Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
MagnifecentToad
Not even gonna cap dude, this show is pretty Meaty, and the characters have a lot of Meat to them.
This show has a bunch of cool characters and good stories I can get behind, But season 2 in the 2nd to last episode it gets pretty tough to wanna keep watching, other then that I love it and its my 3rd fave anime oat. If you wanna quick laugh with no big looming threat, some hot girls, a bit of harem/ecci thats not too much, and just a fun time, i genuinely cant recommend a better show.
Characters were pretty well rounded, and fun to watch, plus art still looks good after all this time. Not a very realistic show tho lol
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Story - 8/10
The story starts off with a teen boy, Kodaka Hasegawa, who has just moved back to his childhood town. When he first walks into his high school class, he gives the immediate impression to everyone that he's dangerous and a delinquent, mostly because of the color of his blond hair. Kodaka doesn't make any friends after this happens. But, soon after, he meets Yozora Mikazuki, another student in his class who is also antisocial and friendless. Both of them form the Neighbors Club, a place for people with no friends to help each other try to make friends. I will not go much deeper into the plot line because I don't want to spoil the story.
Art - 8/10
I don't know very much about art, but the art in Haganai seemed good to me. What made me raise my rating from a 6/7 to an 8 was that…
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First off, this review covers both seasons of Haganai, but will still be spoiler free.
Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukuna, more simply known as Haganai, as the title states, is about someone who doesn't have any friends. While I was originally hesitant to watch the anime, I quickly discovered the beauty of it.
Overall: 8
Haganai follows the simple, yet effective, harem rom-com format. Nothing particularly excels in the anime. Pretty much everything is simply decent. With that in mind, I still enjoyed the anime quite a lot. Haganai is a fun, easy-going, hilarious and enjoyable anime. I would certainly recommend it to mostly anyone who enjoys lighthearted, fun, slice of life anime.
Story: 6
The story followed a format that would naturally follow any harem rom-com. A seemingly oblivious boy stu…
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Disclaimer: My normal scoring preconditions go flying out the window. This is my first non-critical review. This show is mainly for humor so I review it as such. So my scores are based more on how much laughter I got out of it and less on critical appeal. See the rest of my body of work for something more critical. If you don't agree with my score, please don't downgrade it just because you think the show is stupid or what not.
Summary: Haganai is another average slice of life anime. It's humorous, kinda realistic, and in a club school setting. I didn't expect much and I pretty much got what was predicted. I'll just get right down to the specifics. I don't include the sequel although a lot of what I say in this review applies to the sequel.
Story (5/10): For a slice of life anime, I wou…
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This is my first encounter with slice of life genre. High school animes I normally watch always have supernatural/sci-fi twist because I assumed without it, it would be just like American TV shows. I'm glad I'm proven wrong because now I have a plethora more anime to watch.
Characters: The male main character,Kodaka is likeable. He appears to be a delinquent but really just want to have friends. He is afraid of change and this fear is the driving force for the main plot.
Pretty much every stereotype of a girl is in this anime. There is the childhood friend Yozora, Koda's Siscon sister, Kobato, the Lolicon Maria, the love-interest/Bishōjo Sena, the smart Rika, and the maid/butler Yukimura.
Art: As you expect from a modern Anime. Good looking character model and scenery.
Plot: Mainly wa…
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Upon seeing this recommended alongside OreImo and OreGairu I was fairly excited to give it a watch, sadly though this show is overall lackluster. Not to say that its bad, it just also not good, there are hundreds of versions of this show and every one that I have seen is better than it.
Plot - 6 - Doesn't progress much.
The plot of this show is a basic one, but a decent starting point, that is if it ever had anything added to it. Without spoiling anything a basic summary would be
"A male transfer student who has no friends meets a female who has no friends, so they together start a club to find friends. They make some friends."
Characters - 5 - Are baseline characters with shallow progression.
The characters in the show are again fantastic starting points, but they barely progress. F…
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To be honest, I came here looking for just a plain comedy, what I found was a much more. The opening few episodes were genuinely funny. At first the characters don't look particularly fascinating however, as the series progresses they become more and more interesting. Towards the end the anime is set up brilliantly for its next season which would be hard to miss if you completed the first one. An anime to get easily hooked to and one which becomes more interesting as it progresses.
I liked it a lot and overall it is quite nice.
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Most of the things I get from harem anime without actually watching them is that as good as everyone is basically the same. From the basic premise, over the characters, the setting and most likely the whole conclusion, mostly everything has been done before. This is one of the reasons I don't usually get my eyes on such anime. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai is an exception though because a very good friend of mine recommended it. "Might as well give it a try", I thought, "It only has 12 episodes, it's something different from the previous stuff I watched and it's on my HDD already".
So I managed to sit through the whole thing in two days even if I had huge prejudices against the show - most of them turned out to be justified.
Let's split up this review into the five categories as usual:
St…
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Comedy and drama don't really good hand in hand in most entertainment media stuff. Either one element is done too much or it is a complete disaster. This anime honestly a bit harder to describe, it isn’t a disaster but the anime didn’t know how to present their material. It pulls it off well enough to where it has the right amount of comedy and drama but it just wasn’t shown well enough.
Story 6/10: They did give off a good plot at the start of the anime and I was drawn into it at first. However, as the show went on it moved away from the main plot and towards something else. I didn't mind it as much but it just gave me mixed flags as to what it wanted to show. This happened to me when they showed the first plot twist I just couldn't understand their message behind it. It was a good plot…
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai deals with a group of introverted friendless pupils who aim to make friends. This anime is your average dosage of ecchi which does not focus on story but on fanservice and laughter. I have to admit that I really enjoyed watching it. But, there are some points that disappointed me and influenced me to give it a lower rating and I’m going to present you these:
Story (5):
As mentioned above, this anime has just a whiff of a story. The main character Kodaka transferred to a new school. Due to his unusual blonde hair and unintended aggressive behavior his classmates avoid him and leave him friendless. One afternoon after class, he goes to his classroom and sees Yozora, his classmate, talking to herself (or rather to say her “air friend”). After discussing this iss…
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so i gotta say, this surprised me. i wasn't too sure if this was going to be good or not but i watched it and i gotta say, it was addicting. its a unique story that i loved and enjoyed.
the story was great. they try to make friends by making a club for people with no friends. it kept this theme through the show and got better every episode.
the art was good it is my favorite style of art and its all beautifully drawn out the way i hoped when i saw the cover.
the music & sound were chosen well for this anime. especially the OP is very catchy and its always stuck in my head.
the characters were all unique in their own way. there's the guy-girl person, the nun, the vampire, the delinquent, the horny girl, the girl with big breasts, and that one girl that hates the big breast girl.
i real…
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Ever thought on how to make friends? A nice easy way without much hassle? well theres a solution now, the Rinjinbu club! ( The Neighbour's club). A club specifically designed just to make friends or so i thought..., while this club contains some very unique characters from attractive galge gamers, to perverted scientists that has very -cough- "special imaginations/fantasies". They are all very nice people and have amazing relationships between each other, wait scrap that... unique is a better word.
Story 7
The story of Haganai (Short for Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai) is a typical high school comedy, joining a club, going out and having fun in their own very special way, whether its rubbing sun scream on your friend with your feet, or playing some really realistic fantasy game. While thi…
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Friendship comes in many flavors. One type includes gigantic lazer beams from an orange-haired girl in a white dress; another involves interpersonal attraction, the one that involves physical and personality attraction. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai asks questions based on the latter: “What is a friend? Do good friends exist? If they do, will they add me on Facebook?”
The answer, of course, is, “It’s someone who you ask for money. Yes, they are also known as rich people. And yes, they will.”
Without a doubt, Boku not Pico refuses to acknowledge the true definition of friendship. It is romanticist in its ideals, believing that friends are people whom you trust in and can talk to. This is what Boku not Pico is all about: making friends.
And money.
Boku not Pico is made for the sake of fan…
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At first, I believed "Haganai" would have been a series with some quality drama, effective character development and/or deep insight into the meaning friendship but I was sadly mistaken. The atmosphere created from the first couple episodes mislead me to think that the series was going delve deeply into the concept of friendship but rather it quickly began to take the slice of life/comedy/harem route and made use of some cliche themes and characters. For the most part "Haganai" didn't turn out too bad, it offered a great quality of humor and entertainment via parodies, references, sexual innuendos, hilarious conflicts between characters and of course for certain viewers, fan service like the usual emphasis on breasts, swimsuits and there are also a couple of episodes where it goes just a b…
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A long time ago, I had the idea to write a novel with every otaku trope in it, figuring I could capture the entire otaku market spectrum. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Haganai) beat me to it. Goth loli, fujoshi, tsundere, forgotten childhood friends, natural-blonde-haired male lead ... it's all there in one jumbled mess.
What really got me was the number of face-palm, cringe-worthy moments in this show. After all, Haganai is about awkward kids trying to make friends. If you think watching someone with Asperger's try to hit on chicks would be hilarious, go for it. For me, there were quite a few times when I felt like just hitting stop and leaving to do laundry or clean the house.
The character interactions are just reused repeatedly throughout the series and they mostly just interact with…
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If you have strong feelings about this anime, please don't read any further. I just noticed there was an abnormally large amount of overly positive reviews for this show and thought it would be best if there was a second opinion readily available.
Haganai was not an enjoyable anime for me. I did not find it funny past a certain point. For the first three episodes the show revolves around the mistaken delinquent and the two "heroines" of the series - Yozora and Sena. These episodes for the most part were quite sharp, and as Sena and Yozora's antics grew and grew, Kodaka's role as the straight man would be stressed further and further.
So it makes sense when dolloping even more characters into the show would have scary consequences. Kodaka's cosplaying sister, a perverse scientist, a ten y…
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This series is about a school club specifically designed to make friends. However, despite the serious topic of making friends, the plot line is not at all serious. No, the show is flat out comedy from beginning to end, and some of the humor will not appeal to everyone, even if some of the humor does appeal. I am also going to admit, that some of the humor is going to be the type that the viewer may question if it is really a good thing to be laughing at.
I mean, you wonder how the characters can be so stupid at times, yet the series makes it very clear that the characters within the show, despite having their dumb moments are for the most part rather intelligent. They are, however, horribly awkward when it comes to social issues and this becomes quickly apparent from their lack of realiz…
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"How does one make friends?" If you were asked that question right now, what would your response be? For many, there is no true answer to this question as it all comes down to how one determines who or who doesn't become their friend. In Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (or Haganai as some will call it), the main protagonist, and practically all the other side characters, attempt to find one of the many answers to this mystifying question. Surrounding this premise is a countless number of comedic moments, delicious fanservice and a tad bit of romance. All this makes for a surprisingly successful series. Art (8/10)
Coming from the same studio that brought us Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, it's no surprise that the art style is similar. For me, I really liked how the characters wer…
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Honestly is amazing anime. I think that this is a new kind of anime in relation to animation ....for me is the anime master piece of the 2011.
1. Each character has an special "humor" (and personality) and the mix of everyone is really cool and funny.
2. The drawings and landscapes are amazing... a master piece of art.
3. The story is creative and interesting, has few bored moments but the mix of "ecchi" and "funny" moments is fantastic.
I was thinking that would be a big mistake add more characters but honestly was a good bet.. Maria, "The maid" and the "Ero Scientific Girl" are great characters that gives to this series another sense with their comments.
This anime should be in your list of "great animes"!! :D niku
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With Christmas fast approaching, I can safely say one thing: All I want for Christmas is Meat. Delicious, delicious, Meat.
Ahem.
What do you get when an ambitious and rather oddball girl drags an unwilling male into forming a club for whatever reason? You get the "Save the World by Overloading it with Fun (SOS) Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade!" Oh wait, wrong show. You alternatively could get the "Neighbors Club." Yes, that seems about right. This fabulous club is composed of Kodaka and Kobato Hasegawa, Yozora Mikazuki, Sena Kashiwazaki, Rika Shiguma, Maria Takayama and Yukimura Kusunoki. Watch as this rebellious group takes on one of the world's most challenging of tasks: making friends!
"Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai" follows the misadventures of our assembled group of social misfits as they…
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