R-15

It took me some time to come up with good things to say about this Anime..But here goes. The main character getting in trouble all the time had it's funny moments. If you love and I mean LOVE ecchi then this show has everything in it for you, nose bleed galore, to bad it's covered up in the poorest censorship that man can make. By the time the show ended I was so sick of the main love interest and that HORRIBLE song she played 3 times a show that I went "oh, ok. It's over." It was like eating large bowl of styrofoam packing peanuts, I was full , unsatisfied, and had a odd taste in my mouth. On my list of anime I want to watch ... well you wouldn't find this one.

R-15 was a very unusual anime and should definitely NOT be viewed by younger audiences. You can tell a show is bad if CrunchyRoll has a parental advisory warning on something. This show is something that even I am surprised is so good being so bad. This show would be considered a porno about a porno author. The main hero of this show is a 1st year high school student who goes to a school for only geniuses. Everybody except for his only friend who has constant gay fantasies when he says anything thinks that he is a pervert. He spends his days at the school getting into constant predicaments that involve seeing just about every female in the school naked. This show is not for the sheltered and if you do not mean what the definition of sheltered is. Do not watch this!!! Despite the fact that there is so much nudity and sex scenes and half the screen is censored out almost at all times; the show had a good story line as well as a good hero and heroines. Everyone who thought that he was a pervert in the beginning still thinks that through the entire series, but they begin to warm up to him. The heroines from this show very from the main sheltered clarinet player to the biggest idol in all of Japan. It had a good blend of people and a unique cast to the show. This show sort of has to be censored or it would be the biggest pedophile show ever considering that all of the naked girls in the show are only 1st year high school students. The only girls that aren't are his teacher and people that he creates while he writes his porno novels. If you are old enough and can handle this show; I advise that you watch it. I give it a 4 star review. That is 4theSOSbrigade with this review. See ya when I see ya.

Each episode from first to last made me laugh or at least smh. R-15 is a harem anime set in a high school for geniuses with genius broken down into categories like porn writer (not writer, porn writer), cheerleader (what?), idol, clarinet player (not musician but clarinetist), et al. If the kids in my school had been 1/2 as entertaining I would have liked high school a whole lot more. What makes this anime is the writing. It stands out. The anime centered around porn writer Taketo and his admiration for the clarinet genius, who only knows about 4 bars from 1 song, Nakahara Fukune, I found the other characters to be much more interesting. The animation isn't the best and the amount of censorship made my brain numb, but despite all it's flaws I liked R-15.

R-15 is a light novel series written by Hiroyuki Fushimi with illustration from Takuya Fujima. The first volume of the the light novel was Kadokawa Shoten in July of 2009 with eight volumes currently out and still ongoing as of now. The series also has a manga adaption "which I highly recommend at this point in time" which started in June 2010 that is illustrated by Hayato Ōhashi, with a total of two full volumes out from the same creator/publisher. The anime adaption Is being handled by Studio Aic, that started to air July 2011 on six major t.v. stations in japan. One thing i do wish to add is that two T.V. stations in Japan pulled the show before airing which has me thinking.. wow is this going to be good or what?

So yeah.. another anime series based off an light novel. These seem to be a dime a dozen in this day age, not that it is a bad thing, it just feels over used at this point in time. Oh well at least it's good exposure for people to see a series that would have only been available in printed text in Japan.. but is this a good thing this time around ??? To be blunt with with you I like the idea and premises of this series "which still baffles me..". Sadly some of the the execution for the series, the current t.v. airing/streams with huge amount of censors, drag it down greatly. This even brings it down from being a guilty pleasure for many people, which sadly even includes me as well.

So what the initial plot in R-15?? ... Well it's about our male lead Taketo Akutagawa who has a genius talent for writing erotic novels, due to this he has go to private school for other geniuses with talents in music, photography, drawing and so forth. So during the middle of class, Taketo is having a dream/Idea for one of his novels. It's after school with the sun going down.. hmm I see where this heading... you see a random high-school female about to get boned by her teacher... whoa.. ? wait, really.. wat? What kind of person has those types of dreams in the middle of day.. oh wait he is only a freshmen in high-school so it makes sense.

After his dream..Taketo's teacher properly wakes him up..then we see one of our female leads Meiki who plays the role of our classic tsundere. Meiki loves to take photo's of Taketo when he goes in his "writer mode" because of his beastly side... heh I sense a closet masochist as well. Taketo also works for the news paper club, where he tries to get scoops for the president only to be referred to as chief...she has to be one the biggest sadist I have seen In a while as well. She just loves to cause trouble for other people and has fun time getting off to other people's misfortune...I think that I'm love

The only other character worth mentioning is Narukara-san due to her calm nature. She is a music prodigy at the school that that usually keeps to herself. Taketo happened to walk up where Naurkara was practicing, happening to see her extra reed .. so what does he do?? He tries to eat it like it was food... thus causing an awkward misunderstanding to commence..So if you haven't figured it out, they are mostly likely going to the be the OTP or "only true paring" for this series. I might be wrong for calling it so early but I have seen way to harem series to know where this going to head. To be honest I prefer the pop idol from episode two but that's just a personal opinion.

So with all of this originality, story setup, plot/ Sarcasm. Why is R15 one of the worst anime for 2011?? Well for starters it's the horrible amount of censorship used in the t.v. broadcast. Personally I am really sick, tired and frustrated of fuc*** solar flare beams on the screen, just to cover up a damn panty shot or cover up a naked ass... but at-least let there be an option to air in un-cut online. Listen I understand that that shows have to abide by certain guidelines and so-froth but this is an insult the animators, to the director, hell to everyone that worked on the project. Even if your not a fan of these types of shows, think of what Naruto, Bleach, FMA ect, would be like with half of the fighting cut-out due to violence. To those that have complained there is no un-cut version anywhere so this is a DVD/bluray sales pitch that will work for saps in japan. I am just thankful for blu-ray/dvd rips that will be available later.

One other problem that is worth pointing out in the series is the drops in animation quailty in certain parts. Now I am not one to speak for watching Higurashi/Umineko after all but at least I am willing to admit it, the drops are just so noticeable and bad.. they have a budget why not use it, there are some nice characters designs there.Who knows maybe I am wrong about the quality drops due to nearly being blinded every four to five God da** minutes from blinding lights but.. okay.. enough ranting about that. Now I will give R-15 props for having a male lead not being A-typical, he is a wimp but he knows how to turn the ladies on with his writing, although most just think Taketo is a pervert..but of course. On a plus note, in episode two he got a pop-idol to strip from his words alone.. that takes some massive skills man.

So is the music for R-15 anything special?? Hmm... Well now there happen to be some catchy bgm music. This anime also a pretty nice op/ed but nothing really stood out to me besides the opening. So is this anime really that bad?? .. Well it depends on what your taste, standards or view of censorship is. There is a story with room to grow, characters that can develop over time, however it might be to much for some to handle. Even though I am writing a review for this show .. this is the only one this season I am dropped after episode three.. Until a un-cut version becomes available. I just can-not watch it at this point in time with the amount of distractions etc. The real sad part is I want to watch/enjoy this show. Well that's all on this, I will be giving this anime two scores as well and if you really want to watch it go for it.

-Cecil The Dark Knight

Age Rating 18+

Rating Total: 1.5/5

Storyline:
The storyline is quite interesting. I've never seen any animes about a boy writing about porn.

Music:
The music was just your average anime type music.

Characters:
I would have to say that each of the characters are interesting in their own way. I like how the breasts unnaturally jiggle. =) *random BOING*

Animation:
The artwork and animation is quite smooth. The coloring looks rather state-of-the-art and is really refreshing to see. I like how they censor it with a large white line. xD

Overall:
This anime is awesomely perverted!