Audience reviews
16 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Rian_Rahmat
I've re-watched this anime several times, and until now there has been no news of a second season, even though the story is still hanging and makes me curious.
Please make a second season for this anine.
This anime is very suitable for those who like the military, especially fighter planes, and in this anime you will be presented with fighter jets fighting against Zai.
Overall, I think this anime is very good, even though somehow the score is so small.
-Beautiful characters, voices and characteristics to match.
-Detailed graphics and colors that are pleasing to the eye.
-The airplane fight scenes are not stiff and good, there is no broken CGI like other anime.
-The storyline is not long-winded, there is normal everyday life but it doesn't spoil the tension, because there are already goo…
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If you were expecting an anime called "Girly Air Force" to be anything other than what was on the box I don't know what to tell you. It's got airplanes, it's got girls. The girls are airplanes. Or something. Like any number of other anthropomorphized girls representing guns or tanks or whatever show it's at that weird intersection of otaku culture between the horny and an obsession with military paraphernalia. Someone got their wires crossed and started drawing airplane porn in a more literal sense, and this is the SFW version that made it out into the world.
The plot is the kind where you know it doesn't matter, but it's honestly more reminiscent of a mecha anime than anything. The main girl has "get in the robot" syndrome and needs protagonist-kun to help her out. At least they aren't p…
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I came to watch "Girly Air Force" because of... "Shirobako". During the second half of that show, the cast made an anime of girls flying fighter planes called "Third Aerial Girls Squad". Both the theoretical show made by Musashino Animation (the fictional anime studio where "Shirobako" takes place) and this one have the same premise.
However coming into this show I found out instead that GAF tries to create a unique recipe from ordinary ingredients -- a determined but slightly dull MC, cute girls with pastel hairs, military hardware, an imouto figure to boot (voiced by my favorite Lynn-sama), and an unknown alien-like enemy -- to somehow lackluster results. As with the characters, they're somehow run off the mill using typical character traits: you've got MC Kei, genki girl Eagle, two-fac…
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I went into this show with moderate expectations, and was pleasantly surprised. Was expecting the CG battles to be much worse, but the studio pulled it off well, to the point where they were one of the most enjoyable parts of the show.
The plot was on the better side of typical LN fare, but still not for those who prefer "big brained" shows. I liked that a major element of the early episodes was Kei and Gripen working around each other's limitations, and also that despite the cast of cute girl characters it didn't really turn into a harem show. Even though you could reasonably guess the main cast was safe, I still felt a decent bit of suspense in the battles. The enemy certainly could have been more fleshed out, but their mysterious nature was also part of the atmosphere of the show.
I l…
Read at the sourceStangryn
I intend on this being a completely spoiler free review. Girly Air Force is about the definition of mediocre. If it was to be personified, it would be the guy in the room no one remembers because he is so incredibly average.
The art is nicely done, and CG isn't obtrusively done like so many other action anime. That alone gains it points in my book.
The audio was nicely done, but not so much the music. The music only seemed to really hit a high note (forgive the pun) one time for me... and it was in episode 12. This anime will not leave you humming any music from its intro, closing, battles, etc... it's just musically underwhelming.
The characters were pretty flimsy here as well, though I admit they were stronger than I'd have expected from something named "Girly Air Force"... so I gu…
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I started flying about two years ago and I have loved it ever since. When I saw this show recommended to me, I was on board with it since I would be able to "fully" understand the terminology. I knew I was going to be in for an interesting show when the opening scene consisted of a C182 (a very slow and stable training aircraft) at an airshow literally doing aileron rolls at high speeds. Needless to say I was surprised and unable to stop watching due to that surprise.
If you are an aviation enthusiast, you will probably enjoy the dogfights in this show. They were clearly designed by people who enjoy airplanes but never fly them. If you are a pilot, you will probably be intrigued by it once you find out the protagonist has over 150 flight hours in a "Cessna." (Not to be confused with the…
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I have control.......Or so as what original creator, Natsumi, Kouji, concepted, cu'z frankly using the concept of other worldly being out to invade planet earth and it's up to mankind to fight against these invaders was just too cliche to say the least, the worst part was that this anime has more to do with the relationship between a human Narutani, Kei and an anima Gripen. Now let's be honest around here, the way I look at this I kinda see this as more like a dream come true for the original creator Natsumi, Kouji, cu'z everything here was based from his novel of the same name and quite frankly this is his only success, given that 3 of his works weren't doing well, why he used a SAAB JAS Gripen to be part of the JSDAF instead of the F-16 was mainly because he has a fascination with such p…
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This is a review of the entire show and is filled with spoilers, and I repeat everything twice (most likely). With that said, we're diving right in.
I gave this show an overall of 5, which is probably way more than it deserves if I'm being honest.
The show goes off the basis that something called Xi (Or Zai) has invaded China and has begun attacking the rest of the world, and blah blah blah. I'm Sorry, if you were looking for a synopsis please refer to the anime's page.
There a couple of main points that for Character review seems to be quite off. We have Kei, who has a rather shallow character backstory, as he only gets to refer to being from China and something about XI with nothing else. He has a very close female friend-note- not sister- who follows him around with literally no deve…
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Well, it's a simple anime with a different proposition, but it fell into that cliche of harem, with ecchi and in that old story of something wanting to dominate the world, in this case they are the ZAI, a type of technology still quite mysterious. It could have been better, if they had developed better the characters, nothing happens between them, it seems that the winding that is seen in an end of harem anime, an example of this was the friend of the protagonist having no relevance, she existed only to have more girls on the screen.Overall, it's an anime that is minimally watchable
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
Arpeggio of Blue Steel....with Jet Fighters.
LA was expecting Girly Air Force to be the Kantai Collection of Jet Fighters type anime, yet nope, we have full blown harem with our main protagonist Kei Narutani voiced by Ryouta Osaka being separated from his family in China and forced to live in Japan due to an attack by mysterious beings called the Xi, fornately his childhood friend Minghua Song voiced by Lynn is with him. but with a chance encounter of an "Anima", a human manifestation of a jet fighter, he gets dragged along into defeating the Xi so that he can return home, but of course, more Anima comes in the battle and in lies the harem.
Girly Air Force does develop both it's characters and the world for such a harem anime.
In terms of characters, well..they are kinda boilerplate unf…
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Please note this review is intended to be read by those that have finished watching Girly Air force and while has been taken to minimize story related spoilers there may still be spoilers within character analysis. You have been warned.
Based off a popular light novel of the same name Girly Air force is a military, action and sci-fi genre anime that gives us the opportunity to see what will happen if one day during our lives in the modern age that humanity instead of expressing joy after coming into contact with a mysterious new faction that had discovered their planet instead finds itself in a desperate and grim battle for survival as the enemy now known as the Zai begin their campaign of terror against humanity. Despite the fierce resistance put up by the countries of Earth that is unl…
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Premise is good.
Too bad the origin story of the two sides was never explained in the first cour. I suppose the studio was gunning for a second season, but I would be really surprised if they get one, so this anime will probably leave us hanging forever.
Also unfinished are at least three of the five possible harem routes. That means that most of the enjoyment of this anime must come from the battles because the world and the romances remain woefully incomplete.
I do like the battles, though, so I did watch all the way till the end. The ending song Colorful Wing is great too, perhaps the only thing that will stick with me.
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This review will be super biased because Im writing this as a military stuff, jet fighter fan (I have an F18 keyring lol). I think you need to be a fan of these stuff to really enjoy this one. Apart from the ending which gets kinda interesting and some other interesting concepts too is a pretty avarage good-bad guys history, but I really enjoyed it! The art is kinda flashy with all those colors, I wished the "daughters" had more realistic colours and also the enemy designs felt kinda poor, they also felt like if they were just there to fit in the battle escenes, but it kinda makes sense after you get to the end. The dogfights were entertaining but also felt like they lack something else and the interactions with the other military stuff like the fleets and normal jet fighters I think they…
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Girly Air Force was not a "must watch" anime but a decent one for those who like air fights, jets and colorful haired girls.
At first, let's cover the negative points that contributed to GAF's low popularity. Hum, the thema itself was quite basic, with aliens named Zai coming on Earth with their very high technology which totally outmatched humanity's current one. Forced to fight, every national armies & research (at least Japanese, American & Russian as we know) managed to create their own weapons, based on alien's jets they somehow destroyed.
These researches lead to the creation of Animas, aka girls with very colorful & non-conventional hairs (a shiny blue, pink, a shiny green, purple and a shiny yellow : you could not miss them in the street). They actually are the only ones able to…
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I am astounded and stunned to fathom what's so good about this show, except that it is built on cliches and tropes, one after another. That's what is obvious from the get-go, and unless you're a fan of these irregularities, it doesn't help that this show gives off bad vibes from the start.
The story (and worldbuilding) is that mankind/humanity is under attack from extraterrestrial entities only known as Xi, large colourful bird-ish planes who have surpassed human technology and are considered unstoppable. One fateful day, the dull MC, Narutani Kei, stumbles among one of the Xi's many attacks, and is caught in the crossfire between the Zai and the JASDF's way of quantitative and qualitive control: Colourful fighter planes known as "Daughters", powered by autonomous units called "Anima", an…
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From my first viewing of Girly Air Force, it felt like I’ve seen this somewhere before. And no, before anyone mentions “Arpeggio of Blue Steel”, it’s actually not that. What I mean is that I’ve seen similar anime like this before with the ideas of objects translated into cute girls. Kantai Collection, Frame Arms Girl, and Strike Witches are a few that comes to mind. Yet, a voice is telling me that Girly Air Force really felt lacking in terms of execution. And with regret, I didn’t really get this show.
To be fair, the light novels aren’t very popular. Before this got announced as an anime adaptation, I had no idea it even existed. But since it’s been publishing for more than 4 years since September 2014, there’s bound to be enough to make this into a fluid story right? As an anime only vi…
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