Audience reviews
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dakotasapphire
There comes a time in every anime viewers life when they come across something seemingly unique and are compelled to watch it. Either through stunning visuals, or an interesting synopsis, we dive into an anime world knowing full well it might just end up being 'meh.' Right, so here I arrive with this anime, Aoharu x Kikanjuu.
Story: It was a 'good' story. The whole premise of them becoming the best in Japan at survival games was interesting, and kept me in it for the long run. What I didn't like is how they kept speeding things up further than they'd need to, they squished a lot into one 12 episode anime leaving me somewhat unsatisfied.
Art: Possibly the strongest point this anime had. The action scenes were what kept me watching this, and the creepy close up shots on many of the charac…
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I liked that this anime about something different at sports with thats guns but I just hated that this girl (Tachibana Hotaru) can't just to say her group that she is a girl and its really pissing me off.
I just liked the guns and it characters because only characters as Midori Nagamasa and more saves this anime from the my top 3 worsest anime.
Many emotions do not saves this anime which is a shame.
And I think that everyone can watch this anime but just to love the characters and guns, shame for the story.
Hope for more interesting story for the future.
Read at the sourceKadrian
At first, I was like, another weak girl anime? But actually, the girl is a tomboy and as you venture further into the anime, you might even forget that 'he' is a 'she'. It has great action scenes, even though it is fake gun game but it has the atmosphere of a real gun battlefield.
It is something like Ouran HighSchool Host Club.
It has really great action scenes and heart-warming moments, and of course, heart-breaking moments. But the ending is really happy, FYI.
Well, Please do give it a try if you are on the fence about this anime. It has great arts that is for sure!
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Picture the bishounens of Ouran High School Host Club with guns. Toy guns.
Yeah, it's about good-looking guys playing in survival games. Although those who have watched Ouran High will primarily notice so many similarities between these two shows that it kinda creeps you out.
But don't worry, as the story progresses the similarities will fade out.
STORY-6
The one thing I noticed about the story is the pacing. The pacing is inconsistent; some things that could be resolved quickly were dragged and things that are supposed to be given more screen time is cut short.
For example, Tachibana the MC was almost immediately free of his debt, after we witnessed them playing like once or twice. The same goes for the biggest event;TGC, after Toy Gun Gun's (the MC'S group) match with Hoshishiro, there…
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Eleventh Review....Aoharu x Kikanjuu!
This series was introduced to me by a good friend of mine, she knew the type of anime that I am into so she suggested I watch this one. About a Girl pretending to be a Boy in order to be on a Shooting Team - Toy Gun Gun.
At first I was a bit iffy in the idea that the girl pretends to be a boy, however I watched the first episode together with my friend and I absolutely loved it. I loved the fact that Hotaru (The Main Character) still has her friend and it shows us a bit of her everyday life before getting straight into the main event.
The story was well designed, about a tournament between Gun Shooting (Pretty much BB Pellets) and this team that Hotaru finds herself in. I really got into the story and enjoyed the series a lot, once I had watched…
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Watchable anime but missing things are a lot of. We have half powerful main characters who is actually she but he but her friends know her as he but actually
he's she.
So we have a girl who's he.
I can get If she doesn't have big breasts but this one was a bit nonsense cause I don't think a girl who's have a very masculine voice will cause that other ones think she's a male.
Our main character is currently he but If this get 2nd season She must admit he's actually she In my opinion or this Anime will be boring so much..!
Read at the sourceBanjoTheBear
(This has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
I have never shot a gun. I have held my uncle’s small pistol, though. He carries it around for self-defense purposes. He let me hold the weapon during a birthday party for one of my relatives, and I, rather stupidly, raised the gun up instead of aiming it downwards. Everyone was quick to yell at me and for good reason. Guns are dangerous. We watch action flicks, we play first-person shooters, and we read jokes about weapons, desensitizing us to their power. It is not until one is wielded that someone truly understands what it is that he or she is holding.
Before real guns, there are the imitations, usually called BB guns. They shoot pellets, not bullets, but they are still dangerous and, for some, as fun as the real thin…
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[airsoft] [genderbend] [almost BL] [drama; lots of] [originality] [real friendship]
I just feel in love with this anime and I don't even know why.This was so impressive and fresh (!) that I even got passed the "flashbacks" and "naruto-alike-speach" and senseless drama by the MC. In fact a got so passed that I went rampage-watching this non-stop, really, all night long, really, couldnt stop myself!
Story - 8: an eight is great, such a fresh fluid plot, but there was something missing at the end (there is probably gonna be a 2 season guess that's why). They made something this amazing around simply airsoft and friends!
But really, it is so hard for an anime to get me not to drop it in the middle and this one even got me straight going non-stop, therefore this story…
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A surprisingly enjoyable series that is less plot driven and more character driven. The story wasn't terrible but it also wouldn't have been as engaging had it not been for its wonderfully interesting cast of characters. While I found Hotaru extremely off-putting initially, especially her use of illeism, eventually I grew to tolerate her and even found her somewhat endearing by the finale. Others I loved right off the bat: Yukki and Fujimon are hands down my favorites. One I can relate to so well, the other is basically a giant puppy.
You pick up early on that AxK thrives on being extreme. At times, it's almost ridiculous how much weight they give the survival games and it teeters at the edge of being overly dramatic. The characters as well, while lovable, are also very predictable in te…
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Well then.... Second season maybe?
Short Summary:
Tachibana Hotaru is a high school student who is mistaken as a boy when in fact she is a girl.
Through strange circumstances she finds herself in the world of survival by a host, Matsuoka Masamune. They form a team with a ero-manga artist Yukimura Tooru and aim to be the best in Japan.
So to start off:
Japan are you getting in that trend for survival games?
There has been a few survival game animes lately; not that I don't like it but is it a trend in Japan now??
The story was so-so because so far I've seen two similar animes where one gets super dark later on and the other is just comedy based.
This on the other hand is like a mixture of both; just slightly.
The story follows the world of survival games and how it came into Hotaru's li…
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The first thing i noticed when i came to the page for aoharu x kikanjuu is thet there are surprisingly high rated reviews about this anime
now the best i can do here is keep it short and just start off with some redeeming points for the show
1) art
the art while not especially good or anything does not fall below the average mark
and the only reason i decided to watch the anime was because of the display photo if it on anicha*t
2) animation
again not great but has a couple of the moments in the show as well as the end part of the opening theme where i thought that this might actually give the show some points
3) sound
nothing stood out
opening was a little above average i guess
Now im sure there is a huge list of flaws but i'll try to list the major ones
1) story
terrible writing…
Read at the sourceNekoMinSeo
Boy, Aoharu x Kikanjuu was one weird anime. It's seriously either a hit or miss with it; if you expect something similar to Ouran, walk away, you won't get it. Even if it could be, somehow, categorized as a reverse harem (depends how you look at it; at the core it's stil about one girl surrounded by bishies that get some kind of liking to her, romantic or just simply interest), the point and story of the show is something else entirely.
Story - 5
It's plain mediocre. Nothing really happens and nothing really gets concluded, besides Mattsun's self-victimizing perception of himself and others, maybe and Tachibana and Yukimura's developed friendship. The sketchy thing going around is the survival game part of it. Half of the show feels like some sort of Kuroko no basket; inventing skills th…
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ok so first off, I personally think a LOT of people do not give this Anime the credit it deserves. True there are some similarities between AoharuxKikanjuu and OHSHC so yeah. But really, with out all of the comparisons, I do believe this show has a pretty good plot line. I think people were hoping for a gory ripped limb from limb kind of anime. well they were sad Pandas once they realized that it was AirSoft wars... which were pretty well represented... Like seriously... have you ever been shot at point blank by a high powered battery operated air soft gun with hard plastic pellets? No? than you have NO idea how serious these "death battles" can be. Trust me you do everything in your power to avoid being shot at point blank.... OUCH!!!! X0 and yes I have participated in Airsoft war games.…
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Aoharu x Kikanjuu is a fantastic anime. It is an awesome gender bender, an awesome sports anime, and an awesome friendship story. I feel like a lot of people ended up not liking this anime because they based their opinions off of the first two episodes and then were shocked with the turn it made once it really started in the 3rd ep. I want to clarify-- this is not Ouran High School Host Club with machine guns. There IS a host club in the beginning, there IS a girl who wears pants instead of a skirt, she DOES break something and initially is forced to play on a team to repay her debts, and yes they mistake her as a dude. But this doesn't matter. After the 3rd ep, none of that matters because the beginning was just a quick means to introduce the main character to survival games (aka paintbal…
Read at the sourceDag4444
Blah blah, Ouran High School Host Club, blah blah. I haven't even seen that one, so I don't care and went in expecting nothing. That aside, Aoharu x Kikanjuu is one of the worst anime I've seen in a long time. I cannot say anything good about this one.
The story follows main character Hotaru Tachibana, a reverse trap with a strong sense of justice. Hotaru is put under the impression that her friend Kanae was treated badly at this host club she visited. She goes to investigate and gets into a survival game (airsoft gun fight) with the place's owner, Masamune Matsuoka. The place gets damaged in the process, and Hotaru is forced to join his survival games team, Toy Gun Gun (a really dumb name that they even point out as being dumb), in order to pay off the damages. This ends up just being an…
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Meet Hotaru Tachibana, a girl with a strong sense of justice. She is easily mistaken for a boy, because of her broad shoulders, short hair, and confrontational attitude. She has an altercation with a host named Masamune Matsuoka, who mistakes her for a boy. In order to pay for the damage she caused, she joins his survival game group, Toy Gun Gun. The only problem? Girls aren't allowed!
I believe the best way to describe Aoharu's issues in a word is: disorganized. There's comedy, but this isn't a comedy anime. There's some drama, but this isn't drama or tragedy anime. There's a cross-dressing female, but this isn't a gender bender. And there's some action, but this is by no means an action anime. Like anime such as Kekkai Sensen, Aoharu x Kikanjuu spreads itself too thin over too many genr…
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Aoharu x Kikanjuu proves yet again how easy it is to take an interesting idea and stuff it full of unnecessary complications.
Story and Characters:
The story starts as Tachibana (actually a girl) mistakenly accuses a guy of seducing his, I mean her, friend. As compensation he has her join his airsoft team. Other than the strange fact that Tachibana never cares to correct people as to her gender, everything starts out okay. But this later becomes an unnecessarily large conflict when it's state the team MC join doesn't take girls.
Unfortunately the show becomes less about airsoft and more about the ridiculous drama and conflict between MC's team, Toy Gun Gun, and another team Hoshishiro. The airsoft battles are okay, but you'd expect more in the way of strategy. The show draws little actu…
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SPOILER FREE REVIEW:
If you are looking for a short, funny and enjoyable anime, with simple art and nice backgrounds, you should consider watching this anime.
Story (6 out of 10): The beginning may seem like Ouran Host Club, but that's really just the first episode. The story revolves about a high school girl Tachibana Hotaru, who got drawn into the world of survival games by her two neighbours to repay a debt - the twist is that her two team-mates don't know that she's a girl (girls are forbidden in their team).
If you want an anime with a deep and spectacular story, this might not be the anime. Don't get me wrong, I loved the story and it's quite simple and enjoyable. It was funny and the ending was great (somehow, the endings in anime always disappoint me, but this wasn't really the…
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I first started watching Aoharu x Kikanjuu simply because I thought the art was beautiful. I had no idea what it was about at all.
And thus, I can easily say that the art is one of the best points of the series (in my opinion), along with the soundtrack.
After the first (few) episodes, I was surprised to see that I actually enjoy a series with 'survival games' as its theme/plot/however to call it.
Story 8/10
In my opinion, the story itself could be much better if the pace were slower. If the actions, games and such were more detailed, with more depth.
Still, I liked the general idea of the survival games and tournaments and such.
Art 10/10
Like I've mentioned above, the art is the reason I actually started the series and of course, there are many animes with outstanding art, but in m…
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I don't think I've ever seen an anime with as many blatant plot holes and as much inconsistent writing as Aoharu x Kikanjuu. Now that doesn't mean it's the worst anime ever made (it definitely isn't), but it has a huge amount of wasted potential due to its weak story, horrendous characterization, and the fact that the author is seemingly completely clueless about how airsoft works.
Initially the anime feels like something quite similar to Ouran Koukou Host Club as the protagonist is a girl (Tachibana Hotaru) crossdressing as a boy who ends up becoming indebted to a popular guy (Matsuoka Masamune) who works as a host in the city. This notion is then quickly proven highly inaccurate as Matsuoka forces Tachibana to come join his "survival game" team and participate alongside him in an upcomi…
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