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I never enjoy the fanservice anime series as much as I think I'm going to.
Girls Bravo is a 24-episode light-comedy harem anime that follows the adventures of Yukinari Sasaki, a high-school boy with a "literal" allergy to women. When a female touches him, he breaks out in a rash. Until...
Until a magical gateway opens up in his bathtub and transports him to the planet Seiren, where men are vanishingly rare, and (nearly) the entire population of women are crazed from the lack of sex. The gateway has apparently been opened accidentally by Miharu, a girl around Yukinari's age who has undiscovered (and for the most part, unexplored by the series) psychic powers. After an amusing chase sequence around Miharu's home city, wherein all the women in the city attempt to hook up with Yukinari, he and Miharu escape back to Earth, where Yukinari lives alone, his parents being conveniently out of town forever.
Hijinks ensue when Miharu's elder sister, Maharu, discovers the gateway and tries to use it to capture herself a husband, and subsequently when other Seirenites travel to Earth, mostly to live with Yukinari and complicate his life.
This would have been a mostly inoffensive little harem comedy, with nothing to particularly recommend it over other anime of its type. There's a gossamer-thin overarching plot that the producers seem to forget entirely about for 90% of the series, and which is resolved extremely clumsily and unconvincingly right at the end. The character design is appealing, and the girls get naked more often than I'm used to in a show that isn't actually porn. In the end, I would have given it a "meh" and neither recommended it nor reviewed it.
But one of Yukinari's "friends" on Earth requires mention. Kazuharu Fukuyama is sort of the opposite of Yukinari; he's aggressive and perverted where Yukinari is, well, a milquetoast. He believes he's God's gift to women, and he has enough money and hirelings that he doesn't have to consider evidence that this is not the case. He insists on groping and molesting any female character he comes in contact with, insisting that they surrender themselves to his pleasure because that is the natural order of things, even when it is abundantly clear that the girl in question is uninterested in, repulsed by, or even terrified by his advances and person. The show tries to play this for laughs, as one of the female characters in question is a martial artist and beats the crap out of him in nearly every episode. But he remains undeterred.
There is a word for a guy who won't take "NO!" for an answer, no matter how hard it is pounded into his skull. That word is "rapist". Every time, every time Fukuyama was onscreen, I wanted to shoot him in the face. If I met Fukuyama in real life, I would shoot him in the face, and damn the consequences.
Girls Bravo could have been essentially boring and unremarkable. Instead, it flat sucks. Avoid this one like the plague.
Girls Bravo is a 24-episode light-comedy harem anime that follows the adventures of Yukinari Sasaki, a high-school boy with a "literal" allergy to women. When a female touches him, he breaks out in a rash. Until...
Until a magical gateway opens up in his bathtub and transports him to the planet Seiren, where men are vanishingly rare, and (nearly) the entire population of women are crazed from the lack of sex. The gateway has apparently been opened accidentally by Miharu, a girl around Yukinari's age who has undiscovered (and for the most part, unexplored by the series) psychic powers. After an amusing chase sequence around Miharu's home city, wherein all the women in the city attempt to hook up with Yukinari, he and Miharu escape back to Earth, where Yukinari lives alone, his parents being conveniently out of town forever.
Hijinks ensue when Miharu's elder sister, Maharu, discovers the gateway and tries to use it to capture herself a husband, and subsequently when other Seirenites travel to Earth, mostly to live with Yukinari and complicate his life.
This would have been a mostly inoffensive little harem comedy, with nothing to particularly recommend it over other anime of its type. There's a gossamer-thin overarching plot that the producers seem to forget entirely about for 90% of the series, and which is resolved extremely clumsily and unconvincingly right at the end. The character design is appealing, and the girls get naked more often than I'm used to in a show that isn't actually porn. In the end, I would have given it a "meh" and neither recommended it nor reviewed it.
But one of Yukinari's "friends" on Earth requires mention. Kazuharu Fukuyama is sort of the opposite of Yukinari; he's aggressive and perverted where Yukinari is, well, a milquetoast. He believes he's God's gift to women, and he has enough money and hirelings that he doesn't have to consider evidence that this is not the case. He insists on groping and molesting any female character he comes in contact with, insisting that they surrender themselves to his pleasure because that is the natural order of things, even when it is abundantly clear that the girl in question is uninterested in, repulsed by, or even terrified by his advances and person. The show tries to play this for laughs, as one of the female characters in question is a martial artist and beats the crap out of him in nearly every episode. But he remains undeterred.
There is a word for a guy who won't take "NO!" for an answer, no matter how hard it is pounded into his skull. That word is "rapist". Every time, every time Fukuyama was onscreen, I wanted to shoot him in the face. If I met Fukuyama in real life, I would shoot him in the face, and damn the consequences.
Girls Bravo could have been essentially boring and unremarkable. Instead, it flat sucks. Avoid this one like the plague.
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Thanks for the rec!
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