Yumeria

Skadi★ 7

Yumeria is your typical harem anime. Loser guy with no girlfriend finds mysterious girl and suddenly has girls falling all over him. While there is nothing particularly remarkable about this series it does everything well enough to be a solid series. The story is weak but has just enough to keep you interested throughout. Since the series is short the lack of any real story depth doesn’t hurt it too much. Nothing earth shattering or original and the plot twists are predictable and simplistic. Tomokazu and his friends find themselves thrust into a dream world where they have to dobattle with monsters trying to break through to the real world. While this sounds like it might be exciting with lots of battles and action there isn’t. While a lot of episodes have battles in them they are usually very short and doesn’t really pick up until the end. Yumeria also tries to be a romance as well but doesn’t see it through to the end. Pretty much all of the romantic elements are left open at the end. As with most harem genre shows there is plenty of panty shots, boob jiggle, and echiiness but it is all pretty tame. Characters are fun and enjoyable, though they are a bit underdeveloped. The story leaves a lot of questions about the backgrounds of the main characters and the back story that is given is simple and not very detailed. Still they all manage to develop their personalities well and by episode 4 all the main characters have been introduced. There are very few supporting characters but the one who really steals the show is Ishikari, Tomokazu's teacher. He has a number of hilarious lines. Visually Yumeria is mixed, some of the animation looks really great but at other times it falls flat. Particularly in the opening animation the characters look odd compared to how they are drawn in the rest of the series. The OP and ED songs are ok, nothing really great just ordinary. The background music though is terrible. It sounds dated and just didn’t fit. Voice acting was pretty good, though Mone got pretty annoying by episode 5. There are a lot of far worse shows than this out there. Still it does have a number of laughs. If you want a solid series to enjoy than this is a good pick, but just don’t expect anything new or groundbreaking.

purplegold★ 8

This anime can stand on its own. The story is fairly straight forward, no fillers. It kept me interested throughout, heck I watched all 12 episodes in an evening. The characters were enjoyable. There wasn't much beating around the bush as far as romance was concerned, which suited me quite well. Nobody "did" it (Like the first episode of REC!), you still have the blushing and accidental bath scenes. It was just refreshing to have people like each other without dragging it on for eons. The classmate and the elder sister type were especially enjoyable. The younger characters were quite fun as well. I'd say thebalance between story, humor, and fighting were pretty well done. Perhaps a few of the "power up" sequences were a bit repetitive, but hey thats how they got some brief ecchi in. There honestly wasn't THAT much. I think it was just the right amount, for those who aren't a big fan of that. The art suited my tastes . Beautiful, not too young, cute. Some con's perhaps would be if you're into fighting, the repetitive "powers" probably wouldn't do it for you. I had originally scored 7's across the board, but in writing the review, i'm going to bump up a few.