Audience reviews
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mayanightstar
I came across this anime on my quest to watch the lowest rated slice of life anime here, and I don't know why it's rated so low. I had a really great time watching it and I would recommend it to anyone. Plus, the episode run time is so short you really have nothing to lose.
The show falls on a LOT of cliches, but given the absolutely absurd premise, this is actually a strength. Like, what if generic idol academy competition plot, but RICE??? I mean, canonically within the universe of this show, rice people have rice water for blood. This comes up more than once, this is consistent world building we're talking about. They just triple down on the rice thing and don't look back, and it had me screaming-laughing and crying-laughing more than once.
A lot of the rice puns get lost in translati…
Read at the sourcearborescere
Last night, my husband and I saw the name and read the synopsis; we decided we were in. I don't know why so many reviews are negative. The humor is 99% puns and simply outlandish situations taken straight. We both enjoyed it and started the second season as of writing this.
The characters are the usual archetypes but not done obnoxiously or too on-the-nose. The situations made us actually laugh out loud a few times throughout.
On the negative side, the ending felt sudden and a bit rushed. Not that it's out-of-the-blue or anything it just seemed to be doing one thing and suddenly changed instead of a bit more gradual.
Read at the sourceAyani_S_Eleri
So I found this show on a whim one night just scrolling through Crunchyroll.I didn't think much of it, but then I read the description and hurt myself laughing. That's the moment where I decided "Oh yeah I gotta watch this". I didn't get around to it till now because I knew, despite my excitement, that this show was going to be terrible. I was ready for this hot mess of a "animation" so to livin things up a little bit I decided to roll the dice and show it to my friends, and the experience was euphoric. It was an hour of absolutely bliss purely due to the confusion and absolute chaos that was occurring. We gave character nicknames because god forbid you try to remember the actual names, we spent like the entire first season wondering why the hell it got a second season, and overall the sho…
Read at the sourceWhatDothLife
Minor Spoilers.
Yes, I know. I get it. It's a gimmick: a bunch of anthropomorphic (read: basically human) strains of rice set out to become the HarveStars in this food-based idol anime, glorifying white rice in what is essentially a propaganda piece/P.S.A. attempting to encourage more sales and growth of white rice.
With that bizarre scenario in mind, if you ride the irony, this show is absolutely hilarious. So much effort went into telling the facts of the grains industry and real world problems facing it, inserted clumsily into the actual character dialogue; you can almost imagine the meeting that was had in order to promote white rice effectively in the show. If you take into context the absolute corporate cynicism at display here, it becomes very humorous to think about, at least, fo…
Read at the sourceChopperS
I don't know why people disliked this show so much. I genuinely had a good time watching and I don't think you could ask for much more in a show that has 12 episodes with 4 minutes each (with +- 30 seconds in the end being a recipe + credits).
Yeah, the story is really weird and doesn't make sense sometimes, but this show is obviously not supposed to be taken seriously, it's supposed to be funny and entertain you for 4 minutes. For me, it delivered that.
Visually it's pretty and the characters are cute.
It's also pretty funny and the puns are awesome.
Read at the sourceJojimatthews
Actual rating 5.5/10
This show was an interesting experince, in many ways upon the surface it would appear similar to a great cooking manga/anime like Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou, Shinya Shokudo or Shokugeki no souma, and in terms of actual product it was similar to all three but in the worst way, the linking of the shorter charachter studies in this show were enough to retain one's attention but not enough to be engaging so it is almost an inverse of Shinya Shokudou, it lacks the requisite goofiness and identity through visual presentation to be as funny as Tonkatsu Dj Agetarou and it lacks the amazing presentation of cooking that is present in Shokugeki no souma.
BUT
The series as a whole had one other thing in common with these other series, Passion, there was a clear effort put into making…
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Do you love rice? Do you love boys? If yes, you'd better hand yourself in to the police. But before you do, you'd better watch Love Rice. It might make you reconsider your life choices.
Hinohikari is a boy who knows what he wants & what he wants is to be the HarveStar of the Harvest Show. There's just one problem: nobody likes rice any more, which is unfortunate enough when you're a rice-boy (not the car kind) but doubly so when it means the Kokuritsu Inaho Academy he attends is in danger of shutting down. Undeterred, Hinohikari will achieve his dream & save his school the only way he knows how; by joining a cross-dressing idol unit? Okay.
Rice Boys sets out to answer the ultimate question – which is better: bread or rice? After quickly ditching the women's clothes, the newly christened…
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