jany83 - 2015-01-11 14:21:19

this is anime look very cool at the beginning and this is funny to watch but the sad thing in that is you gonna be extremely deceived.... lets begin

About The Storythe story is a little confused but all answer is at the end .. this is really bad the end of the story suck soo much.... i like the concept but this is too butched and too poor im very dissapointed by that because the comedy is really good but this thing dont make the story a good story i guarranted you , you gonna be dissapointed

About Animation and Soundsi dont know why hate the animation and sounds everything is alright there i have nothing to say about it , this is normal

About The Characterssome characters are fun but the funny characters are not important this is a little sad...

Hayato Narita (or Dora) / i think this is the best character in the anime he have a nice personality im sad he is not the main character.... but you can see soo much thing in the story with her this is fun to follow what he do in his life

Alice / LOLI POWER !!! this is most loveable character she is funny and too fking cute i want a loli like that and i gonna be happy for the rest of my existence

Kakeru Ootori / this guy have make me laugh at beginning because of his personality he can be a real f**k*r but i like her

Youji Haneda and Takashi Haneda / for main characters they suck really hard they are freaking annoying....

Karura Itami / this guy is soo stupid LOOOL he make me laugh a lot dam seriously more stupid of that i think you die this a very funny character xD

Shuusuke Chitose / i like this guy too he have a normal life but he is a very good guy no more thing to say

About The Enjoymentthis is fun sometimes the comedy and the plot are the best thing to enjoy in this anime the story is not soo fun and the main character is annoying but if you just forget about the story and the main character this is a little fun to watch if you want to laugh

the anime is fun sometimes but i think the anime can be better the comedy and plot are the only thing fun in this so i can't really recommand a anime like that but use this anime if you want to laugh a little.

desmond91 - 2014-07-12 19:45:21

It's a very different anime, I'll say that. It's confusing, but there are good scenes along with funny moments. Is it worth watching? I would say yes.

alden.carter - 2014-01-27 17:34:16

A weird and confusing storyline, copy and paste characters, all-over-the-place episodes, filled with predictable fan-service to keep the viewer interested. Makes this one of the most painful anime shows to watch.

hamill.maxine - 2013-12-31 08:10:12

As much as I am disgusted with the increasing regularity of vapid and masturbatory male-fantasy fanservice employed in more and more anime these days (especially those that spawn from visual/light novel adaptations), I don’t think it is automatically bad. Rather, it has the potential to be sexy, fun, and exciting. Rarely is that ever the case. Indeed, what you usually get is dumb, unrealistic, and demeaning to women, replacing any hope of true eroticism with face-palming juvenile indulgences. As it turns out, that is precisely what plagues We, Without Wings, another victim of the can’t-make-up-its-mind club.

Unfortunately, the show wants to be the conductor on the Fanservice Express, even at one point venturing into an outright hentai sex scene, none of which helps or adds anything useful to the show. It’s all a vapid distraction from the better story it also wants to tell. You wouldn’t ever know it from the promotional images, previews, or hell even the first few episodes, but the story behind We, Without Wings is not merely fluff to prop up the main focus (re: boobs and panties). It displays a real attempt at a threaded narrative about identity between seemingly disparate characters and places and even throws in some swords-and-sorcery-style fantasy for good measure. That last bit, especially, could have easily been a transparent appeal to a wider audience without really serving the plot, but instead manages, in the end, to weave itself in even if it feels out of place for quite awhile — hell, damn near till the last few episodes.

Our story involves several wildly different male characters and places as they interact with friends and girls and so on. Each seems to overlap not at all except at some very peculiar junctures, which serves to set up the primary mystery. Everything else feels kind of episodic, almost pointless mild-comedy slice-of-life vignettes, but I assure you things do eventually coalesce in a not-so-terribly executed way. I’ll say now that if you’ve ever played the game Killer 7, you will probably have a huge advantage in figuring out what’s going on over everybody else, especially with the “channel changing” thing that is almost certainly an homage to the game.

But you’ll be forgiven if you never make it that far or you fail to appreciate what it is attempting to do with the plot, because the whole ensemble is coated in a thick, pungent layer of the dumbest fanservice I’ve seen in ages (okay, the one episode I sat through of Girls High just might have been dumber). There’s maids, tripping, cat costumes, and a whole host of other random choices from the grab-bag of moé/ecchi clichés. At one point they even “accidentally” squirt condiments on each other. At one point they for no apparent reason play Twister in their underwear. And in another they wear skimpy bunny costumes for the purposes of breaking the fourth wall. In fact, that wall gets broken a lot, with nary a wink even. It’s like they don’t even care. But then in another minute they’ll go back to having a mostly serious story, with the relationship of one of the guys and a young female writer whom he is reviewing her work for a magazine, or the grizzled yet deep-down kindhearted guy helping the obnoxious little sister of an acquaintance find her lost bicycle despite getting mixed up in a gang war.

I admit, it’s difficult to muster up any sympathy for anything, the characters or the proceedings, when the show is so inconsistent in theme. It seems like it wants you to be okay with one minute slapstick-silly fanservice and another minute heartfelt budding romance or tense gun shootout. But, no, it doesn’t really work. The goofy and retarded parts undermine the story it does have. By the end, there are a ton of loose ends that don’t get answered or resolved but it does address the primary intrigue of the overlapping threaded stories in a good enough way. I actually applaud its ability to at least finish what it started, and as I said before the story underneath wasn’t too bad, clever even at times… a little. But it’s so hard to focus on it with all of the atrocious distractions that purport to be, one has to assume, part of the appeal. Well, they aren’t; they ruin what could have been a pretty decent little story with some not-terrible characters. Instead, we get a mix of pretty good buried underneath pandering puerile garbage and worn-out weak attempts at moé-ness. To say that I was disappointed is an understatement. You can find a lot better uses of your anime watching time, but if you’re willing to put up with all of the annoying parts there is some genuine good to be found. I’m just not sure it’s worth the trouble.

This review originally appeared on my blog.