COMIC GIRLS

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MANGA ComedyComic Girls
TV SHORT ComedyWakaba＊Girl

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  MetaThPr4h

  90/100
  Cute girls drawing manga with fantastic comedy and a lovable main cast.

  The cute girls genre recieves a fantastic addition with Comic Girls, an anime I definitely didn't expect to be as good as it ended up being.

  This story is focused on a group of girls who love manga and either draw one professionally, or are trying to get a series published. This proves to be difficult for our lovable protagonist, Kaos, who honestly is just awful at it, and goes to live in a dormitory for female manga artists where she meets the other main characters of the series, hopefully getting inspiration from them.

  Comic Girls uses the setting really well to provide a fantastic comedy both via the characters and the use of the manga elements. This anime doesn't focus on the profession like series as Bakuman or Shirobako do, but it's still quite informative and, most importantly, succeeds at using it for the comedic value it wants.

  There are four main characters in this story: our protagonist, Kaoruko Moeta (pen-name Kaos), who is an absurdly likeable and quite relatable girl who seems to be in constant state of panic, but is also a hard worker that you will want to adopt and protect, Tsubasa, a tomboyish girl who draws shounen manga and puts herself really seriously in the mind of the characters she creates, Ruki, who loves drawing cute things but ended up discovering her true skills at drawing lewd stuff instead to her embarassment, and Koyume, a cheerful shoujo manga artist and doughnut devourer who can't draw guys. Their personalities balance well and make for a lot of entertaining situations, and together with fantastic (and also quite touching at times) episodes focused on each character I ended up very attached to them. The number of secondary characters is pretty short but they do well when they appear and add to the fun that comes from this anime.

  The art style and character designs of the series are very visually appealing, with lots of nice character reactions and well done use of the camera angles, studio Nexus hasn't done many things yet but I would be totally in for them doing more series in the future because they never fail to deliver in terms of quality. The music on the other side is nothing memorable but fits well for the tone of the scenes, the opening and ending themes are two good songs by the VAs of the four protagonists, with the later having some really nice transitions into it at the end of some episodes.

  Comic Girls is a fantastic series I enjoyed a lot and I really recommend to watch to any fan of the cute girls genre, or for anyone looking for a comedy series to watch, because this one delivers hard.

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  CryingLad

  96/100
  Cute Girls drawing Cute Manga

  If I recall correctly this was one of my first seasonals. I am so god damn glad I picked it up.
  
  
  [PREMISE OF THE SHOW:]()
  As the name suggests this show is about Girls and Comics.
  It is a Slice of Life style show.

  We follow Kaoruko Moeta as she tries to create a Manga her Editor would be proud of (because she ranked last on a survey).
  She is placed in a girl dormitory with other manga creators to help her create and learn about the art of Manga Creation.

  We get to see our beloved Chaos-chan (Chaos being her pen name) befriend the girls and have a jolly good time.

  

  
  

  [CHARACTERS:]()
  We have 4 main characters, pretty much all of them are happy and fun. I loved all of them to be honest, even Suzu Fuura the spoopy person living in the attic drawing horror manga and scaring Chaos-chan.

  I already mentioned Kaoruko Moeta, she is quite small and energetic. Always tries her best to improve and learn.

  Next up we have Koyume Koizuka, she can't draw boys at all. Putting her in an all-female dorm probably wasn't the best idea to help her with drawing boys but heya. She also can't stop eating sweets. She inhales all of them.

  Then we have the 2 older folk, Ruki Irokawa and Tsubasa Katsuki.

  Ruki Irokawa is mature, she is very caring and loving. Always wanted to draw manga for children to help them but accidently became the star of ero-manga due to her ability to draw big anime tiddies.

  Tsubasa Katsuki is not that mature like Ruki, she often plays her characters in real life to get to know them better and come up with ideas. She is calm though despite her nature.

  

  
  

  [ART/ANIMATION:]()
  The art style is great, very cute. If I had to say I would say its a bit above average. The colours are very bright, which just adds that extra little oomph making this super cute and wholesome. The animation though is average, smooth and fluid when it needs to be but overall nothing that spectacular, sadly.

  

  
  

  [MUSIC:]()
  Oh boy, here we go. I just love the OP and ED. Everytime I listen to them I honestly get sad cause I just want more of the show.
  The OP is so wholesome and cute sounding, the ED is very calm and relaxing. I honestly wish for a S2 or atleast English Physical Copies.

  

  
  

  [OVERALL OPINION:]()
  Comic Girls is an amazing Slice of Life show filled with many lovable characters and an interesting premise.
  Even to this day I can't forget all those abababas that Chaos-chan had or when Ruki didn't know how to use a computer so Chaos had to teach her the VERY basics of it.

  I honestly want S2. plz.

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  Protogeist

  70/100
  A review of Comic Girls and an analysis of the characters insecurities

  Spoiler Alert!

  I am an artist. It may seem like I'm bragging, sorry if it does, but it is pretty important to my enjoyment for this show. Cause even though every artist doesn't have the same experiences, there are things that many artists do feel.Being ashamed of oneself work, not feeling deserving of food and other self-destructive thoughts.I have never really seen an anime about art that shows this side of how artists feel. There are probably other shows that do this. Maybe even shows I have seen that do this. But this is the show that has made me remember that part the most. Cause the artist part in many anime characters is irrelevant in most cases. The character might be memorable, but the fact that they're an artist isn't. It isn't important for the character that they are an artist.I'm not saying that a character should change because of a hobby they have. But that's kind of what it is. To most artist characters I have seen, it is just a hobby. Again, this is fine. But for me to really resonate with an artist character, the art part should be their personality. They're hobby effects them as a person. That might sound weird. But it is the one thing that makes me like Comic girls so much.

  In the show, Moeta moves into a dorm with exclusively artist. This was a way for her to gain experience from these artists. To find inspiration. But as I see it, I wouldn't say that living there was particularly good for her. Yes, she finds very good friends and the ending might have been different if she didn't live there. But, Moeta doesn't really feel good living there, even though the friend she makes, makes her happy. Cause as I said before, there are things that artist do when they're not happy with their work. And living with two artists that already have serialized works, this feeling is only amplified. As Moeta lives in the dorm, she does a lot of self-destructive things. She stays up all night to finish her comic ideas, that she knows will inevitably be trashed. She rejects food since she doesn't feel deserving of it. Of course, she doesn't even have a serialized comic yet.

  And as an artist, I resonated with her a lot. All of the feelings she gets around her art is something me and a lot of artists feel. I can tell that an artist wrote the story.

  And she wasn't the only artist that was written so well. We also have Ruki and Tsubasa. While they weren't as relatable, they were still really good. While Tsubasa doesn't have any particularly bad feelings against her art (At least from what we know), her parents do. They are very much against her drawing. That's why she moves to the dorm so that her parents wouldn't shame her.Ruki also experiences something a lot of artists do. When becoming an artist, her agent sees how attractive her art style. She advises her to draw more attractive manga since her art style compliments this genre. This leads to her being successful as a hentai artist. And while she tries to implement a romance aspect into the comics, that doesn't help her self-image. The fact that she's a hentai artist kills her. It's only when she meets her fans and she sees how much they care for her story that her self-respect gets better.

  Sadly, this was only how I felt in the beginning When we stopped learning about their insecurities, the story gets a lot more boring. We keep seeing Moeta's self-destructive nature from time to time. But it wasn't as interesting as before.

  But because of my bias, I will give this show an 8. I would have given it a 7 before. But the very accurate depiction of artists was just so interesting to see.

  Standard 7/10

  Wrote this revíew a while ago so it's probably a bit bad but I wanted to post it anyway cause I think it had to be said

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