Chidori RSC

When it comes to a slice of life show with cute girls doing cute things you can't really mess up. Or so I thought up to this point. This anime though managed to shatter this illusion. First let's hit the obvious stuff: 1. Story - in slice of life with a club there are not really many options to pick as a plot. Shooting is a sport, so competition it is. Pretty generic, pretty dull, being a slice of life you can't really expect much drama or sudden turns of events as in sports anime, so nothing more to say about it. 2. "Cute girls doing cutethings" should have cute girls and things they do. And here is the first major problem - shooting is not really the most spectacular sport. Well, at least range shooting with laser rifles, watching competition shooting with people moving between targets and real guns is fun, but it is understandable that a school club will never have those (giving minors actual guns is not the best idea), so all we have here are girls standing still and shooting at a static target. While it is not the easiest thing to participate in, it is still pretty dull to watch. 3. And the second big problem - the actual girls. A bunch of stock generic presets, with no original quirks, with nothing actually standing off - those characters don't really pull their weight in the task of entertaining the viewer. Add to the boot a very "special" artstyle, that makes the whole anime look like they had no budget for graphics, so not only they do dull things, but they also look very basic, with no detail or beauty. And maybe it was just me, but those rifles looked like they were done in CGI with half the framerate of the actual anime, so they looked out of place in every single scene they were present. And cause of the stuff I said above you can't really enjoy this anime: there is simply no plot to be worried about and interested in, characters are so basic that you will not even remember them in a week, and everything looks so dull and basic that it doesn't even catch your eye, neither it does hold your attention. The only reason I finished this anime is the fact that I don't like dropping things I have started watching or reading. I don't recommend this anime if you are not a huge fan of shooting.

Let’s go! Saa Let’s go! ~~ follow your dreams and make it come true! The cover picture of "Rifle is beautiful" already shows that it is a CGDCT anime. I am an absolute fan of my cute girls, but not a fan of the CGDCT + action combination. In my opinion, these two things don't really go well together. "Rifle" - what do you associate with this word? Fighting, hunting, shooting and much more that has to do with the action category. So, at first I was a bit skeptical about this anime, whether it would be similar to "Granbelm" (which I have dropped after three episodes becauseof the fighting action there). Fortunately, this is not the case here. Already in the first episode you can see that it is a rifle club in the school, where our four protagonists take part after class. A rifle club also shoots, but luckily not at people or animals, only on non-moving targets. STORY and CHARACTERS: Each of us has a goal that he or she wants to achieve. Our four rifle shooting girls have only one goal in mind: to win the national title in rifle shooting! Together they work slowly but surely to make their dream come true. The Rifle Club of Chidori High, where our girls go, has already been closed. With the main help from Hikari, however, it was brought back to life. Together with her three friends, they went through good and bad times. Although each of the four girls has a different personality, their chemistry is right. Little by little they got better at rifle shooting and can keep up with the very best. In addition to our four protagonists, there are of course girls from other schools, who also show a strong will to win. Despite the rivalry, it remains peaceful and friendly. The harmony remains. ART: The characters are all super cute. The animations are very good and very colorful. Anyone who is a fan of the CGDCT style is certainly in good hands here. MUSIC: The opening and ending are sung by our four protagonists, which is always a big plus for me. In addition to the OP and ED, our girls from the idol group Rifling4 have a few more singles, which are also very nice to listen. The group itself is certainly not nearly as well-known as e.g. our Love Live girls μ's, Aqours or Nijigasaki High. Nevertheless, there is certainly a lot of potential behind them. Their music is very nice to listen to and gives you power. ENJOYMENT: After the first couple of episodes, to be honest, I was a bit skeptical, since not much happened. Nothing has changed in the story and the background of the characters have not been explained in detail. But when the competitions came little by little, the development of the anime began. You get to know their rifle shooting history and why they chose this sport. One of the things that particularly excites me is that I got to know a new sport. I have never heard of it before, let alone know the rules. All of this is also mentioned in detail in the anime. Summary: For an CGDCT category, this anime has certainly worked well. The harmony between the characters is there. You have fun watching the girls doing their actions. Step by step they achieve their dream. We have to work on our own dreams too and try to make them possible! Even if we do fail, we have to learn from it and become stronger!

Anime is known for turning the mundane into the spectacular, using concepts and topics one could not imagine to be entertaining in a media setting to craft wonderfully amusing stories. Anime has brought us shows about rakugo, farming, shogi, after school tea time, Karuta and other topics one couldn’t possibly imagine would be a hit. When I first heard that there would be an anime about shooting rifles, I was a bit apprehensive, but hopeful given the past history anime has had with bringing out the best of the mundane and given the general high production quality of studio 3hz. Sadly, these hopes were dashedfairly quickly as Rifle is Beautiful is not a sleeper hit, its just boring, and it has lower production quality than the average JC Staff series which is a new low for studio 3hz. Let’s talk a bit about the characters, the main cast consists of possibly the dumbest girl in anime with a goofy smile and possibly the most oversized head ribbon in existence, another basic redhead tsundere, another blue haired quiet girl, and the brown hair straightman normal girl. As you can tell the character designs and how the characters were written, and their roles executed throughout the story was quite uninspired. Hibike might be the single most annoying and comically stupid protagonist I have had the displeasure of coming across in anime, normally I find stupid girls with big ribbons to be incredibly moe, but typecasting has gone way to far this time. Everything Hibike does screams that this girl is a three year old in the body of a 15-year-old who happens to some how be able to speak yet at the same time say nothing meaningful. All she wants to do is shoot rifles, eat snacks, and be totally oblivious to literally anything going on around her, her character singlehandedly ruins the show, although the rest of the cast do nothing to redeem the show either. The tsundere is rip off from other popular anime tsunderes and this specific character archetype is considerably less amusing outside of a romcom or action setting, the quiet girl is not deep, she’s just boring and the brown hair girl is so irrelevant that I can’t name a single quality about her that separates her from a background character. Now the story itself is practically a parody of more popular underdog sports stories, they happen to be part of a club full of first years and they are trying to win nationals, sounds familiar? There is no tension when a person can reasonably guess everything that is going to happen in the story, and rifle shooting really is a boring sport which the show constantly reminds us with little textboxes mentioning how boring it is, probably the least effective way to deflect the tediousness of watching this already incredibly boring show. Maybe this story could have been written in a way that could have made beam rifle competitions interesting, anything is possible, but rifle shooting is definitely not a sport that translates well to the anime medium given that accurately depicting it involves a bunch of girls firing invisible projectiles getting scores that we are aren’t sure are hit or miss until the sensor picks it up. As for production values, as written earlier the production values are an incredibly low showing for a studio that put out series like Princess Principal and Flip Flappers, this show could have been redeemed if it was at least as flashy or as wild as those series or if there were a lot of effective beam effects such as in Gun Gale Online. However, instead of the usual flashy animation seen by studio 3hz we got animation that made middle school power points look dynamic in comparison, the character designs were all uninspired garbage as well, and the scenery was probably some of the most cookie cutter stuff I have seen in any anime. Given this that this show was already a borderline parody in comparison to good sports anime, on top of being poorly written, lacking meaningful characters, and having low quality production values one may wonder why I even bothered watching this. Well it comes down to 2 things, there wasn’t really all that many shows airing on the day this show airs, and because I have a thing for ribbon haired loli characters. That is essentially it, if you don’t have a thing for ribbon hair loli characters and you are not watching this a seasonal show on a day with almost no other anime airing, then please spare yourself from watching this atrocity that is the second worst show I seen this season besides assassins pride, which is the only reason I gave this show a 5 instead of a 4, because a show worse than it exists this season.

Welcome to my review of Rifle Is Beautiful. This review has minor spoilers in it! This is a grand beautiful tale about cute girls doing cute things! Full of wonderful pure lesbians that love each other and want to have fun together! The story may not be complex in the manner,It's rather about the cute girls and spending their time together!Its heartwarming a lot of humorous aspects and some lewd situations.Its light warm and cute.Like a CGDCT should be ,And it also drives strong at the Yuri!! The sport itself gets some time! But as i said its more about the girls!! Hikari and herpartner Izumi have been together for a long time and in her past done some shooting with laser rifle. And strive to start a shooting club in her school only for females!! Her girlfriend Izumi supports her and helps out in every way she can!! And as always in does CGDCT more females will join their club!! Like Erika that are very skilled and have done some competition with Hikari before, In her younger years. And together they wanna try to qualify to the national! And who knows they may even reach the Olympics!!! Overall I like the story and it have the CGDCT essence in it! The animation is great! Love the warm vibrant colours!! And the appealing females just melts my heart!! Even the CGI are really good!! In general the animation holds an exceptional high standard The characters are just the best. Well behaved easy-going girls.Very warm interesting and charming females., Two of the top shooters Erika and Akira are cousins but with close family's they grow up together and are more like sisters.And have some rivalry between them but more sister rivalry than fierce competition.We also have the lovely teacher!! Who wants to have a lesbian harem with all my girls!! She is a doll and putting a big smile on my face.And she cares a lot!! She is always there for her students and do her best to help them!! Izumi may not be one of the top shooters. But she try's real hard and always hangs in there. And learn how important her support is for the other girls! And with some training she have a good chance and the will to improving herself!! The whole anime is full of lovable girls! We also have some females that take it a bit more serious. But they are not over the top and give some variation.This type of anime is supposed to make the viewer feel comfortable and relaxed. And my girls are doing a momentum job and succeeded at every levels . So overall the characters are a huge hit!! We have some lighter character development.My girls better themselves with some training!! But mostly they open up more towards each other!! Strengthen their relationship and become a much tighter group. Understanding and accepting each others personality!Rather then have a strong individual growth. They grow and become stronger as a team!! With all this Yuri going on I just love this anime!! We have girls proposing on multiple occasions!! They clearly says they want to married each other!! And all this talk about girls getting married to each other is so delicious for a Yuri lover like me!! The main girls my two favourites also states they want to have a lesbian wedding and get married in the future!! It's so cute and warm, Yuri are something holy for me and noting speaks more to my soul!!! Even the white lily flower have been in picture!! Which is a clear statement this is a media with lesbian females The sport get some attention! But are not the main attraction!! The cute girls are of course the big stars here!! And to be consider as a real sport anime, The sport itself must be in focus and the most important aspect!! Friendship and everything else should come after the sport.Here its the opposite. The girls themselves even often says we want to have ""FUN"" noting more.We will try our best but the result is not that important.They much rather wants to be friends or lovers than rivals. The shooting is only there to give them something to do like a hobby, as many other CGDCT shows have , It's a mere springboard to elevate the girls. But its still about them and their relationships rather than being successful in a sport!! If you want to watch a real sport anime please do so, But this is not it!! So, Do you like CGDCT and Yuri? And heartwarming anime with very mellow type of competition and rivalry.Where the girls rather have fun then take things to serious? If this is to your liking's I think you will enjoy this as much as I do!!! I dedicate this review to my lovely lesbian angel Hikari!! That never backs down on her believes that is most important to have fun together with her friends!!! Thank you for reading!!!