Audience reviews
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Beryl_
This is the distant cousin of Monogatari. Besides being made by the same studio and have many similar shots, it is also filled with tons of dialogue and monologues, in fact, that is pretty much the whole anime. The problem with this anime then is, a lot of said dialogue becomes repetitive, often leads to nowhere and can be very cringey too, maybe a product of its time.
It is not by all means bad, it is an enjoyable watch, most of the characters are likable, the animation is very good, the soundtrack is pleasant and it has is fun, cute and interesting moments. But it does not feel like there is a story at all, there is some character development in there, but everything stays pretty much the same. It is not boring, but it is not very engaging either. It is just a comfortable watch. It is…
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I hate Touwa Erio. Even though she’s not even the primary focus of the story despite literally being the title character and the entire OP being about her, being obviously the main girl like Sora in Yosuga no Sora’s adaptation… she has no development or real motive besides being disgusting and annoying. She is not charming whatsoever, and I can say with confidence I’ve never hated a character this much. She’s DISGUSTING and annoying. Imagine a baby flailing and whining and getting food all over itself, but for some reason that baby has to be sexy with feet scenes every few minutes. That’s Touwa Erio.
The art is good, the sound and OP is solid, but the actual plot, writing, and humor? Absolute repetitive slop with no real motive, and it sucks as a slow slide-of-life story too. Don’t waste…
Read at the sourceTheCreamMan
this show was ass
Alright, imagine you're trying to build the tallest tower ever with your blocks. But every time you try, the blocks fall down, and you have to start over. Absurdism is like that. It says life can be like trying to build that tower.
We keep trying to find meaning or make big things happen, but sometimes it feels like it's just not working out, and we don't really know why we're doing it. But instead of being sad or giving up, absurdism tells us we can just laugh, have fun, and enjoy the game of building, even if it doesn't stay up.
It's all about making the best of the game, even if the blocks keep falling down.
Read at the sourceOhsnapitsDavid
Denpa is a fun anime to watch. It's not bad and not great. If I were to rewatch it, I'd probably forget some characters exist because of how bland they could be.
That's not the case for the main girl Erio, her mom Meme, and Ryuuko. You can tell more care went into these characters. But anyway, this anime had really nice art and it just reads as something people enjoyed to make. It's a very calm story with some element of mystery. But like many have said, the mystery itself kinda goes nowhere. That's fine for me. I was more interested in seeing the daily lives of these characters anyway.
I have mixed feelings though, some art is nice, but sometimes you get some fan service shots. Either way, I loved the outro song and the general kawaii desu from this show.
8/10 would rewatch when I'm hav…
Read at the sourcehimepuddingsama
the story was pretty unique, and the comedy felt natural, it was a good blend of comedy along with confronting trauma and deep topics
the characters were silly and i love them all dearly ^-^
the art style is very pretty, and it suited my tastes perfectly
id watch this if your into goofy anime with that old feeling, but have developing characters.
its a good anime to watch in your free time and turn your brain off to
i have pretty low standards, but 10/10 for me
i watched the thanks giving episode on thanksgiving, i dont regret it at all
Read at the sourceanizawa89
Denpa Onna... how could be that such a breath-taking show is currently at 7.13 on MAL? It seems like it just gets better with age!
Animation: 10
It's SHAFT at the height of their powers, fresh off surrealist masterpieces like the entire SZS trilogy/OVAs and Bakemonogatari. If I am not mistaken this is also pre-Madoka. Head tilts galore!
Story: denpa/10
Makoto Niwa's your average country schmuck that gets relocated to the big city to live with his Aunt after his parents decided to move away or something, doesn't matter, the author just needed an excuse for this setup and this is it. When he gets there, he encounters the weird... the denpa... Erio Touwa! aka E.T. (yes, that was on purpose) a girl who believes she's an alien. And it all just goes uphill from there. This is a series that sta…
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What a beautifully wholesome story this is! I was worried that they might make this far too weird with the alien thing, but it was handled so very nicely. Makoto is a wonderful MC and I absolutely loved that Ryouko was put into daily life without a forced relationship. There is jealousy with Maekwan, but it was not overbearing and she handled it rationally rather than acting on emotions like you see in so many different places. It's so hard not to like every character here.
The kids were portrayed as kids their age. Makoto kept track of "adolescent points" to see how he changed or where he sat as part of an identity each day. It was able point that allowed the characters to connect to the watchers, particularly those are the same age. They were allowed to just be what they were supposed t…
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Is very rare i rate an anime as a 1, as most have something to bring them up to at least a 3, but this lacked a good story, or really any type of story. More SOL, series of events going nowhere. The art and sound were good, but to me they didn't matter when the story, characters, enjoyment, meant an overall waste of my time even looking at this anime.
It tries to link things into the supernatural even though there is nothing supernatural shown in the whole anime really. The idea the daughter I an alien, is quickly removed, and the simply sad truth that she went through something traumatic, and instead of her mother taking her to be counseled, etc, panders to her I'm an alien idea. Is sad the daughter, disappears for 6 months, and the mother doesn't seem to care or be able to handle such a…
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This series starts off with an interesting premise & potential in Episodes 1-4, but after that, largely diverges into pointless filler moments. It doesn't get back to more interesting plot elements until the followup special aka episode 13 and by that time the series has ended. The questions you really want answered like 'What did Erio forget?' or 'Who/What is Elliot?' are never addressed and the light novels are pretty bad at answering this as well. Beautifully designed and interesting enough characters in the series, but sadly their potential is wasted in go nowhere activities like Baseball and Basketball games that feel like pointless filler. It looked like the plot of 'K-Pax' or 'Fire In The Sky' with Moe Anime girls, but ended up being largely a wash in the 2nd and 3rd acts of the ser…
Read at the sourceKoinaru
This show is memorable mostly for its quirks and the cute girl in the futon.
I found myself simultaneously captivated by this story and its beautiful artwork as well as confused by what the story was exactly about.
In a sense, I felt a number of good points about this story were buried in deep philosophical riddles.
For instance, this show greatly points out that people with many quirks or one massive quirk, also known collectively as the "weirdos", may often be considered aliens or rather otherworldly. In other words, they don't fit in with society so people assume they are not of our world.
I, as a misfit who also believes I don't really belong in the world, connected with this portrayal on a personal level.
And I believe that a large portion of the online community (I'm talking to yo…
Read at the sourceThe_Namer
I'd been vaguely interested in this one for a while, but decided to buy it when I found out that it was based on LNs by the author of Adachi & Shimamura (probably my favourite anime of last year). Unfortunately, they couldn't be more different.
A&S is a low-key yuri romance, with its greatest strength being its well-rounded, convincing, and sympathetic main characters. Ground Control is a screwball harem comedy featuring a bunch of over-the-top weirdos, who are rarely more than the sum of their quirks, and who are all unconvincingly in love with a typical male protagonist cardboard cutout. Worse is the amount of redundancy between characters, with two or three having the same overlapping quirks, making them so similar that even characters in the story sometimes mistake them for each other…
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The anime is pretty interesting to be honest.
I guess mainly it comes to the MC, Niwa Makoto where his characteristic is very straight forward and able to make an action where it needed. I'm tired and sick of the generic beta Japanese main character that is so holding back and unable to do any shit by themselves. Of course Niwa Makoto himself have problem and doubts too but he solve it somehow within his reach and reflect it towards his actions. So you keep seeing the flow of the anime is created and pulled by the MC so its very easy to enjoy the anime. The heroines too are very cute and the aunt... I just want to ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) her so much.
The song, opening and ending is great too.
The opening is very catchy and reflecting to the characters in the anime so it's very relatable when watchin…
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PROPER MINDSET
It appears that SHAFT liked a lot what came out of Arakawa Under the Bridge (a show made by them just a year prior to this) and decided to make something similar. So once again we have a girl who claims to be an alien living under the same roof with a hapless idiot.
- Unfortunately, the setting is hardly as interesting as it was in Arakawa and its band of numerous weirdoes living under a bridge.
- Plus the lead male is not voiced by the one who did Sayonara Zetsubo’s teacher.
- Plus there is no contrast between rich and poor people to offer some sort of social commentary.
- Plus the whole alien thing is dropped almost immediately and then it just becomes a weird slice of life comedy.
PRODUCTION VALUES
I consider Arakawa to be quite tame for a SHAFT comedy but Denpa Onna wen…
Read at the sourceShainaSenpaii
I typically find my animes by finding cute characters online and searching vigurously where they're from. This anime caught my eye immediately. I continued to see the main character, Erio Touwa, on the web and googled intensively to see which anime she was in. After I finally found her I was so excited and started the anime up as soon as I could. The first few episodes were soo amazing and I couldn't stop myself from watching them one right after another. But, something happened. The episodes continued to get away from the plot and seemed to turn into fillers. I continued to watch regardless, hoping it would shake off and get back to this amazing plot. Nope.. Not until the very last episode it actually related back to the main story, and at that, left you confused and questioning "what?...…
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I'm still not really quite sure what to think of Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko.
On the one hand, you have a generally thoughtful and depth-seeking piece that tries to provide meaning to one's adolescent life through alien and superpower metaphors.
On the other, you have a not particularly interesting, if weird, harem anime comprised of 1 guy, 3 girls + 1 annoying perverse aunt.
The thing with Denpa Onna is that it managed to keep my interest, but provided nearly no fun. It had a lot of attitude and style to its characters, but I didn't really like any of them much. It is, overall, an interesting experience, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
It's a complex thing.
Well there are some aspects of it that are plainly good or bad:
-The general art style, voice acting, and execution effo…
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First, let me clear up a few misconceptions I had about this anime before I watched it:
You see on the cover how Erio is flying through the air and there's a UFO in the corner,
well, let me clear that up, there are no UFO's in this anime and Erio can't fly or has any powers what-so-ever. I have no idea where the writers came up with the title for this anime.
Story 3/10
It's difficult for me to talk about this anime's story since so little seemed to happen in this anime. I understand that this is a slice-of-life anime, but typically in slice-of-life anime there's more character development or drama or something.
I'm not sure you can even call this a comedy since there were so few jokes and I didn't laugh at the few there were.
Furthermore, there all these plot points that were never r…
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Story: So the story pretty much starts out with Niwa who ends up moving in with Meme and his cousin he didn't know about Erio who basically believes in aliens apparently (sorry for a spoiler here my bad) she i guess lost her memory because she rode a bike and it went right into the river she i guess got amnesia form it and doesn't remember most of 6 or a year go she also thinks that aliens took her memory away from her because of it so Niwa tries to get her out more and also out of the alien faze as well.
Art: art is really good like really good for sure nothing wrong about it at all
Sound: the OP is decent at best but not the greatest while the ED i didn't think was good at first got onto me and i like it now otherwise all the characters sound really good as well.
Character: Makoto is…
Read at the sourceZaku88
Denpa Onna is an interesting watch. It starts off as an intriguing sci-fi about a mysterious self-proclaimed alien girl, and then switches gear to a slice-of-life harem surrounding other "denpa" girls.
The first arc of Denpa is great and you should watch it given the chance. The combination of Erio/futon cuteness and denpa-speak creates for some really interesting character development and palatable comedy. The rest of it was average for me, read on to hear why.
Animation:
Denpa has absolutely stunning animation. The series has a lot of very serene, detailed backgrounds and scenery and some pretty cool effects. There's mysterious shiny particles that occasionally come out of girls' hairs (alien? dandruff isn't shiny...). Character designs are mixed as Erio and her aunt look great but the…
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"Why are you chasing me!!"
"Because you're running away!"
"I'm not running away, I'm on a journey to find my true self!"
I'd like to view ET: the moe version as an experiment in storytelling.
However, there is not much of a story to speak of.
Guy meets girls and his life changes.
Ok, so what is done differently this time around? 1. Characters
There's the eccentric 40 year old mum who is seemingly happy and carefree. In reality though, she has no idea how to approach her daughter who seems to have some loose screws in her head and is unable to tie her shoe or cut a paper straight. How on earth is this girl so beautiful when even the basics of hygiene are unknown to her?
In comes the young boy from the title to take care of his eccentric cousin. I don't know if teenage boys would wipe…
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My second masterpiece rating.
Why? Well I'm not usually into a slice of life anime, I cant watch them but my favorites are all action and thrillers.
The pace was random I suppose but all perfectly fitting to the end.
The art and characters are beautiful, the story has a lot of comedy, whats not to like?
But my very favorite is how deceptive the slow and oh so regular slice of life pace was, and completely whirled the story around last minute. Astounding plot twist, loved it! The anime left me stunned and impressed. Taught me not to underestimate the slice of life genre after all.
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