Licensed Joshi Kousei / Girl`s High School Students / High School Girls [Archive]

NeoSam

2005-12-18, 19:00

Its based on a manga for young men.

It was serialized in the seinen(young men's) manga magazine Weekly Manga Action.

There's also a seinen novel (a novel for young men).

http://www.girls-high.net/

The site for Joshi Kousei from the publisher of the Joshi Kousei manga/novel:
http://www.futabasha.co.jp/ghs/

Edit:

Its based on a manga thats serialized in the seinen(young men's) manga magazine Manga Action.
There was 6 volumes out of this manga, but it seems like the publisher "redesigned" the manga volumes and re-released the manga volumes.

So now there are 3 volume out of this manga (got released on 12/1/2006), here are the covers:

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/643/mangavol17jj.jpg http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9959/mangavol26hm.jpg http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/58/mangavol30zg.jpg

Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the manga will be released on 28/1/2006.
Here are the covers of manga volumes 4, 5, 6:

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/220/girlshighvol46bv.jpg http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8935/girlshighvol54ax.jpg http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/138/girlshighvol63qt.jpg

Volume 7 of the manga (which got released in March 2006).
Here is the cover:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2637/vol79fo.jpg

There is also a seinen(young men's) novel thats based on the manga.
for now there are 3 volumes of this novel, here are the covers:

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6128/novelvol13ij.jpg http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/8823/novelvol21ev.jpg http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/552/novelvol30iq.jpg

The manga stopped serialization in Manga Action magazine and continued in Comic High! magazine.

Joshi Kousei fan book:

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/1636/fbook4vj.jpg

Joshi Kousei is a seinen manga/novel/anime. (according to 7andy (http://www.7andy.jp/books/search_result?writer=%c2%e7%c5%e7%a1%a1%b1%ca%b1%f 3%a1%a1%c3%f8) Joshi Kousei is a seinen manga).

Genre: Seinen, Comedy, Ecchi

NeoSam

2006-01-23, 05:38

The covers of the seinen(young men's) manga and novel were added to the first post.

And as I said once the covers of volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the seinen manga are out I'll post them.

Azumanga Daioh is a seinen manga/anime (in case someone likes to compare and then claim stuff).

Tsunehiko

2006-01-23, 15:37

I KNEW IT!

I knew that this manga was going to be serialized into an anime someday, and now the time has come! (Well, it doesn't start until April, but it's coming)

Not to mention it has a GREAT cast of seiyuu too!

I have all 6 volumes of the manga that have been released, and although just by the animation on the website, I can tell that this anime will not (unfortunately) be as well animated as the manga (which is the case for anime in general), but I'm still very much looking forward to it.

Granted the manga is very eechi, but it provided me as much or even more humor than even Azumanga Daioh.

The fact that the author herself went to an all-girls private school, probably contributes to it. So although much of the humor is 'ecchi' humor, it's still great. (For some people it may be the only saving grace - in a twisted way of course)

If any fansub group is going to pick this and would like to see the manga for reference, I'd be willing to scan them, so feel free to ask or PM.

Anyway, it's great news that Joshikosei is being anmated; it made my Day (^_^):cool:

Spuffy

2006-01-23, 16:26

Yeah, Joshi Kousei is great. I've bought all six volumes (the previous books) of it and the humour in it really fits my taste perfectly. I just really hope that the anime dares to keep all the dirty jokes as they are in the manga, because in the end, they are what makes it so fun and different. Girls that don't behave the way you would expect them to. And if they don't include the diet part I'll send my ninja assassin squad. That part was just plain brilliant. As are the ways they deal with the train molesters.

Btw, any idea if anything besides covers and pricing were changed after the redesign?
I'm really tempted to get the novels, and try to sell off the comics and get the new ones. The new covers just look so much better.

stelok

2006-01-24, 19:07

Nearly two years ago, I read the High School Girls manga volume 1 back in the states and enjoyed it a lot. I wish I was able to afford to buy all existing volumes of that series.

Spuffy

2006-01-24, 19:39

It's really not that expensive to import. If you get them from Mangaoh they'll cost 3600 JPY for all six volumes and (using the weight of the books I have) some 2000 JPY for shipping. Around $58 all together.

NeoSam

2006-02-01, 05:26

I posted the covers of volumes 4, 5, 6 of this seinen manga, which got released on 28/1/2006.

The covers of this seinen manga/novel are in the first post of this thread.

Edit:

The images of these covers were replaced with much better looking images.

shadowplay

2006-02-06, 19:16

Well, just read first two chapters and it was rather funny, looking forward to anime, hope it won't turn into debacle like Ichigo 100% TV.

Simon

2006-02-18, 19:02

I've read the first three volumes of the manga, and even with my pitiful Japanese vocab it had me in hysterics. I like how it manages to be so ecchi without falling into the tedious clichés of fanservice - the girls are fun, interesting characters who I think would appeal to viewers of both sexes. Here's hoping they don't get dumbed down for TV (is that what went wrong with Ichigo 100%?).

As an aside, the official site (http://www.girls-high.net/goods.html) has been updated with release details for the OP/ED singles.

Simon

2006-02-25, 22:18

A bit more info about the anime, from CDJapan's listing for the first DVD box (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=GNBA-7238):

First DVD box release in the silly, raunchy, girly pop comedy series "Joshi Kosei Girl's High." This "moe" series depicts the real life of a slightly-stupid high school girl with "stark" realism. Anime includes additional middle and elementary school stories not able to be included in the original manga. Box set includes episodes 1 through 4 on two discs (each with special footage) and deluxe booklet. Limited edition bonus includes a specially designed box and bonus CD with radio program, drama, and PC accessories.
(my emphasis)

I'd hardly put the manga in the simpering slop-bucket that is moe, so I hope they're using the term loosely...

NeoSam

2006-02-26, 01:17

Volume 7 of this seinen manga will be out on March 2006, I'll post the cover when its available.

Simon

2006-03-04, 02:06

Broadcast schedule (http://cal.syoboi.jp/tid/749) is out, another April 3rd start. Anyone know who's going to be subbing this?

am1n

2006-03-04, 04:32

I don't like the seifuku, for an anime which deals with schoolgirls it's a bit bad,
but I will surely watch it, looks like it's rally funny, just to wait a few to see the first ep.

I'm lookin' forward to this thread anyway

Potatochobit

2006-03-04, 09:02

no no no this series is not like ichigo 100%.

trust me, its a WHOLE different kind of shock.

just read volume one and u will either be stunned or turned off....

but definately give this series a chance.

Simon

2006-03-04, 19:07

Volume 7 of this seinen manga will be out on March 2006, I'll post the cover when its available.
There's also a fan book (http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4575832200) out at the end of March entitled 咲女学園案内 Sakijo School Guide ("Sakijo" = 山咲女子学園 Yamasaki Joshigakuen, the school where the series is set).

And to answer my own question, I see Yoroshiku are advertising for people to help sub this one (I get the feeling translators are going to be a limiting factor this season - let's hope this anime isn't one to miss out).

Kaoru Chujo

2006-03-04, 22:01

...Not to mention it has a GREAT cast of seiyuu too!.... I'm looking forward to hearing them work together:
Nabatame Hitomi (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuusB.html#nabatame) (Eriko, the smart protagonist),
Asano Masumi (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuus.html#masumin) (Yuma, the friendly, spontaneous one),
Noto Mamiko (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuus.html#mamimami) (Ayano, the not-so-bright meganekko with a boyfiend) and
Yukino Satsuki (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuusC.html#yukisats) (Kouda, the oddball drama queen)
are the main girls, with Shimizu Ai, Takahashi Mikako and others supporting them.

The home page has a picture of the girls (http://www.girls-high.net/chara.html) with their names.

NeoSam

2006-03-16, 17:57

Here's the cover of volume 7 of the seinen manga Joshi Kousei:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2637/vol79fo.jpg

kj1980

2006-03-16, 18:57

I'm looking forward to hearing them work together:
Nabatame Hitomi (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuusB.html#nabatame) (Eriko, the smart protagonist),
Asano Masumi (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuus.html#masumin) (Yuma, the friendly, spontaneous one),
Noto Mamiko (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuus.html#mamimami) (Ayano, the not-so-bright meganekko with a boyfiend) and
Yukino Satsuki (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuusC.html#yukisats) (Kouda, the oddball drama queen)
are the main girls, with Shimizu Ai, Takahashi Mikako and others supporting them.

The home page has a picture of the girls (http://www.girls-high.net/chara.html) with their names.

Great, Nabacchi and MamiMami in the same series once again. That bitch! www
Well at least Shizuka isn't there...but we shall find out/

shadowplay

2006-03-22, 09:29

Streaming promo movie is up

mms://wmt-od.stream.ne.jp/tdf/public/joshi/joshi_cf.wmv

stevency

2006-03-24, 03:50

The dvd version of the special were out, too.

This show is madness.

Ilpalazzo-sama

2006-03-24, 04:32

So is this some sort of Azumanga and School Rumble mix with more craziness and with ecchi?

NoSanninWa

2006-03-24, 04:45

So is this some sort of Azumanga and School Rumble mix with more craziness and with ecchi?
No. The idea for Joshi Kousei is that it is based on the way girls actually act in an all girl's school when there are no men around. Hint: expect tampon jokes and raunchy behavior.

Ilpalazzo-sama

2006-03-24, 05:00

No. The idea for Joshi Kousei is that it is based on the way girls actually act in an all girl's school when there are no men around. Hint: expect tampon jokes and raunchy behavior.
I see...thanks for the explanation.

Simon

2006-03-24, 05:35

ANN's summary of the manga (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=4154) is a pretty good intro:

Eriko, along with pals Yuma and Ayano, tests into an exclusive all-girls high school. Her dream of attending a school full of beautiful, clean, and classy role-model girls is soon shattered, as the reality of an all-girl school sets in. Rumor goes, with an absence boys in the school, an atmosphere of laxness sets in, slowly eroding the girls' regard for culture and become a creature far scarier than boys.
When you consider that it's set in a school called "Mountain Blossom Girls' College", you start to get an idea of how Oshima-san's sense of humour works :)

(Also, the manga subtitle Baka Gundan roughly translates as "Idiot Brigade".)

And while I'm posting, Futabasha have released more details about the fan book (http://www.futabasha.co.jp/ghs/more.html#fan) that's out next week.

NeoSam

2006-03-24, 05:56

Thanks Simon for the info about the Joshi Kousei fan book:

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/1636/fbook4vj.jpg

I mentioned it in the first post (I'll be replacing it with a better pic later on).

DaFool

2006-03-24, 16:56

Perhaps the difference is that it's not a Catholic all-girls school. I live not too far from such a prestigious school, the same school that my mother had went to. The real life version (complete with girl-girl crushes, intrigues) is much closer to Marimite, though less light-hearted. But as far as refinement and class goes, the strict nuns made sure the girls sleep early, wake up early, and eat with knife / fork / napkin / holding a teacup delicately etc.

So does this manga really mirror the author's experience?

NeoSam

2006-03-30, 21:36

The bonus episode 0 has been fansubbed can't wait to watch this :)

DrewGSR

2006-03-31, 00:18

Bleh, too many panty shots... I'm ok with some here and there but its like wow. they are liek forcing it in. Anyways from the ep 0, it can have potential to be funny but hopefully the panty shots and stuff will cut down in the series.

paTKany

2006-03-31, 02:19

Bleh, too many panty shots...

Expect more. Especially if Genco/Geneon include the famous (or infamous?) "sex diet" manga chapter into the anime as well. (and I hope they'll do it... :naughty: )

gumbaloom

2006-03-31, 02:47

Care to give a spoiler tag about this "sex diet" chapter?

-gumbaloom

Sorrow-K

2006-03-31, 04:26

Just watched episode 0. Holy crap, that was reeaaaally bad... I loved it.

This looks like it's going to be my "guilty pleasure" anime for this season.

Ilpalazzo-sama

2006-03-31, 08:20

Gee. Panties. Panties. Oh, and panties. Way too much panties. Fanservice is okay for me until a certain point but this goes way, way too far. I could not even finish episode 0.

npal

2006-03-31, 12:10

I third the "too many panties to watch". I usually don't like fanservice, I can live with it but this was a bit much, so I'll probably not be watching the show.

On the other hand I managed to finish ep 0. It will probably be fun for those who like fanservice and ecchiness in every turn I suppose.

Of course, then some will ask, how the hell do I put up with Koi Koi 7? Well... who knows. Shinsen made me do it, and one translator's idiotic reason for dropping it, I suppose :p

But seriously, I don't think KK7 had so much fanservice in so little time, with so much screentime for each shot. It was panties overload.

Furudanuki

2006-03-31, 15:07

I'm probably going to give this one a pass as well. Too many new series are starting up for me to burn up viewing time on something this marginal. As noted by others, there was a LOT of fanservice. That's not always a horrible thing in and of itself, but in this case the fanservice wasn't even especially interesting: if you are going to do ecchi, at least do it well. I will confess that in between all of the panty shots there was some funny material in episode 0, but the problem is that almost all of the humor was of the "funny once" variety. I can see this getting stale very quickly.

Scribble

2006-03-31, 15:22

I was kind of disappointed by the whole panty shot fiasco, but I don't think I'll be putting it in the same category as, say, MOE's anime or Girls Bravo, since this has potential to be quite funny.

I just don't like the whole forced fanservice part >_>

kari-no-sugata

2006-03-31, 16:01

I'd be surprised if the series itself is as much a "panty carnival" as "ep 0". But I haven't seen the manga (and poking around a bit, can't find it online either - raw would be fine) so I don't know how it compares. I think it has a lot of potential though.

npal

2006-03-31, 16:07

Well it had its nice moments but if you're doing a promo or something, or an introductory episode, you're supposed to show what the anime is about. Well, if the spirit of this show is fanservice/ecchi until you puke, I'll pass :p But that's me not liking this type of show, it doesn't mean the show is bad for people who watch series of this genre.

Xess

2006-03-31, 16:39

Haha, ecchi/fanservice until you puke is one the reasons we're doing this show. But on a more serious note, the manga doesn't appear to have very many panty shots. It's just more about life in an all girls' school, the 'beneath the beneath' stuff like what that promo on the website says and how the girls torture the male teachers and such. I'm quite it's not going to be a girl's bravo kinda show though.

Kensuke

2006-03-31, 16:48

Hah, I will give this two or three episodes, "ep. 0" make me feel dirty, it was funny enough so I will continue watching, so far.

I don't mind fanservice, I just hope that there will be more than just that in the actual series.

Simon

2006-03-31, 18:32

Haha, ecchi/fanservice until you puke is one the reasons we're doing this show. But on a more serious note, the manga doesn't appear to have very many panty shots.
Yeah, I agree that ep 0 had way too much sabisu, but the manga is much, much better (and funnier). I'd encourage people to give the anime a chance despite what they've seen so far - if it can stick closer to the manga's sense of humour then it has a lot of potential. Hopefully the promo is just low-brow marketing...

npal

2006-03-31, 18:35

Well, I'll be waiting for feedback then :p Or when I have nothing else to download, I might get one more episode. If that's how they market their product, I fear how the actual thing is gonna look :p Usually, when you advertise, you throw out all the bad stuff and exaggerate over the good :p You mean these were the GOOD stuff? :heh:

Sorrow-K

2006-03-31, 18:44

Bah, you're all soft.

Anyway, I have a pretty simply criteria for comedy, ie did I laugh, so I don't really care about fanservice and whatnot, provided it works for (and not against) the humour. Girls Bravo, IMO, is a great example of how to do a fanservice comedy. Things like He Is My Master or Okusama wa Joshikousei, eg, are not. But my problem with those two titles (and others) is that they just failed to tickle my funnybone, while Girls Bravo did on numerous occassions.

But I laughed at ep 0 of Joshikousei. I knew it was bad. I knew it was over-the-top. I knew they were talking about the sort of things that would make my mother cringe. Yet, I still laughed. I think it's probably the novelty of seeing anime girls being crass. We've seen anime boys be crass on numerous occassions; it's an old gag now. But girls being crass? I don't think I can ever remember seeing that.

So Joshikousei gets points from me for doing something I haven't seen in anime.

Juan Valdez

2006-03-31, 18:52

The premise of this show has potential, but I agree that the use of panty shots in ep 0 was a little excessive and gratuitous. And this is coming from someone who liked Ichigo 100% :)

We'll see though. Looking forward to episode 1. Thanks, LIME, for picking this up.

Simon

2006-03-31, 19:07

Yet, I still laughed. I think it's probably the novelty of seeing anime girls being crass. We've seen anime boys be crass on numerous occassions; it's an old gag now. But girls being crass? I don't think I can ever remember seeing that.
That's exactly why I'll be disappointed if this ends up as Yet Another Fanservice Anime - the manga is insanely funny and crude in the way you've highlighted, but best of all it does it without conforming to fanboy stereotypes (yawn). Realistic or not, it's a refreshing change to see girls portrayed like this :)

Potatochobit

2006-04-01, 04:01

the manga's fanservice purpose was more to shock than to turn on. the tv series, i dont know what their goal is at this time. have to give it a chance, definately.

NoSanninWa

2006-04-01, 04:51

the manga's fanservice purpose was more to shock than to turn on. the tv series, i dont know what their goal is at this time. have to give it a chance, definately.
Well I was shocked by the fanservice in episode 0, so it seems to work.

thomasvye

2006-04-01, 06:33

I enjoyed episode 0; I was kinda shocked by it, but more by the fact that that kind of bluntness about 'ladies things' is still greatly taboo on TV in the UK and so, even though blunt people do talk about stuff like this, you don't see it on TV (especially not with characters of this age!). So it was surprising.

The fan service was blatant, but kind of inoffensive (to me at least) - it was more funny, in terms of 'how many ways can they contrive to show Eriko's knickers?' Spoiler about the episode; That scene with her skirt being customised/cut...O_O those scissors were awfully close. :lol:)

I don't know quite who it's aimed at though...fanservice, yes, but...I mean, how are the guys going to react to crude and basic girl talk? Guys know this stuff exists, but do they *really* want to hear girls talking about it so openly? :D

I like it so far though; having the girls being so ordinary and blunt makes a difference from a lot of fanservice shows where their eyes are terrifyingly huge and their vocal range is so high and piercing only bats could properly hear it...:heh:

I might well watch it, I think. :)

NeoSam

2006-04-01, 10:53

There's a review of the first volume of the manga, here:
http://www.manganews.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1627

Anyway I can't wait for the first episode to air :P

stevency

2006-04-01, 18:10

Me too can't wait for the first episode. It is too funny to miss, even if it high loading of fanservices.
Then again, campus fanservices is always welcomed to me. :p

Ebichuman

2006-04-02, 01:46

I watched episode 0 with no prior knowledge of what the show was about, and I found it highly amusing. It's funny, yet disgusting at the same time. And I must be in the minority for liking all the fanservice. I felt like I was being used as a guinea pig, being tested to see how much fanservice one man can handle before his nose erupts like a volcano. It's so blatant it's almost comical in itself.

I mean, how are the guys going to react to crude and basic girl talk? Guys know this stuff exists, but do they *really* want to hear girls talking about it so openly? :D

Hehe, yes! Methinks this will be a guilty pleasure series. It's sort of like guys that watch Sex and the City, though I know of very few who would admit to it ^^

Sakuya

2006-04-02, 02:29

Will this series have a general plot or is it just everday comedy like School Rumble and Azumanga Daioh? I guess I will check out episode 1 for now. I'm so tempted by the nice character designs! :)

paTKany

2006-04-02, 09:19

Care to give a spoiler tag about this "sex diet" chapter?

-gumbaloom

Our heriones are stupid. When they got weight they tried every stupid diet method. Really hilarious to watch how they torturing theyself through the chapter. Neither of the methods worked. Then Yuma read about the "sex diet" method in a magazine...

http://fuuka-gakuen.net/hostedpics/gh_2_80.jpghttp://fuuka-gakuen.net/hostedpics/gh_2_81.jpg

darkchibi07

2006-04-02, 10:10

Our heriones are stupid. When they got weight they tried every stupid diet method. Really hilarious to watch how they torturing theyself through the chapter. Neither of the methods worked. Then Yuma read about the "sex diet" method in a magazine...

http://fuuka-gakuen.net/hostedpics/gh_2_80.jpghttp://fuuka-gakuen.net/hostedpics/gh_2_81.jpg

I approve of this series. :naughty:

NoSanninWa

2006-04-03, 01:26

And I must be in the minority for liking all the fanservice. I felt like I was being used as a guinea pig, being tested to see how much fanservice one man can handle before his nose erupts like a volcano.
People are are talking about the fanservice in this episode like it broke records. Honestly, that just isn't true. If you count the panty shots in Koi Koi 7 or Agent Aika, you'll find that it isn't really all that much by comparison.

The reason that the fanservice seems excessive is because of the way it is used. In Koi Koi 7 and such shows, the scene exists for the purpose of lifting skirts. There is no shock value, because that is all that you are watching.

Joseikousei is different because you are watching a serious drama and then all of a sudden you get an inappropriate camera angle. It is jarring when you aren't in "fanservice mode" while watching panties. You get a sense that those panties don't belong. And because they are out of place, they have more of an impact. Each panty shot in Joseikousei counts as 4.3 normal panties.

Forbin

2006-04-03, 02:24

You mean the part where the girl cuts off the skirts because they were too long and making it show off panties as they walk around the school 'Serious Drama? '

Hehe.

chessplayer

2006-04-03, 05:22

shadowplay

2006-04-03, 06:36

Well honestly I didn't except it to be THIS trashy, still I hope show's gonna be case of 'so bad it's good' although animation could be better, and direction doesn't seem to be very inspired.

lol@sex diet

Arlyn

2006-04-03, 10:38

There must be something about this anime that makes me see something funny on certain, ahem, situations that are not funny at all.

Too bad for the blantant use of fanservice, I'm ok with fanservice. It has a reason, but to defy physics in such a way that even in anime is stupid, that's pushing the line.

philip72

2006-04-03, 11:07

It is jarring when you aren't in "fanservice mode" while watching panties. You get a sense that those panties don't belong. And because they are out of place, they have more of an impact. Each panty shot in Joseikousei counts as 4.3 normal panties.

You mean there are times when a man might not be in "fanservice mode"? Wow! I apparently can’t find the button to shut my service mode off. I just thought the anti-service posters were eunuchs or gay.
I'm still hoping for a more ecchi mushishi in the OAV's

Ebichuman

2006-04-03, 17:36

hi no ken Jebus

2006-04-03, 17:49

Well saw the first ep and yes the fanservice is a bit excessive but what can you expect with a premise like this.

Not to mention next week is the physical examination episode so fan service will go x10 from what you saw in the episode 00 that was subbed a while back which was the first half of ep 1. The second half was pretty funny and didn't go for blatant fanservice till the end. Overall I'll probably give this 2-3 more episodes to see if its worth following since there's no monday shows for me to watch. So far my favorite has to be either Eriko or Akari for their weird rivalry.

Here's some caps from the second half which is the aftermath of their little lie in the first half about being their seniors.
http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/9696/gh2ndhalf4ib.th.jpg (http://img350.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gh2ndhalf4ib.jpg)

Kaoru Chujo

2006-04-04, 14:57

I'm keeping up my record of liking everything I watch. Even this. Yes, it's trashy. Yes, the fanservice is excessive and not that nice. But there were funny bits, and in the second half of the episode, the development of the relationship between Eriko and Kouda was enjoyable.

And the seiyuus. For me, Monday nights are now the night of Nabatame Hitomi (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuusB.html#nabatame). She is really good as Eriko, I think. And she's good in the role of the yuri queen Shizuma in Strawberry Panic. The confrontations between her and Yukino Satsuki (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuusC.html#yukisats) (Kouda, her rival) were real examples of the seiyuu's art, or at least technique. Two real pros. I maybe didn't enjoy Asano Masumi (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuus.html#masumin) (Ruma, the two pony-tails tied with little balls) as much as I usually do. But Noto-kawaii (http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuus.html#mamimami) is so kawaii in the meganekko (glasses-girl) role.

stevency

2006-04-04, 15:11

Let just say this show is worthy for the seiyuus and the fnaservices.

gumbaloom

2006-04-04, 16:14

Adds show to his weekly download list cos of the fanservice.

<3

-gumbaloom

tun

2006-04-04, 17:34

Well at least it's not trying to pretend to be something it's not. That's the kind of fan service that I enjoy. :)

philip72

2006-04-07, 12:16

Then Yuma read about the "sex diet" method in a magazine...

http://fuuka-gakuen.net/hostedpics/gh_2_80.jpghttp://fuuka-gakuen.net/hostedpics/gh_2_81.jpg

Whoosh...colossal nose bleed!
No more...please, I’m still anemic from the accidental 69 in the first episode.

This may just become my favorite show.

Simon

2006-04-07, 20:49

Well I have to say I found the OP animation rather uninspiring, but the dancing in the ED cracked me up - am I the only one who was reminded of the Excel Saga OP?

I've also noticed something interesting about the setting for the ED: although the sign says Shimomurabashi (http://www.hikari.org.nz/stuff/otaku/joshikousei/shimomurabashi.jpg), there really is a station between Nerima and Fujimidai on the Seibu Ikebukuro line called Nakamurabashi (http://www.excite.co.jp/transfer/station/2666.html). And just across the road from the station is Fujimi Middle/High School (http://www.fujimi.ac.jp/new-hp/), a private school for girls. Coincidence? Well, the seifuku (http://www.fujimi.ac.jp/new-hp/annai/seifuku.html) do look vaguely familiar...

stevency

2006-04-08, 14:44

Expect some funniest yet fanservice and shamful one.

I'm ready for more crazyness. Bring it on.

Seiryuu

2006-04-09, 18:31

I approve of this series. :naughty:

I second that! Just get me a sub cuz I can't find a raw.
After seeing those screen caps from ep1, I have to wonder just how often Eriko and Akari are going to end up eating one another's pantsu. Once in the pre-ep, twice in the ep1 caps. The way this is going, I'm not sure they'll even need that "sex diet" thing.

ztella

2006-04-10, 00:24

Wow. If the preview is any indication, this show is going to be absolutely horrible. But knowing me and my engraved otaku personality, I'll keep watching the show no matter how stupid it gets... sigh...

I know exactly how u feel. This series could devolve into something like Ichigo 100% but I'll probably still watch just cause

stevency

2006-04-10, 13:32

The good guys from [LIME] has release episode 1 of Joshi Kousei. :)

philip72

2006-04-10, 13:35

Thanks stevency and thank you LIME!
Now I can see just how lousy my Japanese comprehension is.

stevency

2006-04-10, 14:45

OK, since some of you had viewed the preview.
It's not technically a spoiler here. Mamiko's might use her ecchi voice in next episode of JK, the "body check survial".

Overall, this story shown something real about High School Girl's life like insiders and outsiders relationships. How suck they manage their club house, etc.

The best thing from LIMER release, is their good humor on the eyecatcher. See what they said, and you know want I mean.

hi no ken Jebus

2006-04-10, 14:52

Well I liked this one a little more than the first one. Some highlights include Eriko learning how to pee into a cup along with Eriko terrified of needles. Next week the girls go on a group date.

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/1336/ghep24iq.th.jpg (http://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ghep24iq.jpg)

stevency

2006-04-10, 14:56

Seiryuu

2006-04-10, 18:05

Finally got ep1. Wow.
Definitely going to keep watching this, if only to see how they progress from shock at Eriko and Akari in that interesting position to the girls trying to apparently do one another for weight-loss purposes. Kinda scary that the author of the manga claims a lot of this is based on personal experience.
This makes an interesting pair to Strawberry Panic. In Panic, we have what appears to be a group of innocent girls with clear homosexual tendencies who are too proper to do anything more than faint from a kiss on the forehead, and here we have a group of not-so-innocent girls who don't appear to swing that direction at all but are willing to do it with each other to lose weight(if I understood the scan right :P)!

DannoHung

2006-04-10, 18:59

I feel kinda dirty, having watched that.

Mostly because I don't find it that hard to believe.

darkchibi07

2006-04-10, 19:13

After seeing the full first episode, this is the ultimate form of guilty pleasure done RIGHT!!! :naughty:

Kaoru Chujo

2006-04-10, 19:59

Episode 2. So many panty shots and three-quarter shots of breasts that they almost lose their meaning. This show knows what it wants to do and just goes ahead and does it. "Guilty pleasure done right" for sure. When I compare this to other shows that are full of fanservice, there is more here, but it's neither offensive (to me) nor out of place. In fact, I guess, the whole show is its place, lol.

This is hardly going to be in anyone's top ten, but everyone is going to remember it. How many times has an anime had a scene of a girl trying to pee into a bottle, or a conversation about love-bites? Or a scene of a girl getting excited as a male doctor uses a stethoscope on her chest?

And if we didn't have the KyoAni work in Suzumiya Haruhi's ED, we might be enthusing over the dancing in the ED of this show. It looks from the names as if a lot of the animation work on the show is Korean -- although maybe not the ED.

The voice-acting is still really good: Nabatame Hitomi, Yukino Satsuki, Asano Masumi, Noto Mamiko, and this week more of Hikami Kyouko (Hello Kitty herself, Rabi-en-Rose in Di Gi Charat, etc., etc.) and Ishige Sawa (Tanpopo in Dokkoida, the Kashiwagi twins in PaniPoni Dash, etc.).

DannoHung

2006-04-10, 20:33

Yeah, the dancing was kinda cute. It's more of a "This would be how each of the characters would dance" thing instead of Haruhi's "Check this choreography out biotches!"

Diedrupo

2006-04-10, 23:31

the really interesting thing about this show is that the manga was written by a woman!

ccardoso

2006-04-11, 02:11

stevency

2006-04-11, 02:52

The good news:
-They will form Baka corp.
-Ayamo will get a boy friend. While Eriko and co will do their best to whack her date.
-See how Akane being an idiot everytime by using her skills from drama club activities.
tbc.....

Kyousuke

2006-04-11, 03:09

"Periods only come once a year"

"If it wasn't you, we would have stopped hitting"

"So they swing that way"
:heh:

tritoch

2006-04-11, 03:46

ack! Noto Mamiko! ack! She did Tojo's voice in Ichigo 100%.. ack! im watching this show! =o

Sorrow-K

2006-04-11, 04:31

Ah, geez. They used the "preview" as the entire first half of the first episode.

Other than the slightly annoying point that I'd seen half the episode before, High School Girls is delivering pretty much what I'm expecting out of it: lots of low-brow toilet humour and excessive fanservice. And I'm loving it. This is such a guilty pleasure. I'm still sticking with the theory that a lot of the appeal is the novelty that it's girls being dirty, but it's funny, which is by far the most important thing for a comedy, IMO. If it gets me to laugh, I'll give it a thumbs up... no matter how low brow or inane its methods.

OP song was pretty generic, but the ED sequence was good... mostly for the dancing. Seems like dancing in the ED sequence is the big "in" thing this season.

fynefilo

2006-04-11, 07:37

I was a bit annoyed that the first half was basically the preview but the second half entertained me to no end. Just freakin' hilarious. I just knew that Yuma and the others would walk in on Eriko and Youda in an awkward position. The fanservice flowed with the 'story' to me, and doesn't really bother me. So far, at least. Next episode will most likely have tons of fanservice. Hopefully it is tasteful.

Anyway, I'll be following this series,unless this turns out to be just a fanservice-fest without good comedic effects. As I watched this (it was mainly the preview/first-half), I was thinking, "Wtf...? Who the hell does that?!!" [referring to the club room with the 'hair'] That's just gross. But I couldn't stop myself from laughing from the incredibility of it. Like Eriko said, at least do it at home. Ahahaha. Also, I don't see anything wrong with having sanitary pads at school, though it is nicer to store them in a locker or cupboard. Unless of course, those pads were used LOL

Seiryuu

2006-04-11, 08:11

I'm not entirely against all this fanservice and sexual innuendo. I think one of the things the author was trying to get across in her manga was the fact that women aren't really all that different from men. They can be idiots like we can, and they can fill their day just as well with concerns, fantasies, and stupid jokes about sex. It doesn't seem to be throwing in that much extra stuff for the fans(not as much as one might think, at least) as it is refusing to hide the facts. Frankly I think presenting women as (relatively)innocent, archetypal characters who lack any worldly knowledge is more objectifying. After all, like I said, the female author based a lot of this on her own life. She's not trying to make women sex objects. She's just showing that women aren't helpless maidens waiting to be swept off their feet, nor are they always innocent bystanders in the idiocy of the male gender.
I suspect the landing position in ep1 was pure gratuity, though. As will probably be every scene where a girl winds up falling over and choking on the nether regions of another girl. I guess, once airborne, gravity loses to the magnetic pull between mouth and pelvis...

DannoHung

2006-04-11, 09:48

Yah, ditto Seiryuu.

Part of the reason the fan service disturbed me is that the characters seriously reminded me of my younger sisters and how they and their friends act all the time. Then I was thinking, "I wonder how often my Sister says 'Bitch' when talking about the other girls at school."

I wonder how well they're going to emulate the inevitable fights with parents.

ccardoso

2006-04-11, 12:08

I keep believing to show girls aren't that different from men fanservice isn't needed.

npal

2006-04-11, 12:26

I keep believing to show girls aren't that different from men fanservice isn't needed.

Second that. Especially crude fanservice :p

Shadowscar

2006-04-11, 12:40

I've just seen the first episode and I'm not very happy with it: too much fan service and very weak storyline. Anyway I'll see the next one or two episodes to decide to watch this show or not.
The thing I'm surprised the most anyway is reading here that the author of this manga/anime is a woman. Nice way to show the women's pride: through fan service... like women need to be consider sexual objects even in the manga/anime world as it isn't enough how they're considered like that in real world.

I dunno i think your over thinking this, the "fanservice" you are speaking of is more to create an embaracing(SP?) situation... sure this dirty kinda humour can be seen as a form of fanservice but its all in ones oppion...

For the woman to be "objects" there would need to be characters in the show treating them as objects, and so far i have not seen that...

DaFool

2006-04-11, 12:46

Basically the manga and anime want to prove that boorish behavior is not a direct result of testosterone....and I would want to agree with that.

Seriously, this is the kind of crappy show that I will declare "I dare not watch such filth. There are plenty of far more worthy shows for my attention." I have already made a decision to drop this show...three times already (1st after seeing preview, 2nd after seeing episode 00, 3rd after seeing episode 1.)

...and yet week after week an episode of Joshi Kousei will mysteriously find its way to my hard drive. :D

giu_2

2006-04-11, 13:46

loved the first eps^^
pantsu..pantsu (chii)

Sailor Enlil

2006-04-11, 16:13

ashefatal

2006-04-11, 16:37

Suprisingly, alot of the show parallals my life...it's rather scary xD

Oh good god T.T

xDD

NoSanninWa

2006-04-11, 16:45

For the woman to be "objects" there would need to be characters in the show treating them as objects, and so far i have not seen that...
Not really. You're forgetting about two relevant people: The writer and the watcher. It is enough if the writer creates the show to present them as objects and the watcher looks at them as objects. But I don't think that they are being presented as objects. The fanservice doesn't exist in that role. It is just stupid comedy.

It goes beyond that. In fact if you got the manga, it's stated in the back cover that just about everything in it is based on the author's real life experiences.Yes, but certain things are going to be exaggerated beyond real life to make them funnier or more exciting. It is possible that she (or a girls she knew) got locked in a room, but that doesn't mean they ended up falling on each others privates. Though, getting locked in a small place to resolve personal conflicts is such a pastiche, that I doubt it is based on real life.

amonrei

2006-04-11, 18:04

Hmm so much fanservice... not a bad thing for me! I don't think it's too much or disturbing. But then again i'm just a big pervert. :uhoh:

Simon

2006-04-12, 03:59

The thing I'm surprised the most anyway is reading here that the author of this manga/anime is a woman.
I'm not sure how much direct involvement Ōshima-san has in the anime, if any. So far there's been a lot more fanservice than in the manga, and even what is in there is being exaggerated (e.g. we get the physical exams in ep2, but they don't happen until around ch. 38 of the manga). Also, the pantsu scenes in the manga are often more about the girls being in embarrassing situations, e.g.
when Eriko's father barges into her room to tell her some exciting news, and she's walking around in her knickers with the shape of a sanitary pad clearly visible underneathor
Eri-chan's unfortunate experiences with bloomers :heh:
Which isn't to deny it's service, of course...

stevency

2006-04-12, 07:32

Don't forget Eriko viewed PE teacher's somewhere(5 words) by accident. :D
Or how baka corps works on school open day.
Idol Odagiri, baka corps home teacher, sex harresed Eriko in sport day.

So far the story is interesting. We'll see how much further will it goes.

Onizuka-GTO

2006-04-12, 15:40

nice one. The ending kinda won it for me though. For some reason dancing endings are working for me this year.... :p

stevency

2006-04-12, 16:30

Haruhi's dance would be a opera to me, while this one reminds me the "takenoko zoku" 竹の子族（たけのこぞく）dance since 1979.

Shoot......that revealed I'm old enough to remember that kinda thing......Give me back my youth!!!!!! :frustrated:

Xess

2006-04-17, 04:39

hi no ken Jebus

2006-04-17, 15:33

Well this was fun, and not that many panty service shots either. The girls go on their group date set up by Himeji. Hilarity ensues as Ogawa gets taken to a Love Hotel without knowing it and the girls go after so she doesnt get lucky before them and rescue her. Next week it's a sports festival although going by the preview it'll be uber fanservicy

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/9400/gh32nl.th.jpg (http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gh32nl.jpg)

Onizuka-GTO

2006-04-17, 20:55

I have episode 02 of Joshikousei Girl's High here subbed. I would like to release this episode because of all the work I put in, but I have no BT tracker. This is because the file size is larger than our regular releases at lime-anime. It's 225MBs. I didn't want to get into an argument over file sizes, so I left lime-anime.

I'm sure fans of the show don't care about fansubbing politics and just want to see the show. So, I have it right over here. I just need someone to host it. Please help me. Thanks.

well...thanks.

but what has this got to do with "fansub politics"?

either way, thanks for it.

Pretty nice episode, lots of fanservice. mmm...yay :)

how i wish i was could float around that school during that time..... :D

loved the bit when that lass did the tragic "maiden farwell" thing. lol

i knew one of them got a bloke, but i thought it was the glasses lass.

oh well, the next preview seems much more interesting.

DannoHung

2006-04-17, 21:16

Episode 2

And I feel even dirtier

KONAMI CODE! YES!

PEDOS_GRANDE

2006-04-17, 21:42

just from seeing ep1 in its entirety, and seeing screenshots for ep 2, I declare this anime to be the worst anime i have ever seen. Well, maybe not the worst. But certainly in the top 10, and perhaps in the top 5. And I've been watching this crap for nearly 20 years. Absolute garbage.

NoSanninWa

2006-04-17, 21:43

I'm sorry, but I can't really tell from your post. Are you complaining about how bad Joshi Kousei is, or are you cheering about it?

PEDOS_GRANDE

2006-04-17, 21:44

bad. Terrible. Horrible. I had heard all about how awesome the manga is, then this junk which is basically nothing more than a stream of endless panty shots for lonely otaku to drool and touch themselves over. Im definitely not lauding it.

Kaoru Chujo

2006-04-18, 00:41

Aqualung

2006-04-18, 00:47

Well, this is a fun little show. BTW, is it just me, or is the volume in episode two really low? I had to turn my speakers all the way up to hear it at a decent level.

DannoHung

2006-04-18, 02:31

I don't really get the pantsu obsession.

Crotches, as a rule, aren't that pretty. I can appreciate the shapeliness of a girl's tush though, I'll grant you that.

PS: Chafing nipples are hilarious no matter what context. See: Marathon runners.

Sorrow-K

2006-04-18, 07:13

I think people are taking this show way too seriously. It is definitely not "garbage," unless you make exclusively moral judgments (based on one episode and some screenshots). Panty-shots seem to send men mad, either with desire or loathing.Totally agree. People seem to have either completely missed the point of this show or are just allergic to low-brow humour. I, for one, am not ashamed to admit I dig the dirty toilet humour in this. Just watched episode 2. The peeing sketch was genius. And I appreciate the fact that high school girls are actually having sex. Even if the entire premise of this episode completely lacked realism, I find the no-bars-hold attitude to sex refreshing and realistic.

Anyway, this continues to intrigue me. It may not be the wittiest or most brilliant comedy, but there's no doubting that it's novel. And, most importantly, funny.

stevency

2006-04-18, 07:17

Seeing Shimotakatani Takanori being "raped" by Eriko and co. and Eriko grabing a motored pxxis toy really get it(women as the sex subject) right.

To whom don't enjoy this, you should switch your POV for a while, like Karou said above, then you might find that little lead to the enjoyment. And thus proving you watched too much male subjected stuff(mainstream), your real treatment should be getting your POV refreshments from this show.

The augrements to blame this show being rubbish above is too weak to say at least for me.

Simon

2006-04-18, 07:57

What's different about this show is that it presents women as sex subjects, with their own desires and intentions.
That's what appealed to me about the manga, because it's such a nice change from the usual harem crud that's out there ("ooh, let's all stand around some loser guy looking decorative until our clothes fall off"). The fact that it shows those desires and intentions to be so crude is just a bonus :)

With the anime I feel like I'm watching two shows at once. The humour of the manga is still there, but it's like there's this whole layer of needless fan-service plastered over the top of it. Even so the underlying ideas are witty enough that I'm happy to just filter that out. So, I'm not going to waste readers' bandwidth trying to defend the show any more, I'm just going to enjoy watching it and laughing at its glorious wrongness.

BTW, is it just me, or is the volume in episode two really low?
Yep, I had the same problem with it (VLC 0.8.4a on WinXP).

bayoab

2006-04-18, 09:29

To whom don't enjoy this, you should switch your POV for a while, like Karou said above, then you might find that little lead to the enjoyment. And thus proving you watched too much male subjected stuff(mainstream), your real treatment should be getting your POV refreshments from this show.

The augrements to blame this show being rubbish above is too weak to say at least for me.
To say it simply: No. The viewer's POV is not whats causing people to hate this show. This show is just not targeted at them. They are not a) fangirl who can associate, b) fanboy who can "look past fanservice" and not see the crap that lies beneath, or c) fanboys in it for the fanservice.

Note: To those who are going to go "its not fanservice if you are a girl in this situation", the target audiance of this show is young male otaku. This is what makes it fanservice.

I deleted the show with no intention of following past episode 1. Why? Because the show had great potential, but the execution was absolutely horrible. The characters VA were horrible and it is VERY clear the fanservice is done for the viewer. (There was no argument here to begin with. This is just fact. There were much better ways to execute lesbian jokes than as crude as it was done in episode 1.)

In addition was the animation was subpar and not unique, despite how many attempts were made to make the girls look realistic which was nice for a change. (They failed at this too. They were realistic, until it came down to fanservice.)

Strike 3 was the fact that the whole plot revolved around the fanservice and toilet humor.

While I realize the irony of the toilet humor being created by the crowd who enjoys toilet humor, it is just not funny. Excessive fanservice is a thing that can make a person not like a show. This is not going to stop people from liking it who will "ignore" the fanservice. It does not change my opinion that this show is crap (and the fact it was made for fanboys.) This show would be enjoyable if it was not hell bent on shoving T&A down the viewers throat. (Despite being completely desensitized to it, I just sat there going "What is the point of this...").

darkchibi07

2006-04-18, 09:42

I've just noticed something. Did Yasuomi Umetsu do the ED sequence because I really noticed the character designs of the still pics of the girls to be more of his style than the ones on the show itself. I'll see if I can post pics of it later.

rooboy

2006-04-18, 10:12

I think people are taking this show way too seriously. It is definitely not "garbage," unless you make exclusively moral judgments (based on one episode and some screenshots). Panty-shots seem to send men mad, either with desire or loathing.

Previously, people were debating whether this show presented women as sex objects. Sure, but no more than the majority of other anime, even those with no fanservice. What's different about this show is that it presents women as sex subjects, with their own desires and intentions. Perhaps this is what makes it so unsettling to people.

Episode 3 was the best so far. Cute and well done. It's a comedy anime. Sit back and enjoy it. It even has a lot more of the real world in it than most shows. I'm not saying it's great, just that it's unique, and that it doesn't deserve the chorus of blame.
I have to agree. This show is actually pretty amusing, but I think some of it is only amusing if you've been married (as in, married or living with a girl for more than four or five years not "in a serious relationship where I've never had to get up and see her every day"). I think men have a tendency to romanticize females beyond the bounds of reason.

Though I can definitely see how the humor can get old. I try to only take lowbrow humor in small doses. Small bursts (say, South Park, or to a lesser extent, the Simpsons) is okay, longer bursts (say, American Pie) is not okay.

Of course, I should say that I'm pretty much immune to fanservice (of all kinds, not just the echhi panty shot kind). Someone has to point out the Stan Lee cameos in Marvel movies to me (the only one I ever caught on my own was Daredevil). My wife has to point out how much the panty shot thing is going on. I didn't realize that Mariel (in Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite) cosplaying as Chii was because it was the same voice actress until another friend pointed it out. I had to watch Star Wars Episode II like nine times to see E.T. I've still never seen Peter Jackson in the Lord of the Rings (though my friends keep insisting he's there). My awareness meter on these things is just very low.

EDIT: I do have to ask, is the manga actually funnier (as a lot of you seem to be indicating)?

DannoHung

2006-04-18, 10:34

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pjcameo.jpg

Is anyone scanlating the manga or is it getting released by one of the manga publishers or anything?

rooboy

2006-04-18, 10:42

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pjcameo.jpg

Is anyone scanlating the manga or is it getting released by one of the manga publishers or anything?
HA SWEET!

Should've known it would be on wiki. I can't count how often I've seen that first pic (the other two don't look familiar) and never even noticed that it was Jackson.

Simon

2006-04-18, 13:17

Is anyone scanlating the manga or is it getting released by one of the manga publishers or anything?
The first six volumes have already been published in English by DrMaster (http://www.drmasterbooks.com/HSG/) (see also ANN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=4154)).

Futabasha (http://www.futabasha.com/ghs/comic.html) released a new edition of V1-6 in Japan start of this year (marketing tie-in to the anime), then V7 came out last month - I don't know if DrMaster are planning to translate that one as well.

stevency

2006-04-18, 13:31

EDIT: I do have to ask, is the manga actually funnier (as a lot of you seem to be indicating)?

Yes, it does a lot funnier than anime. Both have their strong points, as always.;)

Aqualung

2006-04-19, 02:41

Yep, I had the same problem with it (VLC 0.8.4a on WinXP).

I'm using WinXP Pro (can't wait for Win Vista Ultimate), and the Core Media Player. Other than waiting for Lime to come out with a version 2 (please!) fixing the problem, are there any freeware programs out there that I can use to edit it, and boost the volume?

kj1980

2006-04-19, 06:21

(and the fact it was made for fanboys.)

Actually, most lonely male otakus who read and watch this have their dreams of girls being sensitive and nice crushed to death.

Something of interest I would like to ask:

Are you disgusted at the low brow humor, or are you actually troubled by the way girls are shown to be what they are like real life? Much as you would like to believe, girls in anime do not portray a real view of how girls act in Japan. Just like any other country, girls are also interested in sex much as men are.

Many of these comes from real life experiences of the manga author who herself attended an all-girl's high school. Without no men close to them to impress, girls can be compressed into a state of lust and degraded morals amongst themselves.

I have a friend from high school who later on became a teacher at an all girl's high school. Occasionally my friends would meet for a drink to see how we are all doing. The first time we all learned he became a teacher at an all girl's high, we were all jealous at him "dang, you must be in heaven!" But then, he would start to drink really heavily and began saying "shit, you don't know jack. Once you are there, you lose the way you perceive girls." Vivid details of his students squating showing their panties full blown with no embarassment whatsoever, the reeking smell of used tampons from trash bins, etc. etc. Assumingly, male teachers are not the target for high school girls' love interest, so they act with the lowest morals that most people will not see in public.

That is exactly the point the author of the manga is trying to project. Sure male otakus might read this for fanservice. But at the same time, they are subjected to the cruel reality of what girls are really like (especially as most of them have little or no experience with girls whatsoever). It may be humor, yet at the same time it also crushes the dreams of lonely guys who think of girls as being nice and sensitive. Reality is: girls are girls; they piss and shit, they have interest in sex, they speak in profanity and vulgar languages, they can be selfish and demeaning, have morals and lack of as well due to their youth, much like any other human being. So this anime shows a girl taking a piss. How is that more different that showing a guy taking a piss? What, you refuse to believe girls don't piss? Sure it's toilet humor. If male centric toilet humor exist, who says female centric toilet humor cannot exist? They are human beings living their youth in modern day Japan as well.

On the other hand, girls who read this manga might feel a sense of rapport - "shit yeah, that's how we are in real life! fuck guys, us girls have our way of having fun and interest in sex as well."

rooboy

2006-04-19, 11:17

are you actually troubled by the way girls are shown to be what they are like real life?
I have to admit that this is actually my _favorite_ part of this series. :)

DaFool

2006-04-19, 13:19

Onizuka-GTO

2006-04-19, 13:35

I'm using WinXP Pro (can't wait for Win Vista Ultimate), and the Core Media Player. Other than waiting for Lime to come out with a version 2 (please!) fixing the problem, are there any freeware programs out there that I can use to edit it, and boost the volume?

eh? I didn't have any problems with the episodes on VLC, Aqu-kun.

Lime did release a second version of it, and the volume seems fine for me.

Simon

2006-04-19, 13:52

Ok, so this is (besides the panty shots) realistic for a public Tokyo all-girls high school. I doubt it's true for elite Catholic girls' high school (They have nuns who impose stricter expectations than even men.)
Yamasaki is a private secular school, although going by the manga some of the staff are pretty scary. The whole point is that it's this elite institution which wasn't easy for Eriko and friends to get in to, hence their horror at what they find...

Kaoru Chujo

2006-04-19, 14:21

I'm a bit saddened though that my favorite girl turned out to be the non-virgin. She seemed to have a bit more, uh, class to her (maybe that's why she's the one who got the boyfriend). Ok, so this is (besides the panty shots) realistic for a public Tokyo all-girls high school. I doubt it's true for elite Catholic girls' high school (They have nuns who impose stricter expectations than even men.) 1. See kj1980's post about this anime destroying our illusions. In any case, I think it's also saying that not being a virgin is okay, or possibly even a good thing, from the girls' point of view.

2. In North America, the myth (true or false I don't know) is that girls from Catholic schools are especially wild, perhaps because they are under excessively tight control at school and have more impulse to rebel when they can.

stevency

2006-04-19, 14:50

1. See kj1980's post about this anime destroying our illusions. In any case, I think it's also saying that not being a virgin is okay, or possibly even a good thing, from the girls' point of view.

2. In North America, the myth (true or false I don't know) is that girls from Catholic schools are especially wild, perhaps because they are under excessively tight control at school and have more impulse to rebel when they can.

1. Well, judging from my all girls family members, my illusions to girls had long gone for decades. Hence my enjoyment(agrees to many topics this anime had talked about) to this anime.

2. In Hong Kong, the same story goes here. Let just say girls are alike.:heh:

Pleroma

2006-04-19, 14:50

Personally I like the realism. The typical Moe~ sterotype gets old fast and maybe its just me, but I would certainly want my ideal girl to be just as sexual and capable of vulgarity as myself or I would be rather bored.

thomasvye

2006-04-19, 18:58

Are you disgusted at the low brow humor, or are you actually troubled by the way girls are shown to be what they are like real life? Much as you would like to believe, girls in anime do not portray a real view of how girls act in Japan. Just like any other country, girls are also interested in sex much as men are.

I am shocked by it, but not in a bad way; only in that you don't see such subjects portrayed on TV in the UK with such young characters (or maybe I am just watching the wrong shows!).

I am REALLY enjoyinhg though; episode 3 was hilarious. :D

bayoab

2006-04-19, 19:52

Actually, most lonely male otakus who read and watch this have their dreams of girls being sensitive and nice crushed to death.

Something of interest I would like to ask:

Are you disgusted at the low brow humor, or are you actually troubled by the way girls are shown to be what they are like real life? Much as you would like to believe, girls in anime do not portray a real view of how girls act in Japan. Just like any other country, girls are also interested in sex much as men are.

I am not sure if it was disgusted or more of a "insulted" and "disappointed" that they would resort to it. I had watched the show because of the summary that it was like real life and I thought it would make an interesting plot. I was expecting some fanservice, but I was expecting it to be smart about it and not "Hey, we haven't seen fanservice shot in 30 seconds...".

First we have the climbing up the fence scene which was tolerable as that camera angle was possible. Then, when we came to the scene of them cutting their skirts shorter... (Instead of rolling them up on the top band on their skirts which is what I assume this is what it was trying to parody at but failed horribly.) ... and at which point I realized the point of this was so that they wouldn't have to worry about the camera angle to obtain a panty shot. As the show wore on, it became a "nice camera angle... and absolutely pointless" and "gee, now how are they going to get fanservice out of this... I wonder..." That final scene of the locked room just sealed the deal as that just beyond "thanks for reaching the lesbian joke in the most crude way possible... (not to mention pretty much impossible, but yes, its anime)".

I think the problem is I expected MORE realism out of this show. This show was being billed on its truth value, not its constant fanservice. When there wasn't fanservice on the screen, it was nice and realistic. (All 6 minutes straight. Yes, I counted while watching.) However, the stunning lack of realism when it came to the fanservice (Hospital gowns apparently make girl's chests grow 10 sizes) was very insulting and that they actually went to the toilet humor to make the jokes was equally insulting. So yes, I guess you can call it disgusted that they felt they had to resort to that level to make a joke every single time.

philip72

2006-04-19, 21:12

I am not sure if it was disgusted or more of a "insulted" and "disappointed" that they would resort to it.... First we have the climbing up the fence scene which was tolerable as that camera angle was possible. Then, when we came to the scene of them cutting their skirts shorter... (Instead of rolling them up on the top band on their skirts which is what I assume this is what it was trying to parody at but failed horribly.) ... and at which point I realized the point of this was so that they wouldn't have to worry about the camera angle to obtain a panty shot. As the show wore on, it became a "nice camera angle... and absolutely pointless" and "gee, now how are they going to get fanservice out of this... I wonder..." That final scene of the locked room just sealed the deal as that just beyond "thanks for reaching the lesbian joke in the most crude way possible... (not to mention pretty much impossible, but yes, its anime)". However, the stunning lack of realism when it came to the fanservice (Hospital gowns apparently make girl's chests grow 10 sizes) was very insulting and that they actually went to the toilet humor to make the jokes was equally insulting. So yes, I guess you can call it disgusted that they felt they had to resort to that level to make a joke every single time.

Mmmm.... I as well.

For even though I had heard that there was much crude fanservice in this anime,
I (as I always do) poured myself a fine glass of port, got out the grey poupon, put on my cashmere dressing gown (with cravat), and settled in for the morally uplifting and always gentrifying evening of anime viewing.

Of course I was shocked, shocked to the core, that my delicate eyes beheld pantsu. "Can such a thing be displayed in an anime series?" I grumbled to myself. "Such crass behavior has never before been shown in anime" I bellowed.

After my twelfth viewing of the accidental 69, I put the used sock (herringbone twill) in the laundry hamper and immediately logged onto animesuki to register my rage and disgust.

Onizuka-GTO

2006-04-19, 22:01

lolollololololol :D :D :D

philip72 sums it up.

bayoab stop taking it so serious. :rolleyes:

If you want to see a realistic portray of female high school life.

Go watch a live documentry or something.

PEDOS_GRANDE

2006-04-19, 22:42

Mmmm.... I as well.

For even though I had heard that there was much crude fanservice in this anime,
I (as I always do) poured myself a fine glass of port, got out the grey poupon, put on my cashmere dressing gown (with cravat), and settled in for the morally uplifting and always gentrifying evening of anime viewing.

Of course I was shocked, shocked to the core, that my delicate eyes beheld pantsu. "Can such a thing be displayed in an anime series?" I grumbled to myself. "Such crass behavior has never before been shown in anime" I bellowed.

After my twelfth viewing of the accidental 69, I put the used sock (herringbone twill) in the laundry hamper and immediately logged onto animesuki to register my rage and disgust.

You fail at troll. Legitimize, rationalize, troll all you want. Nothing makes this pos show any better or any more than fap material for lonely otaku. N O T H I N G.

riznar

2006-04-19, 23:00

Tangent: I don't see how anyone could fap to this, but I don't pretend to understand other's fetishes. It's just that nothing in this show seems presented in an erotic way.

Edit: Except perhaps the green haired girl's daydreams...but those are so....retarded...

philip72

2006-04-19, 23:17

You fail at troll. Legitimize, rationalize, troll all you want. Nothing makes this pos show any better or any more than fap material for lonely otaku. N O T H I N G.

Hmmm... I'd say what I wrote was the opposite of trolling. Trolling is when a self-aggrandizing, pretentious, hypocrite hops on a forum where people are discussing a show they happen to like, simply in order to tear it down; while never bringing anything positive nor particularly enlightening to the discussion other than "Oh no's, fan service, icky".

I have a marked distaste for yoai, but I don't go to the forums your frequenting and make disparaging comments about Meine Liebe Wieder. If you enjoy Shounen Ai, good for you I say and leave it at that. I won't troll the board giving reasons why it's all so distasteful to me personally.

However if you are a heterosexual male, I'll call you a hypocrite and a liar and leave you with this piece of advice; Your not going to pick up any girls on this board by pretending to be pure of heart and hating fan service.

This show is by no means a brilliant piece of work like Suzumiya Haruhi or Mushishi, but it has charms and humor after it's own fashion. If you have nothing better to contribute than " Help I'm offended by excessive fanservice", troll elsewhere.:frustrated:

bayoab

2006-04-19, 23:23

Let me correct your failed attempt at trolling.
Mmmm.... I as well.

For even though I had heard that there was much crude fanservice in this anime, No, nobody had mentioned how in your face it was. Fanservice != crude. Akbar's communication had finally reached me after I had finished watching the show and I was already looking for something else to occupy those 175 mb of hd space that doesn't make me think that the studio would be better off in ashes.

I (as I always do) poured myself a fine glass of port, got out the grey poupon, put on my cashmere dressing gown (with cravat), and settled in for the morally uplifting and always gentrifying evening of anime viewing.
Where is this sophistication coming from? Smart does not imply sophisticated. Did your monocle break too?

Of course I was shocked, shocked to the core, that my delicate eyes beheld pantsu. "Can such a thing be displayed in an anime series?" I grumbled to myself. "Such crass behavior has never before been shown in anime" I bellowed.
OH THE HUGE MANATEE. Panties in an anime. Okay, seriously. Learn to read. The correct comparison is renting a random movie and expecting to see Van Wilder but instead getting Deuce Bigalo 2.
After my twelfth viewing of the accidental 69, I put the used sock (herringbone twill) in the laundry hamper and immediately logged onto animesuki to register my rage and disgust.Thank you for being the perfect audiance for this show. You lived up to and beyond my expectations for someone who actually did not immediately delete it upon seeing the next episode preview. Way too much info too by the way..

Also animesuki has too much fanboy humpage. It needs more opinionated posts from people who have decent reasons for not liking series and not just. "OMG, this show is good!".

/Grade: FF for Fanboy failure.
// And yes. That was an attempt to troll.
///No, I am not saying pre-judging. I am saying after actually watching it. If you watch a yaoi show knowing you aren't going to like it, that is just trolling.

lolollololololol :D :D :D

philip72 sums it up.

bayoab stop taking it so serious. :rolleyes:

If you want to see a realistic portray of female high school life.

Go watch a live documentry or something.
No, he was just trying to be a troll as PEDOS_GRANDE said and failed miserably at it. I am not saying the show should be serious. I am saying that the show is taking the viewer and going "As long as we show them boobs and panties and the occasional piece of body, we dont need a plot or even to make a real joke. "

I can see the creators now.
(W)! (W)!
IMI NASHI!!!1!
OCHI NASHI, YAMA KITA!!!!1!

N-Bomb

2006-04-19, 23:34

Also animesuki has too much fanboy humpage. It needs more opinionated posts from people who have decent reasons for not liking series and not just. "OMG, this show is good!".
Fanboy humpage. I like this phrase. And it's very true.

No, he was just trying to be a troll as PEDOS_GRANDE said and failed miserably at it. I am not saying the show should be serious. I am saying that the show is taking the viewer and going "As long as we show them boobs and panties and the occasional piece of body, we dont need a plot or even to make a real joke. "

I can see the creators now.
(W)! (W)!
IMI NASHI!!!1!
OCHI NASHI, YAMA KITA!!!!1!
Isn't that most anime these days? I mean it's dominated by high-school shows, harem shows, h-game adaptations, and pedophile fap-targets... It's kind of making me want to watch Camp Candy and Hammerman instead.

American cartoons may be for children, but increasingly, Japanese cartoons are for HORNY IDIOTS. And the pedophiles of course.

~_~ to this show. And ~_~ to you all.

DannoHung

2006-04-19, 23:34

Mmmm.... I as well.

For even though I had heard that there was much crude fanservice in this anime,
I (as I always do) poured myself a fine glass of port, got out the grey poupon, put on my cashmere dressing gown (with cravat), and settled in for the morally uplifting and always gentrifying evening of anime viewing.

Of course I was shocked, shocked to the core, that my delicate eyes beheld pantsu. "Can such a thing be displayed in an anime series?" I grumbled to myself. "Such crass behavior has never before been shown in anime" I bellowed.

After my twelfth viewing of the accidental 69, I put the used sock (herringbone twill) in the laundry hamper and immediately logged onto animesuki to register my rage and disgust.

Good sir, I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

PEDOS_GRANDE

2006-04-19, 23:36

However if you are a heterosexual male, I'll call you a hypocrite and a liar and leave you with this piece of advice; Your not going to pick up any girls on this board by pretending to be pure of heart and hating fan service.

That would be assuming that there ARE girls here. Dude, its 1) the internet 2) anime 3) an anime board. Girls are the last thing I would expect to see here.

I prefer real girls to cartoons, thanks.

And bay and bomb are right, there is faaaaaaaaaaaaaar too much fanboy humpage here. The fanboy Groupmind explodes whenever someone dares have an opinion they dont like (hi, this show sucks, wtf) and summons the otakuhorde to its defense (see any criticism of anything having to do with Air or any other Key property). The board basically turns into one giant group pat-on-the-back. "OMG, I like this show panties are so HAWT." "Yeah, i know what you mean lol know what I mean lol" "Misuzu <3 <3" "OMG me too"

bastard-sama

2006-04-19, 23:40

That would be assuming that there ARE girls here. Dude, its 1) the internet 2) anime 3) an anime board. Girls are the last thing I would expect to see here.

I prefer real girls to cartoons, thanks.
you mean there isnt any real girls here? WHATTTT!!!?@$!% I came here for the real girls!!!!!

N-Bomb

2006-04-19, 23:44

you mean there isnt any real girls here? WHATTTT!!!?@$!% I came here for the real girls!!!!!

Eh, they're expensive and unattractive.

Wait a second, I thought you meant realdolls. Meh, they're also expensive.

philip72

2006-04-19, 23:51

American cartoons may be for children, but increasingly, Japanese cartoons are for HORNY IDIOTS. And the pedophiles of course.

~_~ to this show. And ~_~ to you all.

So seriously, what are you here for then? Aside from insinuating that anime fans are into pre-pubescents and lack intellect, what are you here for?

And I'm being called the troll, I just don't get it.

NoSanninWa

2006-04-20, 00:15

So seriously, what are you here for then? Aside from insinuating that anime fans are into pre-pubescents and lack intellect, what are you here for?

And I'm being called the troll, I just don't get it.
Just let it go. Not everyone understands satire. At least, I laughed at that post.

And trying to change anyone's mind when they've made it up is similarly useless. Just do what I do. Say your piece and then shut up. If they get your point, they'll get your point, otherwise repeating it is meaningless. Arguing with someone on the internet is useless.

I agree with most that there was an uncessary amount of fanservice in this show. This fanservice get in the way of noticing both the clever humor and social commentary that this episode contains, adding only a level of pruient interest and crude humor to suplement that interference. Without so much fanservice, this would be a better show.

On the other hand, I can deal with it and I recognize that it will help this show appeal to people who don't care as much about the social commentary, thus enhancing ratings and allowing it to be produced. So, I won't let that fanservice ruin a good show for me. Besides, the way it is used is mostly funny, almost as if it was parodying fanservice, so it isn't entirely wasted.

philip72

2006-04-20, 00:29

Just let it go. Not everyone understands satire. At least, I laughed at that post.

And trying to change anyone's mind when they've made it up is similarly useless. Just do what I do. Say your piece and then shut up. If they get your point, they'll get your point, otherwise repeating it is meaningless. Arguing with someone on the internet is useless.

I agree with most that there was an uncessary amount of fanservice in this show. This fanservice get in the way of noticing both the clever humor and social commentary that this episode contains, adding only a level of pruient interest and crude humor to suplement that interference. Without so much fanservice, this would be a better show.

On the other hand, I can deal with it and I recognize that it will help this show appeal to people who don't care as much about the social commentary, thus enhancing ratings and allowing it to be produced. So, I won't let that fanservice ruin a good show for me. Besides, the way it is used is mostly funny, almost as if it was parodying fanservice, so it isn't entirely wasted.

Your right, I'm sorry guys.
I hate seeing board space taken up by fighting and trolling instead of productive discussion, but I went ahead and did just that.
Sorry.

Onizuka-GTO

2006-04-20, 04:33

Eh, they're expensive and unattractive.

Wait a second, I thought you meant realdolls. Meh, they're also expensive.

lololololol

oh haruhi!

I love you bloke, cracked me up. :D :D :D

ust let it go. Not everyone understands satire. At least, I laughed at that post.

"satire"

that's it! that was the word i was looking for! :rolleyes: :D

Anyway, regardless of critic, can't wait for the next episode!

when it's coming? :(

seen the raws floating about already.

must...not.....download!

Aqualung

2006-04-20, 23:46

eh? I didn't have any problems with the episodes on VLC, Aqu-kun.

Lime did release a second version of it, and the volume seems fine for me.

Hmmm...I must have missed it. You know how old folks are...:eyespin: BTW, how did you like your buck cake? :D

BNC Banzai!!!

edit: I was just on LIME's site, and they said that High School Girls project is on indefinite suspension, and that the way that things are going, they might drop it.

DannoHung

2006-04-21, 01:09

All hope is not lost (or something!)

http://james.seedhost.com/forum-lime/viewtopic.php?t=311

Aqualung

2006-04-21, 06:21

Yeah, I just saw that. Sorry, my bad, I should have checked their forum first. :heh: I went there looking for answers regarding the sound problem in episode two.

stevency

2006-04-21, 14:46

JanthraX^

2006-04-21, 15:18

awww man, lol i guess learning japanese could be an option,
no other groups are doing this? hopefully others might pick it up

shadowplay

2006-04-21, 15:27

Bad news on subbed one. :(

According to LIME, they had put this show into a state of indefinite suspend.

Nothing special to those who are raw watcher like me, but definiteily a big blow to sub watechers.

Nah, somebody on LIME forums said otherwise

Fans out there need not worry about the dropping of HSG or anything like that. Translation for ep 03 is practically done, just need to make sure things are correct. Only difference is that I'm now working independently outside of lime-anime to be free of responsibilties outside of HSG. However, HSG will still be released and hosted under lime-anime. At least I believe that's how it's going to work.

Btw. about HS girls not being moe enough. WTH! They're all moe to the max....except for that whatshername that's not virgin anymore :heh:

stevency

2006-04-21, 16:32

Nah, somebody on LIME forums said otherwise

Btw. about HS girls not being moe enough. WTH! They're all moe to the max....except for that whatshername that's not virgin anymore :heh:

Damn, are LIME going to play with us on the news department? The frontpage news and the forum? Which is the truth? o..........rz

Himeji Kyoko isn't a virgin, Sato Ayamo had found herself a boyfriend in ep3(screw the stupid handsome guy long name:frustrated: ), thus herself being a big fat easy target to Eriko, Akane and Yuma.

FYI: Baka corp squad 1 includes Ayamo, Eriko, Akane and Yuma, squad 2 include the rest 2 girls: Kyoko and Ikue combo.

Lost virgin? Moe no more. :D

Akane way to stand out from other? Dress strangely!! She's in drama club anyway, wearing different clothes won't be a problem for her. (Yeah, show me a girl whom can wear like Akane in ep3. I'll try hit her if possible. :heh: )

Eriko has good study rates but never in PE. I can expect to see her suffering in ep 4 since poor Yuma will suffer her monthly duties of girls.

Zalis

2006-04-24, 15:00

Damn, are LIME going to play with us on the news department? The frontpage news and the forum? Which is the truth? o..........rz

Episode 3 is out, check the Main Page (http://lime-anime.com). As previous posts have pointed out, there have been some "unforseen complications" with the project, and no, I won't go into details. However, I believe that pretty much everyone on the staff wants to see it continue, so don't lose faith yet :love:

Also, I've made a sticky post (http://james.seedhost.com/forum-lime/viewtopic.php?t=315) at our site's forums to list all the subtle jokes and cultural references in the series. Well, all the ones that I can pick out, anyway :innocent:

Shadowscar

2006-04-24, 16:33

if this show continues like episode 3 it will rock... not much fanservice and damn funny, i could not stop laughing when the guys all meet up with the girls just one hillarious thing after another lol

Onizuka-GTO

2006-04-24, 17:17

thats what you need. Girls with dildos, Man Rape, Boyfriend Beating's, & love hotels.

classic.

:D

DannoHung

2006-04-24, 18:53

Oh god... episode 4 preview... banana.

hi no ken Jebus

2006-04-24, 19:00

This one was rather good not like the last one but it certainly had it's moments. Here we meet Akari's rival and have a good old field day competition. Another teacher is introduced the Macho teacher.

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/9563/ghep41sj.th.jpg (http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ghep41sj.jpg)

Also I hope Akari's bizarre outfit routine shows up more often:heh:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/2888/kouda4ee.th.jpg (http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kouda4ee.jpg)

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/1613/kouda27xd.th.jpg (http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kouda27xd.jpg)

riznar

2006-04-24, 20:29

Akari's rival is....Tomari(Kasimasi)?

Sorrow-K

2006-04-24, 23:50

Episode 3. Now that was funny.

The Kouda-Eriko rap scene was brilliant! As was the dildo. I just love the way this show is so unashamedly dirty. It's very refreshing.

I thought the whole Ogawa conflict and the way it just resolved itself was a tad silly, but, then again, I'm not watching this show for its plot. As long as the (low-brow) comedy continues delivering, this show still gets my thumbs up.

I really can't see why there's a controversy about the fanservice. The whole point is for it to augment the comedy, and unlike the vast majority of harem fanservice comedies in anime, it does its job fairly well. This show really only has one aim: to make its audience laugh, and, IMO, it's achieving that quite respectfully.

Simon

2006-04-25, 05:00

I thought the whole Ogawa conflict and the way it just resolved itself was a tad silly, but, then again, I'm not watching this show for its plot. As long as the (low-brow) comedy continues delivering, this show still gets my thumbs up.
IMO the manga did a better job of the Love Hotel scene: it was a rather tipsy Eriko, not Ogawa, who got lured in, and her naivety was (slightly) more believable. Also, the way the other girls saved her was more in keeping with their general madness.

On the other hand, the anime milked a lot more crude humour out of the setting, so it's swings and roundabouts.
I really can't see why there's a controversy about the fanservice. The whole point is for it to augment the comedy, and unlike the vast majority of harem fanservice comedies in anime, it does its job fairly well.
My problem with the service is that it feels like an easy way out for the script writers. As much as I'm enjoying the crass humour, after reading the manga this show is a big disappointment - it could have been so much funnier (and even cruder) if they'd tried just a little bit harder.

In that sense ep 3 was the best yet for me, because instead of wall-to-wall pantsu it focussed on what makes the manga funny: the interactions between the girls, the way they flip between pack instinct and back-stabbing, the cringe factor when they try to be cool... I find the characters a likeable bunch of baka, so I hope we'll see more episodes where the humour is about them and not their underwear.

But then ep 4 = sports day = bloomers, so I guess it's back to "service as usual".

DannoHung

2006-04-25, 07:19

There were a LOT of pantsu flashes in Ep 3. They just weren't closeups.

Notably, every time someone got Super Smash Brothers launched.

stevency

2006-04-27, 03:15

Resolve sexual harrestment by treating with ice-cream. Idol Odagiri is bold enough.

The PE techer is so funny, he will appears in episode 5 of school swimsuit sweetness.

stevency

2006-05-03, 01:52

PLOT DEVICE KITA!!!!!!!

Yuma sister Momoka is 3vil 2-faced girl, who had made Ayamo and her biyfriend Shimotakatani relationship stepped back to normal friend.

And Momoka is going to make the others hates Yuma.

Evil enough. Find a show like this type having such impact content!

It gots a 9.8 out of 10 in my story ranking.

Xess

2006-05-03, 02:40

Haha, I like the way Eriko describes Macho Matsuo's semen in that episode...

zidge1751

2006-05-03, 12:28

anyone know where to find the dvds discussed in this thread.

stevency

2006-05-03, 12:37

anyone know where to find the dvds discussed in this thread.

Huh?!
Expect the R2 DVDs be out at the end of May which contains Ep 1 and 2.

zidge1751

2006-05-03, 12:40

Huh?!
Expect the R2 DVDs be out at the end of May which contains Ep 1 and 2.
Thanx but where do u buy them? I am in the U.S. Are they only available in japan?

stevency

2006-05-03, 12:51

Thanx but where do u buy them? I am in the U.S. Are they only available in japan?

Yes, of course. It's not licensed yet, but you can enjoy it by watch subs, or raws if you want to go 1 step further.:heh:

paTKany

2006-05-03, 15:01

Huh?!
Expect the R2 DVDs be out at the end of May which contains Ep 1 and 2.

On the regular edition.

But Girl's High will be out on a limited edition 2 DVD (4 episode)+bonus CD boxed sets also.
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2346/box15vz.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=GNBA-7238

zidge1751

2006-05-03, 20:01

On the regular edition.

But Girl's High will be out on a limited edition 2 DVD (4 episode)+bonus CD boxed sets also.
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2346/box15vz.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=GNBA-7238I wonder if i can play them on my pc and use dvd shrink to remove the region coding. Do pc dvd players use a region coding. For the most part the us uses 1 and these dvds are 2

Sorrow-K

2006-05-04, 05:24

Can't say I enjoyed episode 4. There were a few funny moments, like the lesbians, Ayano's banana and the little sequence after the ED song, but the majority of the jokes in this episode just completely missed the mark.

hi no ken Jebus

2006-05-08, 21:21

Well 5 and 6 were ok on a whole, but the whole drama bit came off forced and really didn't do much. Everything was solved so cliched and dry. Luckily it seems next week it's back to the usual highjinks with that muclebound teacher back into the story.

http://img305.imageshack.us/img305/1966/gh069eu.th.jpg (http://img305.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gh069eu.jpg)

stevency

2006-05-09, 13:21

Com'n, what you would expect with general "drama" anyway.

On the other hand, ED were out, both full length and TV are good enough for making dance seqs flashes.

Gundam version been out for a couple days now, all i can say is "Wow! Get somebody to do the dance. It's easy."

Marvel

2006-05-09, 14:13

Episode 5 was good, the way Erico reacted with the teacher was cool :P As for Yuma her sister and Ayano... i'm curious how this turns out.

Yotsuba

2006-05-10, 03:49

As a girl who attended an all girl's high school, what I find best about this is that almost everything is absolutely true.

I get the feeling guys are laughing at this, thinking its so raunchy and funny, but this sort of thing.. girls really are disgusting when not around boys! haha.

Sorrow-K

2006-05-10, 06:53

Episode 5. Wow, serious drama. I wasn't expecting that from this series. And given the glimpse we saw after the ED and in the next episode preview, this could turn out to be fairly interesting. The comedy in this episode wasn't bad either... particularly in the first half. I still love how disgusting this series can be when it wants to.

Yotsuba

2006-05-10, 07:30

I love this show. I like the manga better, but it does.. I love Odagiri Sensei, wahaha.

stevency

2006-05-11, 05:57

Turns out that Momoka "hate" to Yuma is actually a kind of silbing love.

EP7 will be our mizuki service time. Macho might hit the girls. Prepare to laugh hardly.

iceyfw

2006-05-12, 02:30

epi 5 was just stupid. ayano knew yume for a while before they entered high school together. you'd think ayano would at least think why yume did what she thought she did.

giu_2

2006-05-12, 10:59

stevency

2006-05-16, 10:38

I can give Odagiri 1 oz of pity, since Eriko and Yuma bullys him after he and Macho Matsuo tried to court them.

And Odagiri found himself into Eriko's boobs. I wish I were him......

Ayamo and Shimotakatani pair is still love love mode, but got compared with Takatsuka pair(Koshiba Nao and Mori Sayaka, both are girls), I love the lesbian pair over Ayamo pair.

Akane's suit this time is way too much for me. The light bulb suit and the promised electrical shocks moment is enough for ROFLMAO for it.

hi no ken Jebus

2006-05-22, 14:37

This was a very cute and fun episode, it covers how all the girls met and how they were like back in middle school. Wow Himeji was a shock:heh:. Yuma vs Eriko was funny as well. Next week looks like it'll be a serious episode with a title like "Farewell, Kouda Akari" so looking forward to that since she's my favorite girl out of the 6. Also cute Marimite parody for the opener:heh:.

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4898/gh80ep.th.jpg (http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gh80ep.jpg)

stevency

2006-05-23, 15:16

Nice marimite parody. I ROFL hard for it.
I actually love this episode over the same in manga.

How Eriko group kicked started Himeji's diet plan is funny.

Simon

2006-05-23, 17:36

When anime endings collide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHluP1DfgiM)

stevency

2006-05-23, 17:42

haruhi ed song X js ed dance is nice, but how about the reverse?

Simon

2006-05-23, 17:55

haruhi ed song X js ed dance is nice, but how about the reverse?
Ignoring the 20sec difference in length, it works uncannily well. (I don't have a combined video, I just fired up two VLC windows.)

I really must check out more of Meg Rock's music...

hi no ken Jebus

2006-05-29, 17:52

I enjoyed this episode quite a bit even though it was kind of cliched. Akari has an audition for a nurse role and Eriko who was at the hospital happens to overhear her saying she's going to die soon. Of course this is a big misunderstanding on Eriko's part but she tells the other girls and hilarity ensues. All of them try to make Akari's final moments as enjoyable as possible. Meanwhile Akari has no idea and thinks they just know about her audition so she stays in character and makes things worse. Next week looks like it'll be an Ayano episode.

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1143/gh097sv.th.jpg (http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gh097sv.jpg)

Riker

2006-05-31, 20:01

Is this posted before?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfQcGvKxOoI

If anyone saw the Gundam version of the Haruhi ED, well apparently he also made one for this anime.

Keitaro

2006-06-01, 00:45

Is this posted before?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfQcGvKxOoI

If anyone saw the Gundam version of the Haruhi ED, well apparently he also made one for this anime.

I don't think this has been posted here before. Anyway's good find even if it has, it's pretty funny. This guy has way too much time on his hands. -_-

Simon

2006-06-01, 05:06

This guy has way too much time on his hands. -_-
For which we should all be truly thankful.

hi no ken Jebus

2006-06-08, 15:07

A little late but oh well:heh:. This week Ayano is forced to introduce her boyfriend Shimotakatani to her mother and sister Fumino. Hilarity ensues as they embarass Ayano by asking all sorts of thigns, at one point her mom was making arrangements so he could sleep with Ayano. After she gets a call from Yuma and co, they escape from her parents. At a restaurant the other girls offer advice so they can go to the next step. However they make matters worse by making shimotakatani question his love for her and not because he has a glasses fetish. Next week Momoka returns yay!

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/1889/gh105wo.th.jpg (http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gh105wo.jpg)

DingoEnderZOE2

2006-06-08, 15:19

There hasen't been a new fansubbed episode since 6. c'mon now at least wait for the normal to see those before we get screen caps.

stevency

2006-06-09, 10:17

There hasen't been a new fansubbed episode since 6. c'mon now at least wait for the normal to see those before we get screen caps.

Lime just promptly released Ep7. So quit complain and start downloading, NOW.:D

raideralan

2006-06-11, 15:13

Is it just me or is the ep 7 corrupted? I can;t seem to play it and i have all the needed codecs.

Dorasaga

2006-06-11, 20:50

It's just you. My MPC plays this episode perfectly.

Sorrow-K

2006-06-11, 21:02

Yeah, just you.

Episode 7. Ok, fine, I'll admit it. This show is pretty inane. But it still makes me laugh, so I'll still give it my thumbs up.

Perhaps it doesn't hold a candle to the manga, but I haven't read it, so I wouldn't know. That I can still enjoy it without knowledge of the manga means the anime can't be all bad, right?

hi no ken Jebus

2006-06-12, 15:52

This was a cute episode with some goofy on the side. Eriko has a reunion coming up and she wants to get all dolled up for a crush she had. They enlist Momoka to help since she has more experience in that sort of thing. Unfortunately things don't go as planned that day and there's a twist at the end:heh:. Next time is the school arts festival, I spotted some scenes from the manga so I wonder how it'll go.

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/66/gh113ws.th.jpg (http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gh113ws.jpg)

raideralan

2006-06-12, 16:10

Thats odd i can play episode 7 on vlc but it takes a long time to open. I can't play it on media player even with the cccp.

Sailor Enlil

2006-06-14, 09:25

TnAdct1

2006-06-14, 12:06

Thats odd i can play episode 7 on vlc but it takes a long time to open. I can't play it on media player even with the cccp. The reason for the problem is that the LIME accidentally put the wrong aspect ratio for the episode. To fix the problem, just download the MPEG4 Modifier (http://www.moitah.net/) (and, if you need to download it, the .NET v1.1 Framework), run Girls High 7 on this program, select "Square Pixels", and click "Save".

20 seconds later, you'll be able to play the file on Media Player.

stevency

2006-06-14, 16:52

Man those parodies at the start of each episode are starting to crack me up. Ep 11 just took the cake for me with a
Tokimeki Memorial Parody, down to the familiar legendary tree,
http://xs102.xs.to/xs102/06243/tree.jpg

and the game's dialog box.
http://xs102.xs.to/xs102/06243/ayano.jpg

In fact, Ayano kinda reminds me of Tokimeki Memorial's Mio Kisaragi here.

The parody starter is the real fun IMO.
There give producers space to play around with us, getting us ready for the laugh after the OP. Smart move in my book.:D

Ep8 used white flower for Yuma, Ayano combo was the best finishing blow. I LOLed too hard on that. (White flower represents death ceremony in the east.)

stevency

2006-06-14, 17:21

The reason for the problem is that the LIME accidentally put the wrong aspect ratio for the episode. To fix the problem, just download the MPEG4 Modifier (http://www.moitah.net/) (and, if you need to download it, the .NET v1.1 Framework), run Girls High 7 on this program, select "Square Pixels", and click "Save".

20 seconds later, you'll be able to play the file on Media Player.

Thx for the help, it work perfectly for me.

NoSanninWa

2006-06-14, 23:18

The parody starter is the real fun IMO.
There give producers space to play around with us, getting us ready for the laugh after the OP. Smart move in my book.:D
That parody at the beginning of each episode is the only reason I'm still watching this show. I nearly dropped it way back, but I found myself downloading episode 4, just because I wanted to see the funny opening segment. Of course, once I start watching, I'm in it for the duration. I was very disappointed when we had that two-parter because the second part didn't have a parody opening. :(

Simon

2006-06-16, 04:25

Man those parodies at the start of each episode are starting to crack me up.
Speaking of meta-anime, this (http://www.hikari.org.nz/stuff/otaku/joshikousei/jokou_ep8_cd_covers.jpg) had me giggling.

Zeni

2006-06-19, 14:06

Speaking of meta-anime, this (http://www.hikari.org.nz/stuff/otaku/joshikousei/jokou_ep8_cd_covers.jpg) had me giggling.

Aibon! =] Same here. I think the show has been done really well. It's not as cheesy as some of the shows that "try" so hard to make fun of the otaku world. This one actually makes me laugh. :p

hi no ken Jebus

2006-06-19, 15:23

Well it's the arts festival and I figured this was going to be fanservicy and sure enough it was especially the pool side massages by Eriko and co. It goes out with a bang bringing back saonji, momoka, the 2 teachers, and the lesbian couple. On a whole it was an enjoyable series, guess I'll start reading the manga now. Now that this is done time to look for a new monday show:heh:.

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/1376/gh12final1am.th.jpg (http://img107.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gh12final1am.jpg)

Jazzrat

2006-06-19, 19:40

Looking at the posts and screenshots, sounds like an older version of Ichigo Mashimaro :p I might have to pick this up and see for myself.

frad113

2006-06-19, 21:40

Speaking of meta-anime, this (http://www.hikari.org.nz/stuff/otaku/joshikousei/jokou_ep8_cd_covers.jpg) had me giggling.
Who else is there besides Yuria (and probably *yozuca)?

Sorrow-K

2006-06-20, 05:51

TnAdct1

2006-06-20, 12:18

I'm still trying to figure out why this show has had such a negative backlash, and then faded into relative obscurity, particularly after episodes like 9. As cliched and somewhat predictable as that was, that was hilarious. I was near in stitches after some of those scenes. Not to mention the fact that they avoided the cliche ending and instead had a clever ending where Kouda misses her audition and Eriko worrying about her gets mistaken for an actual audition.

Sakaki

2006-06-20, 12:46

Not to mention the fact that they avoided the cliche ending and instead had a clever ending where Kouda misses her audition and Eriko worrying about her gets mistaken for an actual audition. Not only mistaken, but praised.

Jazzrat

2006-06-21, 02:42

I must say, this show had me laughing from start to end despite being the so called "lonely male otaku". Probably because so many things happen to resemble what i experienced in high schoool days. (Coming from an all boys school, we tend to go out and meet the all girls school's girl a lot)

Eriko, Kouda and Yuma are an absolute riot in this show.

NezoR

2006-06-21, 08:21

Joshikousei > Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu.

stevency

2006-06-21, 14:27

Joshikousei > Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu.

I hate to say yes to this question, but, the overall non-sense crazyness level in Joshikousei is better than Haruhi.

Just watch ep 12 of Joshikousei and you'll understands why.:cool:

Haruhi is good, but the random episode order do takes it toll in -ve side of the crazyness. (except the island arc)

A good fun show means it doesn't need watcher to whack out all his brain cell for the jokes and fun, as how Haruri's ED works.

I knew this show must be something when I saw the 2 sided ending b4 and after ED, a good story telling trick on TV making full use of it's airing timeslots being an material to play with.

I'd agree this show is quite short, the manga have many materials to fool around with like sex diet. And Eriko's stupid measures agains moltsters on train is also funny.

Lime, I gratefully thank you for picking this show. Even other just ignore it.

The white box on each line covers "me" "ga" "ne" does have it's meaning, "me" means megane here, means Ayano and Shimotakatani problem: feel moe when watching eyeglasses girl.

"Ga" means ogaa-san(could be wrong, but ga and ka sounds about the same) or mom here, and "ne" become nee-san(elder sister).

So it's a Ayano and her family show.:p

gin-san

2006-06-21, 14:32

Lime, I gratefully thank you for picking this show. Even other just ignore it.

I love SuzuHaru too, but this anime is also part of our collection in the Genshiken video archives. LIME does a good job on this fansub, as they have with other anime they worked on. I wouldn't say that LIME Anime is the best fansubber out there (I reserve that title for another group), but they're close. :heh:

FANSERVICE = WIN!!! :heh:

randomlurker123

2006-06-21, 14:44

it's end aready? wow i thought it would go much longer hence i'm a bit bored by the show for a while, but for the constant short skits format , only school rumble will be able to last 26 at S1 , S2 is how many ep ? .... ya 12 will be right length for joshi kousei.

stevency

2006-06-21, 14:57

The ecchi level didn't tuned down abit over all, it changed from outbound side ecchi "fan service" to inward one. Try get the fun again.

Ep 12 has push it to somewhere near the max in terms of ecchi-ness.

Still, I wish it get 1 more episode to go, just to make fun of some more things. :D

frad113

2006-06-21, 16:20

If this show was better drawn and animated it would have been better overall, IMO (the same problem that Suzuka suffered from). It's not bad content-wise, rather quality-wise. And middle school girl pantsu? Come on now... :heh:

Simon

2006-07-01, 06:51

Slipping into scary otaku mode for a moment, I've tracked down the real-life location (http://www.hikari.org.nz/stuff/otaku/joshikousei/jokou_ed.html) of the ending animation.

And since no-one else seems to have mentioned them, a couple of merchandise release dates:

2006-07-05 OST - Amazon JP (http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FI8U2C) - CDJapan (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=LHCA-5043)

2006-07-12 Manga V8 - Amazon JP (http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4575832553)

DrewGSR

2006-07-14, 23:41

Finished the series, it had its moments and funny scenes. Overall it was alright. I did however friken loved the intro parodies lmao, one of the reasons i kept watching it.

Ep 12
The body massages were pretty funny. Dude, WTF wit hthe part with Yuma collapsing saying she has her period, iw as just wrong they even showed the bloody palm LMAO that was just foul and filty yet hilarious at the same time.

Potatochobit

2006-07-14, 23:59

thats pretty awesome work Simon very interesting

Maids! Maids! Maids!

2006-07-15, 03:38

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Too big for ImageShack
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Maids! Maids! Maids!

2006-07-15, 03:48

I didn't read any of this thread during the course of the show. However, I usually do a quick scan of a thread I haven't been following to make sure the images I'm about to post haven't been posted before. I just became engrossed and read every post. The first seven or eight pages were just so entertaining.

You get a sense that those panties don't belong. And because they are out of place, they have more of an impact. Each panty shot in Joseikousei counts as 4.3 normal panties.
What's different about this show is that it presents women as sex subjects...
PS: Chafing nipples are hilarious no matter what context.
The peeing sketch was genius.
It's just that nothing in this show seems presented in an erotic way.
Edit: Except perhaps the green haired girl's daydreams...but those are so....retarded...
After my twelfth viewing of the accidental 69, I put the used sock (herringbone twill) in the laundry hamper and immediately logged onto animesuki to register my rage and disgust.
The naysayers were pretty entertaining as well. How could anyone be anti-panty? It rhymes (which, as far as I'm concerned, immediately makes it a suspicious concept). ;)

Simon

2006-07-15, 04:19

that was just foul and filty yet hilarious at the same time.

...which means Yuma's "death by cramps" scene captures the very essence of the series. I thought the episode did a great job of tying everything together in a cheesy self-conscious way, right down to the "don't you remember me?" jokes when they brought Saionji Mari back.

A lot of people criticised this series for being trash, and well, they do have a point. But it's inspired trash, and it has a special place in my affections for going where no anime has gone before. So a big thank-you to LIME for bringing us the unique insanity of the baka gundan!

Only question now is whether anyone will be brave enough to license it :)
@Potatochobit: cheers! I just wish I didn't suck at taking photos...

Sinestra

2006-07-15, 17:51

a very dirty yet fun series it was enjoyable by no means a master piece but it ended with the set up for a second season anyone have details?

sugarbloodbunny

2006-07-23, 22:37

I've also been wondering whether or not they will have a 2nd season. :confused:

Simon

2006-08-01, 04:35

EDIT: Problem resolved.

AlRitza

2006-09-15, 02:39

hey i m in a country where mangas dun come cheap coz u haffta special order dem.... so my question to those who read it, is there gonna be another season to this anime series?

NoSanninWa

2006-09-15, 03:45

No second season has been announced.

rooboy

2006-11-08, 10:34

But, apparently, this season may be licensed (http://forums.animeondvd.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=1463369&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&vc=1).

Forbin

2006-11-08, 12:23

Lol I'll take Girls High over AMG2 ANY DAY!!!!!
I don't know what Ranmen Girl is but Girl Meets Girl is Kashimashi right?

Hehe

rooboy

2006-11-08, 12:30

Lol I'll take Girls High over AMG2 ANY DAY!!!!!
I don't know what Ranmen Girl is but Girl Meets Girl is Kashimashi right?

HeheRamen girl I believe would be Muteki Kanban Musume (or Noodle Fighter Miki) - also, it has been indicated that someone else may have licensed AMG Season 2, just not Media Blasters (who did the first season). I think all three licenses are a little bizarre (though I wonder if they got all three for the cost of AMG S2), but I can't complain much because I somewhat enjoyed all three shows (though I enjoyed Muteki Kanban Musume light years more than the other two).

kamikazex

2008-10-23, 02:52

so i just watched this series....and it's safe to say it was friggen hilarious all the way through. for some reason i put this off for two years and recalled not liking it back then but now's a totally different story.

Taufiq91

2010-12-03, 06:50

Wow it's been 2 years since the last post in this thread.

Anyways, i just finished watching this anime.

To me, It's one of the funniest slice of life animes since Azumanga Daioh

This anime is like Cromartie High for High School girls. it's just over the top insane, like Lucky Star rewritten by Judd Apatow. It's just too lulzy. Especially the joint party karaoke episode

Shame about the animation though. it could have been better. You can see some animation flaws and it feels like you're watching a late 90's anime than an anime made in 2005.

But hey, someone should re-release this in HD and promote it like an adult K-On. Give it a second chance and maybe it could get a second season it deserves.