Aoharu x Kikanjuu

in real life, your life cycle is, work~ rest~ a little entertainment in life~ work again, that little entertainment in life is like hanging out w/friends or playing some online games. Working days is not the same as college day where you can hang out with your friends every time school days is done, in working daily life, you only have limited off cause working is always priority, although this is my part of my review. story is relaxing to watch, most of anime now is more on school setting that is boring to watch, well on this anime there survival game and friendship trust every episode, although boys romance is amusing me every time i watch this anime. Explaining the survival game rules and playing tips is easy to catch. There is a bit mystery on this anime, were you can think "who is saying the real even its a lie" the art of main character is stand out on mob characters, meaning you can already see who is the main character if some random scene show on some episode. character voice is amusing. mikako komatsu - she have a title of trap queen, hotaru`s character is suit on him. ryouhei kimura - her role on "haganai or Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai " is same on this anime, a delinquent clown. character: -The background of character makes the story good, Where you can see a Hostman, eroge manga author, student council president, and some doctors and nurse playing on ` battlefield. -Sometimes story become interesting when a mc have some rare skill on her body and not know of enemy, the impact is been released on critical moments like in naruto nine tail fox and cardfight vanguard psyqualia, well on this anime is i cant see very well why they put that part, makes anime loose interest on other audience. -Every character have good flashback or background where you can easily understand why there is a conflict a problem has been made. -The few sentence i wrote on upper part of my review is connected on this part. enjoyment: After i finish all the episode, i can see the main character full nude or no more secret behind on them, mostly all there secret are reveal. Although its fun to re watch some scene like hotaru is talking on 3rd person, relation ship or fujimon x midori. If you like this: - a bit shounen-ai/ boys x boys relationship - trust of comrade - antagonist have a bright part ( where you can like the dark side even they are side characters only ) or i can say they attractive too. - sexy male cast ( include the jap. voice actor ) - A trap character well if you like all of those then you can enjoy watching this anime.

There is a very fine line when it comes to suspension of disbelief. This is especially so when it comes to shows that take place within the real world, or modern day Japan like this particular show takes place. If the suspension of disbelief is pushed too far, the story can become too overblown making the story difficult to take seriously. This can be seen in poorly executed melodramas. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if suspension of disbelief is not pushed at all, then the writer is at risk of boring the readers. Aoharu x Kikanju is one of those shows that pushes things too far. The basic premise of the show is quite refreshing when it comes to recent shows involving a high school student as a main protagonist. Instead of focusing on school life and clubs our main character, Hotaru Tachibana, finds herself forced into playing survival games after causing major damage to a host club where Hotaru’s now partner, Masamune Matsuoka, works. At first Hotaru is reluctant to take part but over time finds herself enjoying the thrill of the game just as much as Masamune. This in of itself is a fine setup. It is clichéd and cheesy but it is something but people can relate to and is an entertaining watch. After this point Aoharu x Kikanju takes a drastic turn as the main conflict of the show gets introduced. This plot line goes into explaining why Masamune’s survival game team, Toy Gun Gun, refuses to allow girls in. And this plot line is really out there. The character that is depicted as the main antagonist of the show is psychotic. I am not using hyperbole. He goes out to these survival game events not so much as to enjoy the game but rather to see how much pain and fear he can instill into his opponents. In a fantasy or a sci-fi setting I could see this working as the rules of the society are difficult to pinpoint. Aoharu x Kikanju, however, does have these rules and even more so than usual considering the horrific displays of mutilation occur within an organized event. There comes a point where our antagonist has Masamune pinned down on the ground and repeatedly shoots BB pellets into his abdomen while simultaneously stifling his screams of pain with his hand. Surely this is a major breach of ethics within the sport. Surely if Masamune brought this up the tournament organizers could not just brush this under the table. To the show’s credit, these scenes of insanity are the most interesting and best looking parts. However, it really just seems like a case of trying to make a show more than what it should have been. What starts off as a fun show about discovering something new and exciting turns into a show about betrayal and seeking revenge jam packed with existential crises about whether or not they should keep playing. If there was only one thing that I can really take out of this show it was that Hotaru, Masamune, and everyone else involved really take these survival games way too seriously. Having a strong competitive side is one thing. Boldly exclaiming that you are going to kill someone for what they did while playing a game with nothing but seriousness in tone is another.

This anime is just a normal twothousandish comedy action and tits type anime. It is a classic genre from this age. HOWEVER, for me it is a 10, because this is the first anime I EVER watched, knowing it was indeed, an anime (not like Dragon Ball or Doraemon). I remember being like 9 or 10 and watching this at my grandparent's house with my cousin, who showed it to me, crying of laugh and watching it on YouTube with each chapter fragmented into like 20 parts and on small corners of the screen. Who would have thought that this weird fun anime would led into one of my favorite hobbies, which I've been doing for a lot of years now. :'). I recommend it for a good laugh, the dub is funny, but this is a pice of history for me. Objectively solid 7.25.

Pizza Review! (I review and describe the anime with a pizza analogy) Aoharu is like a really poorly made pizza. It's under-cooked and wasn't handled with care. For some reason some parts of the pizza was cooked really fast while other parts weren't. It had pretty bland ingredients as well, nothing revolutionary or exotic about it at all. Tasting it made me cringe and I could instantly pin point some of its major flaws. Despite all of this though, I was never bored or disgusted by it to the point of wanting to not finish the pizza. Despite it being poorly made, despite it being handled lousily, despite it having bland ingredients it was still enjoyable. The chemistry they have together did make it fun and while it was trying to make this interesting taste and failed horribly, I was never at any point while eating this pizza not interested in it. It was able to trick me and make me want to try it all. Aoharu is literally a pizza that is hot garbage, objectively it's terrible. It's poorly made. But it was still a nice experience and was enjoyable for what it was. Give it a chance and you might enjoy it, it definitely ain't for everyone though. I do question myself afterwards as to why I actually enjoyed garbage and all I can say is it was a fun shitty pizza. Story - 6/10 Art - 7/10 Sound - 7/10 Character - 8/10 Enjoyment - 7/10 Overall - 6/10

Hey, welcome to my first review! I've liked so much this anime, in the beginning I thought that's a shounen-ai but Hotaru is a trap (yeah), my sister was VERY disappointed when she discovered >< But is a very insteresting anime, it deserves a 2nd season XD Well, if you like traps (sorry) with guns and pretty handsome guys with guns too, you'll like it. We also have Yuki, a pervet nerd using glasses, I liked him, but Mattsun is MY SENPAI!!!!!!!! To finish, I recommend so much this anime, enjoy :D I have no idea to how to continue this review, maybe that's the reason I don't make reviews yet.

I began watching this series because I'm always open to a fun gender-bender and this one looked especially good. The characters looked interesting. The main character, Tachibana Hotaru, especially caught my eye because she looked so cute and sporty. The premise also seemed promising since I don't know anything about survival games but I love learning about sports and combat. With all these interesting components lined up, it seemed it would be impossible for the anime to lose my interest. However, be warned, Aoharu x Kikanjuu is not the action/gender-bender/sports anime it promises to be. Knowing that the series only had 12 episodes, I expected a fast-paced action series about Hotaru's predicaments and the sport of survival games. It is in reality, a slow-moving, sappy drama about friendship with absolutely no central plot to propel the action forward. For that reason, the series stagnates around episode 7 and becomes unwatchable by the time it ends. Nothing is resolved. Even the most important aspects of the "plot" are left unresolved. The plot is mostly the premise. Our heroine Tachibana Hotaru becomes indebted to her neighbor and pays him back by joining his survival game team, Toy Gun Gun. Her two team members have no idea she is a girl. She becomes addicted to the sport and enters a tournament with her team. She goes up against the team's main rivals and this is the climax of the show which is actually very well-executed. There isn't really anything in the plot besides that. The show tries to throw in a few dark, dramatic turns later in the series, but none are of great consequence. Surprisingly, unlike most gender-benders, this anime had almost zero romance. I actually enjoyed the first half of the series, but the second half was one of the most puzzling and disappointing I have ever seen in an anime. The main character, Hotaru, is motivated by a sense of justice. I liked her character overall, but got annoyed by her black-and-white sense of morality. The other characters are interesting but nonetheless flat. The leader of the team, Matsuoka works as a host and the other, Yukimura, is an adult manga artist. Midori is the leader of an opposing team. He has a messy history with Matsuoka and Yukimura which is never clearly explained. I gave this anime three stars for the three positive things I found in the anime. The first one is the character Yukimura. He was the only bright spot in the anime. His character could have been rounded out more but overall, his character was original and charming. Some might find his character offensive and I totally get that, but he was refreshing. The second was learning about the survival game. I was excited for this anime because none other that I know of are about survival games. The first few episodes focus on techniques and strategy, and I found that very interesting. It made me want to get into the sport myself. Third, the climax where the team competes in the tournament is easily the best part of the show. If there was more of that, the show would have been rated much higher. After the tournament, the story dissolves in needless angst and drama.

At first this anime is marked as shounen so I'm gonna consider it as shounen no shoujo anime. Well then about story and sound I can't say anything good or bad. It was casual, nothing special, but also I don't think it was bad in some way. Story is... bad. Of course there is that TGC (teoretically not so popular topic) but it's a trick (just like time travel in "Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo" shoujo as well). They focus mostly on main character emotions and relations with hunk and hunk's friend so it's getting some mishmash with little of romance. About characters we have some mad chick who's acting boy, some hunk with dark past, retarded wierdo and really, really bad guy (is he bad?). His evilness is forced. They wanted tangle Midori and Matsuoka past and make some depth into the plot. When story doesn't tange by itself I think it's bad idea to force it. Enjoyment: IT'S SHOUJO anime. We have a girl and dark past hunk. She must lead him to the right path. I was suspicious from the beginning but at first I trusted MAL and later I decided to finish it just to close the story. Shortly I don't recommend it for men weak, forgetable story, dull characters and most important it's addressed to girls eventually to young women (or if I'm wrong it's addressed to anyone).

Just to keep it short and sweet everything was average...bearable, but average. If you prefer a watered down version of ouran koukou host club I highly recommend. This is my 2nd go around with this anime and I honestly don't know how I made it all the way through the 1st time. I haven't read the manga, but I can imagine that the manga might be a lot better because it will explore the relationships of the characters more. I did not have a favorite character this time around and the chances that I rewatch this anime again for a 3rd time are slim to none. That being said if your like me and have seen 600-700 plus anime and just want to browse other titles I would definitely recommend a quick look just to see if it catches your eye. Personally, If the anime completely removed the air-soft gun aspect and just focused on the relationships between the characters themselves this could've been amazing. That being said thats why I said the manga could be better even though I haven't read it. No disrespect to the people who put this anime together at all though just a hobby for me. If your significant other is more relaxed about minimum explicit scenes you could probably watch this with them. If your spouse isn't for a crossdressing mc or frequent (but minor) mentions of hentai then I would not watch with them. If myanimelist had .5's I would definitely rate this anime a 4.5 out of 10. Story: 4 Art: 5 Sound: 4 Characters: 5 Rewatch Value: 4

Tachibana Hotaru joins Team Toy Gun Gun, the BB gun (those air guns with plastic bullets) team of Matsuoka Masamune and Yukimura Tooru. From there, they participate in a team-oriented BB gun tournament. I thought it was a fresh concept, as this is the first anime I have seen that's about BB guns. I also liked it because I'm a fan of team-oriented battles, especially ones where the members must be eliminated. Content-wise, I felt the show was very much lacking. But I do hope that this show inspires more authors to make BB gun anime. In that sense, this show was a step in the right direction. I would recommend this show to people who like team-oriented battles and BB guns. To those who are looking for good and rich plots, unfortunately this show would be a bust. Also, Hotaru is a trap, or rather reverse trap. So fans of traps/reverse traps can check this show out too.

This is honestly such a beautiful and unexpectedly hilarious anime. I was dying laughing so many times, the characters, the chaos, the ridiculous situations, everything just hits perfectly. And because of that, I’m genuinely sad it ended the way it did :/ It felt like the story still had so much potential, so many unresolved emotions, and so many moments we could’ve gotten. I swear, I’m still hoping for another season because I NEED MORE DAMN XD The energy, the friendships, the tension, the comedy, it all deserves a proper continuation. It’s one of those shows that leaves you wanting more simply because the world and characters are too fun to let go of. If they ever announce a new season, I’m dropping everything and watching it immediately.

There are some parts of the story where characters say lines that make you wonder what kind of person the author is. The entire plot revolves around how Hotaru is actually a girl which I hope gives you an idea of what the characters say about her lol. Anyways disregarding the questionable ethics, it was entertaining and good to watch if you have a free weekend. The characters are charismatic and it's your typical rookie-goes-pro deal. Just whatever you do, do not read the manga. I watched this a while ago but when I did I liked it so much I decided to pick it up. Every issue just got 10x worse. I won't go into detail but there's some weird pet play shit and I immediately dropped. Anyways. Also disregarding that. It's basically fujobait. I know the original author does make joseimuke series so maybe this was an experimental that got popular. Just keep that in mind and don't be disappointed when it turns into romance.

[Overall enjoyment: 4] Listen. I really REALLY don't know how to go about this show. I initially watched the show weekly when it aired in 2015 but it gets harder and harder to keep up coz it just gets pretty boring and cliche to the point that I just thought 'why am I doing this again'. It's honestly a pain. I dropped it and finally picked it up 3 years later coz I just realized that 'wth there's only 3 episodes left so why not' so I tried to watch it again coz I wanna REMEMBER why I dropped it. And I guess I kinda found out why. Yea sure some stuff made me doki doki and the notion about friendship and their love for the survival game are cool but... the only word that came up to mind after finishing everything was: pointless. Which I think is a REALLY harsh word to describe the show but idk what else to say coz even the good stuff doesn't made me feel better about the show. [Sound: 7] I like Hotaru's voice-acting. The opening & credit scene were alright. But again, just like many other animes I've watched, I can't seem to be blown away by the OST or SFX. Nothing really stood out for the sound except for Hotaru's voice and (sometimes) Yukimura's cute voice. [Characters: 4] I have a REALLY mixed feeling about this part. I like the characters. But I think I like them because they're MEANT to be likened by someone like me: a young-adult bisexual fujoshi. And honestly IMO these characters might not only appeal bisexuals or fujoshi. Probably women, in general, will find it easy to fangirl to them so I'm REALLY surprised that MAL would tag this as shounen as opposed to shoujo. I mean, we have a cool female MC who disguised herself as a guy and have this dangerous alter ego that's actually useful for her team in the survival game; one ikemen who's sociable & cool & popular; one ikemen who's a bit weird, quiet, and sometimes interact with the other ikemen in a way that'll make woman squeal; one yandere ikemen who's (despite being an enemy) is taking an 'interest' in the MC; and said enemy's ikemen male teammate who's absolutely devoted to said enemy even after getting harsh responses. I mean... I really don't know what to say. It seems like I SHOULD like them but they came off pretty shallow to me as if their only purpose is to serve as material to fangirl to and it's pretty sad. I DO, however, like some of the moments where they kinda develop a bond and build trust... then there's also the drama, pushing the other away, getting rid of trauma, etc etc... my heart pounds most of the time because yea I dig that shit but I cringed SO hard at the same time because goddamit HELLO CAN YOU BE MORE PREDICTABLE! Idk, I completely lost it at this point, really. [Plot: 4] I don't learn much about the sport but I guess that's my own fault because I thought it's gonna be more sports-heavy but it seems like the softgun is only an excuse for the show to throw in some cool action scenes and have something else at stake. The main concept was pretty unique but idk, just like how the characters are predictable, the story is predictable too. [Animation & art: 7] At least I can't deny that the art is really pretty. The character designs, the overall visual, the art in OP & ED. The animation was... okay if not better than average BUT the animation during the fighting scene is so so. There's no problem with it but there's DEFINITELY nothing special or groundbreaking in it. So I can't give it more than 8. [Average: 5] rounded from 5.2