Should I watch Hajimete no Gal?
"What does she even see in him?" is an obvious statement LA would place on the main couple of Junichi Hashiba and Yukana Yame.
Hajimete no Gal is a rather strange romance anime for LA to look at, as it has fanservice and it flaunts it without a care, yet the anime also acts as a harem with a supporting cast of characters helping our main couple here, YET it does almost everything in it's power to make it as cringy and awkward as possible.
So let's start with the flaws and there's a bit to unpack, let's start with Junichi's 3 useless friends of Shinpei, Keigo and urghhh Minoru. These three characters reminds LA ALOT of Green Green's main protagonist's friends but alot less intense except one. These three character ruin, make things worse for Junichi, are useless, plot forced fanservice and are the ones essentially the kick start Junichi and Yukana's relationship yeah seriously. The most annoying character for Summer 2017 (yeah not just this anime) would go to the extremely creepy Minoru for OBVIOUS reasoning LA won't bring up here. So LA said this was a supporting harem and the other love interests for Junichi of Yui Kashii voiced by Ayana Taketatsu who's one of the most popular girls in the school but hides a secret and Nene Fujinoki voiced by Yui Ogura the backbreakingly Eiken-like loli of the harem who just happened to be childhood friends of Junichi comes into the mix and to be fair both characters are interesting, mainly because of Yui's character development about looking at Junichi in a differing light throughout the series and Nene's attempts of being a gal and kinda failing are interesting quirks to them HOWEVER since they are a supporting cast it's to be expected what's gonna happen to them with them cheering on the sidelines and the occasional emotional support when drama appears (which it does). LA won't say this is a horrible flaw but an expected intentional one.
Hajimete no Gal's strength's may be sparse but nonetheless, let's start with Junichi and Yukana's relationship, by the best it's puppy love in which both sides are naive about being in love and they both show it, it's actually one of the purest things in this anime and it's kinda adorable when they get their moments. What's more is that Junichi as much of a perverted white knight character he is, he's STILL one of most interesting characters in the anime if not because of his naive romantic puppy love relationship with Yukana. Yukana also has this, mainly because she's one of those character like in Oshiete Galko-chan! where appearance can be deceiving and her personality is not limited to being a gal and nothing more and again this is emphasized with her relationship with Junichi. Compounding this is that LA actually found the main couple of an anime series to be more interesting than the beta couple or other supporting characters and whether this was intentional through the useless best friends of Junichi or the harem members of Junichi to be supportive of Yukana's relationship, although this felt rather intentional it's a strength nonetheless. Lastly, Ranko Honojou voiced by Eri Kitamura is probably the MVP of this anime series as she does most of the heavy lifting in helping the main couple's relationship, though her ulterior motive is that she wants to protect Yukana but nonetheless she's the most reliable character in this anime.
The animation by NAZ has moments of being decent with the rather "exotic" character designs and bland looking backgrounding. Though NAZ isn't without it's derpy animation and it appears alot in this anime especially the finale. The character designs if anything is the only thing to talk about as a strength. Lastly this anime's censorship is "different" to say the least but doesn't cover enough but easily tells us what's going on under the smoke and mirrors censorship anyways...it's "meh".
On speaking of censorship, the fanservice in this anime is rampant from Junichi's lusty fantasies to beach episodes to cosplays and *ahem* erotic reading and Nene. The fanservice "varies" to say the least, at worst cringy and awkward as hell, at best...it's "trying".
The voice work in this anime is decent enough though LA would point out that Yukana Yame's voice actor Yuki Nagaku is being diverse by playing this role as LA really didn't expect Ichigo Moesaki to voice a gal-like pure maiden character but all the power to her to actually pull it off. Eri Kitamura has been eerily typecasted as the tough yet rather perverted girl characters but still did great in this anime and this statement can be said for Yui Ogura and Ayana Taketatsu and their respective character traits (almost like the point of them being in their role were to be stereotyped yet parodied at the same time).
So to actually answer the question LA said at the start of this anime review of "What does she even see in him?" comes at the thought that both characters are naive characters towards being in a relationship yet both of them wanting to progress and see to it that both of them are happy with each other and seriously in all honesty this is probably Hajimete no Gal's best strengths however is largely detrimented by it's useless male supporting characters and it's awkward attempts at humor and fanservice barring more screentime between our main couple, sure LA can compliment the finale it brought for our main couple after a rather annoying misunderstanding and self-deprecation by Junichi's part and Yukana for not being upfront about the situation which leads to some genuine attempts of romance but it was little too late and to little in general with all the awkward and cringy humor LA had to endure to get to that point.
Hajimete no Gal is "meh" by the end of it but it had the potential of being a much better romance if it wasn't trying to make awkward cringy humor all the time and actually gave more screentime to our main couple.
"What does she even see in him?" is an obvious statement LA would place on the main couple of Junichi Hashiba and Yukana Yame.
Hajimete no Gal is a rather strange romance anime for LA to look at, as it has fanservice and it flaunts it without a care, yet the anime also acts as a harem with a supporting cast of characters helping our main couple here, YET it does almost everything in it's power to make it as cringy and awkward as possible.
So let's start with the flaws and there's a bit to unpack, let's start with Junichi's 3 useless friends of Shinpei, Keigo and urghhh Minoru. These three characters reminds LA ALOT of Green Green's main protagonist's friends but alot less intense except one. These three character ruin, make things worse for Junichi, are useless, plot forced fanservice and are the ones essentially the kick start Junichi and Yukana's relationship yeah seriously. The most annoying character for Summer 2017 (yeah not just this anime) would go to the extremely creepy Minoru for OBVIOUS reasoning LA won't bring up here. So LA said this was a supporting harem and the other love interests for Junichi of Yui Kashii voiced by Ayana Taketatsu who's one of the most popular girls in the school but hides a secret and Nene Fujinoki voiced by Yui Ogura the backbreakingly Eiken-like loli of the harem who just happened to be childhood friends of Junichi comes into the mix and to be fair both characters are interesting, mainly because of Yui's character development about looking at Junichi in a differing light throughout the series and Nene's attempts of being a gal and kinda failing are interesting quirks to them HOWEVER since they are a supporting cast it's to be expected what's gonna happen to them with them cheering on the sidelines and the occasional emotional support when drama appears (which it does). LA won't say this is a horrible flaw but an expected intentional one.
Hajimete no Gal's strength's may be sparse but nonetheless, let's start with Junichi and Yukana's relationship, by the best it's puppy love in which both sides are naive about being in love and they both show it, it's actually one of the purest things in this anime and it's kinda adorable when they get their moments. What's more is that Junichi as much of a perverted white knight character he is, he's STILL one of most interesting characters in the anime if not because of his naive romantic puppy love relationship with Yukana. Yukana also has this, mainly because she's one of those character like in Oshiete Galko-chan! where appearance can be deceiving and her personality is not limited to being a gal and nothing more and again this is emphasized with her relationship with Junichi. Compounding this is that LA actually found the main couple of an anime series to be more interesting than the beta couple or other supporting characters and whether this was intentional through the useless best friends of Junichi or the harem members of Junichi to be supportive of Yukana's relationship, although this felt rather intentional it's a strength nonetheless. Lastly, Ranko Honojou voiced by Eri Kitamura is probably the MVP of this anime series as she does most of the heavy lifting in helping the main couple's relationship, though her ulterior motive is that she wants to protect Yukana but nonetheless she's the most reliable character in this anime.
The animation by NAZ has moments of being decent with the rather "exotic" character designs and bland looking backgrounding. Though NAZ isn't without it's derpy animation and it appears alot in this anime especially the finale. The character designs if anything is the only thing to talk about as a strength. Lastly this anime's censorship is "different" to say the least but doesn't cover enough but easily tells us what's going on under the smoke and mirrors censorship anyways...it's "meh".
On speaking of censorship, the fanservice in this anime is rampant from Junichi's lusty fantasies to beach episodes to cosplays and *ahem* erotic reading and Nene. The fanservice "varies" to say the least, at worst cringy and awkward as hell, at best...it's "trying".
The voice work in this anime is decent enough though LA would point out that Yukana Yame's voice actor Yuki Nagaku is being diverse by playing this role as LA really didn't expect Ichigo Moesaki to voice a gal-like pure maiden character but all the power to her to actually pull it off. Eri Kitamura has been eerily typecasted as the tough yet rather perverted girl characters but still did great in this anime and this statement can be said for Yui Ogura and Ayana Taketatsu and their respective character traits (almost like the point of them being in their role were to be stereotyped yet parodied at the same time).
So to actually answer the question LA said at the start of this anime review of "What does she even see in him?" comes at the thought that both characters are naive characters towards being in a relationship yet both of them wanting to progress and see to it that both of them are happy with each other and seriously in all honesty this is probably Hajimete no Gal's best strengths however is largely detrimented by it's useless male supporting characters and it's awkward attempts at humor and fanservice barring more screentime between our main couple, sure LA can compliment the finale it brought for our main couple after a rather annoying misunderstanding and self-deprecation by Junichi's part and Yukana for not being upfront about the situation which leads to some genuine attempts of romance but it was little too late and to little in general with all the awkward and cringy humor LA had to endure to get to that point.
Hajimete no Gal is "meh" by the end of it but it had the potential of being a much better romance if it wasn't trying to make awkward cringy humor all the time and actually gave more screentime to our main couple.
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