Anime: Otome wa Boku ni Koi Shiteru r1n2q

Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru is a surprisingly warm-hearted series. Normally with a set-up like what it has you'd expect a lot of ecchi. Instead, there's fairly little ecchi, and a the characters are all kind and likable. The only anime I'm familiar with that has a similar tone is Mahoraba, if that helps.

It's worth noting that certain plot elements, the school uniforms, and even a character or two seem to be lifted from Strawberry Panic.

Animation:
High quality animation, with bright colours that help set the mood. On the down side, the character designs aren't that great, and the style for the super-deformed versions of the characters are downright horrific.

Sound:
Fairly good sound. Nothing stood out, for better or for worse.

Story:
Not really much story. Most of it is episodic, and the ending arc is transitioned into poorly. The ending itself is something of an anticlimax.

Character:
The characters are all nice people, while still be unique and fun to watch. They each manage to have their own problems with out ever seeming whiny or self-centered.

During the days when I had nothing to do, I noticed this title come and since it only has 12 episodes, maybe it was worth a try.
And I don't really read reviews before I watch something, because as you all know it kinda takes away something from the show.
So there, and I quickly found that it was a harem/gender-bender kind of anime, and yes it was my first time to see something like this.

The animation was fairly circa 2000, and I was surprised that it had a kind of a Getbacker's feel regarding the animation.
Anyways, the first episode had beautiful animation but it all goes downhill towards a pretty generic standard. The character designs had some similarity, but it was minor. I liked both their school uniforms too, pretty cute in some sense.
don't kind of liked the eyes of some characters, well maybe because they seemed drawn the same.

Also, there's a great deal of girls with brightly colored hair but it works and doesn't take away any of the aesthetic factors for character renders. Although I would have to say that most of the characters were too fit or sexy for that matter, or plain thin.
So where are the fat girls? Even mother superior is trim here. Anyways, not much fluid movements here for most of the episodes but at least the animation wasn't too choppy for my tastes. The backgrounds were not too detailed, but was sufficient and believable enough.
The color tones in use were usually bright in general which sets up correctly the light mood of the series.

With a short series, it only had a single pair of catchy. melodic OP/ED which kinda reminds me of other childish humdrums.
The bgm was quite repetitive to say the least, and when something fires up, you can almost guess what happens next.
The seiyuu for most of the characters were acceptable, but Kana's voice was pretty shrill and high strung that it's annoying.
Yes, annoying.

The story revolves around our hero turned heroine Mizuho, who by some strange twist, was asked by his dying gramps to go study in the same school that was attended by his deceased mother during her school days. Not to spoil anything too much, but the explanations will come but it isn't much though, and its quite an absurd idea really. Well it only helps just because it's an anime.

Anyways, the episodes are technically stand alone and chronicles the day to day experiences of Mizuho as he tries to gain acceptance and fit in a gir's world. The comedy in the show is not that much, and sometimes they kind of turn corny.
Also, it borders on the unrealistic as there are some characters that are out of this world.

The show kind of struggles to set their relativity as to which genre it belongs as it tries to incorporate various elements here and there which sometimes work and sometimes don't.

I also kind of wonder how people, girls in particular, can be that good, or loyal or you can call it single-minded as to wanting be a perfect kohai to their elders. Well, flaws aside, it rather turned out to be a feel good anime to me as the harem thingie never kind of developed.
I enjoyed it especially from the later parts (ep 5 onwards) and it the story had some nice twists, though expected it may be.
Also, important revelations were made as they go along and it is interesting to see the development of the characters towards the end.

Otoboku turned out to be a pretty nice heartwarming watch after all.

Wow now I see what people mean by how they're pumping out generic harems and the fan-service in the new ones and how they're just so bad.

If you just want fanservice and "kinky" whatever crap then watch if you want to actually watching something good don't watch this.

this anime is just bad, so there's not much point watching this since there are much better animes out there.

it has no originality, charm, anything that makes it even average.

there's just some cheap ecchi, unrealstic characters acting unrealistc all for the sake of ecchi...

recommended only if you just want to see some fan-service... that's all it has... sadly

much better animes out there...
funnier animes: akazukin cha cha, kodomo no omocha, gakuen alice, ouran high school host club, battle athletes victory!, melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, saber marionette J, Super GALS!, Pretear

for real romance: full moon wo sagashite, kare kano

Animation
good animation, what you'd expect from 2006.

Sound
sound is alright, opening is bleh, ending song is catchy and the background music is forgettable. seiyuus were alright, some sounded freakin' annoying

Story
it starts off ridiculous, it gets more ridiculous. I mean if you think about it the plot IS dumb and they never explain why~ it's just a gimmick to get you to watch.

the cross-dressing aspect is not really touched upon, it'sway too easy, but it's anime so i can't complain too much about that.

the comedy is nothing special, it was very lame at times. Basically I didn't laugh, I was just annoyed with how bad the jokes were.

the fan-service is SO LAME and so CHEAP... there is no reason for the fan-service to be there except to be there and it's just so awkward and random.... it's just pulled off horribly.

There's random scenes where the characters act really unrealistic all for the sake of ecchi and it makes no sense for that to happen.

I don't like ecchi in the first place so that was horrible, they didn't put forth any kind of effort to have the ecchi be inthere for a REASON. there is absolutely NO REASON for the ecchi except to satisfy the key viewer i guess...

they tried to pull off this anime like it's actually half-decent, but sadly it's way below that.

Character
the characters are just unrealistic and idiotic at times due to the forced fan-service and just from the contrived plot.

But besides that they are forgettable and they're nothing special.

Value
not much value, cross-dressing thing is the gimmick and it doesn't work.

I didn't find it to be romantic nor funny, nor that amusing. just another crappy, cliche, unoriginal, fan-service anime. only value is the fan-service which ruins the anime making it seem to cheap, becaue fan-service is pulled off horribly... it's just so awkwardly put in.

It's probably one of those animes that'll be forgotten sooon.

Another underrated anime which should have be given a chance to be watched. At first, I was bored, so I pick up random animes to and watch, and I was lucky to choose this one out of many.

Animation

By my surprise, the animation was top notch. It was great to see different drawings with so less impurity. Every single scene and character is candy to eyes.[/b] I was impressed that this anime was not better rated, only with the animation. Although I really liked the animation, it is not unique, but it is still a job greatly done.

Sound

From time to time, I do hear good melodies. But most of it, it's comedy sound added to the mood of the moment. [/b]It's not a bad thing, however, I don't recall of any exceptional melody that stand out. Actually, the drama one at the end of the last few episodes was actually well-done.

Story

At first, I wasn't impressed and was prepared for the worst when I saw the first episode. Basically, it's about a guy who was "forced" to go to an all-girls school by a request of his late mother (or grandmother, don't :p). Since it's a guy and an all-girls school, I cannot deny the fact I was going to see lots of ecchi scenes and about the guy's bad thoughts. At my surprise, only after a few episodes, I realize I was deep wrong.
True, it has some ecchi scenes, but so few, it's not a big concern. And the main character (the guy) is not even making a single bad thought, a strange thing in anime in those situations.

The story is comedy-oriented with a very kind sense of maturity.[/b] The comedy is not something that will make you laugh over and over again, but it is just a touch to the anime that will make you smile in kindness. The anime is actually about morals and kind-hearted situations. Every girl next to the guy will show problems and he will then help resolve each one of them.

The reasons why I don't give the story a 9, it's because I didn't really like the ending. With the last fews episodes that add up for a perfect end, it somehow screw it up with a "there is not over yet" kind of ending. Despise so, I really enjoyed the show, for the story of most episodes.

Characters

This really stands out. Every single character is unique by themselves and represent a good side of kindness. There is not a single bad or psycho person in this anime, which is different. Everyone is kind, good-hearted, with not much similarities.

There is one that is outgoing and like to play pranks on the hero, but she is reliable and helpful at times.
Another seems cold-hearted, challengeful and like to go against the hero at first, but she is actually respectful and honest for most parts.
The hero is straight-forward, gentle, mature and sociable, seems actually to be a perfect man.

There is alot of characters that are great, in both their respective kindness and cuteness. You will be attached to most of them, due to those facts.

Value & Enjoyment

I really liked this show and I really recommend it to every that like kind and light-comedy shows which have a good moral story with no plots or bad situations.

Edit: I have severals note about the review when I express too much of a feeling that others may not share. What I wrote before this edit, "A-Must-See" and of course, it was initially an urge of the moment, because as I said, I really liked this anime. However, now that I rethink about it in a persperctive way, and thanks to the comments after people's vote, I can see the need to change my last sentence as I apologize.

If you really liked this genre of anime (romance + light comedy) and some cute girls to boot, then I believe this will become one of your top favortie. A really good anime to watch to end a nice afternoon or after a good hot bath :).

From the begining, sorry for my english.

ANIMATION
Good quality. I liked design of school uniforms. Also girls look good. Scenery is averange desinged (no special places, normal school).

SOUND
Voice acting is good, few girls have very high pitch. I really liked ending and opening. Opening is full of energy and since my favourite music is japanese rock, I love it.

STORY
Quite good idea for stroy, but game is better. I played it (i don't understand japanese well so for me it was mere like watching raw anime) and I enjoyed it more (it is true, that game is hentai so I liked the scenes, but still ;). Only compalins about ending. Ending is like ending of Ichigo 100% ( .) and I hate those kind of endings... Also this anime have many parts "stealed" from other animes (like elder system etc...) but it is mixed very well.

CHARACTER
I liked variety of characters. From extrovert energetic Marya to ghost. Also there was character delopement and i enjoyed it.

VALUE & ENJOYMENT
I enyoed the whole series (except for episode 12). If you enjoy romantic school anime with bit of humour, you will enjoy Otome wa Boku Ni Koishiteru.