I see I haven’t bashed anything in a really long time. I have just grumbled a bit about Strawberry Panic. True, it got so bad that I doubt I will actually finish it but compared to Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru it’s almost a masterpiece (at least if we compare only the first episodes of the two series). Imagine Strawberry Panic (Maria-sama ga Miteru, dumbed down for drooling fanboys, will do if you haven’t bothered with SP), only with a boy called Mizuho who pretends to be a girl as the main character, with more fanservice and even more annoying characters. It took about ten episodes for the SP cast to make me want to cut their collective tongue to make them shut up but just two in the case of Otome…something. It is such drivel that it makes me a bit ashamed to be anime fan. It’s not funny. There is no plot to speak of. It’s just as realistic as me having a harem full of supermodels and also being to create a new universe all by myself. It does not seem to be real yuri. It includes every cliche in the book and I mean it.
Here are some of the things one can see (and hopefully not enjoy) in this trainwreck:
– The transfer student cliche
– Crossdresser boy who is suddenly found to be very beautiful by the students of an all-girl school. I wish some of the stupid scriptwriters (whom I assume are men because the show is so full of fanservice) try this trick someday and see it’s not actually something likely to happen in real life, especially if you happen to be a total moron who makes all kinds of mistakes and is pratically begging to be recognized as a boy.
– All girl catholic school with possible yuri undertones (come on, I am not that fond of Catholicism but how about something new, let’s say a normal all-girl school?)
– Kouhai (underclassmen) serving the senpai and also obviously smitten by them romantically.
– The transfer student becomes a celebrity and is considered to be a good candidate for the position of Elder (a Rose or an Etoile, in other words). All that in just a few days, mind you. The previous Elder has a sad past (did anyone say Shizuma or Rosa Gigantea?). I wonder if that means that Shion (the previous elder) is also a dominant lesbian? Oh, well, I guess I will never know because I don’t think I will watch more of this crappy series.
– Lolis with terribly high pitched voices screeching “Onee-sama” all the time, talking in a cute (read childish and stupid) way and generally having the intelligence of a brick. A dumb brick. The cuteness is running wild in this series, so wild that even Kagome’s stuffed bear from SP suddenly seem somewhat bearable.
– Tons of fanservice. It includes two girls groping the breasts of the crossdresser. What’s wrong with that? Well, by virtue of him not being a girl, the breasts are, you know, not part of his body, yet they seem to enjoy it a lot and he was behaving as if the breasts were real and he was being molested. That’s just beyond stupid.
– Annoying chibis, tons of static frames and less than mediocre art, bland character design, not that great voiceacting. Ok, I admit it, I don’t like ultra high pitched voices, so I guess I am biased here.
- Humour that is simply not funny. You can call it a toilet humour, not because it’s that rough but because a lot of it revolves about Mizuho’s reluctance to use the girl restroom. Ha-ha, oh so very funny.
- The main character seems to be an orphan (his mother is dead for sure). It’s not as if this cliche is not common even in great series but I just have to mention it back my words about using every cliche in the book.
- The reason for Mizuho’s enrolling in an all-girl school is the will of a relative of his. Some people it seems will everything for money. Of course, he seems way too feminine to begin with (few girls have such well kept long hair 
) and of course, his mother has also studied in that school so I smell a secret which will show us the reason for that strange will. Will show some people, not me, I mean.
OK, I am pretty much done here. Let’s summarise – so far this series seems like a bad rip-off of Kashimashi and Strawberry Panic, both of which aren’t good enough to deserve to be ripped off in the first place. Now if you excuse me I will make a few copies of these two episodes of Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru so I can delete them slowly and painfully.
October 26, 2006 at 7:09 pm
OMFG! We synchroed the first 2 episodes. It hurt so much. And I’d say there are also some KannaMiko vibes with the Chikane rip-off.
To be fair, there wasn’t that much fanservice. There was some, and quite annoying, but it was limited to (I think) just one major scene/episode.
Still, this sure is one crappy anime, probably meant for yuri fanboys that fantasize about being “part of the action” while watching MariMite and the like. >.>
October 28, 2006 at 2:21 am
OK, now that I am not foaming at the mouth because of the stupidity of this show, I can agree there was not that much fanservice. At least in conventional sense of the word – panty shots and all that jazz. But I am starting to consider all the lolies staring adoringly at the “onee-samas” and behaving basically as girls from some pedophile dream as some sort of fanservice. Having a lingerie party which includes some girls who look and behave like 7 year olds is simply wrong, never mind that they are supposed to be high school students. In other words, maybe the fanservice scenes were not that long but they more than made up for this by their stupidy and by being a lolicon bait.
January 14, 2007 at 3:38 am
10 episodes, and still going strong…. sorta. (Me and Shin, that is. Not the show.)
I don’t know which is most amazing. That the main guy has gotten away with this for so long, or the fact that he DID become and elder, and he has won over just about all the females in the school. And there’s a ghost, who waited so long for the main dude’s MOTHER, that she actually died in a room in the dormitory where the main gang is living. And as things are, he’s gonna have two people longing for his feminine ass unto the show’s ending. One of them is the class president.
January 15, 2007 at 3:36 am
Wait, wait, wait? You mean the identity of the main character is not yet known to all the rest of the students? LOL! Now, that’s an unbelievably stupid and implausible story if I ever heard one.
I hope you really bash this trashcan of a show well, if you haven’t already, this is the only reason one should watch it.
February 16, 2007 at 7:38 pm
omg I agree this show sucks… everything about is so cliche.
the charactesr are so fake and they just have to put them in ecchi situations for no reasons except to put it there, so contrived… so pathetic
the voices are horrribly irritating.
and I didn’t find anything about it funny, read somewhere how someone thought it was so funny how some classmate asked the crossdressing main character where he/she lived. uh not really.
September 3, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Some people are bound to hate it, but I love it because of it’s sweetness, not in spite of.
It’s quite ecchi, but also very gentle and romantic. Not the kind of thing that people who are into seeing blood & guts splattered across the walls are going to enjoy, but this show is one of my all-time favorites and I sincerely hope a new season is being produced.
February 28, 2008 at 7:01 am
I’ll admit this anime has it’s charm but it’s too weak. I give it a 2 out of 5.
2 Because I love the art, the characters have charm, and I love the environment.
Nothing higher, because theirs no plot and the storyline is weak.
For Christ sakes they could of added a controversy episode were the hole school found out Mizuho was a boy and then added in if he should be aloud to stay or not.
Perhaps a little more twist like say someone else besides Mizuho going to the school dress like a girl (Come on Kei Takanashi spill the beans lol).
Ya this anime was ok, but not GREAT. So whatever, I’m going to go eat Pocky now! LOL
June 5, 2008 at 5:03 am
i love the yuri!!!
i love yaoi!!!!
June 23, 2008 at 2:15 am
LOL! Oh my, what do we have here… A miserable fanboy trying to prove that he is old enough to post reviews in a dump actually called “Die, fanboys”… No need to hurry, enjoy your worthless childhood!
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I must sadly admit though – even though you’re trying your best in making this thing you call a blog the Internet’s ultimate garbage-heap, Erica Friedman surpassed you long ago. Don’t worry, you can still beat this lowlife wretch calling herself “the president of Yuricon”, but it’ll require a lot of dedication and your full stupidity. As long as it’s you I’m sure you’ll make it someday
On a side note – you two relatives or something???
“dumbed down for drooling fanboys” – LOL, and that’s coming from a guy whose spittles were flowing like the Niagara Falls after a bath scene? HAH! Don’t make a fool of yourself (like you could get even worse), go find your miserable self a hentai movie and relax these untamable hormones of yours.
“It took about ten episodes for the SP cast to make me want to cut their…” You’ll never get a girlfriend with that attitude, much less a herd of brainless supermodels. They’re dumb but not that dumb you know…
I’ve no idea what’s your problem with the SP’s seiyus and their amazing job. True, there aren’t any of the “special sound effects” you are used to hearing from your hentai clips. I believe there’s a difference between hentai and anime fans. Though I couldn’t care less what are the interests of an useless scum like you. Enjoy your pitiful existence!
Regards from a “drooling fanboy”.