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It is a story full of cliche tropes, flat characters, and massive contradictions. Vampire Dormitory is precisely what you expect based on the premise alone in that you already know how it ends before you even begin. While I am a big believer in the saying "enjoy the journey, not the destination," the journey to the aforementioned predictable ending brings nothing new to the genre. You can really tell this anime was made to pander to a specific demographic and not to actually tell a good story.

I guess this anime is fine to watch if you want to look at pretty colors for twelve episodes ... or just have something on in the background; otherwise, skip it.

(This is my first review, so please don't be that harsh on me! I'm still learning obviously.)

Story: 7/10
The first episode introduces Makoto Niwa, a young male teenager who moves into his Aunt Meme Tōwa's house after his parents go overseas. Erio Tōwa, Makoto Niwa's cousin, is then introduced to the story, who is constantly wrapped up inside of a futon (which is to be believed to hide herself from society) and she also believes that she is an alien due to a loss of memory because of an accident that happened 6 months before Makoto's arrival. As the plot continues on, Makoto helps Erio reach ... out to society (also known as getting out of her futon and to stop believing she herself is an alien) and she opens up by getting a part time job at her great-grandmother's convenience store and she joins a baseball team.

I thought the plot was very interesting and there were many questions that came up in my head that wanted to be answered, like "Where is Elliot?" (Meme's husband), "Where did Erio go for six months?", "Who is Hoshimiya? What's her importance in the story?" but as it got up to Episode 10 I felt that the plot totally dropped Erio and her importance in the story as a once self proclaimed alien and the anime started focusing more on Matoko and the girls' he's surrounded by relationships. That honestly made me very mad. If they were going to drop Erio they could have at least explained A LOT more about her and then focus on Matoko x -insert girl here-! Also, I understand that Hoshimiya was introduced in the 9th episode or around there, but they didn't even explain her reason of being in the story at all in the last 3 episodes! "Because's she's an alien esper?" Please, there has to be a better reason than that, and that doesn't even explain WHY she's in the story in the first place.
There was so much that was unexplained and that ticked me off, maybe it's just me, but I couldn't honestly care less about Ryuuko's & Matoko's relationship, that goes for Maekawa as well.

I think what the worst part is is that the last episode was a baseball game. A BASEBALL GAME. I was actually sort of freaking out when I finished episode 12, the last episode, and was desperately searching for the non-existing 13th episode, I just couldn't believe that the 12th was the last! The baseball game had little to do with the actual plot that I was interested in and instead of attempting to solve one of the mysteries that they were once trying to solve other stuff was happening like Matoko lecturing Maekawa's Father about life and so on (which I thought was completely random), I would also like to throw in that they didn't even include the festival that the City and Shopping District were even having the baseball game for, but I've heard from a friend that the OVA that I have yet to watch is about the festival so I won't argue about that.

So to basically summarize all that I have just said above, this anime had a promising plot but then it all changed into some pointless non sense that didn't involve Erio's case at all, since that changed so did my rating. There was once a time that I had rated Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko's story an 8/10, but since all of this useless stuff happened between episodes 10-12 and none of my answers were answered I dropped it down to a 6, mostly because I felt like I was teased by the makers of this anime but it was an interesting anime at one point, which it still is, but if I ever re watch it I will not be re watching Episodes 10-12.

They had better make a Second Season to explain everything that was not explained in the first! If not then I'll keep the story rating the same.

Art: 9/10
When I first saw Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko from an anime music video that I had stumbled across on YouTube I couldn't help but be captivated by it's wonderful art! The scenery looked amazing and the girls looked stunning! Don't even get me started on how much I wish I could look like Erio! Because of the way Erio was drawn I actually now am starting to love light blue haired girls. The only thing that I didn't like though was the way that their lips were drawn, it actually has always sort of annoyed me. Besides that though I adored the art and it really helped raise the overall rating since I'm a huge nazi on art styles.

Sound: 7/10
I'll talk about the opening and ending for Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko first, the opening honestly annoys me. I don't like it at all. It sounds like a 3 year old screeching, the sound behind the voice is pretty good though, but the singing just ruins it for me. The ending though is very cute and relaxing, and actually when watching this anime instead of skipping the ending like I usually do with all the anime I watch I actually would sometimes listen to the whole thing while in another tab. The soundtrack for the anime is, well, fitting. Nothing really else I can say, there wasn't really an OST that played that didn't fit with the current scene that was showed at the time, I personally thought Hoshimiya's soundtrack that would play whenever she appeared was perfect for her. The question is though, is it the best soundtrack ever? I'd have to say no. You have to give this anime some slack though, I've watched some anime that has a very emotional soundtrack like Fullmetal Alchemist which honestly brought me to tears, but you just can't compare this anime's OST with a masterpiece such as Fullmetal Alchemist, that's like saying Selena Gomez is better than Skrillex, (bad example, spare with me) those 2 are a very different genre of music and so are Denpa Onna and Fullmetal Alchemist, they are both very different (especially genre and depth wise), they are both very different with only minor (and I mean MINOR) things in similarity.

My point is though Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko's sound was perfect for the type of anime it is, but it isn't anything memorable.

Character 7/10:
I afraid I struggle in describing characters for many reasons, but I'll try to summarize the main and some supporting characters personalities (and similarities to other character's in other anime that I've seen compared to the character's personalities I'm summarizing) in one go.

Erio Tōwa (Touwa):
Since the first episode she appears to have a very awkward personality. But after she acknowledged the fact that she was not an alien, she starts to relieve her true personality, that she is actually very shy and is hiding from society. I have to say that she is very unique and I actually cant say I've ever seen anyone that was like her, yet.

Meme Tōwa (Touwa):
She has a silly and cheerful personality, and often at times a little evil. She enjoys teasing Makoto in any sexual way that she can. She also seems to care about Erio, even though she tries to hide it as proven in the first few episodes, by getting her a job at Tamura's shop. The only similarly I have for her is that she looks a lot like Ami from Toradora!, but that's the art's fault. Meme is also a type of character that can be seen in many moe anime, which makes her character unoriginal. She still is an alright character though.

Makoto Niwa:
He has a calm and collective personality but at times tries to go along with the flow and replies with an answer such as ("I see" or "okay"). He thankfully isn't perverted like some male leads in moe anime that I've seen which makes him very like-able in my eyes, there really isn't anything I can say about him besides that though. He's original in some ways, but not really.

Ryuuko Mifune:
She has a very active personality, which is what most moe anime character's seem to have, I find her annoying for that reason and she's also just like Minorin from Toradora, which annoys me because I don't like Minorin one bit for her personality, even though Minorin does change I'm talking about Denpa Onna, not Toradora!

Maekawa:
She has a calm personality but also likes to tease Ryuuko by saying things that Ryuuko tends to misunderstand, she also loves to cosplay and go on evening walks. Maekawa in my eyes is somewhat unique, I've never seen an anime character that loves to cosplay 24/7 before so it's kind of neat to see someone such as herself in an anime.

Hoshimiya Yashiro:
She has a childish personality and she can get irritated pretty fast, I've seen her type of character many time in anime and therefore find her annoying and unoriginal, but the fact that she is a self proclaimed esper makes her somewhat interesting so I'll give her that.

All in all though I think the characters are basically all unoriginal with only the slightest things that make them unique, Erio and Makoto are very amazing characters though since their personaitlies sort of made this anime what it is so that's why I rated it a 7, and plus Erio is one of my all time favorite characters.

Enjoyment: 8/10
I'm normally a person who doesn't laugh while watching moe anime, but, especially in the first few episodes, I found myself awwing and laughing, at a lot of things in this anime, mostly at Erio & Makoto's relationship which is one of the reasons why I really liked Denpa Onna. But just like I stated in the story rating explanation, the plot failed to answer so many questions and the ending made me want to scream, not in a good way. I did like the first 8 or so episodes though! I thought they were both very interesting and exciting, and don't get me started how much I smiled at the whole E.T. parody scene! Therefore I have decided to rate it 8/10, it's a weak 8 though, I could probably lower it down to 7 but I can't exactly say there was an episode that I found boring.

Overall: 8/10
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, but Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko is an amazing anime to watch if you're looking for a cute, moe anime with a supernatural theme. Stay away though if you're looking for a serious supernatural plot with cute art style, because that's what I was looking for at the time, but I was sad to see that as the plot continued on that it was turning into a more of a slice-of-life anime by the second and not so much a supernatural, and I was kidding myself about the 'serious' bit. But overall, the art's outstanding, the sound's good, the character's are fitting with this type of anime, it's very enjoyable and the plot (aka story) is promising until the end.

So even though it does end up to being a let down, I still recommend you watch it if you have some time to kill, because to be honest even after being let down I still don't regret watching this anime, I just hope there is a Second Season...