Evan: Oh man, this ship just keeps on sinking! For the second entry in AniMayday, our collection of bad anime reviews in celebration of the beginning of May, we’ve got Elliot’s mini-review of the awful 2004 anime series Girls Bravo.
My pick for May Day is Girls Bravo — a truly wretched piece of dross. I was roped into watching this show when it was presented at a University Anime Club showing, with the chairwoman reassuring us that it was “a real cute show!” She even did a little joyous hop after saying “cute.”
She lied! This show was not cute at all, and instead was so terrible I had to leave the room for fear of having my mind rotted away. To sum up the show, it’s a harem comedy. Loser guy who looks like a girl goes to magical land full of nothing but women, meets a dumbass priestess lass and brings her back to the real world. Suddenly everyone in the show is after his junk and wacky hijinks ensue.
I honestly don’t have anything against harem comedies — done well they can be really funny, and it is a shame that most examples of the genre, like this show, are lazily produced. The harem itself is full of forgettable interchangeable characters orbiting the most useless excuse for a person ever created. Every piece of lackluster comedy falls flat or comes off as creepy, as do the show’s frequent ecchi elements, which feel forced and pandering to an embarrassing degree. You may have already seen the animated gif of the main heroine “taste-testing” a banana, which is so blatant in its pandering that you’ll want to bury your head in your hands.
Even together these elements would not normally be enough to make me run away from a social gathering, but the final straw is that the show is entirely without charm of any kind. Utterly devoid of any hint of love, warmth or thought in the final product, it is clear that the creators of Girls Bravo did not give a damn about what they were creating.
This show is a truly wretched piece of garbage you should stay away from as best you can.
