Audience reviews
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AshPrince32_
High hills and low valleys.
I recommend this anime to fans of Girlfriend (Kari) / Girlfriend Beta, if you are not a fan of the original source all the entertainment you could grasp from this gets sucked away :( It also is extremely boring, and sadly has no dub to pair with it to help with said boringness, so you cannot watch it in the background unless, of course, you know Japanese.
The OST is repetitive and my favourite girl (Ayanokoji Mirei) isn't even in it. There is little to zero plot relevance between episodes spare ~3 episodes where other things are referenced and generally speaking it is very bland, it feels like it is trying to be stand alone whilst also leaning on the game which makes it a weird in-between where it overexplains character types and also expecting you to know th…
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An anime in which literally nothing happens. Supposedly there are some girls, supposedly they have some problems of their own but you don't give a shit about them. This is one of those anime that I watched on acceleration x2 and wouldn't you guess, I embraced everything that was going on there. This anime is so slow, tedious and boring that even speeding up and giving the pace of the plot development (which isn't here) a kick doesn't help, although I won't say, it saves a lot of time.
There's no waifu material here, and even the funny French girl who however tries to pull this series along doesn't save it at all, and drowns along with the other chicks in this boring shit.
Do not watch this, please
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Well this show honestly only has one redeeming quality... It's cute as hell. Like honestly the cutest thing you'll ever watch. Allthough it's not the most memorable show you'll ever watch it's pretty funny at times and there isn't a minute where you don't feel the need to let a huge awwww.
Don't get fooled by the romance tag this show gets everywhere though. Cause there is none ^^
Not perfect but as the whole thing is just about 4,5 hours total still worth watching.
Also this Anime has made me question my emotions cause there it made me cry at times by doing nothing exept be adorable ^^
Read at the sourceDennis_King
Well someone has to do the dirty work around here,heh? And that someone has to be me again, right?
What can i say about Girlfriend BETA other than i don't know what to say..Or rather there is nothing to say cause this anime shouldn't exist in the first place. It's a waste of time, a waste of money, it's just a waste.
To examine what went wrong with this clusterfuck of an anime i went to my favorite place. No not the strip club, i mean google, the all knowing search engine. And there i found many interesting things such as guides to suicide by pills or bleach and how painful each route is. Then i remembered that i had a review in the workings and immediately stopped clowning around and went to youface or whatever and found a large collection of music albums. This went on and on and on unt…
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Just the epitome of cute girls doing cute things. That's all there is to sum the series up. If you want to watch it for romance or deeper plot, stop.
You might have known, but this series is an adaptation of a simulation game of the same title. However, it didn't go in the direction of Amagami. Since the cast of that game was far more than Amagami, I can understand why. But then, I can't shake off the feeling that this whole 12 episodes are just to make more money for the game.
Never the less, I was in the mood to watch something lighthearted and this fits perfectly. It was generic in most field and even pretty bad when it comes to story line. But I still enjoyed it since every episode was designed so you come to like the girls better. And heck, it's cute girls doing cute things. What c…
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I like to consider myself an expert in the field of cute girls doing cute things and I can honestly say that this is the worst one I've ever seen. Even Glasslip doesn't compare with how bad this is.
Story wise this doesn't have anything. It's supposed to be about school broadcasts and interviews, but it spends very little time on these and doesn't even give any real insight into them. Rather than using it as a foundation to build its characters and comedy off of like Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? uses the cafe setting and K-On! uses the light music club this anime instead treats it as if "activity" was just one of the slots it has to fill and chose interviews. Anime can be fine without a story, but without some kind of obvious direction it just feels pointless. Not only did they not give it…
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Girlfriend (Kari)/(Beta)
An anime about a large cast of high school girls living out their lives. Yes, it’s very slice of life and yes, the girls are all absolutely adorable.
It’s really hard to talk about the cast of girls, in 12 episodes we meet at least 20 different characters, heck it’s probably over 30. There are a lot of girls so it makes it incredibly hard to remember even 1/4th of them. Fortunately for the viewers, there are only a handful of girls that are focused on; such as the beautiful gymnast Kokomi Shiina, or the French transfer student Lemaire Chloe. These two girls are in most episodes and make it easy to remember who they are. We also have Sakurai Akane, Mochizuki Erena and Murakami Fumio, more girls that appear in most episodes.
The best way to describe Girlfriend (Be…
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"Girlfriend (Kari)" (GF) is a slice of life anime, it's a healing type anime. This means the goal of the anime is to make you feel good. Every episode will contain a little story which ends well. There is some mild humour/drama to keep things a bit interesting, but don't expect amazing or long stories. This is basically all it contains. So if you're looking for action, a comedy, a drama or anything romance/love related you don't have to watch it. Also practically the whole cast consists out of girls. Slice of life, friendship, cute girls doing cute things and short stories are the key terms for this anime.
Story
There's no general story in the anime. Instead every episode is a short story about some event. Usually it's about something an event/situation inside the school. Since it's about…
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Have you been feeling sleep deprived?
Have you been feeling restless when trying to sleep?
Have you previously experienced insomnia?
Have you awoken up feeling tired in the morning?
If you answered, “yes" to any of these questions, look no further, there is a solution for you. It’s called, “Girlfriend (Kari)! The most sleep-inducing anime ever with cute characters, narrating you to sleep.
Now, what does “Girlfriend (Kari)” contain, one might ask? It contains four essential components: 1) no progression, 2) lackluster characters, 3) placid sounds, and 4) cute designs.
1) No Story Progression: Story progression is overrated. Who needs it? We don’t need an overarching, complex story with depth. Yeah. We just need to focus on the cuteness factor and their daily lives at school, that’s it…
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It seems like every single time Silver Link decides to go anyway near the slice of life genre, nothing good comes out of it. This studio is quite far down on my attention list, nonetheless I gave Girlfriend Kari a shot...and it backfired on me.
This show embodies the ultimate Slice of Life cliché of “nothing ever happens” and gives more fuel to those who won´t even try to watch the genre anymore because it is simply so unfathomably boring. In twelve episodes, it tells twelve stories without any deeper significance about the normal high school life of a bunch of girls who apparently attend a school where boys aren´t even allowed to say a single word, let alone participate in clubs. Why didn´t the writer just make it an all girls school??? Seriously, it takes Girlfriend BETA eleven episodes…
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Updated: 13, July 2016
If you are curious as to what happened in twelve episodes of Girlfriend (Kari), simply multiply that number by zero. This adaptation was as flat and uninspiring as anime come, with all characters of significance assigned popular archetypes. Distinctive personalities were nowhere to be found, ignored completely in favor of these simplified archetypes and their associated cliches. I would relate this viewing experience to watching a bird attempt to fly with a broken wing. It truly is a shame, considering the string of accolades and talent decorating this assembly of seiyuu veterans.
Despite the girls being second-rate individually in complexion, their group chemistry was commendable. However, their collective resilience would remain grounded by the lack of a definit…
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(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)
There's a certain allure to a simple life. Going about one's everyday things without a care in the world, merely strolling along at a leisurely pace, not having to worry about the tragedies that exist. Waking up, enjoying what occurs, going to sleep, and repeat. It's a cycle that only contains the more trivial issues in retrospect. While normal people are unable to obtain such ease, the girls of Girlfriend BETA have. And their lives are no more difficult than a literal walk in the park.
STORY
Girlfriend BETA stars nearly forty (yes, 40) different girls who attend a local high school. Many are given the spotlight, some are merely looked at, but they all have one thing in common: their lives are steady.
As a slice-of-life show, BETA fits the…
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Girlfriend(Kari) is your typical slice of life show that aired in Fall 2014 which puts you into a soft and a fluffy atmosphere. It obviously has high budget, judging from its content, however, it is left unnoticed by most viewers because of its genre, slice of life and school. This anime mainly focuses about daily lives of high school girls added with some blend of moe and light fanservice.
Some consider this anime as trash, moeshit, or even pure garbage. But the anime itself isn't that bad, it has a very satisfying ending.
Story - 4 - Decent
GF has no particular story at all, it is like episodic and repetitive, featuring cute girls in their daily high school lives every episode and a bit of friendship thingy.This anime only takes things lightly,so stay away from this if you want some…
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Girlfriend is the adaptation of a dating simulation game for mobile phones in which you date the girls of Seiou academy. This might trick you into believing this series is about romance and structured a la Amagami, but in reality Girlfriend is a school comedy composed of individual episodes featuring different main characters (and often side characters) that have daily life, friendship or reaching your own goals as central themes.
While there's nothing particularly wrong with it on a surface level, I found Girlfriend to be an exceptionally bland rendition of the school-set slice of life category. The issues lie in its structure, as standalone episodes with generally no recurring characters are unable to enstablish the necessary emphatic link with the viewer, with the characters theirselv…
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