Aoharu x Kikanjuu

Aoharu x Kikanjuu is really a hit or miss anime, depending on the audience's preferences. Some viewers may find the whole plot not very interesting and annoying, although others may be captivated. The story follows main character Hotaru Tachibana, a girl with strong sense of justice. After a misleading turn of evens, Hotaru ends up joining Toy Gun Gun, a survial games team. From there, the anime goes downhill very quickly. The weakest point of the anime is defiantly its lack of plot. There really is no main goal to be achieved, and the TGC isn't even mentioned until practically halfway through the anime. The main issue of the anime is Hotaru's gender since TGG doesn't allow female members, which is very stupid. There are several ways that the anime defiantly could have been better, for example, by focusing more on the relationship and rivalry with Midori's team. We were barely introduced to their team and we had no background information on them until the last few episodes of the anime. The main saving grace of the anime for me was probablyy the characters. Toy Gun Gun definitely has one of the most diverse teams I have seen, and the interactions with them are hilarious. Yukimura is defiantly one of the most prominent characters in the anime, and he does a lot for the show. Each character has a unique motive (no matter how stupid or irrelevant, each protagonist still does have or obtain one throughout the series) and personality. The diverse characteristics of each protagonist make the interactions between them very interesting and humorous. The anime does a good job of blending in humor with action, even if it isn't the main focus of the show. The art was surprisingly good in my opinion, and made up for the lack of action and suspense during the fighting scenes. The anime was very clean, and the colors blended in nicely depending on the situation. The animation is nothing unique, or has no special features, but it is defiantly smooth in comparison to some action anime where the art is very choppy and poorly done. The music and sounds were also very promising, and did not disappoint unlike the lack of a plotline. For me, sound comprises of three main elements: Very good sound effects, voice acting, and soundtrack. When it comes to these scenarios I will say they hit these right on, especially with the sound effects. They really captured elements to add suspense and action to scenes even if it was previously nonexistent. The sound effects weren't overused either, but done just well enough so that it really enhanced the anime, and it made things exciting to watch. The voice actors were carefully selected, and I think each did an outstanding job portraying their own character. For overall enjoyment, I would say it is not bad, but not outstanding either. I found myself wanting to continue watching in order to see if there was any major character development throughout the season, and for some reason I was captivated by the interesting charisma of each individual character. Although very reluctant at first, I ended up getting into the anime, and I thought it was well done. However there are several flaws that could be fixed that could make the anime be around a 7 or 8. To conclude, I did enjoy the anime, as I got hyped to watch the next episodes, although I felt as if I could have watched another anime that would be more engaging instead.

This review will be short and have very little to no spoilers, but if there's any, you'll be warned ahead. If you haven't read the plot or watched the anime, here's a summary: (you can skip this) After moving, Tachibana Hotaru finds herself playing a new kind of survival games with Matsuoka Masamune and Yukimura Tooru. This anime follows her life as she matures, learns about life, her friends and begins to fall in love with the game. Story: 9 It's surprisingly unpleasant how we don't see more anime like this. It's funny, fast paced and straightforward, so if that's not your thing, I wouldn't recommend this. The makers did a great job skipping the unnecessary details whilst allowing you to watch the characters, especially the main evolve and grow. It definitely kept me always coming back for more, and now that this is over, I might want to check out the manga. So, job well done. Art: 9 They did a very good job at this, keeping it as similar to the manga as it could get. The fighting scenes and character designs were absolutely well done. You can't even tell that Hotaru is a girl which is a good thing because that keeps you on the same pace as the rest of the characters. Sounds: 8 Although the Opening and the Ending weren't the best in my opinion, I liked the BGM a lot, especially in the fighting scenes. Plus, they brought some great voice actors; I mean Mikako Komatsu is the best at playing both gendered trap characters. (google that if you don't know what it means.) Characters: 10 I have 0 complains. Amazing. Absolutely outstanding. You don't usually see such a great main female lead- no, it's almost impossible to find more than 3, and Tachibana was one of them. Not only does she mature quite a lot throughout the show but she shows everybody how bad-ass she is! I was very pleased with everything about her. Her bloodlust is amazing, and she's very strong. On point. The rest were all good to me. Matsuoka reminded me of Tamaki from OHSHC and Ichi reminded me of Nobume Imai from Gintama. Enjoyment: 8 Very enjoyable. It excited me when Hotaru and her team were fighting yet never bored me when they were doing other things. Because this is spoiler-free, you might wonder why I have given this an 8 score, but if you watch it, you'd know. Overall: 9- Great I would've given it an 8 if it wasn't for Hotaru really. She makes everything better. I hope there's a second season.

I'm not entirely sure why I watched this. This anime won't wow you, it won't impress you and it won't leave you feeling satisfied in the end. But, somehow, each week I was fine with sitting down and devoting however many minutes to watching it. To me, the biggest success of Aoharu x Kikanjuu is its ability to not drive people away from it even though it's mediocre as all get out. The story moves around too much. Are we seeing a romance? Is this a coming of age? Revenge story? A story about the trials of friendship? You don't really ever know the aim of the plot and you keep expecting it to lead somewhere only to have it pull in another direction. Carrots are put on sticks leading you to believe some revelations are coming only to have the carrot pulled away and get a revelation that was only minorly hinted at and doesn't really fall in line with what you'd been told to that point. Also, YOU CAN'T DUEL-WIELD THOSE SHOTGUNS! The characters are just so flat. They become archetypes of themselves almost immediately and only one of them ever really makes any strides towards growth. They're the sort of insipid people you want to scream at because almost all of them make poor decisions or fail to communicate with the others. The art was one of the better parts of the anime. Even if the character style wasn't the most beautiful thing ever, it was at least a nice thing to look at.

This show is superficial with one note characters that don't really deviate from their cookie-cutter model. I would say that this show is kind of like Ouran High School Host Club with survival games, but not really. That feeling is only there in the first two episodes and then quickly goes away because it's a show about survival games. Also, it's not as well-written as Ouran. With that said, I really did enjoy watching it. It's more of a candy show than anything. The art style is amazing and the fight scenes are exceptionally fluid. Sure, the storyline is nothing to shout about and the characters could have been written better, but the progression of the plot and the characters' interactions are interesting enough to not really care that there isn't much depth to this series.

You go into this anime expecting exciting paintball game/tournament action full of fights and action packed scenes but in truth it's a lie. Story: 4 Not much depth is related to the main character Tachibana and the main story is about a sub-character who is afraid of an enemy he keeps losing towards. The enemy is preserved as a douchebag but in reality there is no story whatsoever or scenes that relate to him being a bad person but in reality scenes that show his honest truth. In the end its al about a girl who is secretly shown as a man to her teem mates so that she could play with them in matches that are hardly shown. Overall it has a basic story without much support or depth that is trying to teach a lesson in never giving up. Art: 5 It is good and normal for today's generations but most of the scenes do not have enough detail or sequences to show a variety of storytelling modes. In general, it has a normal art with no depth. Sound: 3 Again the sound is normal with not much exiting soundtrack but soundly matches the visual effects. Character: 3 The characters have no unique appearance as they mostly nearly look the same with below normal character visual. All characters are skinny and look the same weight with no depth to how their skin differs. Enjoyment:3 I sit watching it with a plank face, no emotion is shown in 95% of the time as when there's exciting scenes that you get really exited about but they instantly turn it 360& to turn you completely off and make you angry. Overall: 4 As it revolves around many secrets it has not given answers to many of the questions an audience would ask. the story is below normal, art is average, sound is poor, characters are poor and the enjoyment is a turn off making it impossible to enjoy as all hope an audience wishes is sadly turned down. Would i recommend a friend to watch this? If the friend is in to gender bender girl dressed as a boy and wants to only see everyday life without any action or mystery being revealed then yes otherwise i'd never look at this again or give it the slightest recommendation whatsoever.

This is actually my all time favourite anime Biggest reason is the characters. The relationships between the characters are well thought out and meaningful, incredibly relatable in my opinion. Even the antagonists have their own meaningful backstories and justifications on their actions. The comedy is also really well done, the whole anime managed to make me sad and happy at the same time. As someone who likes airsoft, the anime does a good job at capturing the mood of an airsoft game, a lot of it is dramatized, but I don't mind because it adds action and excitement to the show. Overall, I love this anime/manga, after watching the anime I read through all chapters of the manga and it gets even better. I really wish for a second season.

I'm Japanese so I noticed but, uhhhh, I hate to break this to you all but the title of the anime is subbed wrong. It's actually called Seishunn X Kikanjuu, Say-Shun. Seishunn (青春）means adolescence. The direct/Khun Yomi pronunciation of seishunn (青春) is Ao Haru because ao--> 青 means blue and 春ー＞ means spring as in the season. BTW aoHaru don't make sense in Japanese and it's not a word. So the translators did a bad job subbing the title. Makes sense right? because Tachibana(the MC) is still like around 16~17 meaning She's still in her adolescent age. And throughout the story she is introduced with the survival games which involves machine guns and all that stuff, which directly connects to a part of the title of this anime which is "Kikanjuu" (machine gun). The plot was decent 8/10, characters were fine7/10, the cliffhanger in the end was disappointing but you're gonna get over it if you read the rest of it in the manga. Where at one point she reveals her secret. (trust me, it's the most satisfying thing ever) I typically fine anime that involves guns fun to watch so this one's in my good list. But I can't say that it's in one of my favorites list. At one point in the anime the MC showed some personality that doesn't belong to her. Like as if she has 2 personalities. But I guess thats what makes the anime a bit spicy.

I wanted to ride tommas the Train but that shit never happend just like The main character har raw skills (Irony) - hear me out ones isnt pure bloodlust for People who go in the streets murder People or is it just me? - Note : S&M manga artist's does not play fucking Softgun... And thats one fucking way to get inspiration for Your manga... Like WTF - Gotta have that yaoi (no more info needed) - Gotta have a fucker who breaks the rules and uses a rule for his own good ("Midori") he's also a fucking doctor, who Works With kids... You see a pathern here or is it just me? - Running With a minigun (Logic) - Toy Gun Gun is such a manly name - i could just of watched "yosuga no Sora" if i wanted it to turn into a romance -_- - If the gun is named toy gun is the bullet named toy bb or? - fucking Timmy finished art School for this one. - The guns actually sound like guns, and they one minigun would fucking kill you if you didnt get to say hit... it almost fucking shot a tree in half, like What The Fuck - The characters look like fucking psycos... As you can tell i really loved this anime for its bad scenes but it was hallarious as fuck.. almost shit my pants 7/10 -HappyAnimeGuy

Oh :( This anime, I really really really wanted to give it a high score, however, it was a let down. I gave it an overall score of 6 because of the art. The art was good, the characters look good...that's it :( The first two episodes were good, but when I got in the third, I was like "huh?, did I miss something?" The story was suddenly rushed, you get the feeling of having skipped an episode or two. As the episode progresses, you wish to know the characters better, you've got a lot of "Why's" going on your head, and hopes that maybe, just maybe, the succeeding episodes will answer even just a few of your "Why's". Unfortunately, those answers won't be coming to shut your screaming mind, instead, it'll just give you hint, clues, or rather, fill in the blanks, IN OTHER WORDS: IT'LL LEAVE YOU HANGING :( well, I got 12 episodes, maybe that's the reason why. I think reading the manga would be better than watching the anime, maybe the manga would give much more justice to this story. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. >>>> review done, back to work...

This anime is so hilarious! When the people out there are expecting generic action stories, this turned out to be more fun because of the humor element. I really like how the serious and tense atmosphere can be so funny because I imagined there'll be a plot twist in the end. I also like when the three of them are becoming more and more solid in every match (even though there's still an error sometimes). It's surprised me to think that the team just formed. Story (7/10) Like I said I love the comedy of this anime. It is also a good story when the SAVA Game changed the main character's life. I also find it's intersting and want to try and even wonder if I can get hooked like Tachibana. Art (6/10) I'm just going to be blunt, there's so many anime that has a better art than this. You won't find anything through the art. Character (7/10) I think I'm not the only one who mistaken Tachibana as a high school boy (well I didn't read the manga) Oh dear...Komatsu Mikako-san did a good job here. And the way Tachibana address herself as Tachibana is really cute. That ero-mangaka made me laugh so much. His character is way more intersting than the rest. I immediately think that he is 'S' when I first saw him. I find it funny when he called Matsuoka Masamune 'Mattsun', since his voice actor had a same name and nickname lol. Overall, this anime is enjoyable that you'll gonna laugh at the serious moment.

To start off, I am a bit lenient on this show because while it didn't manage to irritate me, it still says a massive fuck you you in the face. Now, if you're an anime apologist who can't critique things outside of a little box you've constructed for yourself, then please leave. Now for the rest of us, we all honestly can say this show suuuuuuucccckkkkkkks. The story is simple, Tachibana is mistaken as a guy and now she has to go through her survival games and 'drama' with the guy friends, Matsuoka and Yukimura as....a guy. That's it. It never trails off into anything original. We're never given any insight to a richer story or at least interesting history between the characters that would elaborate the simplicity of the premise into something far deeper than we'd expect. The artwork in the show is quite average and serviceable at best. Visuals never push your heart strings nor does it flood your eyes with spectacular animation that'll have you grasp onto your seat. It's no Fate Stay Night, that's for sure. Onto sound, you'll never notice it, maybe only when they fight but it won't make much of an impact to the scenes themselves. I'd have to say the opening was the only enjoyable music in the entire series. Characters in this show are as 1-2 dimensional as you can get. It fails horribly, horribly, and I'll explain why. Tachibana is the your typical and generic heroine who never actually takes the wheel of the series and steers it into Valhalla. And don't even get me started on Tachibana's blood lust BS in SURVIVAL GAMES, as if she was in ACTUAL WAR and about to kill some people. That shit is more whacked then when Goku gave Cell a senzu bean, and that made more sense and had substance. But Matsuoka has it worse, for someone whom supposedly had a dark past, it's not even impacting nor will you care. The development and reveals we see throughout the show is laughable. The very reason for Toy Gun Gun's 'no girls allowed' rule is a joke because when everything is told to us by Yukimura it's a huge disappointment and underwhelms the series to a blackening shallow void. Yukimura is the only decent character who has some bit of....nah, he's just a tad better than the other two. Before, I said Matsuoka was bad, OH no, I'm just barely getting started, the main antagonists of the series have no fucking purpose or any reason to be in the show. They are assholes, simply, for being assholes. Sure, we see bits of flashbacks of Matsuoka's relationship with Midori, but it doesn't tell us anything. There's no main conflict (please, don't even count the BS TGC moments because that's just BS drama), there's no reason to care at all for anything or anyone. We're given exposition here and there but never anything solid as to what's going on. Why does Matsuoka fear Midori? Show us so that we will care and it will strive us to wanting to see the next episode. Yet it never happens. The flashbacks of the two other Toy Gun Gun members who left basically tell us nothing but that the main cast was in the wrong. No higher cause, or gritty moments, it's just poorly executed melodrama. Even for all the BS moments in Aoharu x Machinegun, I can honestly say I did enjoy a few scenes in some of the episodes. However, that alone, won't redeem anything this show has done. My overall opinion of this show is it's completely below average, mediocre and it surprises me that so many people like this show, and I cannot see why. Don't bother wasting your time to watch this show, I watch these things so that you don't have to, have a good day.

Fun with guns! After several dark and depressing shows including guns this seemed like a breath of fresh air, as it is based around people playing survival games that means shooting each other with toy guns. The story tells us the tale of Hotaru Tachibana a girl with a serious sense for justice and possibly mild super-strength, who just happens to look like a boy. One day while trying to help out a friend she makes a complete mess in a club and as compensation has to join the club host’s survival game team. He thinks she is a boy as his team does not allow girls to participate and so she has to pretend to be a boy. Later on she finds out that he has some deep emotional scaring regarding another team and Hotaru is determined to make him get over it, by helping him win a tournament against that team. Well the premise seemed fun especially as in the beginning it really looked as the characters are taking this whole survival game thing way to serious. Later on the story really evolved but at the same time became much more boring and not nearly as fun as in the beginning. The more serious the show tries to be the lousier it gets, but when it tries to be funny it can make lough out loud. The biggest problem with the anime is the main character as she is really annoying and not interesting at all. As I had said before she has this extreme sense for justice and when she thinks some injustice is going on she gets this almost superpowers to try to stop the injustice from happening or to punish the ones that caused it. This makes her annoying as she freaks out over practically everything. The final nail in the coffin is that she has this obnoxious voice so that I felt the urge to punch her every time she opened her mouth. To balance her out the other characters are all a lot of fun, especially the third team member Tooru Yukimura who is this creepy adult manga artist, who is always being called a pervert. The ”villain” is interesting as he looks like this nice guy but when he enters the battlefield he becomes this extremely cruel sadist and he even has his henchman/admirer. The sound is adequate, but at no point was I actually impressed by the soundtrack. The opening was awesome but as a counterweight I really disliked the ending so all in all it evens out. The art is much better especially the action scenes which can easily be compared to the best in class. The background are detailed and the people are well designed and recognisable, which is great for keeping track of the characters. All in all Aoharu x Kikanjuu is an all-round pleasing anime but it is nothing to be really excited about so it deserves the rating of a high 6 out of 10. It started out very promising but the way they tried to make everything so serious made the show more of a chore to watch then not. Still it is not all bad and you might not regret checking it out. Check out my other reviews and feel free to leave some feedback so I can improve my future reviews.

Overall, I was left feeling unsatisfied. I finished watching the series thinking, "Huh, that's the end of the show?" They could've done much more with the series. Such as, extending the series since there is still a lot more story content. There are plot holes that leave some topics left slightly touched, but not delved into. It's these things that irk me the most. Although, this series talks a lot about airsoft, there was also a lot of emphasis on character relationships. I don't mind it since I do think that it adds on to why these characters act a certain way and why they're here. It definitely helps contribute to character development despite being boring sometimes. There was some character development with Matsuoka. It was kinda touching, but I'm kinda a softy towards anime dudes. Hotaru's sense of justice are usually her motives for doing things, which I don't particularly mind. Although, I wish she would speak up more. She gets interrupted wayyy too much, lol. But I think that comes with the gender bender part. I personally enjoyed most of the characters, at least. I liked Yukimura's attitude regarding Matsuoka. It was kind of fascinating to see how much he cared for him. Also, Yukimura's blushing face dominated any other character's blush face. The animation was not bad at all. A lot of hair movement swaying in the wind. I loved the little pupil eye scenes, when they get mad or something. It's kinda hot. I enjoyed the animation, it didn't bother me. Anyways, this show had more potential but I think that one should read the manga for a more fulfilling meal of this series.

Initially, I picked up Aoharu x Kikanjuu due to the interesting idea of a girl trying to pretend being a guy to play what is essentially paintball or otherwise known as 'survival games' in the anime. It seemed like it could potentially be interesting, but it did fall flat, due to various reasons which I will explain below. THERE ARE SPOILERS BELOW. THIS REVIEW IS NOT SPOILER FREE. There are minor spoilers for the first 3 episodes, so do not read the review if you haven't watched that far. The anime Aoharu x Kikaniuu can be a hit-or-miss. However, I do believe that the anime does get better in the latter half. Story: 3 The basic premises of Aoharu x Kikaniuu is that Hotaru Tachibana is forced to join team Toy GunGun to play survival games with Yukimura and Masamune after she (disguised as a 'he') wrecks the host club that the latter works at, after mistakenly believing that Tachibana's best friend was tricked to spend money. Tachibana is forced to join team Toy GunGun to pay off the massive debt she has acquired. While the idea seems relatively decent but yet, nothing novel, it held potential to be relatively good. The first problem I immediately came across, was the pacing. The pacing of Aoharu was very bad. For example, in episode 2, Tachibana is forced into playing her first survival game and she finds herself not liking it, only playing it so she can pay her debt off. However, in episode 3, there seems to be an invisible time skip of a sort and all of a sudden, Tachibana loves playing survival games. There was no explanation given for the sudden change in her heart; it just happened and it was jarring to watch. The second problem I had, was the nature of the 'survival games' in itself. These 'survival games' are basically paintball, minus the paint and the main objective of the games are to 'kill' off the other players on the other team or in some cases, capture the flag of the opposing team by pressing a button where the opposing team is set. The survival games are often compared to war, the only difference being that the players cannot actually die. I cannot count the number of times I was mentally screaming, 'it's not an actual war, it's just a game' in my head while watching the anime. In this version of paintball (minus the paint), one would expect tactics to be used and for there to be displays in teamwork. Although the anime attempts to emphasise the importance of teamwork, none of the tactics are actually shown and brief introductions of 'positions' players can take are given. Furthermore, when players are 'hit', they are meant to say 'hit' and leave the playing field on their own will. There are many ways that this system can be abused, and while this issue is briefly explored in episode 2 where the opposing team of Toy GunGun plays dirty and doesn't say 'hit' when they are shot, this shouldn't be an issue in the first place as this rule makes the game rather fundamentally flawed in my opinion. The third problem that I have with the story are the plot holes. Many things are left unresolved or brushed off as unimportant. Characters: 4 Aoharu x Kikanjuu revolves around 3 characters, namely, the 3 members of team Toy GunGun. The protagonist of Aoharu is Tachibana, a girl who for some reason, dresses as a boy in school and is often mistaken as a boy, which is a mistake team Toy GunGun also makes. She is a straight-forward character who has a strong sense of 'justice' (although, one may wonder where does this sense of justice actually come from) and she stands up for those who are unable to stand up for themselves or help those who are in need of help. She doesn't receive much character development in the anime and some may view her as annoying. The leader of the team is Masamune, a host who forces Tachibana to join his team. He does have a backstory to explain why he acts the way he does, as does Yukimura, the third member. Sound: 7 The opening and ending are fitting for the anime. The ost also fits the anime and it mostly, pleasant to listen to. Art: 6 The art is relatively decent, although nothing outstanding when compared to anime nowadays. All in all, I surprisingly enjoyed the anime (enjoyment: 7/10) and while the anime was jarring and the comedic moments can be a little over-the-top, it was relatively decent. There were many things in the anime that had questionable reasoning, but all in all, it was an average anime.

FIRST OFF: IF SOMEONE TOLD YOU TO WATCH THIS BECAUSE IT'S LIKE OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB, DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM! The show starts off okay. There’s a hot guy, a girl who dresses more or less like a guy, and a cute female friend that the main character is content with protecting. It’s all nice and dandy and the plot gets set up in a way that’s eerily like Ouran High School Host Club. However, by the second episode, the show already takes a downturn. Some behavior just doesn’t make sense, a game is dramaticized, the ‘being alone with three enemies during a game and they all have fake guns’ scenario is described as somehow ‘traumatizing’ (come guys, if you’ve ever played even lazer tag y’all know that it’s not scarring in any way, shape, or form). On top of this, characters stop in the middle of fights to have long conversations and the common cliche of trusting people for no reason is overused. And this is only by the second episode! The characters are also very inconsistent and sporadic. By the beginning of the first episode, all of the character development is skipped to make it easy for the writers to not slowly change characters and personalities. Without even showing anything, Hotaru is suddenly obsessed with survival games though we’d only seen her play one. In addition to this, she has a ‘flashback’ of her teammates congratulating her for her first shot when she already shot the redhead at the end of her first game, after which there was certainly no celebration. There’s also some weird fetishs going on that seem to distract from the ‘plot’ (whatever sorry ‘plot’ the writer was trying to make here), not to mention the fact that the main character acts like she’s really close with the other boys but still wants them to know she’s a girl, which doesn’t really seem to connect. Just a few minutes after these revelations, Yuki goes bipolar again, Hotaru is trying to hide her gender, and she claims she doesn’t know anything about guns though she just admitted she was obsessed with them. By the end of the third episode, the introduction of the newest character saved the show slightly, but the main character develops new and frankly annoying character traits where she decides that the others are being overpowering and dictators though she is, in truth, the untalented one who has been screwing up the game for them. At this point in the series, I could barely remember anyone’s names, the plot was drab and didn’t make me want to keep watching, and everything was way too overdramaticized. I understand others are comparing this to Ouran, but I would like to point out that at this point, they were nothing alike. To begin with, I saw someone mention that Tamaki’s dramatic obsession with his club and these characters obsession with the game is similar. However, I beg to differ. While they are both obsessions, Tamaki obsesses over the club because of the fact that he never had a proper family and these friends became so close to him that they were like another family. He never learned how to love someone who he wasn’t related to, so he needs to but some kind of labels on these relationships so that they can’t leave him. However, in Aoharu x Kikanjuu, instead of obsessing over it for a good reason, at this point, all the characters are simply just overreacting for no reason and depending on the game with a creepy need that honestly doesn’t make any sense to me. Perhaps I would understand it if I was a hardcore gamer or into a competitive team sport like in the series, but as a competitive figure skater and martial artist, I haven’t ever been faced with this environment where there’s a war-like environment and all the mental instability blatantly floating around. This is only exemplified when the story about the female teammate comes up. Hotaru acts like she never even knew about this detail and is totally surprised by it. She engages in a two minute story-telling saga on the field (that is highly dramaticized and makes no sense… would you be that traumatized over getting ‘killed’ in a game? What’s sadistic about that?) and the ‘killing’ in the watergun field is all too over the top for my taste. Literally this entire series feels like it was written by a five year old. A five year old that was too scared to write a death-heavy show and was a little perverted. So they just greatly dramaticized everything. The sizes of the characters also keep changing. The heights in relationship to eachother fluctuate rapidly, along with the side of some characters shoulders, hands, etc. I did enjoy episode 8, however, and the introduction of our antagonists greatly highered my rating for this show. There was a lot of fan service for people who enjoy angst and seeing our favorite characters in pain: so basically people who are a little sick and twisted like I am. There’s also a lot of “you have to conform to your gender” shit going on that I really don’t appreciate. In all honesty, I ship Hotaru and Kanai more than any other ship in the show. Midori is honestly my favorite character. Fujimon is pretty adorable. This could’ve easily just been a fetish show for people who like the whole dom-sub stuff or the sadist-maschoshit stuff. I appreciate the fact that Yuki mentioned that he overdramatcized some details; otherwise it would have been much too weird. The opening theme and closing themes are alright, however. All in all, this became a very unorganized rant and I apologize for that. I recommend this show if: you really like guns, you like perverted characters, you like sadistic characters, you like the whole dom-sub pain thing, you like survival games but can't stand to see any of your favorite characters die I would NOT recommend this if: you were expecting something like Ouran, if you wanted to see something original, if you expected something heartbreaking or heartfelt, if you want emotional drama, if you wanted romance, if you wanted pretty much any logical ships that weren't basically abusive

ok. Excuse me for my extreme bias but for some reason I really liked this anime. Its like Interhigh, but with guns. Story: 7 So, we have this main character who is a girl and looks like a dude who joins this survival team. Pretty average, ok. But like Tachibana is pretty hilarious and the idea that she's hiding everthing makes it above average. I cannot bring myself to give it a 5 because it was well knit into the whole theme of survival games, but I felt 10 was too high, therefore "why not settle with 7" Art: 10 OK. LIKE THE ART IS AMAZING. Even in the manga it is amazing. The characters are well designed, and the animations are not choppy (unlike some animes I know). And the art really brings out the power that Tachibana has stored in her body and soul. And definitely fits the story and seriousness of the plot. Sound: 5 To be honest, I do not remember any OST i have heard from this series, but the Opening and Ending were quite memorable , or they just stuck in your head. Also the character voices fit, Tachibana wasnt a squealing female character either and stuff. Character: 10 (biased) Tachibana is hilarious, Matsuoka is just like "here I'll undress you" and the audience is screaming somewhere out there. Yuki is cute and like that introverted reliable backstabbing character. (Irony I know). And as for the antagonists.... I mean unless you read the manga the antagonists are really mean, but there was one dude (sorry i dont remember names) in Midori's team (not midori) who was really funny. Most of the characters will end up making you laugh at some point. So why not a 10. Enjoyment: 10 It's hilarious, it mixes some idea of Ouran Host, and the art was amazing. All i would complain about is the OST, but sometimes OST aren't needed for somethings and do forgive me as I watched this anime long ago. The story is well knit into everything and there are close to no holes in the plot since everything is mostly explained if my memory serves me. Recommendation: Watch it and please enjoy, unless you find Tachibana to be stupid then... idk what to say.

The story can't be underestimated as you can see, but the maker chose the wrong turn that's probably because the manga itself ain't done. Art, sound and character were all too good to become lower than 7--especially art you would really appreciate it. The story has an idea but it's obviously wanting to have a love story which I have no intentions of declining it. Hahaha The problem is the content of the story wasn't grasp well. Hope they fix that in S2 So all in all It was cute and fluffy but when it comes to survival games genre a good plot twist would be best!! Anyway if you prefer anime that somehow relates with Ouran High~~~ you should watch this!! First ever review I made..

This is my first review I've done on an anime series. This was a very enjoyable series and I wasn't expecting it to have so much action in it. I love that the story focuses on a female protagonist, who despite not wanting her friends and others to find out her gender, she is a person who loves justice. There are a few funny moments in the series that help break the tension throughout the series and it has a lot of awesome battle moments. I wish the anime hadn't left plot gaps but I still loved both the anime and the manga series.

I really loved Aoharu x Kikanjuu, I think this was a really good anime and I enjoyed the storyline. Story: I liked the story overall I liked all the action scenes especially since they weren't that predictable since even though the MC could be OP it's not one of those animes where they win everything still, the MC still loses. I didn't really like how whenever there was a conflict between the team they would make up like 5 minutes later...Or that the MC wouldn't listen to their team at times and would do whatever they wanted. Art: I really liked the art, especially when the MC has a look of "bloodlust" I think that was really cool during those action scenes where they would go all out. I like that they put a lot of detail into their outfits and weapons as well, and didn't just do really simple outfits or something. I also like how at the end of the intro it shows a scope. Sound: I love the intro I don't think I ever skipped it. I can't really remember but I'm pretty sure they put a lot of sound into the action scenes, of course with the weapons, but footsteps and everything as well. Character: I think all the characters were pretty enjoyable, I like how the MC is actually a girl and can be tough, and the rest of the characters on the team say they won't allow girls on their team, but since they don't know that the MC is a girl they actually find them to be strong at some points and proves them wrong. I also like some of the characters have a split personality from when they're playing the game compared to their daily lives. Enjoyment: I enjoyed this anime, I think it was pretty good, besides a few minor things I think that all the action scenes made up for it, although I do kind of wish the action scenes were real not just some kind of game, it would be a lot more interesting then, but it's also interesting to see them climb to the top as well. Overall: Pretty much everything was fine, the only things I didn't like was that the MC sometimes didn't work with the team well and would go off on their own, and I wish that I could've seen what would've happened when the MC told the rest of her teammates that she was a girl, it just kept stalling the whole season and wasn't even mentioned in the last episode, which was kind of disappointing. Other than that, because I enjoyed it so much, I still think that it deserves a 10.

I stumbled upon Aoharu x Kikanjuu on complete accident when trying to figure out what to watch on Hulu. I hadn’t heard anything about it and the art caught my eye, so I decided to give it a try. Aoharu x Kikanjuu follows Hotaru Tachibana, a girl who gets mistaken for a boy almost continuously, as she ends up getting drawn into the world of survival games. What I enjoyed is that these aren’t your average survival games where their actual lives are on the line for some reason or another. These survival games are fought with airsoft guns. I thought it was innovative; it had all the action and suspense of an actual gun wielding anime without the numerous causalities. So, I thought this anime did well. It caught and maintained my interest throughout. It had its flaws of course, but I still enjoyed it. Story: 8/10 What I loved the most was the different twist on the “survival game.” Instead of actual death, it’s all an airsoft game. Of course, some people criticize that this anime depicts airsoft poorly (I do not know anything about airsoft), but of course anime over-exaggerates. All those sport anime don’t actually portray what those sports are like in real-life, but we still love the anime. I felt that way about this airsoft-survival world we were given. Another big aspect of this anime was the “gender bender,” which can get a little dull and ridiculous in my sole opinion, but this one handled it well. The main character, Tachibana, does not dress like a boy, yes she wears slacks, and has short hair, a long with a small chest, but she is not trying to be a boy. She just happens to prefer that style and everyone mistakes her for a boy. That’s a huge difference to me than normal gender benders. Also, with gender benders, it usually leads to awkward romance stories. This did not have that. This story focused on friendship, not romance. The story does feel very fast paced and even though it’s a survival game anime, you don’t get much of the games. This anime had 12 episodes and instead of giving you more of the airsoft games you have more character interactions and the general world of airsoft. I, for one, wish they had given just a bit more of the games because they were awesome. Characters: 7/10 There are only 12 episodes so character-development didn't really happen in this anime. It’s a shame, because I feel like they could have done a lot, but they didn’t fit it in. However, the characters themselves are interesting. You have a bunch of characters with twisted personalities, some more sinister and others more perverted. Either way I loved the sudden shifts in personalities, especially with main characters. The backstories for some characters were given in brief tidbits, but a lot was left unexplained. That’s one of my biggest problems with the anime. They give you bits of backstory that could be really interesting, but they skim over it or bury it like it doesn’t really matter. Again, only so much you can do with 12 episodes, but the lack of explanation really irked me. Art: 9/10 The art was gorgeous. Just awesome. The action scenes were so cool and I loved how they depicted airsoft war play. I wish they had more of it since it was so good. Overall: 8/10 Overall, this anime was fast-paced, but I enjoyed it and easily binge watched the season. It’s the type of anime that pulls you in, shows you something new, and entertains. I personally enjoyed it very much. It’s the type of anime I want to see get a second season, and if not, I’ll gladly go find the manga to see where the story goes from here.