I was brought to this anime as it's one of the earliest with the "Girls Love" tag, and if you're here for that, 180 and walk the frith away. Don't even go "Well I wanna watch it for completionism." Just don't
Does this anime have GL/Yuri in it? Yes, in the first episode and it features all of the bad tropes we now recognize as being kinda problematic, even for anime. If you're not coming into it specifically for that, It's okay to mediocre. It has some comedic moments of crass humour and enough spicy scenes to keep you titillated, especially if you view it
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Aug 14, 2024
A lovely blend of fanservice and cuteness in just the right amounts, all packaged up in a visual treat. While this anime won’t make you come to any life-changing epiphanies, it will provide a joyful amount of enjoyment across all spectrums of typical anime spheres. Unless you absolutely hate fan-service or need blood and gore in your anime, this one is worth a try for sure.
There is fanservice in this anime, yes. However it's in very modest amounts, and doesn’t feel out of place or incredibly forced to the narrative. It's also considerably front loaded and diminishes as the season goes on. It also ... 
Aug 14, 2024
Pocha Climb!
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Pocha Climb represents the best that Yuri and manga overall has to offer and the only negative aspect of this story is that it was too short, (And that's not even the mangaka's fault, it was cut by the publisher due to low sales of the first volume.). Regardless of the prior parenthesis, the mangaka did an amazing job in wrapping up the story in the second volume.
Artistically, the only real issues stem from the MC being referred to as "chubby" but this not being shown as well as it could be, even by most manga standards. Sure, compared to her super skinny love interest, ... 
Aug 14, 2024
Shibuya: Gal Yuri Anthology
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I am loathe to give this a 6/10 as it's a whole anthology on Gyaru Yuri which is somewhat underrepresented in the genre. I need to specify that it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't great.
To start off, there's alot of mangaka in this where it's their first involvement in a one-shot, and it shows in the storytelling and pacing of the short stories. It's understandable as there's not much to work with in a dozen pages or less, but even still, many of the stories felt rushed in the last two pages to get to a conclusion. Artistically, they're all solid in design, ... 
Aug 7, 2024
Onnanoko Awase
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A lovely series of one shots(and one short) revolving around the first times between couples. Almost every one shot had specific focus on the cute awkwardities in the lead up to "the act". Art between all one-shots was varied but solid between all of them.
There's nothing necessarily groundbreaking about any of the stories, they're all just nice things about cute girls, cutely engaging in the intimate acts of pleasuring each other for the first time. The only major stumbling block was actually in the three chapter ending story which was particularly hard to follow, especially with two characters who looked very similar. 
Aug 5, 2024
Koi wa Futago de Warikirenai
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This anime is confusing yet you cannot look away and you want to find out more about it, and I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing and I have a feeling I will not find out until it's completed. To put it into a real world context, this would be like if you came across a car accident between a soviet union lada painted with pro-american stickers, and a circus truck full of giraffes that's being pulled by an amazon hauler. None of it makes sense, yet you keep watching to figure out exactly where it's going to
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Apr 14, 2024
Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi
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This series leaves alot to be desired narratively but is stylistically a refreshing treat to the eyes. It will absolutely need a second season to make the narrative better.
While it's true that some of the romcom elements and tropes are a bit common, the setting of Hokkaido provides a certain level of uniqueness to them. It's also nice to see that despite the female MC being incredibly busty, we don't see an overuse of tropes playing onto this. Especially when it comes to bounce physics. It's a respectful (for an anime anyways) amount of chest related tropes. The greatest boon to this series is the incredibly ... 
Apr 1, 2019
If you're looking for a masterpiece of an anime, this ain't it.
If you're looking for an anime about cute mermaid girls doing cute things and can put aside the fact that physics will break in this and the mermaid aspect is nothing more than a reason to put tails on girls and have them float around, this is right up your alley. I'm not sure what happened with the earlier episodes but both the sound and animation was incredibly mediocre early on. Around episode 4 this series started to up the swimming cycles in animation and also added more SFX that makes you "feel" ... 
Nov 10, 2018
Harukana Receive
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Harukana Receive fits into a really weird storytelling narrative and manages to simultaneously tow two dichotomous lines.
Is this a story about beach volleyball that features girls in bikinis and all the obvious fanservice tropes and camera angles that come with it? Yes. Is this a story about people overcoming obstacles, both past, present and from within and external forces? Also yes. Outside of this the story is visually gorgeous, I particularly found myself falling in love with the over embellishment on the eyes and hair. About the only major elements where this story falls flat is sound and character. The beach volleyball sounds used ... 
Jan 4, 2018
Konbini Kareshi
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Konbini Kareshi feels more like a hostage situation than an anime. The initial action sucks you in and then spends the majority of the series teasing you until the last few episodes where things really start getting emotionally impactful and interesting. Leading to the final wrap up episode which left things... as nicely concluded as they could be with the main groups, but left alot of the secondary characters empty.
If you go into that understanding you're going to get sucked in and then held hostage for a really slow burn slow pace series... and left somewhat unfulfilled then it will be an enjoyable if ... |
