juston21 - 2016-09-11 20:23:29

Ishida to Asakura is a very interesting anime. There are 12 two-minute episodes of slightly repetitive gags. There is lots of stupidity, nonsense and unreal madness. It's plain bad, you can't deny it, but...
Ishida to Asadura is something more. There is a lingering originality. The studio wasn't trying to produce something of good quality, they were aware of what they were doing. Beyond all this bad quality and nonsensical plot, one can find the beauty lying beyond what the anime explicitly shows. It's a life-changing adventure. It's so bad that it's good. It's so good that it's bad.

fay32 - 2013-12-30 05:43:57

A Short Gag anime, crude, lewd, obnoxious, repetitive, brutal, gory, but still decently fun for around 20 minutes. My overall score for this anime is a 5/10, and here is why.

Story 3/10

Ok lets be honest, the story is absolutely gone, its a gag anime with 2 minutes episodes and an OP that takes 30 seconds. The story centers around two high school boys Asakura and Ishida. Asakura has this horrid manor of speech (intentional) and ishida loves him and wants to open up a flower shop with him. There is also the dreaded yamada who wants to take Asakura away from Ishida to open up a book store. That is the only story I could find, remember its 12 episodes that can be watched before one of a normal series.

Animation 4/10

The characters are designed below average and the world is done even worse. Again low budget gag anime. The facial features seemed to be purposely done to be super serious and over emphasized. It is bland, but then again look at the anime. I will say I liked the brutal scenes and thought they were animated funny and probably helped the laughter in that regard.

Sound 5/10

tentatively I say 5/10. The sound design and its assets were good at making the scene funny with its related sound like beating the absolute crap out of Yamada. The voice acting was mediocre, I did however like the OP in its own right. However again, it has a flaw; in the 2 minutes of air time the OP takes up 30 seconds of it, mix that with the "ill answer you question" sequence at the beginning and we are half way done. OP was fine, just too long for this anime.

Character 4.5/10

Asakura is so dumb, and focused on boobs, along with that manner of speech- I find him to be hard to deal with. His dry delivery is rarely hit, and mostly miss. Ishida is super violent and somewhat of an ass hat, but I liked him more than anyone. Yamada was decent, but again same gag over and over. The big breasted teacher was.... Interesting (watch and you will understand). The side characters....yea, they were aside (clap clap) and not in anyway a focus. They made me laugh, even though it was cheap.

Enjoyment 6/10

Yea, it was dumb fun. Okay before my credit gets ruined, it was fun, let me explain. Take 1 episode of anything, and compare its laughs with this.They are the same time length and that should be remembered. I laughed a handful or so times, once aloud (out of shock, ep 1.) and even thought the laughs were cheap and were over childlike fever dream crap, it was still a laugh. Honestly the brutal violence was funny, and the whole "trunk" part was all in fun as well.

Overall 5/10

Remember it only takes 20 minutes to finish, treat it like 1 episode of something. Turn your brain off, get ready for dirty, crude jokes with an abundance of violence that defies physics and just laugh and enjoy. I've seen much better, many times over. I've seen some worse but not many, just watch it and tell me what you thought. If you cannot find anything else to watch, or dont want to start a new series because its late (what I did) then just watch it.