Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu<\/a>. Gakuen Handsome\u2019s genres are Comedy, Parody, School and Shounen Ai. These genres describe the series pretty well, although for a series that announces love, friendship and conflict there isn\u2019t a lot of conflict or love in this series.<\/p>\nAs I mentioned the drawing style isn\u2019t very pretty and the animation doesn\u2019t flow smoothly, but that seems to be part of the \u2018Parody\u2019 genre in this series. Most of the side characters are meant to look \u2018pretty\u2019, which is still made clear despite the drawing style, with little details in their looks and behaviours.<\/p>\n
The intro song of this anime, \u2018GET!! Yume & DREAM (GET!! \u5922&DREAM)\u2019 by Shou Kagami, is kind of over the top when you look at the translated lyrics. This is the point of the anime as well, since it is a parody, so it fits well. The lyrics of the ending song, \u2018Shin Handsome Taisou de Zundokohoi (\u771f\u30fb\u30cf\u30f3\u30b5\u30e0\u4f53\u64cd\u3067\u30ba\u30f3\u30c9\u30b3\u30db\u30a4)\u2019 by 10Re; seem pretty random, but again so does a lot of the series itself. Both songs are cheerful and sound slightly overdone, when it comes to the vocalization of the words.<\/p>\n
Personally I expected a bit more from this series, but I never played the game or watched any of the other Gakuen Handsome material, so there wasn\u2019t a specific basis for it. I just saw a lot of parody opportunity in a shounen ai parody series, but this series didn\u2019t really make me laugh. It wasn\u2019t a series I hated to watch either, but there wasn\u2019t much original content to it. The content was often just an exaggeration of other anime\u2019s content, but not in a very funny way. It seemed to mainly state certain things happen in anime sometimes.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I\u2019m not the right target audience for this anime, although I do enjoy parodies and comedy usually. Maybe if you\u2019ve played the game the series will be more fun to watch.<\/p>\n
Studio:<\/strong> Team YokkyuFuman
\nStarted airing:<\/strong> 4th<\/sup> of October 2016
\nNumber of episodes:<\/strong> 12<\/p>\nRating: 40\/100<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gakuen Handsome is a parody series, which becomes clear as soon as you start watching. The drawing style isn\u2019t very pretty, which is kind of the point, and the series puts anime under a magnifying glass. Or at least, some parts of anime. Like extra pointy chins or the \u2018oh no, I can\u2019t fall in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2976,2984],"tags":[90,2962,3418,2925,3419,2861,2981,3420],"class_list":["post-21360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-reviews","category-series-reviews-en","tag-anime","tag-anime-en-2","tag-gakuen-handsome","tag-komedie","tag-parodie","tag-shounen-ai","tag-shounen-ai-en","tag-team-yokkyufuman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21416,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360\/revisions\/21416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Gakuen Handsome is a parody series, which becomes clear as soon as you start watching. The drawing style isn\u2019t very pretty, which is kind of the point, and the series puts anime under a magnifying glass. Or at least, some parts of anime. Like extra pointy chins or the \u2018oh no, I can\u2019t fall in love with a guy, I am a guy\u2019 clich\u00e9 we often see in shounen ai. The episodes are only 3 minutes long and the story is based on the eponymous game by Tohoku Penet.<\/p>\n