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Apr 6, 2019 to Jun 22, 2019
Momoko Futo is an average high-school girl going about her everyday life. Though laid-back and cheerful, her life is anything but mundane as her eccentricity and clumsiness never fail to spice up her days. Her two best friends are always with her: the cute and innocent Mayumi Furui, and the calm and cool Shibumi Shibusawa. Without any spoken dialogue or narration, Joshikausei aims to recount the comedic shenanigans these girls get up to through the expressive sounds and gestures that they make. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
5.4/10
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32%
Recommend It
19
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Some anime this year impressed me. There are also some anime this year that made me wonder if the creators were high on something. Then, thereâs Joshikausei. Thereâs an old phrase that youâve probably heard of before: silence is golden. As a short anime without any dialogue, thatâs what Joshikausei represents. The manga itself is also silent without dialogues. So now the real question comes, how would this show work? Was the author high when they made this? Not quite. Itâs actually real simple. The show is about high school girls interacting with daily activities. An easy draw of the show is the character chemistry between thethree main girls â Mayumi, Momoko, and Shibumi. The show explores their lifestyle that reminds what normal people would do. Sometimes, characters are represented with fan service in the case of Momoko. The first episode is a testament of this with the suggestive leg shots plastered all over the place. But an important part is to see the character interactions. Joshikausei explores the limits of language and how characters communicate with their expressions. Their emotive performances combined with music carries the mood of each episode. Writing a series like this isnât easy. For a manga with over 80 chapters of content, itâs not hard to see why. At the end of the day though, it works out just fine and dandy. Joshikausei isnât long and ran the risk of looking like a humorless joke. Embedded into the show is simple slice of life storytelling featuring a trio of girls. Every episode is only 3 minutes so itâs an easy way to pass time. The real question is if this silent anime is a golden treat for you. For me, itâs just so-so.
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[The Quiet Girls] From the studio that brought you Rance 01: Hikari wo Motomete The Animation, Koikishi PurelyâKiss The Animation, Baku Ane: Otouto Shibocchau zo! The Animation, and Real Eroge Situation! The Animation, comes Studio Seven's latest series entitled Joshi Kausei. STORY: It's a story about three âsilentâ high school girls and the random events that happen to them. You'll watch the girls get involved in some strange skits, such as riding a skateboard, playing with each other's thighs, be concerned about fortunes, and create origami in a family restaurant. And to spice things up, the girls are also involved in some risque situations like wearing wet clothesafter a rain shower, having a hand print near one's thigh, and planking over your sleeping daughter. Three-minutes of silent action. It doesn't get more exciting than this folks! ART/ANIMATIONS: Be entranced by the stunning plainness of its art and animations, you can appreciate the lack of details from its background art, the rigid movements of non-human objects, and the plain and uninteresting character designs. You can also contemplate as to why Studio Seven's other works, mainly hentai adaptations, appear more refined, animated, and well-produced, considering their previous history, this should be their specialty, unfortunately it doesn't show here. SOUND: Watch as the characters move their lips and speak dialogue, but alas, no dialogue is heard because every character live in a world of silence. Watch as the characters create various sound effects from squeaks, squeals, and cries to grunts, sighs, and moans, accompanied with many facial expressions, such as happiness, sadness, anger, embarrassment, shock, and concern. Hear multitudes of background music that successfully fits the mood and tone of the scenes in question. Hear a 30-second ending song called âSilent Daysâ that is accompanied with moving animations of the girls in different locations through images, playing with water guns, wearing school swimsuits, flying on a rainbow, and looking over the bridge. CHARACTERS: Meet our three protagonists: âdelinquentâ girl, glasses girl, and short-haired girl. âDelinquentâ girl is beautiful and cute, has long, light brown hair, carefree, and somewhat unlucky. Glasses girl is calm, composed, and levelheaded, and has long, light blond hair. Short-haired girl acts childlike and is naive, and has short, black hair. Be impressed by the show's lack of character development, its lack of character personalities, and its lack of memorable characters. ENJOYMENT: So, sit down and watch as the time quietly goes by, and by the time episode 12 rolls around, you'll have forgotten what the previous episodes were about. But, that's okay, this series isn't suppose to be memorable, its a quick âcash-grabâ for a studio whose strengths lies in hentai adaptations. P.S: Our âdelinquentâ girl finally says one line of dialogue, and that's âI'm home!â What a fitting line for the end of this series.
Ugh, this show... Who thought this was a good idea? :/ One of my favourite short comedy anime is Morita-san wa Mukuchi, where the extremely shy protagonist doesn't speak a word during the whole two seasons and we can only hear her thoughts from time to time. It was a cute gimmick that fueled the lighthearted SoL comedy of that series and made me remember it despite the rather plain "cute girls doing cute things" formula - I'm sure many people would find it boring, but it was well-crafted and relaxing. Here, the silent cast is not a gimmick. It's a pointless hindrance that adds nothing ofvalue to the whole setup - there are obvious places where dialogue takes place, but we don't hear it. The gags are mostly piss-poor and don't utilize the lack of dialogue in any interesting way. Fanservice is weird and obnoxious, with the opening episode (!) missing the mark in a particularly spectacular manner. Characters are boring cliches. Not even the visuals or the ending song are particularly appealing (and that also is very important in making these kinds of shorts memorable). There's nothing even remotely interesting or memorable here, and the humour doesn't land more often than not. I've seen worse shows, but I'm not sure I ever saw one this pointless - truly a waste of time.
This is a collection of three-minutes long vignettes of a certain high school girlâs life. The gimmick is that there are no dialogues, so itâs basically pantomime. The gimmick works. Thatâs it. 9/10. No, really. The situations presented are far from mundane, so the plot actually keeps you engaged. The characters express more personality than 90% of the anime casts. There are backstories, twists and deepest lore. The art and music are fine. Fun things are fun. Dixi. Incidentally, the first episode is about anime thighs. Itâs not representative of the content and exists solely as pleb filter (just kidding, itâs actually the opposite - an appealto the degenerate demographic which is like the main group of people that actually buys the BDs in Japan). Anyway, the point is this is not a gravure series, so there is no fuel for the âironic weebâ act, the only enjoyment will come from the show actually being good.
Do you have 40 minutes to spare? Go watch something else. I was hesitant to continue after the first episode and I should've stopped then but part of me was hoping it really couldn't be that bad. I usually don't dislike what I set out to watch but man this show was incredibly boring. A little sad to say but don't waste your time, you'll just be disappointed. There isn't really any story, the art is decent but the characters are very bland -maybe it's because they don't speak, you dont really get an impression of their type of character. Would've probably disliked it lessif the characters actually spoke. Can't say it made me want to read the manga.