JINSEI -Life Consulting-

Was boring here and there, but I suppose that varies among people. The characters were adorable, the ecchi was well welcomed. I hate harem and this for a change isn't harem, a very unique ending. Typically in these comedies and especially ecchis, a bunch of girls hang around one loser boy and end up all falling for him, and he can't choose between them all. this guy was a loser, and nothing special as well. 'Cept for the fact that he can actually make a decision after all. and the rest of the girls actually supported them, i found that very cute. the ending was enjoyable of course, howeverthroughout the anime i fell asleep a few times. But since the ending wasn't a huge disappointment as usual for me, it's an 8! been a while since i didn't hate an anime's ending, it's refreshing.

"Everyone knows that handles are the weak point of any closet" The quote above properly depicts the deepest moments of the slightly glorious anime that is Jinsei. Jinsei, directed by Keiichirou Kawaguchi (Hayate no Gotoku/SKET Dance), immediately throws its audience into the world of Yuuki Akamatsu, the newest member of the Kyuumon High School Second Newspaper Club (One newspaper club was just not enough). Akamatsu was placed in charge of the club's "Life advice" column and was assigned three girls with extremely differentiating social standpoints to help address the concerns of Kyuumon students looking for help of some sort. That's it. There really isn't much more story toit. It's just a day-in, day-out look into the second newspaper club and the outrageous tasks they must undertake in order to help a specific student get over their fears/problems/anything else that burdens high-schoolers nowadays. But that alone doesn't stop the anime from being loads of fun. What makes Jinsei great (Kind of) is that it is spontaneous, hilarious, and self-aware. It knows that it is an anime, and you just don't get to see that often. The characters aren't complex, the situations are outrageous, and the dialogue is so fast-paced that there is never a dull moment on screen. With a few tweaks, this show could have gone somewhere. And so I will break it down into a few key components to better detail what went right and what went wrong. Music: 6/10 There really isn't much to expect as far as music goes in a slice-of-life school comedy. And I'm not saying that background music doesn't matter for the genre, I'm saying that it doesn't make much of an impact. It was fitting, but it wasn't memorable. The opening was as fast-paced as the dialogue contained within the shows, and the ending songs were fun and filled with dry-humor for viewers to chuckle at as they dragged their cursors to the X on their media players. Characters: 8/10 Don't misinterpret this -- the characters in Jinsei are not particularly unique. They can even be viewed as carbon copies of characters from other shows to a certain extent. Each one fulfills an anime stereotype of some sort. There is the rambunctiously sporty girl (Who is also the best), the quiet, yet extremely smart girl with glasses, and the girl with huge boobs whose only character trait is that she has huge boobs. And so I'm not directly handing each character a score card with the number 8 on it, I'm handing them a giant 8 to share based on their interactions with each other. The conversations exchanged between Ikumi (Sporty girl), Rino (Smart girl), and Fumi (Boobs) easily craft an enjoyable experience for anyone that doesn't feel uncomfortable engaging in young-adult humor. Art: 7/10 I have no complaints about the art of this show. I also have no good things to say about it. It's all just normal. Considering a good 90% of it took place in a high school, I can not commend the artists for painting a memorable landscape. I can also not commend them for character design considering the characters were limited to school uniforms and looked essentially like characters from any other slice-of-life anime you can find out there. The art was nothing above or below average, and because of this it does not deserve to be demeaned or praised in any manner. Story: 6/10 The main problem I had with Jinsei is that there just wasn't a story. And without a story, character development ultimately becomes extinct. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed almost every episode of this show, but I never felt the drive to watch another one. Problems were announced on a piece of paper in the beginning of the show (Like, for real. Akamatsu held up the paper and read it to the girls), and were then resolved in the last scene. It wasn't until the last four episodes where there was an actual problem the second newspaper club faced. Even then it wasn't a problem big enough for viewers to care about. I feel like Jinsei forgot what it was supposed to be somewhere down the line. If it had stuck to just quirky dialogue and irrational high school problems, it would have most likely been received a lot better than it was. It isn't often that I actually find myself laughing at anime, but Jinsei succeeded so many times that I would need to grow around three more hands to be able to count those times. Jinsei is an anime with minimal plot and maximum comedy. And because of that, if you go into it with expectations higher than the arm on a "You must be this tall to ride" sign, you are going to be let down. But just because it lacks in plot doesn't mean that you can't pick it up and have yourself a damn good 24 minutes. Overall score: 7/10

Story: so Yuuki gets put into the newspaper club but he gets asked to become a consular to the club by Ayaka and she puts him with 3 other girls and there job is to basically help people with there problems in the school that be trying to juggle clubs and studying or trying to be a forward with stuff so they basically give there best answers to the problem and the best why to try and fix the problem but honestly that's really about it actually. Art: art is really good nothing really to complain about or anything art is done really well. Sound: same withart nothing really here to complain about the OP and the ED are both decent in there own right and the some back music that plays when the anime is going on is good as well. Characters: Yuuki is the main male lead of the anime and well hes the one the ends up getting stuck with the 3 girls (well one more you comes later on) basically he says the stuff to the girls and than the write down what they should do he honestly has a pretty straight forward personality to the answer of the person and the girls but he his a pretty nice and chill person overall. Ayaka is one of the many female leads and she is also the club president she honestly really isn't around a whole lot of the anime until really the end of the anime but for her she is pretty determined person in the sense of trying to find the student council president corrupt otherwise she is a pretty straightforward and determined person. Rino is another female lead and she is the sciencey person of the anime she also goes have a crush on Yuuki otherwise a pretty nice and good character. Ikumi is another female lead and she is well she has A LOT of things going for her from kinda being perverted in a sense to eating candy almost all the time to being somewhat a air head she also is the athletic of the others otherwise she is a decent and also cute character. Fumi is yet another female lead and shes from the lit department honestly to describe her she usually tends to bring samurai stuff into the questions but also she is pretty has here head straight (well most of the time) otherwise again another sweet and charming girl. Emi is the last female lead and well is part of the art department she also really doesn't appear until like episode 8 im pretty sure but rather than that she is a total nut about art almost to the point of stripping naked cause of art and her viewing of people and such otherwise a pretty cute and likeable girl. Enjoyment: Things that i liked: the comedy in this to me at least is really well done and also that i personally liked all the characters in the anime i just found them to me to be all likeable which is good for me and aside from the comedy it was just really enjoyable for me also the ecchi isn't a bad touch either . Things that i didn't like: the comedy can be hit and miss even though what i said about it honestly that's really my only complaint otherwise though this anime does have ecchi but on the slight side of not being a lot i love ecchi but this is for people who might watch it i love ecchi just a warning to people. Overall: im giving this a 8 i watch debating on giving this a 7 but in the end i came out with a 8 cause the ecchi is pretty good but also the fact that i loved all the characters in this anime and also the comedy was really well done as well id recommend watch this anime whenever you can.

I hereby rename the guy Eyebrows, because that's the only feature that gives him a shred of personality. Also his eyebrows look slightly disgusting. The anime revolves around a handful girls giving advice to troubled students, in the form of Eyebrows presenting messages from students and the girls give mostly amusingly terrible advice until someone says something useful and that becomes the official reply. Since this (and small sidetracks) is all there is to the story you should watch with your focus entirely on the comedy that is thankfully sort of goodish. Eyebrows is the only character without real personality, I'm guessing pathetically hollow guys whonever get anywhere with girls are meant to be able to relate to him easily. The art and sound certainly won't disappoint, even if nothing particularly stands out the quality is high. Overall this anime is a mildly amusing way to kill some time if you're not in the mood to watch anything with story.