grady.vivienne - 2015-03-29 22:11:05

This is an amazing anime, weird story but good... it's a must watch.. Hella' lot enjoyable, and is on my top 20 already! ;D SO MINDBLOWING!!

dmurphy - 2015-02-01 08:58:50

Right from the first episode, I was genuinely surprised by how much this show didn't suck. After that, the quality varied from episode to episode, but the lesser ones were, at worst, bland and meandering, rather than any kind of unenjoyable.

All throughout, there are nuggets of things that this show does exceptionally well, particularly in regards to calling attention to truths and inconveniences where any other show would have glossed over them (e.g. in an early episode, Souji is vocally uncomfortable with the creepy level of attention his female alter-ego is receiving), and lending actual depth and credence to situations and reactions that are frequently played for laughs (According to trope, Aika becomes enraged when attention is called to her chest, but the show can also demonstrate that it's a genuine insecurity for her. See also, the entirety of episode 11).

Seeing as this show is in fact about fighting fetish-stealing aliens, the plot is by far its weakest aspect, although the villains take their roles seriously enough that it gives the fights more value than they would otherwise have. Unfortunately, despite the weak plot, the show never really commits to being a character study either, and if it had I think the show would have been much improved for it. The latter half of the series does contain quite a bit of character development, but much of it doesn't go as deep as it could, and without spoiling anything, our protagonist's character arc has a somewhat frustrating resolution.

Animation-wise, the show ranges from passable to above average. There are two are three episodes where the quality drops noticeably, presumably to balance out the Animation Bump of an episode preceding or following it. The music is unobtrusive at best; neither the OP nor the ED are anything to write home about. The show was also surprisingly well-paced. Being a 12-episode adaptation of a light novel series, things progressed at a satisfying clip, and the ending felt like one, despite not tying up every plot thread.

I was completely prepared for this to be absolute schlock, but even in its less impressive moments, Twintails was at least decent, often just shy of great. Thoroughly and unironically entertaining right from the start.

Disclaimer: Came into this not familiar at all with the light novels, but I get the sense that the anime staff didn't pull all this hidden depth out of nowhere, so if the LNs were ever translated, I'd be very eager to see how deep into the satire they go.

rpacocha - 2014-12-29 19:05:59

twintails is quite the weird show, it starts out weird, has a weird conflict and ends well... weird. it's funny as shit and is pretty much an anime that just doesn't take itself serious at all. it's based on the harem-concept from the bottom but plays it off by having the whole focus on twintails (basically, if you don't like twintails, you ain't gonna like this show either.)

the characters are fine, the MC has a obvious fetish for twintails and can't stop thinkin' about them. the main heroine here is apparently his childhood friend, Aika, who's hair is twintailed, dark-blue (in a realistic sense black) and often envy others when it comes to chest size. joining MC is Twoearle who fucks shit up. she makes MC become a tumblr user and changes his gender, so he can fight hentai monsters from outer space. she is a tsun tsun bait for Aika, so its extremely often theres scenes where she fucks up Twoearle. one who later joins MC is Erina whos appearently the fuckin' school president shit with her downwards twintails. basically everyone has twintails except for fuckin' Twoearle. Erina is the typical blonde-rich-grill who has a planned marriage for her and the MC. MC is like your typical harem dude with a bit more common sense.

let's talk about the aesthetics. shits vaporwave. the animation in the show is pretty dank, its mostly alright but holy shit in some episodes it looks like ass. the artstyle is alright, doesn't look like Air.

the music in the show is pretty damn straightforward, fuckin' cheesy ass JPOP and rock' n roll music from the future. weeb as hell, don't care.

its enjoyable as fuck when you don't give a fuck. its the kind of anime to like, just watch for the sake of watching shit. perfect boredom material.

i'd rate this show an 8.5/10, it'd be a 10/10 if the best girl (aika) won.

and that was my shitty ass review of this chinese cartoon.

darien.haag - 2014-12-23 02:10:22

Overview

Meet Mitsuka Souji. A normal high school boy with a twintails fetish who just so happens to be the mighty world famous heroine, Tailred.

Meet Tsube Aika. Souji's aggressive childhood friend who happens to love him and helps him out as the loathed Tailblue.

Meet Thouars, wait Twirl? Twoearle? Tuearle? GOD DAMNIT I DON'T EVEN KNOW ANYMORE. SHE'S A PERVERTED ALIEN CHICK.

Meet Shindou Erina. The student council president and a huge fan of the twintails.

Meet Souji's Mom. The worlds biggest pervert.

It's the most stupid thing I've seen in years, yet, it's every bit as intelligent as it is stupid. I'm not kidding.

Story (Comedy) - 10/10

Comedic gold. They took everything funny, put it into a giant pot and made cheeseburgers and cran brulee.

That said, there actually is a considerable amount of thought that went into this beyond the comedy. Gonna be the Twin-tails is an almost episodic satire of the otaku culture in Japan. It's pretty obvious in the anime, but the source material got way more into it, which is why I say this adaptation was terrible. The main character is the representation of the normal otaku with his otaku fetish. He is then thrust into the position of his fetish and learns what it's like to be the object of his desire. It's even played with periodically with scenes of Souji reacting to his male fans. They then take it a step further with the evil space lizard elemelians who represent the otaku culture and the character archetype subversion that I'll get into later.

Twintails brilliantly added just a little more to a stupid comedy to give some meaning that pushes it far above other comedy series.

Animation - 4/10

Really really good character designs with really really bad quality lapses. The animation was the worst I've seen in a TV series this year. It gets some points for the stellar character design, otherwise this would get a straight 1 it's that bad. Off models and unfinished scenes plague the series at every corner. However, at some points in some episodes, the animation is rather decent. The quality lapses are still quite jarring, even after the animation fixes released in the blu rays. For the most part the animation fixes in the blu rays improved the animation a fair amount, however the jarring transitions between poor animation and rather decent animation remain as well as the recycled clips making it rather sub par overall.

Sound - 9/10

The opening theme was rather meh in my opinion. It was good, but it wasn't bad. Aside from that I thought everything else was rather excellent. The background music from the fights felt very reminiscent of Fairy Tail, a very up beat motivational type soundtrack. Motivational is probably the best word to describe the music as it used many string instruments and chorus sounds during the action music that was quite good and easy to remember and recognize. The ending theme was absolutely stellar. It's a song about Twintails... yeah it's actually pretty catchy.

But the music isn't what gives this series that 9/10 for the sound. No the music is good but it's the voice acting that launches this into the elite territory of sound ratings. The elemelians have the best voice acting I've seen since Okabe Rintaro in Steins;Gate or Natsume Kyousuke's speech in Little Busters: Refrain. These guys say such absurd things in such a serious and macho manner that I can't help but fall apart. Aside from that the rest of the cast has great voices as well, but they have nothing on these elemelians. If the opening theme was good I could give it a perfect 10 just for the elemelians.

I'll give a little shout out to Souji's voice actor. He's one of my personal favorites for male leads and he did a stellar job with Souji's twintails speeches. I swear that guy could be a politician.

FUNimation does hold the license, although with how unpopular it is I highly doubt it will ever get a dub. At least I can hope for a North American release.

Character - 8/10

The one thing this series did well on a serious level was it's characters. It took two prevalent archetypes in the medium and completely rewrote them while maintaining the personality traits that made them popular in the first place. This is further accentuated by how they are the only two characters with normal behavior. Essentially there are two dynamic characters in a cast of static characters designed to subvert the common complementary characters to the static characters. If you are a normal person and not an elitist, that means they broke stereotypes into tiny pieces. 

Aika is a clean subversion of the tsundere archetype. She has the abrasive personality and twintails + zettai ryouki of a stereotypical tsundere, yet, she's only abrasive to the people she doesn't like, not those she likes. She is of course infatuated with the protagonist, but instead of hitting him every time she finds him in a compromising situation, she hits the other girl who caused the problem in the first place. She even maintains a pleasant relationship with the protagonist that's kinda nice to see develop with how normal it is despite all the bat shit crazy that goes on around them. 

Then we have the male protagonist who completely topples the dense harem lead archetype by mostly one trait he picks up. He develops an interest in women. Yep. The dense harem lead actually starts to notice girls in normal ways. For example, he's walking to school with Aika and he keeps noticing her features and gets embarrassed when she talks to him. That's normal. The event that triggered this was even (somewhat) normal, although it wasn't presented in a normal way.

Aika and Souji have fairly normal personalities at their core. Souji has an obsession with twintails to the point of absurd and Aika has the worst case of A-cup angst I've ever seen, but at their core, they are normal.  All the other characters are comedy archetypes, but these two subverted the main archetypes, and that impressed the hell out of me.

Enjoyment - 10/10

An instant favorite. This had the perfect blend of humor and interesting tidbits that just mess with things to be an almost perfect comedy. I adored the hell out of Aika. The whole rough personality turned sweet of a tsundere has never been done in this manner and man did they do it well. I'm almost ready to give up my waifu here man ;~;

Overall 8/10

Thankfully, production IMS managed to salvage the horrible animation in the blu rays making this much easier on the eyes. This series was so stupid. It was glorious. And at the same time, it managed to be something elitists could fight about over the symbolic meaning of things. (although there's no way an elitist would touch an stupid fan service comedy)

Recommended For:

Everyone who can tolerate a little fan service

Not Recommended For:

Those who hate fan service

Despite the fan service being rather light, there is more than enough to turn those who dislike it away.

danika44 - 2014-12-20 08:44:42

Aka. Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!

This show seems to polarise the viewers into two groups: Those who hate it with a passion and those who love the shit out of it. So I have graciously decided to step in and decide the matter. Beware that there is no appealing after this - my verdict is final.

The show...

The premise of the show is simple. The earth is being threatened by an evil race of aliens called the Elemerians who are all based on a variety of enlarged anthropomorphised critters. Their purpose is to rob us of our "attributes" - the propensity for being passionate about specific styles - because there is power in style!

The style they are most eager to get their grimy little ha... eh, appendages on, is the titular Twintail Attribute (tm). 

In the face of this immense threat is our main protagonist Soji Mitsuka, a high school student with a serious twintail fetish...

 ...who meets the mysterious platin-blonde alien girl Tuearle, who has fled a planet that had all it's twintail attributes stolen. She used to be a proud twintail herself, but is now just wearing her hair normally.

She senses Soji's strong dedication to twintails and provides him with a magical bracelet - the so-called TailGear - that allows him to transform into the hero TailRed, a girl with twintails and superpowers capable of fighting the badguys...

Have you run off yet?

Oh, it gets a lot weirder as the season progresses - trust me. And this is exactly why I personally am in the camp that finds this show friggin brilliant.

It is all about satire of course. The show elegantly deconstructs and makes fun of a wide range of common anime tropes, and it does so in a completely unabashed in-ya-face kinda way. It pulls no punches and plays everything as straight as a Discovery Channel report and therefore it totally works.

It will initially have you sitting with your face frozen agape in a "You gotta be shitting me"-expression...

 ...but you will soon realise that the producers are screwing around with the material on purpose. Yeah, it is that kind of show.

Plot...

HA HA HA HA...oh wait! You were serious???

Well, there is none... at least not anything worth caring about. The action is a mix of comedic slice-of-life and monster-of-the-week-battle, with a feeble attempt at an over-all arc for the season. It's not needed or missed either, because you don't watch this show for the story anyway.

The technical stuff...

The character design is great and everything looks beautiful, but unfortunately the animation is hit and miss. The problem is of course that elaborate characters are more expensive to animate, so the producers have clearly been forced to cut a few corners here. But mostly it doesn't affect the watching experience too much, so I can forgive the show. It does cost them a few points in the animation score though.

The sound is awesome and the voice actors go all out in totally ham-mode, perfectly in the spirit of the show. Especially some of the aliens, when they declare their undying love to the various attributes during battles, are hilarious to listen to, and when Soji expresses his devotion to twintails it gets almost presidential. I don't understand much Japanese, but the acting is so good that you get the full effect anyway. Top marks to those guys and gals... I hope they were paid well.

 I don't know if we will see a dub, but I can't imagine an English cast that could pull this off. 

Final verdict...

This is a great show and highly entertaining to watch - especially if you are familiar with the anime-world and not afraid of poking fun at it. In my experience most people who hate Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu are those who take it seriously and don't get the satire. I don't understand how anybody could miss the point, because everything about it is so over-the-top. All you have to do is check out the main protagonists 6 feet twintails to realise what kind of show you are dealing with.

So my advice is to simply watch it and have fun. And always remember...

As long as you love twintals, everything is possible!

clotilde.gulgowski - 2014-10-13 15:48:11

Receives a non-sarcastic 9/10. It's fun, cute, and expresses the love for twintails for everyone! Yeah, it's pretty dumb and that's why it lost a point, but everything else about it I like.

miles.lueilwitz - 2014-10-12 17:37:40

OK, i know this Anime is not for my age and probably not even for my gender.
Still I watched the first episode. It is about a boy who loves twin-tails (YES, the hairstyle) who gains the power to transform into a powerful little girl with twin-tails with the ultimate goal of protecting girls from some lizards who steal, from the girls , the will to make twin-tails.

It was at least stupid,
so much stupid that it becomes funny out of how stupid it is.

Then it becomes even stupider.

Too much stupid for my tastes.

Still, please watch at least the first episode. I'm very curious for the reactions of other people to the show.