Kenka bančó otome: Girl Beats Boys

A nice, strong girl is dressed as a boy in a school full of tough and charismatic young men. The target audience for this show is obvious, and after a few episodes, I quickly worked out that there is definitely a PC or mobile game to accompany this. However, if the show was better fleshed out and had the episodes been longer, it might not be bad at all. I have to commend the way the fight scenes were executed, plus the narration by some of the characters in certain situations (in the style of Mafia III). Unfortunately, however, even this could not redeem it. Because of its brevity, it is a rather sketchy anime series mainly focused on the fight scenes and backstory for some individual characters and situations. However, they just could not pull it off because of the lack of screen time. Therefore, the narrative was not engaging, and I had a very hard time forming any kind of relationship with the characters (I just did not succeed), and the whole thing was just one big drag from one fight scene to another that I soon found very boring. For bishie fans, there is not enough "depth" or room for observation; for fight fans, there is not enough action, and for those expecting a good narrative, there will be just some weird plot that feels like it was cheaply thrown together. Dropped after the fourth episode and 3.1/10. (2017.05.04)