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After watching the first episode I thought this was going to be a pretty good comedy. I even turned some people onto the first episode because I thought the premise was pretty funny and unique. Then it quickly stopped being funny and became a real romance story between a high school girl and an elementary school kid.

After watching the first episode you might assume that the story is going to be big joke watching this girl try to find a way out of her relationship without hurting the guy's feelings, and also try to hide her relationship status from other people so they don't ... get the wrong idea. Then it just becomes a story about how this girl is actually legitimately in love with this child. That story is just annoying and weird, and the background characters can be described in the same way.

Even the art in this show is really hit or miss in very obvious ways. Sometimes it looks like standard shojo style, sometimes the perspectives are weird, or the eyes are drawn funny, or something else goes off in an easily visible way.

I wouldn't recommend this show to anyone. Even the first episode, which I thought was decent at the time, is nothing more than a tease for what this series could have been.

I feel like this concept had some promise and that promise was squandered throughout the series. After the first few episodes the focus shifts from examining an adult in a high school classroom to just another generic high school slice of life. Most of the latter half of the episodes aren't even focused on our main character, several episodes star other high school kids dealing with some very worn out plot points.

It's very disappointing, honestly. There's so much that could have been done with the relife program, or just the idea of an adult pretending to be a teenager. Almost all of that materiel was ... left mostly untouched.

If you're a fan of the standard high school drama slice of life and you'd like to see one with a mild twist away from the norm, you'd probably really enjoy this show.

If you're looking for something unique, or were expecting this show to mostly be about the adult in the teenager's body, this show will leave you more disappointed than satisfied.

“I can’t understand what my husband is saying” is a real little gem of an anime. The first season aired during the fall season of 2014, and the 2nd season aired during the summer season of 2015. I watched both when they were released, and just earlier today decided to rewatch the series. With each episode being only 3 minutes long it only takes a little over an hour to watch both seasons.

The dynamic between an otaku and a non-otaku is a routine gag, but it’s not the focal point of this show. It’s a real heartwarming series about some very believable characters. Obviously some ... things are hammed up for a laugh, but if I was told this was based on actual experience with a couple of real people, I would easily believe it.

That believably is what makes this show so great in my opinion. It’s like watching a bunch of your friends deal with their jobs, romances, and lives. It’s something I feel to be one of the rarer anime experiences. Sure, there’s always tons of slice of life anime but they usually either star teenagers, or there’s a sort of fantastical element to them. It’s rare to find an anime starring a bunch of late 20-somethings living borderline realistic lives, and I think this one really hits it out of the park in that regard. Talking openly and normally about birth control, having a sex life, problems with work, still not feeling exactly like a grown up even though you certainly are one, all of these things are topics that you’ll find covered by this anime.

Even though each episode is only 3 minutes and 30 seconds long, including the credits, you can really get a sense of attachment to the handful of regulars that pop in and out. I applaud the talent that it must have took to be able to craft stories so well and have them all play out within only 3 minutes, but never once leaving me feeling as though the plot was rushed. Each 3 minute episode may as well have been a standard 24 minutes, they just utilized their 3 minutes to tell a story that well.

I guess what I’m saying is that, if you’re an adult anime fan that would like to see a story you can easily relate to, you should go watch this. If you’re an anime fan in general, I think you should go watch this. If nothing else, watch this just to see how it’s possible to tell a fulfilling story in such a short amount of time.

So, I just finished the final episode minutes before sitting down to write this. Was this my favorite show of the season? Yes. I’d say it’s tied up between this and “Re:Zero.” Hero Academia gets some special points though because it really fired me up in a way that I used to get fired up for shonen anime back in the day.

Hero Academia really makes me think of something like a particularly good Naruto arc with all the filler cut out.

So what made this show so great? I think it’s probably for the same reasons One Punch Man was such a wild success, people ... like a good hero. Dark, gritty, real, none of those are words you would use to describe either of our heroes in Hero Academia or One Punch Man. In both of these anime the hero is someone who genuinely wants to help people. (Sure, I guess you could argue that Saitama is a self proclaimed hero for fun, but at the end of the day he’s not the type to walk passed a mugging just because he didn’t really feel like being a hero that day, and I think the fact that in his heart he’s truly self sacrificing for the greater good is shown throughout the series.)

The trend recently is to make things real. Heroes might not all be so good, sometimes good people do bad things for the right reasons, sometimes seemingly good people ultimately have a very dark ulterior motive, all that jazz. It’s everywhere in movies, games, anime, you name it. Goody two shoes have taken a very hard fall out of being fashionable. But I think people actually like a genuine hero more than they like a “real” hero because the “real” heroes don’t give us anything to believe in. I thought “Man of Steel” was a cool movie, but it didn’t make me want to be Superman. The really corny, always doing the best thing for everyone Superman? That guy actually makes me want to be a super hero. And I think My Hero Academia tapped into that same vein. It made me want to be a hero like All Might, and in doing so it made me really relate to Midoriya’s aspirations.

Watching Midoriya fight against the odds to fulfill his dream made me want to fight for my dreams too, the same way superman swooping in to save a cat from a tree or jumping in front of a kryptonite fueled train inspires me to be heroic too.

I don't understand some of these reviews that critique the story line of this. The story is virtually non-existent. This is just something to jerk off too not to watch to be entertained. If you want to see Imari getting fucked then this is amazing, but if you are totally uninterested in seeing Imari get fucked then I don't know why you even bothered to watch any thing related to bible black in the first place.

I have never read the manga so I don't know if it has the same story but the ending in the anime ruined the whole series for me. I pretty much enjoyed the whole story until I got to the ending and there was no resolution at all.

The main problem as I saw it in the story is that this family has a curse on them and they become an animal if you hug them. So this made it pretty much impossible for the main character to get together with this guy in the family that she liked. But at the end the curse wasn't ... lifted and nothing really changed at all. I was unaware it was even the last episode because nothing really happened.

But if you don't mind an anti-climatic ending then there really is nothing else wrong with this anime