Audience reviews
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Erquint
Great characters, except Iori being blank and inconsistent, and the two demons essentially being one character. So many anime desperately miss a gem that the Azusa character is… And she is sadly the only seinen part about this anime, considering how little screen time Nanaka is given aside from gags.
Awful writing ruined very promising potential of the show. One half of it is repetitive, the other is ad-hoc incohesive jokes for the sake of filler telegraphed from a mile away. The spotty drama is suffocated. The undeniably interesting characters are not given the room to develop. Not to mention it has almost nothing to do with diving and the main plot has almost no progression at all.
All-in-all a sad drawn-out disappointment. Would rate much lower if not for characters.
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While humour is indeed super subjective and many people finding Grand Blue one of if not the funniest manga & anime ever is ok and they are entitled to have that opinion but good god I do not see the vision at all.
Most of the comedy is just wacky faces or guys doing stupid shit or haha these men got naked for the 40th time isn't that hilarious? no sorry but just no it isn't and rarely do they ever go beyond those same old hat tricks that weren't that good the first time and definitely aren't by the 40th time, when the show finally does jokes around something different like the bartender bit it can be amusing but those moments are rare and fleeting.
Most of the characters are just annoying af / one trick ponies like most of the guys are just stupid and get naked alot funny, one girl is a…
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I went into this show with a lot of expectations, thanks to all the hype. People kept saying, "Oh, it's one of the funniest anime out there," and honestly, I feel like I missed the joke. Don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate over-the-top humor and ridiculous situations, but this? It just felt like it was trying too hard most of the time. Like that one friend at a party who keeps telling the same joke, hoping someone will laugh, but you’re just sitting there sipping your drink, waiting for it to end.
Let’s talk about Iori, the main guy. The dude has zero backbone. I get it, he’s supposed to be this everyman thrown into absurd situations, but come on, bro, stand up for yourself! Watching him constantly get dragged into drinking contests or stripped down to his underwear while he just awkward…
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I’ve never once thought of an anime as vile filth before, and I have watched some bad anime but none were as repulsive to watch as this. This series is just a high schoolers juvenile imagination about what University life is like. This is just a bunch of frat guys getting drunk and naked and there is rarely a laughable gag in sight. This was outdated in 2018 before the world went all PC and it’s even more outdated now. Multiple counts of the same two felonies are committed repeatedly throughout the series and is treated for laughs. Well I’m not laughing. In fact, any attempt at actual serious development is instantly ruined by the fact that it wants to do a gag in the middle of a serious scene. This is supposedly very popular but I have no idea why, it’s just trash.
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Is the peak of comedy in praise of a masculinity that is years behind the times?
Ignoring the tendentiousness of my introductory question, I had some expectations with this series, seeing that it is no less than number ELEVEN in the manga charts here (to give you an idea, it is above series like Kingdom, Punpun, Houseki No Kuni, 20th Century Boys and Nana) and also that a couple of acquaintances had recommended it to me. So I said, well, I'm not in the mood for dense and dramatic stuff, and it's 12 chapters long, so if I like it, I'll pick up the manga. Why not give it a chance?
You can see that the people I know aren't immune to adoring things that outside the weeb spectrum wouldn't get half as much praise as they do. And mind you, not every seinen has to be a drama about the human exis…
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This show did not age well at all. The jokes here are so lame and predictable I hate to even call it a comedy. I don't think there's a single original joke in the entire thing. I only watched this because it was on the recommended tab of Prison School, which is one million times funnier in every conceivable way. Prison School is laugh-out-loud funny while this show is more like a school drama with goofy characters. All the characters are boring. MC overreacts to every situation by making silly faces even when there's no reason to. This might actually be one of the worst comedies I've ever seen.
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I don't understand why this anime has such a rating, nor why it belongs to the seinen category. If this anime is for anyone, that is for teenagers, for killing time. I was expecting an interesting story of students at the university, interesting events related to the diving club, interesting characters, but there is nothing of that. The characters are boring and one dimensional, actually they are all the same, there is not a single interesting character worth mentioning here. The whole anime boils down to casual conversations that should be funny but aren't, they're also pointless and cringe. There is no plot, no character development, it is not even humorous. I didn't laugh once while watching this. All I see here are bad attempts at comedy scenes. The only thing that is good is art.
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A series that doesn't have a single boring episode.
You like drinking? Naked men? Good jokes?
I did enjoy watching the show so much. This has to be one of the funniest shows that I've watched so far. Even though the jokes were good the face impressions and animations made it the best.
The storyline was okay but still maybe pointless sometimes. But it did not really bother that much.
Also once in a while Main characters and supporting characters were really good. I mean Tokita, Kotobuki and other were as good as all of four MC's.
I am hoping for s2 as there would easily be enough source material for it.
Read at the sourceStradivarios
A review for LAZY PEOPLE
SUMMARY:
not bad but not good ether
DETAILS:
if you wanna chill after a long day of working u can watch it, but if your a comedy fan and looking for something great don't waste ur time. Its a monotone anime with no ending just some guys that get naked and drink all the time with some gag humor that's it. OVERALL:
i give it a 6 and that`s generous, nothing special but there is some moments when u will laugh.
PEACE :)
Note: why can't we write a short and precise review in this website !!
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WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!
Grand what the fuck am I doing with my life? A review.
Episode 1:
Grand Blue starts off like any iconic slice of life anime main character is in a vehicle traveling to a new area where he doesn't know anyone or anything about, so you can explore this land together. He lives with his uncle who may seem normal but judging from his personality and hairstyle you can quickly catch on that he is a raging homosexual completely out of the lords reach. After a brief look at the ocean and some fan service the main character opens the doors of the bar his uncle owns and immediately gets hazed by a bunch of drunk college boys. In this bar we meet two main characters (at least I think they are as there shown in the opening and throughout the episode). I don’t bother le…
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This is a short review.
So a lot of people said this was one of the, if not the, most hilarious anime out there. I will sadly have to disagree, but that's mostly a personal thing as I don't find a lot of the humour in Grand Blue particularly hilarious. Some of it is funny, and after episode 5 or so I actually started to like the show more but regrettably I cannot say it tops my list of comedies.
My issues with Grand Blue are the repetitiveness of the jokes and the general tone of the show. I'm not a young man (I'm over 30) who likes to drink or lust after women so I don't connect to the humour a lot of the time, and constant miscommunication is a big pet peeve of mine. I did not hate the show (well, I hated the first episode but it got better) but I wouldn't say I found it overly hilario…
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I was in a phase where i was watching a lot of trash 12 eps anime. I had lost almost all my enjoyment, but i couldn't stop from watching more trash anime. Then, one day, somebody told me to watch Grand Blue. I tought it was one more trash anime, but it was like an illumination...
I actually laughed.
I actually enjoyed my time.
It actually changed my life.
I gave Grand Blue such a high note because it was one of the most funny things i ever watched. Even if they repeated the joke, it was still very funny.
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Corny. That word is the best way to describe this absolute abomination of a show. When you combine all the corny arcs of Gintama, remove the relatable characters and make them just there to be "funny", you get Grand Blue. For 12 episodes, I maybe only laughed once or twice but that is about it. The way they exaggerate things is what pisses me off the most here. It is just so poorly executed.
All in all. Story is non-existent and characters are straight-up trash. 1/10 maybe 0 if I can. Art is pretty decent and the opening is pretty good. I forgot about the ed song though but still story and characters are what matters the most.
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Funniest, hilarious, rolling on the floor laughing....
It is the funniest anime I've ever watched. And no one even came close to the laughter this series gave me. Now the other comedy series like saitama, konosuba, haganai, arakawa under the bridge, bungou stray dogs... Doesn't even compare to it. Female charecter are normal (except one , but that gives a spice to the females) and no one in the boys is normal... The face they make can make you die laughing, the ideas of boys.... Everything about boys is depicted in a hilarious way.
I can say by no doubts, it is the funniest anime ever
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Grand Blue is a Zero-G comedic anime from last year. I can't speak to the quality of their work in general since I only found thirteen titles listed for them and haven't seen any of them. It's based off of a manga by Inoue Kenji. Well, I like a lot of slice of life comedies so this may be relevant to my interests. Let's take a look.
Story:
Our protagonist is Kitahara Iori. A young man who moves into his Uncle's place while attending college. Once there, he's immediately marked by the diving club, which is made up largely of drunken morons who can't keep their clothes on. They coerce him into joining, sensing a kindred spirit. The series basically covers Iori's exploits and club activities.
Let's start with the massive, gaping issue with the series. It isn't funny. For the vast majorit…
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This is one of the most boring and unfunny shows that I've ever seen in my life.
Our main character moves into his uncle's diving shop, Grand Blue where he met almost all of the cast. I expected to find creative jokes and interesting characters but I was very disappointed.
The show barely try doing something new and becomes repetitive easily. The predominant jokes are: naked guys drinking, Kouhei and Iori fighting, forced misunderstanding and, to a lesser extent, Iori's friends harassing fellow virgin friends. I don't have any problems with this type of jokes (except the last one) but they are introduced so many times in a short time. Honestly, it's a little annoying. The worst part is that the show almost never try to have a cohesive pacing with the jokes.
The characters didn't help…
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"This is a diving anime... Yes.. Grand Blue is indeed a diving anime only." - Typical Grand Blue audience.
When you look at the comedy industry of anime, it is always topping-off the reviews, charts and everything. Why? Because either it has a good story with ton of great jokes, or the show is just very riduculous and have great humour. If you notice it, comedic anime are mostly in the school genre (specifically High School) which make sense because teenagers often goof up on school unlike adults who focuses on their life more. Then here we have Grand Blue, that is not a high school anime but college instead. Grand Blue is one of many comedy anime out there this Summer 2018 that offers us laughter that can relate to college students out there. And for some reason this anime offers diving…
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College life is a bit different from high school. For those who don’t know, it’s like venturing into a society where some people live by the rules and others makes them. To me, Grand Blue came as a show that explored a carefree life while mixing in adult humor, diving elements, and drinking shenanigans. It’s one of those shows that is hard to not laugh your ass off once you realized what you’re in for.
Based on the manga written by Kenji Inoue, Grand Blue stands out more as a modern slice of life that adheres to a young adult cultural society. Here, we meet a guy named Iori Kithara who starts his new life as a college student on the Izu Peninsula. His place of residence happens to be a diving shop known as “Grand Blue” and thus where daily life adventure begins. Now, I should say right of…
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"In Japan, the color blue signifies youth, a time of excitement and infinite possibilities"
Hello everyone , this is my review of funniest show of this season and one of the best gag comedy i had ever seen in anime ..
so Lets begin
Intro:
Imagine what you expect when you going to college, we develop a lot of preconceptions about what it would be like i mean New places, new friends, maybe a new girlfriend. Go to some parties, maybe find somewhere I felt like I could really fit in and all that wonderful dreamy thought. Well our main protagonist Imagination is no different than an average student who just entering the college.
After graduating high school, Iori moves to Izu, on the coast, to go to college for mechanical engineering. “I’ll put all my effort into having the best college lif…
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Entertaining Comedy?✓ Men who can't help but get drunk and strip?✓ Awkward Virgin friends?✓ Misunderstandings?✓
Grand Blue is one of the funniest anime I have seen in a while. In a full on comedy anime, a plot is probably one of the least important aspects. To me, a comedy anime is all about the enjoyable characters and overall entertainment. And Grand Blue has all of those.
Like most comedy anime, it operates with a very basic story- a college freshman being all excited to have a great college life.
However, it doesn't go as planned when he's forced to join a "diving club", in which the members drink and strip more than dive (there still is diving I assure you). Yes, it's pretty ridiculous already, but it gets even better as the show progresses and more characters get introduced.
The…
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