Joshi Kausei

[The Quiet Girls] From the studio that brought you Rance 01: Hikari wo Motomete The Animation, Koikishi Purely☆Kiss 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 “silent” 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 “Silent Days” 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: “delinquent” girl, glasses girl, and short-haired girl. “Delinquent” 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 “cash-grab” for a studio whose strengths lies in hentai adaptations. P.S: Our “delinquent” girl finally says one line of dialogue, and that's “I'm home!” 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 girl’s life. The gimmick is that there are no dialogues, so it’s basically pantomime. The gimmick works. That’s 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. It’s not representative of the content and exists solely as pleb filter (just kidding, it’s 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 “ironic weeb” 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.