Audience reviews
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Ernacram
Although the first scene of Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate makes it look like a serious anime, it quickly reveals to be nothing more than your typical garbage anime adaptation of a visual novel that is most likely also garbage. Generic protagonist with a generic character design who somehow manages to make all of the girls horny for him, stereotypical female characters with childish personalities, dumb excuses for fan-service, failed attempts at comedy… And despite that, I’m still going to write a review to explain in detail why this anime is terrible.
--- The premise
The protagonist and his friends are all members of the “food research club”, a useless club where they do nothing but eat food at the expense of their high school’s budget. Enters a girl whom I will refer to as “serious girl”,…
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Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate is one of those anime that you don’t really expect much from but by the time the curtains closed you had gotten more than you bargained for. Don't you love it when that happens?
The Short Version:
(+)The art is alright for the time.
(+)The main characters are a bit more tolerable than the normal given the genre.
(-)There’s way too many characters for this show to focus on.
(-)The shift of tone towards the end is so sudden it’s jarring.
(-)The sound, save for one part, is easily missable.
The Story (6/10): The story is about the main characters trying to stop their club from being disbanded, and they think up that the best way to do this is to have the male lead run for president, because on the day a new president is founded they immediately get to allocate the…
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Hello guys~ This would be my first MAL review. Please forgive me for any grammatical errors and awkward wordings.
Anyways, the main reason I'm writing this review is to defend the low rating/low popularity, and to also encourage other anime lovers to enjoy this anime.
The main problems others state for this anime are excessive amount of characters and plot rush. However, I don't really blame the anime for that. First of all, this anime bases off of Visual Novel, so the amount of characters can't really be blamed. The plot kind of rushes because of the length of the anime. I believe if the anime has more episodes and focuses more on main characters' past, then the anime can be as emotionally powerful as popular anime such as Clannad and Little Busters.
-Story- 9/10
The story is really g…
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**I have only seen the anime of Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate and this review is only based on that.
Romance comedys with high school settings are by far my favorite anime series, so keep that in mind.
Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate/Love, Election and Chocolate/恋と選挙とチョコレート ; 12 episodes a 20 minutes, aired from July to September 2012 ; Comedy, Drama, SoL, Romance, School ; licensed by Sentai Filmworks
Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate appears like a generic romance school story who wants to be different from mindless harems, to then develop into a thrilling election battle with very interesting subparts to the main plot. It follows the happenings in a student-reigned school where the Studen Council basically reigns it like a small state.
Story: 9/10
If you have already read the synopsis, you know…
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Love, Election and Chocolate is pretty much another anime based off a dating sim game with our male lead Yuki being surrounded with several girls he interacts with in his school club. To a good extent, the anime essentially milks the typical cliches and archetypes of dating sims, harems and high school-based anime, which include even a student council that has more authority over school issues than the staff to go along with its "election" premise.
It does have some refreshing story elements to its dating sim roots. Yuki isn't made into a hapless lead dealing with unwanted attention from the girls surrounding him as he is a level headed guy trying to get a handle on all the situations surrounding him in the school as he runs for student council president and has clear thoughts on the feel…
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At first, I was trying to find some mediocre romance comedy harem anime, which can give me tons of boobs and laugh for example, Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Mao or Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica to name a few. I mean it's Christmas now, and I am still single, watching anime at home. All by myself.......... I needed anime to comfort me. :(
Anyway, I then came across this oddly under rated anime Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate :3
Story:
At first glance, the plot might be one of your normal, slice of life school anime. I first thought so too, but then the 1st ep just cracks me up. I won't go into those spoiler details but I can say, I immediately got hooked by this anime. At that moment I knew that this is my destined one. I give HUGE credits to anime which can piqued my interest this much right in the fir…
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Love, Elections and Chocolate. I think that's the textual english translation for this title. And it pretty much sums the whole anime up. That's it for this review, see you in the next one! :D
That's what I would really had liked to say because of the first impression this anime gave me. It has all the elements that make it look like your typical harem - slice of life - high school anime. It even has all of the archetypical characters, and most of them have to be female, of course. However, this anime achieves a lot more than what you might think.
The setup is a rather large private school, composed of about 9999 (or all of the 9's you can imagine for a single number) students, and thus, the student council is taken pretty seriously. You could say that the students themselves are the one…
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Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate was kind of a recipe for disaster. When you put too much stuff into one thing, it never ends well.
Story 6/10: This series is a drama, I do like dramas but the drama presented in this show is almost laughable, like a really bad soap opera. At the beginning of the show they show you some kind of car accident, which is interesting, but that is actually not what the show is about. Instead, you are presented with the story of a boy who runs for student body president to save his club from being cut. Ok, I'll go with that. But as the show goes on, the plot gets way over-complicated. There is some random bullying, super-secret stuff, suspicious alliances, secret hospital visits, traumatic experiences, weird backstories, a strange aversion to chocolate, and a season fi…
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To start of Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate looks like your typical slice of life anime where the club is having problems. However, this one is different because it incorporates 3 elements that I feel make it unique or special. The first element that I liked was the drama because on the outside you have the typical slice of life vibe, but once the action gets going especially towards the end that is where drama is released. Dialogue is the second element that makes this Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate different because with having presidential elections one would expect to have a lot of dialogue to present their points or objectives. the third element which is comedy incorporated well since it was kept at a minimal level and mostly done from the side or supporting characters.
Story: The story was o…
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I have noticed far too many drawn out reviews of this show I just finished, and though I am just about to watch the special and ova, I am reminded of my quest to never see such a time wasting anime again (true 7 or better).
Anyways to cut to the chase this show could be seen as an allegory to government and political intrigue in the real world (but most could sadly only equate that idea to James bond instead of the factual, shady organisations those spy dramas are loosely based upon). The show tries to masquerade most of the time as a late high school romance/harem and just gets in over its own head, not really achieving much. Many situations in this show that were meant to be serious were more comical than the actual humorous moments peppered about.
Really its just a sloppy harem/ myst…
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for the story, it was awful. just the worst thing i have ever seen. at first it just looks like a anime about someone who trys to become student council president just to save his club that is only about eating snacks. but it gets so much worse. after that you find out that there are serious bully issues, factions within the school (good and bad), conspiracys, bad romance, dreadful backstorys and on top of it all it will introduce characters in the anime that where never there in the first place then they are some who really close to the characters. and they mix all of these ideas without any order so really you spend most of the time wondering, "who's that?" or "wait what about...."
the art was good it had the sense of something that you would see in a serious anime which at times does w…
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Love, Elections, Chocolate.
On the surface it seems like a typical highschool drama. There's a boy, he's part of a club, and that club is going to be disbanded if they don't do something! When I see a story like this what it comes down to typically is how enjoyable the characters are to watch. Coming into this I knew the anime wasn't my typical selection: It's not in the top 1000, and it's rated 7.4. But I found the anime to be enjoyable overall.
If you're trying to decide whether or not to give this a try, I'd say be ready to accept a certain amount of tropes and cliches. I'd say it's not a masterpiece, it's not great. It had a lot of flaws. But I found it enjoyable, and it has a happy and romantic ending.
To begin, this is based off of a visual novel by the same name. As such, it suff…
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People say "never judge a book by its cover" and I cannot expresses how it is true for this anime when it caught me off guard. Some may think this anime is like any generic and stereotypical anime about schools and how any stereotypical characters interact with each other. Well you're half right but you are also wrong. This anime is more than that, it doesnt follow the general dogma as some of you might say it and it will drawn you into a world of politics, revenge, violence, discrimination, and dramatizations. If you are into school, comedy, romance and drama, this anime is just for you.
Art/graphic - The art is beautiful, all I'd have to say is its better than most anime I've seen so far including the more recent ones. Although I do feel that they could have done so much more with the a…
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Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate.
The story of a boy yearning for true love and a girl hating chocolate.
When I first caught a glimpse of Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate, I was deeply intrigued by its title. Love and chocolate are all very well in anime nowadays, but elections? Seriously, how could anyone spin a good yarn out of an election?
Due to me having limited time, and also because there were many other anime titles seemingly worthy of my time and attention, I initially put KoiChoco on my on-hold list. However, as the pretenders faded away from my attention, I decided to give KoiChoco a try, to see whether the anime could possibly be good enough to expound upon the dark, deep world of politics, yet be able to maintain the audience's attention over the span of a 1-cour show.
The premise tha…
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Tthis anime is very much like it's in the respect that it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. The plot is broken and feels rushed to say the least. The score is lackluster and the characters are little more than boring stereotypes. Almost everything about this show screams 'average'. To be honest, I would've been happy if it was indeed average. But i was terribly disappointed.
The biggest problem with Senkyo is it's setting. it is simply put, laughable. Students control EVERYTHING in Takafuji Academy from staff appointment to budget management. in fact, there is no sane adult to be seen during the course of the entire anime. It really is preposterous to even assume that 17 year olds have the requisite knowledge to manage a large educational institution. As if this were not enough, the poli…
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A big problem with visual novel adaptations these days is that most of them stick to this formula where nothing really happens, there's a lot of attempts at humor, they explore each (or most) character(s) and the protagonist picks a girl. Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate is different, although it still shares some similarities with most visual novel adaptation, it separates itself by having a pretty interesting plot, which makes the series enjoyable.
What really makes the plot interesting is the twists and turns that happen along the way. The plot may seem simple at first, the main character trying to win an election to be student body president so his club would not be disbanded. But as the series progressed and as they started to give us a deeper look into the election, a number of darker and…
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I love chocolate, wtf am I saying? Ok, so this sweet anime has ended and I glad that it becomes a Yuuki X Chisato arc, so let's get down to business:
Story: Good 7.
I say even though the story is a mixed up arc, I like the way where is was going,co'z everything about this anime revolves around love, elections and chocolate. The love part are the occasional arcs where the muchacho (Yuuki) encounters, though it still has that guy is oblivious to girl's feeling kind of thing. The story kinda misdirects us audience as to whom will the muchacho (Yukki) will end up with, even if the muchacho (Yuuki) has told the chiquita( Chisato) that he'll never leave her side, we sort of ignore it hoping that it'll be whom we hope for. Needless to say that the "Love" thingy of this anime's title refers to Y…
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Hey, you ever been to a party and noticed that there is all the food you want in the world but somehow, some way it just doesn't satisfy you? That's sort of the same feeling I got when I finished watching this series. No, I don't mean it in a way that is unsatisfying. I mean it as the series missing something. Like the chocolate is missing an ingredient or the series itself is lacking something. However, Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate does have some of its good flavors. So, let's break this down, shall we?
Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate/Koichoco (also known as Love, Election, and Chocolate) is an anime series produced by AIC Build (Haganai, Oremio) and directed by Tōru Kitahata. The anime is also based off an adult visual novel developed by Sprite. Now what a minute. Did I see the word “adult” in…
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Short version: While not well executed, this series has a unique approach to its story, which is why I do recommend you to watch it despite its low rating. I can't say whether you'll enjoy it or not, but it's worth to see nevertheless.
One can easily list multiple stories, novels, movies, which portray how elections work (or more precisely, not work). Most of them ironically portray an incompetent, money-driven candidate who running his unfair and corrupted campaign.
Love, Election, Chocolate! portrays Ojima Yuki, a member of the Food Research (a.k.a. Eating) Club, which, of course, gets school funds for its activities. However, the elections for Student Council president are approaching, and the popular candidate wishes to disband clubs that don't deserve their funds, including Yuki's. N…
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“Nothing ventured nothing gained” That is one of the quotes that came to my mind after starting this anime. The main protagonist Yuuki Oojima has the option to run for an election to save his precious club, he starts his election after hearing similar words from people around him.
At first I thought Choi to Senkyo to Chocolate would be your typical school club romance type anime. For me it ended up becoming so much more. It starts out with a dramatic event that honestly makes hardly any sense until you get quite a ways into the anime. Once things start to make sense though this anime seems too really shine. One of the things it portrays is that politics aren’t always what they seem on the surface. There is always a struggle behind the scenes and this is one of the topics this anime tackl…
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