Behold! Idiocy Has A Name

And its name is Girls Bravo.

Synopsis

Small for his age, Yukinari has been bullied and abused by girls all his life. Now in high school, he has developed a rare condition: whenever girls touch him, or even come close, he breaks out in hives. Imagine his surprise, when he is suddenly transported to the city of Seiren on a mystic world invisibly orbiting the Earth, and populated with vast numbers of women and very few men. Fortunately, he has a new friend, Miharu-chan, whose touch inexplicably doesn’t affect him. [Synopsis taken from Anime News Network]

Bored yet? I certainly am.

Characters

Oh boy, this series sure is blessed with shallow characters. Yukinari is basically a whiny little bitch that can’t seem to overcome his inability to be in the company of girls without breaking out in hives, which suspiciously look like herpes. Miharu is a one personality trait bimbo that can’t seem to process thoughts more complex than “I’m hungry”. She is a plot device. If someone can tell me with a straight face that she’s more than T and A, please entertain me. The rest of the cast isn’t worth describing in detail, but it’s not as if there’s much to describe. It consists of a childhood friend incapable of expressing her feelings (*yawn*), a timid, loli-like girl that half the cast has a crush on (*bigger yawn*), a girl that’s all over the main guy and tries anything to get him (*even bigger yawn*), a loli (*asleep*) and some perverted guy that can’t touch other guys without breaking into hives (closet case).

Ecchi/Comedy

While there is a lot of ecchi, most of it is boring and unfunny. The only memorable scene is in the second episode. Miharu arrives at a greengrocer’s and a guy asks her to eat a banana. Bizzarely, Miharu, a girl who seemingly has had no sexual experience whatsoever, starts to consume the banana in a very suggestive way. While she is doing this, the greengrocer is standing there talking to himself, thinking that someone actually cares about what he’s saying. In the version I’ve recently watched, the fansubbers put in the note “What he’s saying isn’t important. Just watch Miharu ^^“. I have to admit, as ecchi, it’s OK, but there’s very little comedy value because the viewer is too busy drooling, and thus, their mind is switched off. Since this series is really ecchi, and the majority of the attempted comedy lies in the ecchi scenes, there is no other comedy to speak of.

Other Aspects

The romance sub-plot is extremely thin on the ground. Quite frankly, I couldn’t care less about it anyway because there’s just too much ecchi being shoved into my face. There is no real romance anyway. It’s all just a load nonsense that fulfills the fantasy of otakus that women are easy as long as you are nice to them. Give me a woman with personality any day.

The animation is average at best. It’s not so bad that it puts off even regular anime fans, but bad enough to see that this series didn’t exactly have a high budget (with good reason). Predictably, the animation improves at the proper ecchi scenes. I can’t even remember what the music is like. All I remember is the OP being painful to my ear drums. The voices are incredibly generic and/or annoying. That’s all I have to say about them.

Conclusion

Girls Bravo is:

• Epic fail
• Bile
• An otaku’s “wet dream”
• Boring
• Epic fail
• Not worth my, or your, time
• Moronic
• Cliche
• Unimaginative
• Pathetic
• Epic fail

Oh, and there’s a second season. Don’t worry. I’ll spare you the details because I couldn’t even last 2 episodes of that piece of crap. Yes, they made enough money for a second season. Money is evil.