Audience reviews
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SgtSalamander
I don't watch explicitly ecchi titles all that often, because usually they have something lacking about them, be it story, sound, or something else that it's attempting to hide behind scantily-clad anime girls. However, that is not the case with Ganbare Douki-chan. This anime is a raunchy little romantic comedy that somehow feels wholesome, even with all its cleavage, upskirts, and borderline workplace harassment directed at our faceless protagonist by his three eager suitresses, one younger, one older, and one his age, all competing for his affections at every opportunity. The story is the strongest aspect of this anime, as it manages to explore this rather complicated situation in a way that is not only relatively believable, but also fairly mature and tender, as each girl reckons with h…
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It follows the same template: One MC who is shy, awkward and kinda likes another MC whose feelings are not revealed to the first MC until the very end, after which the story gets over.
Other common plot points are: beach fan service episodes, new year/shrine episodes, christmas episodes, scene where some random people try to harass FMC and MMC comes to protect like a hero, love competition side characters etc etc.
Other Animes which follow similar moments are : My tiny Senpai, My annoying Senpai, Wotakoi, Servant x Service and to some extent they all seem to be inspired by the OG RomCom Maison Ikkoku.
I have recently started watching Animes and I somewhat like stories like these as these are in workplace environment and show a Japanese culture as slice of life comedy.
However unli…
Read at the sourceDarthManga
This was disappointing and frustrating to watch. It is a short series with even shorter episodes. You would think there would be some real development, but it fails to meet the smallest of expectations. No development. No story. No character building. Every situation had predictable endings.
All it has going is the artwork for the female characters. Why in hell, does the ML not have a face and no one has names?!. It’s like the writer couldn’t be bothered with it.
My Tiny Senpai was waaaaaay better. I say don’t waste your time on this and watch My Tiny Senpai instead.
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"Ganbare Douki-chan" is a series of short 5 minute episodes making it an easy watch from start to finish in one sitting taking more or less 1 hour in total to complete the anime. Having this in mind this anime will obviously not have a top notch world building or development due to not having the time for such things. This show is above anything a casual wholesome watch to just enjoy at surface level.
Plot: "Ganbare Douki-chan" is in it's essence a slice-of-life romcom anime and the plot basically consists of our main character Douki-chan a typical office worker and her constant attempts to seduce her co-worker, often times to no avail either due to their naiveness or due to external characters or situations. I particularly love the dynamic of the plot for this anime since the girl is con…
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TL;DR - A very simple, cute and wholesome anime about a girl, Douki-chan, and her efforts to confess her love to her crush. Douki-chan has to defeat her shyness and competition to achieve her goal, and that’s what we watch here.
Story - 6/10
Gambare Douki-chan (2021) has a quite simple plot, so much that I basically summarized everything in the TL;DR. But it’s cool to reinforce that 5 min per episode is a nice trip to go on.
Animation - 6/10
The art is cool and simple, not much to say.
The only part that kinda bothers me is the lack of eyes and face features in the crush. But I think I get the idea of maybe you being able to see yourself in his place or something.
Sound - 6/10
The VA is good, the voice suits the characters very well.
The opening and ending theme are cute and insert char…
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One of the shortest anime I have watched. I binged this anime in just one sitting and it actually was a good experience.
It was a harem anime with a twist of romcom-ness in it. Basically, our MC is in love with a guy from her company who also has charmed some of the other girls in the same company... kinda. We don't see much from the guy himself, except that he is kind, dense, helps everyone he can, blushes, real quick, makes the MC blush real quick, and has a harem. Seems very similar?? Well, guess what!? He is just that average MC from any other harem anime. The only trait not similar to other harem anime MC is, drumrolls.... he doesn't have eyes. Doesn't have eyes eh... similar sounding to the underground anime fandom. Interesting indeed.
Even though the guy doesn't have any eyes, t…
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You know I honestly love these short romcom series that have been coming out lately. They were obviously made to fill time slots in between other shows, but I can appreciate them for what they are. This one in particular deals with the tragedy that is trying to get a really oblivious person to notice you like them. Classic situational comedy at it's finest.
When you mix in a few other romantic rivals, you get all that juicy love triangle tension broken by moments where the guy shows he's obviously only into the main girl. Now sometimes I think it's really annoying when a second girl comes in and tries to ruin an established relationship just for the sake of drama. When a show plays it straight, pretending the second girl has a chance, I just groan and ask who's into this. Is it the NTR pe…
Read at the sourceHorn_dawg_2019
As one of 2021's short anime ends, we're wondering as to wtf about this anime, so:
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Spoilers........Possible.
Story:
Pros: At first we're made to believe that this will be a very naughty short anime as we're presented with some ecchi that something was about to happened between Douki-Chan and Douki-kun, when we see some of Douki-chan's fanservice, but, alas....
Cons: After that, everything goes downhill as we see Douki-chan having to face some competition with Koihai-Chan for Douki-kun's affection and as it progresses Sempai-san get's into the picture, TBFH, the story itself was just tad cheesy. Verdict: 3 over 10.
Art:
Pros: Douki-Chan in her red underwear and the quintessential swim suit services.
Cons: Not nipple flash and no fanservices from the female characters.
Verdi…
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This is female wish-fulfillment.
Chad is chased by a beautiful onee-san, and a big breasted kouhai, but of course the only girl Chad has eyes for is the FMC.
Having said that, this is the very best of that genre, and is well executed.
It's genuinely funny, and you'll have a grin on your face the entire time.
And with only 6 minutes/episode, it never gets to the annoying stage. Art: 9/10
- Art style is fine.
Sound: 10/10
- Soundtrack is perfect for the atmosphere.
Characters: 10/10
-All the characters are easily defined and understood, which is important in such a short anime.
Enjoyment: 10/10
- Loved it, and is on my re-watch list.
Overall: 10/10
- Easy 10 for me. Highly recommend to everyone.
Read at the sourceSuntanned_Duck2
As a manga reader I enjoyed it. For those wanting a short series of events happening and don't really care about the bigger picture then you will likely enjoy it.
Contains a bit of spoilers to give a better idea of the show/what scenarios play out and describing the show.
As the special isn't out as of making this review (if MAL date of week after episode 12 is correct) things could change there but it's unlikely and the manga is ongoing I think (I hadn't even seen some of the scenes in the anime and was up to the further chapter I've seen fan translations/scanlations available for).
The art is simple but pretty alright. The sound wasn't lacking as far as I can tell it suited the scenes. Nothing amazing but still got the point across. The story isn't amazing so don't have high expectati…
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Douki-chan is an honest lady. She fell in love with hentai protagonist Douki-kun one day, now struggling to keep her feelings in check.
Each and every one of her days follows her relationship with Douki-kun and the mad forces of evil who dare separate her from her beloved, namely Senpai-san and Kouhai-chan.
Sometimes these days are a little raunchy. Sometimes these days are fluffy. Sometimes the odd event can happen.
It's a very simple story. An honest tale with very believable circumstances and people. They make do with life, have fun, and get to where they wish to be. Whether that is with a significant other, or just a good night out. All of which looks good, like, meticulously good. Character design, animation, all that, *chef's kiss*. It is an incredibly well-made product which in t…
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*Contains some spoilers*
I like my short anime. Many of them manage to get things done in a slither of time compared to some lengthier shows and can successfully create a good atmosphere with only 5-10 minutes per episode. Ganbare Douki-chan, whilst still pretty wholesome and sweet, personally did not quite live up to expectations. Twelve weeks of absolutely nothing. You know something feels off when an anime short such as this, feels almost like a waste of your time.
The shows duration says it runs for five minutes, but we would be lucky to get HALF that amount of time spent on something that's not the fricking ending sequence. It's no wonder nothing meaningful happens, I'm sure Douki-chan is indeed, doing her best, but she's got such a short window to work in lol. Come on, you're maki…
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After dozens and dozens of dull and trivial anime seasons, the time has finally come: the time when a masterpiece of jewelry, a hidden gem of animation is released the entire anime industry is shaken to its very core. The piece of work that made such a seldom thing possible is nothing other than the follow-up to the Japanese Magnum opus from 2019 (time sure flies, doesn't it?), Miru Tights. Yes, you heard it right. Everyone's favourite artist, the madman, Yom himself, is making a comeback with a new short animation series based on his unique drawings. Fallen from the sky, the guardian angel that takes care of us during our stressful weeks, the true definition of "saving grace", "Ganbare, Douki-chan".
Directed by the same man who worked on the worlwide hit, "Rent-A-Girlfriend" and not scri…
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