Introduction
Maiharu Hiromi has moved from Nagasaki to Kamakura. She begins her new life in Kamakura and her first day in Minami Kamakura High School by cycling to her school, but she has not ridden a bicycle in many years. On the way to the first day ceremony she almost crashes into Akizuki Tomoe. Obviously Hiromi needs a lot more practice, so Tomoe decides to help Hiromi train to become better at riding a bicycle, and they become good friends.
When they discover that the school used to have a bicycle club, the girls, together with Kamikura Fuyune and Higa Natsumi, resurrect the club naming it the Minami Kamakura High School Girls Bicycle Club.
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Audience reviews
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bollgrodan
The equivalent of booting up Animal crossing in anime form.
Drama free, no enemies, no intense tournaments like in other sports anime. Just a group of friends starting a bicycle club and enjoying the beautiful scenery in the places they visit. This anime is definitely not for viewers looking for high-stakes races against evil antagonists, but great for a cozy watch with enough action to keep you engaged in the story. Fulfilling the requirements for making the bicycle club official is the plot that ties the 12 episodes together, but they also introduce small conflicts that the characters have to solve each episode.
The show loses points due to its predictability, and the conflicts felt a bit too childish at times. The characters lack complexity and backstories, and most of their personal…
Read at the sourceRESOLVING_POWER
I watched Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu (including the Taiwan special), also known as Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club. Here are my thoughts:
The title of this anime accurately describes the content. There's minimal 'filler' material in here – the screentime is nearly always focused on cycling in some way. I appreciate anime that consistently stick to their theme, unlike so many other highschool anime which devolve into formulaic episodes unrelated to the show's main selling point. Minami Kamakura Jitensha-bu could be described as formulaic as well, in the sense that the storyboard is what you'd expect for a show about novice cyclists, but at least you won't have to suffer through a culture-festival episode or a typical beach episode. I was apprehensive about the…
Read at the sourceGoGoTsukiko
I'm sure every person here has, at one time or another, gorged themselves on something sickeningly sweet and ended up making themselves feel really ill. Well, this anime has the same effect. The main character is one of those nicey, nicey types who smiles with their mouth wide open. It's supposed to make them look adorable, but actually creates the impression that they're a brain-dead halfwit. A lovable one, of course.
This anime was so annoyingly nice, and everyone was so loving and friendly, after only a few episodes I wanted to set fire to my television. It was cringe-worthy. And yet the worse was still to come. In episode 8 an American appears. Sally. For those who can't abide dubbed anime because the horrible, valley-girl accents make characters appear one dimensional, dim-witted mor…
Read at the sourceSaucinator
The concept of cute girls doing cute things never gets old when it comes to an all girl anime, and applying sports makes it click, like how k-on adds the CGDCT and music.
the story is basically a slice of life for me, where everyday they encounter minor problems but in the end they accomplish it. Each episode there is always tips and tutorials on how to choose the right bike how to pedal how to use gears, you can all learn about cycling in this series especially in the end where they chow you the basics of cycling
the art style is pretty good the fact that its been aired 4 years ago because of the sport they chosen which is the cycling scenery is a must in every episode, and they hit the bullseye on this one
characters are pretty, yes pretty I didn't expect the animation and the art st…
Read at the sourceKyleRiley
Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitenshabu, in my opinion, only has 2 things going for it. It's incredible art design and background details, and how well they cast English speakers in their Japanese dub.
Of all the characters in Minami the only one I truly liked was Sandy, which is a shame since she only appears as a main cast member (and having any lines outside "KUMA!") starting in episode 8. Emiko Takeuchi did an amazing job making Sandy sound like an America who is fluent in Japanese but with a very obvious accent. Sandy's English was also incredibly well done as it sounds authentic. Anime generally have Japanese VAs who have very obvious Japanese accents dub English lines, or they miscast the character completely (an American having a British accent for example). Minami not only has a…
Read at the sourceAnimeFan48
Story: so the story starts out with Hiromi who starts riding a bike to school but on the way there meets a girl by the name of Tomoe and she kinda tells her how to ride a bike and such later down the line they have to look for a club (cause the school demands that you do) so they do meet 2 other girls and they decide to make a cycling club but the thing is they have to make certain requirements to make the club stay alive or risk getting it shut down so Hiromi and the girls do certain stuff like touring and racing in order for the club to stay alive (also i will admit that the story is kinda typical that Hiromi at first didn't really care for cycling that much than after meeting some people and what not she starts to like it) but again the story is decent for me.
Art: now a lot of people…
Read at the sourceTsurumiRumi
Firstly, let me say that I feel this anime would have done much better had it preceded Yowapeda, as I imagine a lot of people will be interested in this anime after already having seen the aforementioned and wanting more glorious bicycle action. Also, this is my first review and it's more than likely to contain a few accidental spoilers.
Now that that's out of the way, onto the review. I went into this anime with fairly low expectations but I was pleasantly surprised. Minami Kamakura focuses on the fun side of cycling, touring around, sightseeing, and just enjoying yourself with your friends or by yourself. It's a nice change from the other sports anime that I've seen which have been very competitive focused.
As this is the case however, it's going to lose a lot of it's audience for the…
Read at the sourceSeijiroUshio
For the past year I already saw three CGDCT/bike themed shows, out of that Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitenshi-bu was the one that I enjoyed the most, yet. While the three were all Slice of Life anime, this show has that SoL charm that I'm looking for. The info segment which discusses the do's and don'ts on bicycles, and the excursions on Kamakura to search for the best place for sightseeing added to the enjoyment value of the show.
The story and characters surely has it's striking resemblance to the other two shows of the past seasons, I had high expectations to it hoping to be a bit more orginal on this aspect, well much to my dissappointment it failed nevertheless there was still a part of it that I enjoyed and that was the criterium arc of the series which shows the camaraderie, tea…
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Ummm...Long Riders, LA thinks Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu will like to have a word with ya.....
Biking anime has been on the "rise" and this is anime feels like an above average endevour for this biking "sports" anime niche.
Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu is about a group of girls wanting to form a bicycle club in Minami Kamakura High School and through happenstance, challenges and tribulations they ride to form their club and look at the sights of Japan.
In terms of characters, we have our typical archetypes cast for this kind of anime. We have Hiromi Maiharu voiced by Reina Ueda, the main protagonist and our typical ditz and genki, Tomoe Akizuki voiced by Yuuki Hirose, our smart and stern one that keeps everyone in step, Fuyune Kamikura voiced by Natsumi Takamo…
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