Audience reviews
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The power of friendship helps you realize that it isn't gay to like Sanrio as a man.
Listen, I'm not trying to trash the "friendship is magic" or "all you need is some friends" kind of shows. But the execution here was so painful and cringe it's worse than half the brainrot I see on TikTok. I felt so bored that I almost dropped it. Almost. But I stayed, hoping the characters would stop preaching self-acceptance and actually grow a little. Maybe even let me down a bit. It felt oddly performative, like it was written by someone who had never actually met teenage boys before. Now, maybe if we had a show "Labubu Boys"....
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The character design could have been more better. Some minor details could have been corrected.
After getting new friends our character Kouta Hasegawa completely ignored his old friends that was definitely not good according to theme of this show.
The theme of the show was good though.
The background characters had their own charm and were completely mixing well with the show.
Overall the show was good.
I do recommend watching it.
Love for cute things among boys is uncommon but cute things are cute however you look at them, so I really liked the idea behind this show.
All the 5 boys excluding Kouta Hasegawa stand out in their own way and the presence and absence of Kouta Hasegawa wouldn't have made any difference in the show. But some spicyness is needed and Kouta is tailor made to add thi…
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For what it's worth, Sanrio Boys is a decently forgettable Sanrio advertisement.
The story itself is basic with the attractive main cast liking certain Sanrio characters and developing a friendship. It's not much, but at times it feels heartwarming to know that friendship comes from all kinds of places, especially through Sanrio. While the show primarily focused on the characters' bond, there were some reverse harem elements where a character would break the fourth wall and say some one-liner to tug my heartstrings. It puts me off and it just feels like they were talking to air.
Speaking of which, the characters are fine I guess. I don't hate them nor love them. They are just what I would expect in a reverse harem situation if a heroine were to appear. The main character had some self e…
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Sanrio Danshi (Mai Ando, 2016). Sanrio sponsored anime Sanrio Danshi is a brief slice of life anime detailing the friendship of five high school boys, while also acting as advertising and public relations for Sanrio's products, which range from Hello Kitty-Cinnamoroll to Pomupomupurin. Hasegawa Kouta's (the young, dramatically naïve type) relationship with his late grandmother and Pomupomupurin acts as the underlying narrative thread from which sprout the varying considerations of friendship.
Stylistically, it appears as good as any other high school slice of life though the face animations suffer slightly in more complex angles and the background is, as with smaller animations, lacking detail. The diegesis of Sanrio Danshi is intentionally small; there is little to explore outside the sc…
Read at the sourceNid_Vicious
Since it’s pretty clear that this Anime shows a lot of Sanrio stuff etc., I want to focus on everything else. This review might contain very minor spoilers.
So, I watch a lot of darker or more serious stuff, so I try to balance it out by watching comedic or downright silly stuff. A lot of people wrote that this show was lighthearted, so I thought OK, why not.
The subject matter of the first episode was not that lighthearted, to be honest - I was actually touched because I’m a bit sentimental that way. The first episode left me thinking 'well that's not lighthearted at all'.
It starts out pretty serious with a sob story about the protagonist and how his weird complexes destroyed his childhood memories. The next backstory of another character (whose relationship with his sister has a weird,…
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This is a fine anime. That's about it. It's really lighthearted and fun, focusing on selling cute toys using cute boys. The characters are all cute, they all fit the common archetypes and play them well enough. This story isn't trying to do anything amazing or break barriers, its what I would call a background anime, something to only spend haft of your attention. I t can get a bit cringy when the show tries to add in serious moments. The biggest thing that I liked though, was that even though it's an anime to sell toys it doesn't force it down your throat, its naturally introduced and isnt there is an actual story instead of just being a long commercial.
Overall, its an ok anime and something to watch for a bit of mindless fun.
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10/10 slideshow.
I really like animes centered around guys, cute stuff, and I really like sanrio; so when I found about this show when it came out I decided to give it a try. I watched half the anime but lost interest since the conflict was pretty tedious and not at all interesting. I came to revisit it and I still am not that interested or invested into the story. Too much time is spent with them just standing with music in the background to fill in runtime at the middle portion of episodes, would probably be more enjoyable as a manga, the characters don't really flow that well; their friendship doesn't really seem like a good dynamic early on. Though the episodes and dynamic do get better near the end, Personally I think the conflicts early on weren't paced right. To be honest the sanri…
Read at the sourceKoroSenseiLaugh
This is my first ever review :3
Sanrio Danshi is not a bad anime but it is not a great anime either. What makes it good is how it dwells with the main characters feelings about not fitting in and how he feels about not kira kira ing like the others. It talks about embracing what we like no matter what others may think. Each personal story is good but the animations take a lot from it being great. The depictions of the Sanrio characters are very kawaii and it jump started a new addiction towards Sanrio (I guess it achieved what it wanted, to boys to like sanrio even more.) It made me think about many moments I suffered for hiding something I like, but now I am prouder than ever of my favorite things.
Story 5: It's good but it could have been more developed and not as dramatic at times, s…
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There have been many amazing Animes featuring some kind of boy group like Idolish7, Ouran Host club, Free and many others and they all have very unique characters who could either be relatable, likeable or both but this Anime...
Although me myself am a huge fan of Sanrio, this anime would not be a representation of why.
Story: 7
I can see that this Anime was trying to tell it's audience that you could like whatever you like, if people think it's masculine or feminine, too cute or gross just like whatever you like, love whatever you love and don't let those around you change who you are. Well they try and tell this message in a very vague way.
The story itself is okay, not exactly very exciting but I do believe they could've done better, if it weren't for all the advertising. This anime…
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Sanrio Danshi is like Free! if instead of swimming they bonded over commercial corporate mascot characters. It's weird.
It's super weird how there’s SO MUCH commentary on this show is about soft masculinity or something because of how much ANN/etc hates harsh masculine men and not on the weird emotional connection to corporate products that is MADE by that same corporation in order to push MORE emotional attachment.
Listen, I'm not the type to preach to you that capitalism is evil, but a show that's entire purpose is to attach sentimentally to corporate product is weird. And I kind of hate how good the character design, art design and color design is for it. It's great. It's absolutely beautiful to look at.
Man, it's weird seeing a show attach real emotions to straight up corporate pro…
Read at the sourceSquidlici0us
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TL;DR: This is a decent anime about 5 boys sharing a similar interest in Sanrio products (such as Hello Kitty, Purin Dog, My Melody, and etc) and their personal issues around liking a non-masculine/feminine subject. If you like something cute and average, you'll like this.
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Even though it isn't bringing much to the table animation wise, the overall arc of all the main boys is very well done and relatable on a personal level, especially liking things and being bullied for it by family or society in general.
Heartwarming scenes aside, the anime doesn't stand out alot. Really should've had it's own style since it was related to sanrio like having pastel backgrounds or having solid colors for the characters while the backgrounds are decorat…
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Started: 1/7/18
Finished: 3/25/18
Hey babies! So sorry for the delay...my life these past few months have been a complete mess, BUT I am in the process of getting back on my feet, financially, emotionally and spiritually.
Sanrio Danshi or Sanrio Boys was very dear to me because I’ve a HUGE hello kitty fan. I remember the first time I fell in love with Hello Kitty...It was the year 2000 and I was in the Spring semester of my kindergarten year and I was on the bus to go home. I was wearing long, dark brown crochet braids my mom did herself and they were blowing in my face aggravating me. Suddenly, there was a nice older kid about seven or eight years old who leaned over my seat and offered me a scrunchy...but it wasn’t an ordinary scrunchy, it was a blue scrunchy with a cute white cat dre…
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When I saw that there'll be an anime that contains pretty boys and Sanrio, I was HYPED. I grew up with Sanrio characters, mostly Hello Kitty and Cinnamoroll, so I was looking forward to what this anime will offer.
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Sanrio Dashi may have been an informercial for Sanrio products, but that doesn't mean it can't be an enjoyable anime. I appreciate the message they gave in the first half of the anime. I can relate and understand each character's struggles when it comes to having unusual interests. While the anime did have a nice message around the first half, the anime kinda fell flat around the second half with the 'I want to sparkle' plot. I understand with what they're going for, but it wasn't executed properly and some episodes felt blah. Another issue I had is how most of the drama…
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This is like a very long but cute informercial for Sanrio. That said, I appreciated the character development and wanting more. The premise is simple and direct and alot of teenagers, boys and girls can relate to - the importance of friendships. I like that they weave in the Sanrio characters into the story line, and there are tons of cute moments. I'm not a My Melody fan, but I LOVE Yuu. Artwork is done well, I can appreciate the experience. Would love to see more of it, especially at the very end they introduced 2 more characters that there's no time to develop. Look forward to more.
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Sanrio Danshi is something that at times can touch closely to my heart. I have a lot of experience with liking something that doesn't fit with what society expects of them. Sanrio Danshi uses this as the principal conflict that drives many of the early episodes. And personally, I think it nails it. There are struggles that the characters go through that reminds me of my own experience. One of the tough issues with being different from society's expectations is dealing with that difference, a lot of times one will hide it because of the pushback they received. Sanrio Danshi is adept at being able to show all of the different emotions and experiences that can come from this difference and liking something that is different from what one would expect. Many different ways of dealing with it, f…
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Sanrio Danshi is a pretty relaxing show with some conflict that each character eventually goes through. There is a lot of promoting of Sanrio merch and Puroland, but that's expected from an anime about Sanrio. Despite that, it had a nice message throughout the series: liking things that other people might think is not acceptable for your age is ok. I find that kind of relatable myself when I know people who think anime is for kids only, but fortunately I've found friends my age or older who appreciate anime. All the characters were quite different but they all loved a different Sanrio characters. The story overall is a pretty simple typical school show involving boys with similar interests hanging out, so it didn't leave a big impression compared to other school shows. If you want a show t…
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