Girl's High

Let's be honest, there are a LOT of animés centered around high school girls, romance, yuri, slice-of-life, etc... The common trait of most of those series is that they are written by men and have a certain idealized version of teenaged girls. In most series, sex is never mentioned, at best some romance is introduced, but it stays pure and chaste puppy love most of the time. Even when women are writing the series, girls-only schools are portrayed as very proper places where, without the presence of boys, girls are even more girly and polite than they are normally.

This series... is NOT like that. AT ALL.

I like to say, if Maria-sama Ga Miteru is the series illustrating the ideal of girls-only schools in Japan, Girl's High is the not-so-glamorous reality. The author of the manga at the basis of the show is a woman who has gone to such a school, who draws heavy inspiration from her own experience in such an environment. The protagonists are raunchy, a bit crazy, not very proper at all. One of them has a deep puppy love with another shy boy, but far from idolizing her, her friends find her annoying when she talks about her boyfriend and she turns into their punching bag. Another has boyfriendS, with a capital S, always going from one to the other and clearly not being a virgin. The group of mostly-single friends alternate between wanting a boyfriend and rebelling against the social pressure to find love.

You know how in most slice-of-life series with girl characters there is a big elephant in the room? AKA, "periods"? Not here.

So what you have here is a slice-of-life comedy series about high school girls that is also a glimpse into a more realistic vision of school girls. It is fun both as light entertainment and as insight into how school girls really are in Japan when they are amongst friends. Highly recommended.

Unfortunately, there were a lot of concessions to marketing realities and the animé includes a lot of fan-service that is not in the manga. The animé industry loves to take unique manga titles and design them by committee, adding typical and cliché elements to them. Still, the show is well worth it and should maintain your interest during its entire run.

However, if you want to hold on to your ideals about high school girls in Japan, keep away.

Yes, I agree there are excessive panty-shots. However, I actually really like the story line, and I think the perverted parts are pretty funny for the most part (I enjoy dirty humor. I guess I'm just really immature). As for character development, there are only twelve episodes, so don't expect too much. The show makes up for character development, though, because it shows the power of friendship through strong bonds between the girls very well (not to mention it's pretty darn funny). Also, I don't know about others but as a girl in high school, I can identify with some of the stuff that happens, and it was pretty engaging. If you get over the awkward pervy parts, you'll find that it's not all underwear flashing and dirty nasty things, and you just might actually love it.

This anime is pretty good and pretty funny at times. It breaks from the normal girl craized boy ecchi titles out there and gives you a POV from a girls perspective which is refreshing and new. As a guy I have not idea if it rings true to how a girl thinks, feels, and acts but regardless it was interesting to watch and it has decent charactor development and makes you root for each charactor as they progress through school life and leaves you wanting to know more about each of them. I rated it three stars becuse the animation is not the best and it was enjoyable to watch but didn't have me anticipating the next episode like Sekirei or some of the other ecchi titles I've seen.

If you dont like ecchi, then this anime is not for you. If you dont like excessive panty shots, then this anime is not for you. if you dont like a slow character development anime, then this anime is not for you. If you are not any of those mentioned then you will enjoy this series.

Highschool Girls is a simple story about a group of friends and their coming of age stories. From the simple physical test exams, boys, their future careers and their blossoming friendship. I was able to finish this series since it did not bored me to death. But mind you, this anime is not a Genre- shattering masterpiece so dont expect too much.

It made me laugh. some parts of the story i could relate to, and some i don't think it was really done like that(oh, well, the target audiences are males). go figure...pantie shots...muff diving implications...i mean...dam! O_O

Storyline, some what funky, was pretty easy to follow, and somewhat relateable(if you ever been in those slap stick situations.)

The OP & ED theme song were quite snappy and catchy. I often found me-self dancing to the ED theme, (Wot in the world am i doing?!? O_O)

The Characters were, i think, diverse in there own individuality. because of this diversity, you can relate to the characters. you could think, damn, this character is me, or i know a someone who was exactly like that (or would do just that).

There is nothing really special about the animation itself. this story, required no special effecting(so to speak). the character art were, sort of, true to its character.

Over all the anime was quite interesting to watch.

Enjoy!