Haiyore! Nyaruko-san

Lost potential, thy name is Nyaruko-san A little disclaimer to start: this review will cover both seasons of the Nyaruko-san anime TV series because they are both similar enough to warrant it. On paper, Nyaruko-san has a lot going for it. It’s got a comedy-harem set up, the girls are all human manifestations of lovecraftian horror monsters, but some girls have the hots more for each other than out lead guy, which is a plus (hey, I’m a simple guy, girl-love is always going to score a few extra points with me). This show should have been a cash cow like Monster Musume before that was even a thing. But this show comes up short on its payload at nearly every turn .So, where (and why) did this show miss the mark? First off, a bit of history. While the true-blue anime series didn’t see the light of day until 2012, this IP began as a light novel series entitled “Haiyore! Nyaruko-san” in October of 2009 and got its “anime” debut as a series of five to ten minute flash shorts from 2010 to 2011, and these shorts are admittedly pretty damn hilarious; I highly recommend you check them out. But what about the main course? Ehh. . . . The show kicks off with our eponymous silver-haired heroine being introduced by saving the main guy, Mahiro, from some demonic entity and we just kind of go from there with no real explanation of what where when or why; it’s just all there for the sake of being there because, well, we’re marketing this as a character driven show to sell a shit-ton of figurines and other merch for the otakus so who cares about idle details like compelling narrative, or any narrative for that matter. And that is your first insight into how this anime will go on to conduct itself: just doing so for the sake of doing so. “Forced” does not even begin to describe this show or its humor. So many of the jokes center around just random stuff: like the shoehorned super mega video game console that has too many features and fails or the fact that Mahiro’s main weapons are forks for no discernible reason. As for the plot, there isn’t one, this show is almost completely an episodic affair. “Oh that’s fine, it worked for Space Dandy, right?” you might say. Well, Space Dandy had some great episodes, some good episodes, some mediocre ones, and a few outright stinkers. It basically just pinballed all over the place. Nyaruko-san? Well, it just flatlines it all the way through. At no point does this show ever get any more interesting or funnier than in its first five minutes. Not only that, but they use up all their jokes in the first half of the first season! We’re six episodes deep into a twenty-four episode run, people, and we just blew our load in the first quarter!? The jokes are just too fast and too out of left field to work for twenty plus minutes, and then it hit me: Nyaruko-san wasn’t bad in spite of its run time, it was bad because of it. With the five minute long episodes, the showrunners would craft a single joke around an entire episode and it wouldn’t feel forced or too drawn out because it would just hit and roll off so well. Set-up, build up, punchline, laugh, credits roll, watch the next one. It’s a formula that works well for online shorts but falls flat on its face when drug out for nearly half an hour. The OP and ED are both above average to good for both seasons, but the show really shines in art style and character design. The show is definitely distinctive; you’re not going to mistake it for anything else coming down the pipe during the same time period, but all of this isn’t enough to save the show as a whole. And don’t get me wrong, there’s potential here, I see it; Fuck yeah, I see it, but it is just poorly executed. Even still, droves of people seem to enjoy both seasons of this anime, and I’m not the type of person to tell them they’re wrong, but this show just isn’t for everybody; go watch the shorts instead if you had to make a choice.

"Nyaruko: Crawling With Love!" is a comedy ecchi about a boy named Mahiro who gets attacked by aliens wanting to sell him as a slave. He is saved by a silver-haired girl named Nyaruko of the Space Defense Agency. Unfortunately Mahiro is an ungrateful whinny b*tch who doesn't appreciate Nyaruko's love/lust for him. And is always pushing her away. Ironically Nyaruko is lusted after by a different pink-haired alien girl named Kuuko. A childhood friend who wants to make babies with her. Nyaruko rejects Kuuko the same way Mahiro rejects her. The interactions between Nyaruko and Kuuko is the best. Extremely entertaining. Nyaruko is a Nyarlotephian, and Kuuko is a Cthuko. The two races are meant to be enemies. And no comedy ecchi harem would be complete without a trap. The blond-haired Hasuta who looks like a girl. And is a childhood friend of Nyaruko and Kuuko. And has a crush on Mahiro. The anime is full of references to other franchises; Pokémon, One Piece, Full Metal Alchemist, Back To The Future, etc Its pretty funny. The MC Mahiro is the biggest flaw.

I want to like this. I do. Unfortunately, there is just too much nonsense for that to be possible. There are too many repetitious scenes and behaviors that just get under my skin. They don't even try to hide the fact that that's what they're doing and it makes some of the episodes drag badly. The show can get serious and do serious things and do it well, as in episode 12, but there's not enough substance to carry an episode. There is just too much crap. I won't be watching the second season, though I'm sure that there is hope for it once the finale gets going. I'm going to slap a mixed feelings on this because it might be somebody's cup of tea, though I personally would not advocated if somebody asked for a referral.

First I gonna say this anime is actually in the category of Harem, Ecchi. But somehow in MAL only comedy, sci-fi and parody are written (lol). I will briefly describe the conditions in the anime world. In this world and some of the characters here are based on references from the work of a writer named P.H Lovecraft who makes fiction, horror and sci-fi stories. Even though it's based on a writer of the genre, it's not horror at all. According to the genre, comedy and as I mentioned harem. And in the world of anime, the most sought after thing is entertainment. And earth is a place where the most tantalizing entertainment in the universe, even though only aliens know and humans do not know (because they never interact). That's more or less the story. Actually, you don't have to worry about that, because this anime focuses on comedy and fan service ecchi only, not tension in the story (lol). In terms of comedy, it's actually not that good, it's just that I like it when I see easter eggs or other anime parodies here because there are so many and often come out. The ecchi is not like the usual ecchi which is usually called "lucky sukebe". Because Heroin is very interested in the male MC here so he will openly tease the man with all his silly behavior. p.s this anime have yuri scene here. This anime isn't too bad, if you like parody anime like me. I don't think it's a bad idea if you want to watch it.

Sadly another anime, another show that just isn't for me. I mainly select most of my animes to watch of top lists, ratings on anime sites, and try to look for something at least that will keep me interested, this pretty much failed in it. I know there are people out there who love the type of comedy it offers, but to me, the show was a bag of trash layered with a steaming pile of dog shit. The show pretty much seems to float around protecting our MC as option 2, and the path to the lewd otaku as the main part of two as is it is limited how much if at all aliens can take of it from the earth. It is almost as if this is how they predict normal human behavior. If you're in tropey jokes of pokemon etc, your typical tsundere male uninterested in women, etc, your fine or jokes about food from alien territories. Fine. Me I just got annoyed how repetitive the jokes were, after being bad jokes and situations in the first place. Supposed NYaruko is sent to protect our MC, but as the story goes on, being around him seems to draw more and more problems from various aliens whether they come in peace or as enemies. As much as it pushes as a harem, its OTT mocking of how much harem members love an MC just was too OTT and the constant level of throwing themselves at each other made it feel like trash, as our MC rejects all. The idea of the story was fine but badly rolled out. The action was fine if you like OP/d MCs, I can't say I do. When you got multiple ones of them too, just makes battles predictable and the show a bit boring. The variety of monster types in the art are fine even if the art isn't the best always. Sound fine, but to me, the enjoyment and overall were trash as the way the story was carried out. I know some people love when an anime mocks the genre like this, or what i hope it is trying. But it wasn't for me.

this anime is terrible but the idea is pretty funny so oh well what can you do anyway time to write a kind of review to pad the length. theres a guy who exists and then a fucking lovecraftian deity appears but its an anime girl because fuck you, then they go to lovecraft land or something because fuck you. then it becomes a slice of life featuring lovecraftian deities because fuck you. theres demons or some shit which fucking nyarlethotep punches in the face because fuck you. also all of the lovecraft characters are attracted to the protagonist because fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.

This is a review for the first season of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. I haven't seen the OVAs or the other season. Yet. Haiyore! Nyaruko-san isn't an easy show to review for me, because it's almost like two shows in one. Not that the characters change or the basic premise changes or anything, but the quality is not consistent throughout the season. I actually dropped the show after watching episode 1, because I didn't find the humor particularly funny and it felt like it was all over the place, mood wise. Then one day I came across it again and decided to try for episode 2 and ended up binging the rest of the show in one sitting. From episode 2-7 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san is actually pretty hilarious. The main character, Mahiro Yasaka, is your standard boring ass normie high school boy with zero personality who, for reasons unknown, is the love interest of a crazy Lovecraftian deity out of the Cthulhu mythos (Nyaruko, for whom the show is named), personified as a cute anime girl. Her love for Mahiro is obsessive and borderline obnoxious, but in the above mentioned episodes (2-7) the show manages to maintain a fine line where it stays funny. Other than Nyaruko there's a bunch of wacky side characters who contribute to the entourage/harem around Mahiro. I thoroughly enjoyed these episodes. The jokes make fun of standard anime tropes and various tropes from the world of dating games and manga, and if you're familiar with the clichés, you'll laugh at the way they are treated here. There's not a huge amount of story and the world is never explained in detail. It's a character-driven gag show and relies on jokes based on the individual quirks of the characters more than out right slap stick, though there's some of that as well. Sadly something weird happens around episode 8. The pace of the show changes. New characters are introduced and the humor changes. This is most extreme for Nyaruko, who was borderline obnoxious but now becomes over the top obnoxious to the point where she's straight up annoying. I don't know if they ran out of ideas or what, but she stops being funny around episode 8. She seems to lose quite a lot of her intelligence as well. Instead of being a "malign deity" who uses her devilish wiles to (unsuccessfully) chase the affections of the main character, she ends up a braindead lovesick fool in the last 4 episodes. The other characters who played a more prominent role in the first 7-8 episodes are relegated to the background and the show begins to focus more on Mahiro. This is a mistake, because Mahiro is hands down the most boring character in the show. He's the straight guy to the craziness of the rest of the character gallery. He thinks boring thoughts and says boring things. We don't care about him because he is not funny and this is a comedy show. So why the developers thought we needed more of Mahiro and less of the rest of the characters, is a mystery. But it almost feels like episodes 1-7 were made by a different team of writers and directors than episodes 8-12. Those last 4 episodes are hard to watch. It's a very significant and noticeable difference. Like they just ran out of steam and forgot what made it fun. So I'll give it 6/10. Episodes 2-7 are easily an 8/10, but the first episode and last 4 episodes drag it down to a 6 for me. The opening song is great though!

First off let me that since this is partly a parody anime you'll lose a lot the enjoyment if you have no idea what anime they are referencing (although they use some pretty popular ones so most anime fans should be fine). Story: The story for this show is mediocre at best and completely nonsensical but that is part of the fun. The plot is not deep and even when the show seems to be getting serious it is just setting itself up for more gags. But it does have at least a few serious moments especially between Mahiro and Nyaruko. Characters: This is the driving force of this series. The plot is just an excuse to get the characters in situations but it is what the characters do within these situations that make the show fun. You never really know if they are going to parody another show, do their own thing, or actually act serious for a bit. Sound: Personally I loved the opening song. But besides that some of the in show music (like whenever the world shifts red) are fairly good although not really anything original. Overall: This show is not serious but it was not meant to be. Personally I had a lot of fun watching it and I'm sad that it has ended.

Okay everything for this anime is great except the characters and their development and a bit of the story. So to begin I'll review this not as a competitor for top series but as a review of the anime itself. Some people may say that this series is somewhat "milking" the consumers but in all honesty to me its just people looking at things from a narrow perspective if that is all one has to say. The anime does not do sins on shoving up fanservice to make big bucks but instead parodies it, if you actually know how to critique anime then you'd realize that fanservice usually is given in a seriously comedic tone. Instead of small accident types or inserts here and there, fanservice was placed in times where it could be made of and the fact that it should not have happened or other times forced is emphasized for comedic effect. Another sin that this anime does not do is to make it generic, instead you find a lot of scenes where the characters literally parody famous scenes or lines from more famous anime. Moreover generic plotlines are made fun of, the characters act in a comedic way, battles for example are prolonged or forced to go through stupid long sequences for the characters to make it shounen. But this was deliberate by the characters because of their desire to make it that way, of course we have a straight man (the MC) who calls them out in a boke manner for comedic effect. If you haven't caught on this is a boke themed comedy, making it all serious is basically just showing how narrow your thinking on media is. To be fair I get it that your taste may not match with this anime but at least know what your getting into before watching it and criticizing the series. The series didn't market itself as some top grade, serious shounen with tear jerking romance and drama between an human and alien. It literally markets itself as a comedic show about how a human is shoved into a crazy life surrounded by aliens, moreover the fanservice is not even on the level of To Love Ru where nudity occurs ever scene for comedy, the fanservice scenes in this anime is timed and well executed and not done by pure lucky pervert. Now onto the sins of the story which are mainly - forced character development and plot. So okay, as great as the series is, I haven't read the LN and only watched and reawatched the anime tons of times but I quite frankly dislike the overarching plot of making the MC accept FL. This may become less objective at this point but I'll try my best, so for the character development, most series that did this kind of story great would make the main theme be the comedy. This series did that but kind of overdid things when they headed for the slow development of feelings. The problem was not the goal but the method, here the problem lies in the MC. His base character was great but then in many parts of the story he failed in making great comedic lines because drama or relationship developments had to be made. This happens for most of the latter half of the anime, comedic plot lines are lost because of forced drama which were not properly timed thus the intended drama looked cringe at best crappy at worst. The atmosphere- basically the whole scene was just turned from a comedy fest to this weird minute of serious drama which at times is nicely wrapped up by a final meme comedic twist which worked out 70% of the time but in some it just didn't work out. It may be hard to understand but you'll feel it when you get to the latter half of the anime. The other sin of character development was kinda tackled already but to simplify it the main issue is basically the MC. His whole character is messy to say the least. All other characters had a great foundation and since this is a boke-comedy themed anime slow or almost zero character development is expected. But the MC is weak point in this as nothing would want you to continue watching with an MC who's just the straight man of the group which is bad because most of the time straight men are- well- side characters. The character development of the MC is a great way to keep people watching but the drama based development was just- well BAD. ESPECIALLY THE LAST TWO EPISODES - that should still be good. Anyway, the series is great overall, which is telling because some series would become dumpster fire with an MC like this series has but the comedy the other characters bring with just makes the series enjoyable save for small bits where the MC is the focus.