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Medium: OAV
Genres: Harem, School(?)
Studio: Soft Garage
OP: “Sodasui to Hikoukigumo” by Yuma Kosaka
ED: “_summer” by Yuma Kosaka
Official Site: http://anime.softgarage.com/_summer/ <– not sure if this link works

Rating: 7/10

If you haven’t already seen this OAV, you would be asking: “Should I watch this?” If you have the time and internet capacity, yes. If not, or you’re busy or whatever, then no. This OAV is a harem. And it’s very generic. In other words, it’s not very good. It’s fine to watch and enjoy if you don’t think too much about it, though if you take it apart and analyse you will realise it isn’t that great. It’s just something you should just pass the time width, as I did. The big problem is that none of the voice actors are good, except for maybe the guy who does Osamu. The person who voices the main female character is horrible in my opinion. Aside from that, the story is rather generic. Quality wise though, being an OAV, is fairly high, so there’s no problem with the visuals. That’s probably what saved it for me.

Basically, the four main characters (two guys and two girls) are in their teens yet none of them have found themselves a boyfriend/girlfriend yet. Takumi, the main guy, has little or no interest in girls, while his childhood, female friend is just another average childhood friend harem stereotype. Then there’s the perverted best friend who always fights with the feisty last member of the group (girl). And to make it even more typical, the episode starts off with the perverted best friend dragging the male lead to peep on the two girls while they’re in a hot spring. What this first episode does achieve is provide a basis for an able story later on which could develop into something much less generic than what it has been so far. There also hasn’t been an announced episode count that I am aware of, but still I will continue to blog this, since I will almost always blog OAVs that I have already blogged the first episode. Oh and as for other characters (female I mean), there’s also the younger sister, the younger sister’s weird best friend, the senpai and school idol, as well as the bodyguard of the senpai (female once again of course).

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