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This Week in Anime - Is We Never Learn: BOKUBEN Worth Watching?

"And frankly, the fact that Yuiga doesn't immediately ask her out after that is proof that he's the biggest moron in this whole show."

"Personally, I despise the "punch first, ask never" characters that appear too often in harem shows and can't understand the appeal."

I think they were a bit too harsh on sensei. And no, she does not have the hots yet for Oatmeal-kun as far as I remember. She does a fine contrast with Asumi, as she seems to have it together but actually is a klutz in her personal life while Asumi looks like she could be a middle school student but she's has it together.

Nick said:

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"And frankly, the fact that Yuiga doesn't immediately ask her out after that is proof that he's the biggest moron in this whole show."

Let's be real, if he did that, he wouldn't be Oatmeal-kun. I think harem shows are not suited for these two.

Gray Lensman said:

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"Personally, I despise the "punch first, ask never" characters that appear too often in harem shows and can't understand the appeal."

I share your sentiments. The worst one is Louise from Familiar of Zero. I was only able to finish it due to the fact the MC had a cool gimmick going on with his power and all other girls were Best Girl™.

Part of what makes people like one show and not another is always personal taste. Some people are turned off when the plot is driven by fanservice, others not so much.

Tropes are tropes because they are oatmeal for the mind. Quick to make and easy to digest. Not everything has to be Earth shatteringly original. Sometimes oatmeal is what you want to eat.

Sorry that this is unrelated to the anime, but I can't wait until people quit using the word "yikes" as a go-to reaction for something they find problematic, particularly sexually.

90% of them were wasted and I only glanced at the pictures. I guess you have to qualify your paychecks, though. You do get paid for this gig, don't you?

I definitely don't mind the design choice, but I do have to wonder as well why Uruka has that swimsuit tan.
As was mentioned, the pool is indoors, but not only that, none of the other swim team members have a tan! If she had a regular tan, you could say she works out outside (like running), but since it's clearly her swimsuit, then she would have to find a place to swim outside (basically year round) instead of or in addition to swimming at school and always by herself (or at least without the other swim club members).

Sorry that this is unrelated to the anime, but I can't wait until people quit using the word "yikes" as a go-to reaction for something they find problematic, particularly sexually.

but neither is it as reprehensibly awful as any given Ken Akamatsu anime.

Ken Akamatsu's fanservice generally adheres to what now feels like a somewhat quaint style of titillation. Instead of the overtly, outrageously horny setups of something like Monster Musume, there's just a whole lot of panty flashes, suggestive angles, and sudden undressings in the middle of otherwise unrelated scenes [...] it's worth pointing out that Akamatsu's style is still its own kind of chaste.

Nick wrote:

but neither is it as reprehensibly awful as any given Ken Akamatsu anime.

Okay, I realize they're not winning any awards outside of genre fans, but "reprehensibly awful," really? Are they truly any more offensive than the likes of Green Green, Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, Qwaser of Stigmata, Recently My Sister is Unusual, Astarotte's Toy, School Days, or Late 2010s Seasonal Isekai Slave Harem LN Commercial #41? Love Hina and Negima '05 actively toned down the amount of fanservice from the manga, while Negima '06 is more of an "inspired by Negima" story that adds copious SHAFTiness to the proceedings. UQ Holder! was a mess (and did add some fanservice where the manga held back), sure, but that was more from trying to cover 14 volumes of manga story in 12 episodes than anything else.

Preface: this is just my opinion.

IRL I like to help someone understand something whatever the topic is and WNL showed that. Whereas QQ looks like it took the premise and stripped out the actual tutoring part.

One of the things I liked was WNL gave real study tips that fit each girl's academic weakness in the manga. These study tips were sort of mentioned in the anime but not as much. Whereas in QQ there was no studying and when it was it was just some vague "and then they studied" scene. That's what made me drop QQ.

Zalis116 wrote:

Okay, I realize they're not winning any awards outside of genre fans, but "reprehensibly awful," really? Are they truly any more offensive than the likes of Green Green, Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, Qwaser of Stigmata, Recently My Sister is Unusual, Astarotte's Toy, School Days, or Late 2010s Seasonal Isekai Slave Harem LN Commercial #41? Love Hina and Negima '05 actively toned down the amount of fanservice from the manga, while Negima '06 is more of an "inspired by Negima" story that adds copious SHAFTiness to the proceedings. UQ Holder! was a mess (and did add some fanservice where the manga held back), sure, but that was more from trying to cover 14 volumes of manga story in 12 episodes than anything else.

Agreed on this. Ken Akamatsu's anime adaptations are nothing to write home about, several I would even consider outright bad, but certainly not what I would call "reprehensible" by any stretch of the imagination. When you look at what's come out in the best several years, it makes question why his works would be used as an example for bottom-of-the-barrel trash.