Audience reviews
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Svamper
And be it so, my tears run past the feet of this fruit. In thy name thou speak to me like the fields of thy making. Hark, thy words plaster on the walls bespoken by the heart, and oh great light-brought rejuvenation does this hypnosis beckon. In thy great mind how could one be lost when at thy mercy? Merciful thou art, aye. For thou stretch through malfeasance to offer me indefinite definition. Not but the fruit of thy seed. And fester not in thy lone wiles if thou wouldst lend thy hand to tend the soil of my tepid deportment. It is with thee that I make this treatise thus. Wouldst thou empty into my presence? Dost thou sear me? I can only say that I shall be the slain quarry strewn on thy back. If only for a moment thou hath brought thy will, I must rejoice, that I will ripen.
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I saw this anime for the first time when I was 9 years old, clearly it wasn't the best... but it marked me very deeply. Let's just say that my personality mimicked one of the main characters. I think this is one of the best yuri anime ever created, because it has a gripping story, authentic, with touches of mystery and real love. not those where you think “at what point did they fall in love?”. I love that the plot develops the experiences of several characters, that it doesn't focus only on two main characters. I know that if I analyze this anime with my adult perception, there will be many things that are very wrong, but I have decided to keep the sweet memory of the first time I saw it.
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A lot higher energy and more varied than one would expect; what looks like a kind of bland fanservicey seasonal-yuri of another era is in fact a disjointed, rich, highly individual piece that often feels like three different shows stitched together. It's never exactly substantial, and its characters are neither consistent nor complex, but there's never a wasted moment, the cast is consistently charming, the drama is high and the show is shocking frank and yet not leering in the way it represents sex. Ultimately works as a kind of cocktail of every yuri trope which yet existed in the genre's early-aughts infancy, composed in a spirit of fun in which it's constantly asking the audience to share.
I think Tamao should've been allowed to kill someone after that ending, though.
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I cannot stress enough how bad this anime is - it took me months to get through it, watching just a few minutes at a time (all I could ever stomach) then stopping to do something, anything, else. I told myself (and my mild OCD) again and again that I would eventually finish it this way, and that I would never have to watch it a second time.
Let's start with the biggest problem this anime has: the characters. Namely that it doesn't have any characters. Instead it has numerous cardboard cutouts walking around that occasionally behave as though they were mindless, arrogant, manipulative and/or abusive human beings. If someone had claimed these 'characters' were taken from the work of a first time fan-fiction author, I wouldn't disbelieve them for a second.
The second biggest problem this an…
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The people not recommending this are crazy! Just give it a shot. The story is written in a way that it builds up tension, so at the end it's very satisfying. There's multiple relationships to follow in this anime as well, so it makes it more interesting. Their own plots and side-stories make this anime really worth watching. It makes you want to binge watch it to see what's going to happen next. There's a good mix of masculine energy and feminine energy happening within the characters. There's enough drama in it, and it's not overwhelming.
The art is also really well done and doesn't use any cheesy looking 3D art.
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Hearken unto me, my dear brothers and sisters,
I am a prolific anime historian; I scour the bottomless pits of anime hell so that you don't have to. I ponder over the shadowy pages of the otaku necronomicon and bear the burden of wisdom that comes with it in order to protect my fellow weebs from ever having to do so themselves. As the selfless individual I am, I will always bear this metaphorical cross for you.
Recently, in my research, I have made an unexpected discovery: The worst yuri anime adaptation ever conceived.
As I poured over the noxious wasteland of foul and tasteless anime, I came upon a classic girls love series from Spring 2006 titled 'Strawberry Panic.' It was a treacherous path that I walked in order to uncover this cryptic knowledge from a long-forgotten age. After 10…
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There are not very many yuri anime out there. Among them, not many sink its teeth into character-driven plots or relationships with drama that is more than mere 'misunderstandings.' What Strawberry Panic attempts to portray are various views of first-love in the setting of Astraea Hill. Love at first sight. Love for someone admired by all. Unrequited love. The loss of love. And, learning to love. Along with the joys, sorrow, anguish, and bliss that comes with it.
An ambitious undertaking for sure. However, one that, even with 24 episodes, was not executed well. The pacing often either stagnates or jumps around; while the overall story can be followed despite this, what the characters experience feels off. Something intense happens one moment, then whiplashes to another mood the next. Two…
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This Anime has left me in shambles.
Watching this show I went through all the feels from going "awwwww" out loud in my room during the first episodes, laughing at the girls antics, cheering for their successes and suffering with their harships. All while tearing up from either happieness or sadness during almost every Episode.
This Animes Storyline in my book is one of the best ever written and throughout the show I always found elements that have been adapted in so many other shows in the 16 years this show has been available. The whole Story just goes to show how messed up this entire concept we humans have of this feeling called love really is.
Talking about the Characters I like to keep in mind that this show came out when there wasn't tons of competition in the same genre which mea…
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Watching older anime that tell a compelling story often, while being in the girl-love genre, are really tough to come by. But not only does Strawberry Panic tell some decent stories, it does so while being one of the really early girl-love anime to jump onto the scene.
Story & Characters: Strawberry Panic takes place at St. Miator's Girls Academy, where Nagisa Aoi transfers to, due to her parents suddenly needing to work overseas. It's at the academy that she meets a large number of students who are drawn to her peppy personality, not the least of which is Shizuma Hanazono. Nagisa gets lost and sees Shizuma near a tree, that seems to have some significance to her. Unbeknownst to Nagisa, Shizuma is actually the Etoile of this academy, which essentially means that she acts as the student bo…
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Strawberry Panic is a somewhat older shoujo-ai anime from 2006. It's from Madhouse and Imagin and based off of a light novel. I will say that this is one of those series I'm re-watching to review since it came out around the time I was first getting really into anime and I did watch it back then. I remember enjoying it at the time but we'll see if it holds up.
Story:
The narrative is set in Astraea Hill, a place where three different girls' schools all make their homes and share certain facilities like dormitories. Which seems like an odd arrangement. Anyway, Aoi Nagisa is a recent transfer student to Miator. As soon as she arrives she catches the eye of the Etoile, Hanazono Shizuma. Shizuma happens to be notorious for toying with cute girls but she feels a greater connection towards Na…
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I am not one to follow this style of anime, but what i normally do is watch where 2-3 genres cross as one e.g. fantasy, game mecha, etc, but even when often it crosses into harem/ecchi you feel is enough of a storyline usually to keep going.
This had no real story or plot, just to be yuri based at a school, where all the girls are happy to be kissed, molested, etc by someone higher up the food chain. As it's an all-girls school it seems nearly all girls are lesbians or lesbians for attention/status.
To me watching just seemed to constantly eat at me, as apart from the non-existent storyline, the hollow characters/ It just felt like sending kids to a school to get groomed, used, and abused potentially and parents were happy about it. We watch Nagisa, come in straight, and as if converted…
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this show is pretty bland and forgettable. the main pairings are devoid of any chemistry, and the drama elements arent really handled with any finesse. ntm theres a character whos constantly being s*xually harassed by like half of the student body, to the point where its rather baffling and funny that the school doesnt seem to notice or care ab the ~predatory lesbians~ roaming the school grounds. that being said theres a lot of the ~predatory lesbian~ stuff going on in this show, so i cant honestly see yuri fans liking this series too much. i liked tomoe well enough, but every other character in this show has no depth or anything interesting about them. this is definitely a series i only finished bc its only 26 episodes long, and ngl i thought the white haired chick was hot so i watched ma…
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I honestly have mixed feelings about this show, despite my fairly high score. I love yuri, and I really wanted to live this show. I think in many ways it's well-written.
However, it is very slow-paced, and I do not believe the writer uses this pacing to his or her advantage. The mood is also serious, sometimes even depressing rather than lighthearted like most yuri shows, and that's fine, but if the writer wanted to make a slow-paced, character-driven, occasionally tragic show, I would've liked more details. I realized upon finishing the show that I knew little about the characters' backgrounds and future hopes. I didn't know anything about the setting, like the time period either, I can only guess. Only the main characters are really fleshed-out. I feel in one episode, I don't really lea…
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Some call it the yuri par excellence, and I don't know whether to separate myself from that group of some, since I consider that the genre was just beginning to have recognition at that time, and obviously it has both ups and downs and hits, but if there was something wrong to highlight, it would be how long the series was, since I think it could have ended in a more correct way as with 6 chapters less, to my liking they fill quite a lot with unnecessary episodes, Now going to the good, the plot is very interesting, Imagine, you go to a religious school and anime is a yuri ........ in theory some would get to take in front of the statue of the virgin and they would give a shit, I love that irony that has the series, the protagonists are good, I understand their motivations to be as they ar…
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The only anime I've seen with satisfactory animation quality yet overwhelmingly splendid in other factors. I had so much fun watching this anime, and I'd quality it as one of the best yuri anime I've seen in all my years. Watching this made me feel guilty for not giving it a shot sooner. Still, this was so worth my time!
Story : 9/10
The story development was great all through the series, it showed signs of improvement as the story proceeds. The main blemish of this anime in my opinion is the story sometimes become slightly cliche and it made me feel uneasy while watching. The ending was likewise satisfactory, it didn't clear up everything. In spite of the fact that I could consider it as a "decent" ending. There are numerous things that are left unanswered.
**SPOILER BELOW**
For an…
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Well, this was an....experience. And that's about it. Compared to newer titles like Sakura Trick and Bloom Into You, the flaws in Strawberry Panic really shine through. There's so much to go into so I'll try to break down my gripes with this anime.
Story: 5/10
The anime does have a clearly defined story and major plot points that make up this story but it meanders so much and is packed with filler that makes it a slog to get through. It does its best to build this world and flesh out the history behind the schools and how they're all connected and what their functions are but it just leads to a bunch of melodramatic politics and painfully slow set ups for other plot points. Students are shown being chastised for sneaking around during lights out and never get caught again. There are a b…
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A bit of a drag, but that didn't stop me from LOVING it! I really really want the novel and manga to this, and I've got posters on my wall. If you like yuri, it's not really my biggest recommendation, but that still doesn't mean I'm telling you not to watch it, it's still worth the watch for sure, at least in my opinion anyway :)
The novel has 3 volumes, and the manga has 2 and I don't think there's anything I want more right now than them 5 books. I have a growing manga collection and I'd absolutely LOVE to have them be apart of it, I really do think that Strawberry Panic is a masterpiece
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best yuri anime ever made beside bloom into you.
the story is good and enjoyable, all the spice the add into it make the story more insteresting and complex. for 2006 anime i consider this pretty good.
i really love to ship nagisa and tamao, especially tamao is kindheart girl type how many times tamao get her hopes up and down.
shizuma is beter with miyuki i think , miyuki love her so much if her not paired with man since their childs , she wouldn't hold her felling toward shizuma. she already waited for shizuma for 6 years.
yaya same as tamao , that called love i think ,with you realize or not sometimes love can hurts others
the biggest nonsense of this anime is the etoile system, why they should pick lover in the first place to representative them beside its only 3 years , its not a…
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Strawberry Panic is... Not good.
Not objectively good, anyway. The characters are flat, the plot nonsensical, and it suffers from several tragic flaws.
The largest of these is that Shizuma comes off as very rapist like. Nagisa doesn't exactly resist her advances, but it's still really creepy.
The other really big flaw is that the show's beta couple is unbelievably dull. You don't care about them and want them to go away whenever they are on screen.
Now, I did say it was not /objectively/ good, and this is because Strawberry Panic is one of my absolute favourites because it's unambiguously Yuri. Lots of kissing and a fair amount of sex, too.
Strawberry Panic's saving grace is actually it's best kept secret; It's SUPPOSED to be bad.
It satirizes anime like Marimite by turning all of the trop…
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(updated 9/20/18 for format and slight content revision)
Hi! Welcome to another Robert's Too Late Reviews! As always, the synopsis is your friend, as I'm going to deal in the broader strokes. MINOR SPOILERS may appear, though I do try to keep those to an absolute minimum. Strawberry Panic is loved by some, and hated by others, because it's really basically just an anime soap opera. It is over the top, often cheesy, and if you don't think too much, really, really fun. This was my first full blown yuri anime, and it's not nostalgia colored, this review. As always, the crew will not earn a spot on the RTLR wall for rose colored glasses either. I've seen so many more, so much more beautifully done (Aoi Hana comes to mind) but I still cannot back off the fact I had fun watching this anime!
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