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Spring 2017′s Bishounen Anime Roundup

Here are my thoughts on this season’s plentiful quantity of bishounen anime - the very same ones listed in this post! They have all aired by now so now I can comment on them with an opinion on each~

Kabukibu!

I vastly underestimated how cute this one was going to turn out to be. All of the supporting characters in this show have the same idea towards kabuki that probably a lot of people who read over this show’s summary do - “Who would want to watch something about kabuki? Isn’t it weird and old-fashioned and stuffy?”

The main character’s enthusiasm toward the art of kabuki will warm your heart to it just as it does for the characters he’s rounding up to join his club.

Additional pros: OP sung by Hiro Shimono with an ED sung by the cast of voice actors for the show (I always love & appreciate that); one of the characters is chuunibyou; you will learn actual things about kabuki and Japanese culture by extension; THERE IS A HANDSOME FEMALE “PRINCE OF THE SCHOOL”-TYPE CHARACTER THAT EVERY FEMALE STUDENT HAS A HUGE CRUSH ON; and the main character is so freaking adorable you guys, it will melt your heart.

Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys

These are very short 7-minute episodes, which I appreciate because I can grab a snack and sit down and quickly enjoy one rather than dedicating significant time out of my day for it. Hoooooly smokes the heroine for this show is cute (& handsome??) as heck. I have a huge amount of appreciation for her dusty-pink-colored hair AND eyes (pink is my ultimate weakness, and while pink-haired characters aren’t uncommon, it IS rarer to get a character whose hair AND eyes are both matching pink). The first ep didn’t introduce many of the supporting fellows but the ones that it did show are 👌👌👌.

Love Kome: We Love Rice!

This is another series of short episodes. They are very silly. The characters have VERY imaginative hairstyles, lol. This actually might be an idol boy anime; I honestly can’t tell yet?? The protagonist keeps talking about forming a “rice unit” and “performing” at a harvest festival?? Are they gonna sing & dance?? Are they idol boys????? I don’t know but they are beautiful????!?

Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine (The Royal Tutor)

Okay, out of everything I’m watching this season, THIS one is my favorite. It has a very successful manga that it’s adapted from, surprisingly serialized in a shounen manga magazine - and it even has a stage play already in the works, so you don’t need my opinion to surmise that this is a lovable series that’s on the rise.

I love EVERYTHING going on in this show - the beautiful royal palace setting, the shiny art style that emphasizes the princes’ soft hair and long-lashed eyes... But the real things that win me over for this show are 1) it is very funny, with well-timed quips and visual gags, and 2) THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING ENDEARING AND HEARTWARMING AT THE END OF EACH EPISODE...

seriously what the heck this show makes u feel so happy??? for these spoiled princes to have this cute professor looking out for them??????? and the hidden depths that each of them are concealing????

I’m unfamiliar with the manga (and please, no one spoil this for me..), but with the setup these characters are getting in their setting, I just have this huge suspicion that this show is gonna get really heartbreakingly sad and/or very dramatic political intrigue is going to be involved.

Room Mate: One Room Side M

This is, as suspected, a first-person, situation-type anime. It flows WAY more naturally than Makura no Danshi, however, with no weird pauses between dialogue, and is considerably less awkward to watch. I don’t know, I just didn’t find this weird/unnatural/creepy/uncomfortable at all, like a lot of people did with Makura no Danshi? This seems really cool. The three characters it introduced as your room mates have great designs and fun different personalities.

I didn’t know this going in (maybe folks who have prior knowledge of the moe anime One Room knew, though), but there are ecchi elements to this OMG. VERY suggestive little post-credits scene there ahahaha;;;;;;;;

i don’t hate it at all i am ready for more eps of this.

High School Star Musical Season 2

Ok please don’t tear me apart here, I have a habit of never saying much of anything negative about anything I watch, and as a result I have kind of never talked about High School Star Musical at all lmAO;;;

I love my idol boys, and I don’t dislike StarMyu at all, I swear!! It just........ is not as exciting as the other idol anime I have seen, there weren’t very interesting conflicts or character motivations involved, and the character designs are relatively plain (specifically referring to their hairstyles, face shapes, eyes & eye shapes...).......

so, going into this, I wasn’t really all that excited for StarMyu 2 (but eager to watch it anyway)

BUT THEN

THIS NEW FREAKIN’ CHARACTER NAMED AGEHA SHOWS UP

his name means “butterfly” and he is this cool beauty-type character, all cold and taciturn, and voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki how could I have possibly resisted the charms of this character, there was no hope for me

he is also SLIGHTLY CREEPY, perhaps yandere??? toward this other established idol in the industry and

let me tell you, this weirdo new character is exactly what StarMyu needed to shake things up, I am so into this season and it is 100% because of this one new character.

Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100 Nin no Ouji-sama: Short Stories

This widely spaced-out series of shorts are available on Youtube to watch, and as far as I know, no translation team has worked on giving them subs yet. If you decide to catch the first ep anyway, it is VERY silly, but worth watching for the incredibly beautiful character designs, and a lovely classical royal palace setting much like Royal Tutor Heine’s~ The bright & fun color palette in the bubbly OP is especially captivating to me haha.

This concludes my roundup of my helpless dedication to anime boys, thank you for reading!! :*:・ヽ(゜▽ ゜)ノ・:*: I kind of just wanted to put this together because all of these are pretty under the radar so if anyone reading this also loves bishounen but didn’t know about any of these, now you can seek them out if you’re interested~

#anime #diary post~#Kabukibu #The Royal Tutor #Oushitsu Kyoushi Haine #long post

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