shit, and decided to form a "no strings attached" relationship to just feel better. Author tackles topics quite rare in this type of media, such as unhealthy relationships, suicidal thoughts, and more quite standard real-pessimistic Inio Asano specials. Though I don't quite know how to feel about the ending, but the rest more than makes up for it. A great and unconventional love story.

Art: 9
Love him or hate him, Asano's cityscapes are absolutely stunning. Some people say the way he draws eyes makes them uncomfortable, but personally I'd rather look at his sometimes uncanny, closer-to-human-proportions style, than another generic-looking manga with "the Clannad complex". lol

Characters: 8
I actually think the author did a pretty good job writing teenage characters (in a bit of a pessimistic way of course): depressed, stupid, sex-obsessed, often egoistic. Thanks to the time skips, we can see them slowly growing up and learning new things about themselves.

Enjoyment: 9
I loved it. One of the few pieces of media which _almost_ brought me to tears. (But that's kinda unfair to say, 'cause there's only on piece of media as of writing this which made me cry actual tears :P)

Overall: 9

TL;DR: Cool, you should read it as long as you don't mind sex scenes and you aren't really, really easily disturbed.

It seems like most of the reviews for this anime are either "It's the best thing that happened to humanity" or "It's worse than Hitler". Now - I'm not on either of sides, but I cannot for the life of me understand WHY this anime has such a high score.

When I watch anime I want the story to be coherent. Now that doesn't mean the story has to be realistic, it doesn't have to be backed by scientific studies, it doesn't have to make sense in our world (I do like fantasy xd), but I expect the anime to at least know how to handle ... it's own story and world. And this anime doesn't.

Let's not beat around the bush: this anime has glaring similiarities to the Monogatari series. A sarcastic highschooler helping girls with their paranormal problems. And my opinion Seishun Buta Yarou is just a worse version of Monogatari. But how is it worse? Its problem lies in the way it handles it's own story, it' own world.

In Monogatari the paranormal phenomena our cast of characters experience are tied to yokai, ghosts, gods and japanese mythology in general. Does it make sense in our world and do they try to convince us it makes sense? No, it's mythology. In the anime's world it makes sense. In Bunny Girl Senpai on the other hand the phenomena are tied to quantum mechanics. Not only are the quantum mechanics very real, the anime uses real experiments, laws and theories to explain what's going on. Some of the explanations are illogical (ok the time loop might be the work of Laplace's Demon, but how in the fuck did the characters jump to that very roundabout conclusion), some of the experiments they cite don't make any sense (everyone around me was like "you have to watch this, they say things about the Schroedinger's Cat" and I watched it and I was very disappointed to notice how everyone failed to understand what that experiment was trying to convey), etc. It's painfully obvious the creator just read a "Quantum Mechanics for Dummies" kind of book and went with it.

Now - that doesn't mean it was a bad show. The animation is pretty, there isn't anything wrong with sound design, I even enjoyed the last story arc (mainly because of the lack of quantum mechanics xd), the characters and interactions between them aren't the worst (though in a lot of places they seem like dumbed down Monogatari)... At the end of the day 7 isn't a bad score. I could criticize it further for following generic anime tropes or whatever, but it's not like I didn't enjoy it, it just REALLY pissed me off in A LOT of places, so I don't want to give it a totally shitty review. But I don't understand how it has a 8.5 average, and I sure as hell don't understand how people can give it a 10.

Go watch (or better yet read) Monogatari instead. Xd

Tl;dr: If an anime uses real concepts to explain it's narrative I expect it to understand what it's saying and doing. This anime doesn't and it pisses me off. Other than that it's cool.

PS. I'm a Nisioisin fanboy. lol