Houkago no Shokuinshitsu

BelleThePunk Feb 23, 2011

3

Really boring. The whole thing is like a cartoon version of a stereotypical student film.Characters all look boringly the same. All the character's heads are too small for the bodies. The whole thing is really uncomfortable to watch. Sound effects at points were too loud and all msot drowned out the voice overs, and the wasn't many of what sound effects there were!   

FullmetalDragon Mar 5, 2017

1

Oh dear god, this was terrible. Bland characters, a story that's all over the place, and crappy animation - Houkago no Shokuinshitsu is just a mess. So, the story is two male teachers falling in love. Sounds ok, and it probably would be, if the story didn't keep jumping around so much. Most of the scenes aren't properly linked, to the point where you think they may have accidently left out parts of the anime. In fact, had I not been so sure there were only two episodes, I would have sworn there was at least one other episode between the first and second, that's how little they link everything together. Ignoring the fact that the main characters seem to change personality between the first and second episode, they weren't too bad. Just very bland, two dimensional and frankly annoying. To be honest, I'm not sure they could have been much better given how all over the place the story was. It's not like the animation can even redeem this either - it's just some terrible 90s animation. Basically, avoid this at all costs. Review for February 2017 DAMC

AnimeMe921 Jan 27, 2023

2.5

I gave these 2 OVAs a 2.5 BECAUSE I laughed my ass off!! SPOILERS: (I wrote teacher 1 and 2 bc I have no idea what their names were. Haha) OVA 1:  Played basically the same cheesy 90's 'romantic' music through the WHOLE episode until they had drops of water sound effects sprinkled in there. Not sure why. (This continued in the 2nd OVA too) This one was easy to understand what was going on but they don't give any background on this relationship at all. It just starts right away. Did I miss the beginning somehow? One teacher (Teacher 1) was super into the other teacher (Teacher 2) but the romance never actually started between them bc teacher 2 was in denial about his feelings I guess which makes OVA 2 so confusing. 😤 This one was kind of lighthearted compared to OVA 2 which was not at all.  OVA 2: Pretty much same crappy music with water drops on occasion but this time it's like the relationship has been going on for forever or something and the 2 characters are totally different than the 1st episode. Did I miss the middle episode this time somehow? I am so confused as to where the missing episodes went!!! 🤣 This is just all over the place and so overly dramatic especially compared to the 1st. Teacher 1 is dating a girl and teacher 2 is super jealous of course. Weird bc the ending of OVA 1 he was crazy for teacher 2!!! WTF 😒🤯 Overall the animation was pretty bad even for the 90's as other reviews have said. Their bodies are totally disproportionate but I guess that's kinda the norm for 90's anime but this is unusually bad. Music was the same tune in both OVAs and it never really stopped for breaks unless the water drop sounds I LOOOVE so much come in. Ha! I'm pretty sure as I said that there is an episode OR 2 missing or maybe it was lost on the drawing room floor and they just said to hell with it. Who knows. Basically I was lost and still am. This had the potential to be decent but it wasn't. I did laugh a lot at the many things that were just wrong in this anime. It's a fun watch if you're not expecting much and are truly bored. 🥱