charity51 - 2016-01-27 19:14:22

*SPOILERS AHEAD*
I hated this anime a lot. The first 7 or 8 episodes were just fooling around but then the whole thing just SUDDENLY turned into a really serious battle against a really annoying 10 year old boy. He was seriously one of the most annoying characters in all the anime that I have seen.
But yeah thats the impression I got of this anime. It just made me really annoyed and mad. The ending of the 11th episode was just stupid. Like wHO THE F would invite someone that you really hate to a club that you are a president of. Oh and the 12th episode felt like a filler episode. It didn't mach the previous episode and it was back to the "fooling around" feeling. 

Probably the only good thing in this anime were Medaka's tits. :33

ehackett - 2014-10-14 01:37:52

I think the characters were really awesome and I almost never find an anime that has English dub so yeah that was good too

paucek.eldon - 2013-07-26 06:13:52

I dove iinto Medaka Box expecting something fairly mediocre, and myself not just pleasantly surprised, but completely won over.The art style isn't great. It has all the makings of a poor series from a decade ago - eyes showing through hair, silly faces, veins popping out of foreheads. It also has fanservice, of all kinds, by the bucketload. The main character, Kurokami Medaka, is a mary-sue. Some of the characters are chibis/lolis/moeblobs.On any ther series, I'd probably feel disgusting from watching anything as bad as this sounds - but it's not. My theory is that Medaka Box is a subtle and surprisingly good "troll".None of it is done for any kind of serious effect. The art's mocking how anime used to look (and perhaps still does in some cases). The wild fanservice and moe is mocking the industry as it is now. Medaka is actually declared as a mary-sue, because that is her character, and it honestly works.The satire of the series really kicks in in the second half. I won't give it all away, but a group of characters are introduced who really quite over-the-top in just about every way. At this point I thought the show was practically laughing at itself.There are small moments of incredibly out-of-tone darkness, like the anime itself is yangire and is just beginning to crack towards the end. If you've ever watched Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, it's quite similar to the brief times when the characters are losing it before they really blow their tops.The penultimate couple episodes would be disturbing if they were in any other show but this. There's bombs, there's open talk of murder in front of a whole class of students, there's traumatised bystanders, and this is all coming from a young, probably psychopathic, boy. The art degrades accordingly in various shots. The OP is nothing special, pretty generic, but I really like the ED's song. The animation is simple and mellow and the tune is cute without being obnoxious, soft and catchy.The story was all over the place - it started off as what was some kind of SOL? And then evolved into a sarcastic action/drama/horror while those of us more keen on the subtlety will've picked up on the satire.I did necessarily dislike any of the characters. In fact, I even found myself liking most of the bad guys. The characters play off poor, but well-known, stereotypes, but damn if it doesn't work. I never really find myself getting bothered things I would find irritating in different seriesm, rather just laughing at how obvious the anime was about it.I think enjoyment is a lot more subjective here. It goes without saying that the greater comedic aspect about this show will have slipped under some people's radar. It'll really depend on how amusing you find parodies, and also probably your limit to absurdity.Of course, the experience is the best if you go in totally unprepared for the satire, but you've read this review so now you've missed that chance! In the end, I figure the best thing to do will be to take everything this anime throws at you with a pinch of salt.

nikita34 - 2013-06-23 20:05:19

Medaka Box is an anime about Medaka Kurokami, a flawless girl and her childhood friend Hitoyoshi Zenkichi, who works hard to follow her, the story follows the two and more in the joining of high school while these two make up the Student Council, but one twist the president Medaka promised to solve everyone problems by the use of the Medaka Box.Note: This review contains light spoilers.Disclaimer: This is my own opinion. They are not facts.Perfection, this subject hasn't been touched a lot in the anime franchise, this anime: Medaka Box is not a real battle shounen and the action is very one sided, but it is neither a fail of a shounen, rather it could be called an anime which mocks these kind of anime. In a lot of shounen the good guy/girl overcomes hardships and in a life or death battle the bad guy gets transformed to the good side by seeing the light or something. Medaka doesn't have this life or death situation or the problems, well because the main character is perfect and flawless and a big physiological factor plays with this:Can we stand someone who is completely better than anyone in everything? No, obviously we can't. We are humans who have pride, so we dislike the people who do everything right while being modest about it. This is called pride in a positive way and arrogance in a negative way. The story itself consists of Medaka and Zenkichi solving problems around school, the latter episodes revolves around a fight between the Student Council and the Disciplinary Committee. I think this anime stopped at the point where it becomes somewhat more of a shounen and where the other characters actually get to do something.Art-wise it does differ a lot from recently aired anime, instead of going for a more realistic look it has a pretty shounen like look. The animation isn't anything special, nothing too be amazed over. Maybe even a bit skippy if you ask me.The opening song "Happy Crazy Box" fits the anime well and the ending theme is a character song by Medaka's seiyuu. Which is good, again this anything really good, it is decent and that is it all.Since I already talked a lot about the character Medaka, you might notice that I think this is the anime's strongest point and I do think that. A character doesn't always need to be likeable to be a well done. Medaka's personality and actions might be disliked by a lot of people, but they probably made it so you would not like her and that is the point. On the other Zenkichi is a real typical shounen like protagonist, hard-working self-sacrificing and surprisingly a bit of a tsundere. Akune is more of a supporting character than a main, but still contributes to the story, Kikaijima, one of the many "reformed" enemies is a shy girl who only has money on her mind.Overall I though this was a very unique anime, which opened some people's eyes about the term "perfect".Best thing in this anime:- The various range of characters and their personalities and the view it gave me on "perfect".Worst thing in this anime:- The art, animation and sound part were very lacking. The series might also have been a bit too episodic, but with only 12 episodes this probably could not have been helped.Life lesson learnt: People rather have a hard-working failure, than a talented, flawless person.