A Rare Authentic Sex Comedy
Stop me if you've heard this one before, anime fans. A nerdy guy is a giant pervert, and goes to a school filled with voluptuous young ladies. His eventual goal is to get in close with them and score, but he ends up falling for the childhood friend/nerdy one/headstrong one. It's a formula that's been used time and time again, and for some reason, a lot of people seem to not get sick of it one bit. To put it lightly, I am not one of those people. But by taking the formula and replacing that guy with a cute girl, and adding in an extra bit of teen pathos, "B Gata H Kei" rises above the rest to a series that's hard not to recommend.
Yamada is perhaps more perverted than even the boys in her school. Her life goal is to bed 100 guys before graduating high school, and with a whole wave of them wanting to get with her, one would figure that it wouldn't be that hard. But one would be mistaken, because the poor girl is clueless when it comes to seducing men, on account of the fact...
Not bad
This is actually a pretty funny anime with a sexy, naughty side to it. The story revolves around a 15 year old high school student and her quest to achieve sexual relations with 100 different people. However, her insecurities as a virgin, causes her to reject everyones who's asked her out and to search for someone, who's also a virgin, to bestow her first time to. The story revolves around Yamada and her quest to seduce Kosuda while along the way also finding her true love. This is the basic premise for this 12 episodes series. What makes this series funny, to me, are the inner feelings of Yamada and some of her friends. There's a lot of fan service but with no real nudity until the last episode which has two scenes, one in the first half and one in the second. I watched all episodes in Japanese with English subs but did try the English dub for about 10 minutes. They weren't bad but I just found the Japanese ones to be funnier. There were a scene or two that I had trouble reading the...
Great series, great production, except....
I can't add to any of the 5-star reviews in this thread. They pretty much say it all, and for all the right reasons. This a really fun anime to watch.
My only con is the subtitles. One of the other favorable reviews noted that sometimes the subtitles were difficult to see because they were white on a light colored background. The reviewer found them legible otherwise.
Unfortunately, I had to struggle with the "otherwise" scenes too. The font size was too small, the outlines too thin, and the color completely wrong for many of the backgrounds.
I'm one of those eccentrics who likes to watch these anime programs in Japanese with English subtitles. I just enjoy Japanese voice acting more than English dubbing. For this reason I've seen many anime with Japanese audio and subtitle tracks selected. To my eyes, the best combination of properties for subtitles has been:
font size: at least 12pts, as viewed on a 40-inch LCD TV from a distance...
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