Review of AHO-GIRL

tl;dr: A gag anime composed of shorts centered primarily around a dumb girls stupidity that has some decent comedy but gets kind of annoying as it goes on. This is a 12 episode series, but each episode is only half length at about 12 minutes. Furthermore, each of these episodes is split into even smaller short stories of about 3-4 minutes. These stories don't have any sort of overarching plot or character arcs or anything. Multiple stories do connect, but even when they do it's not for the purpose of trying to tell a more complex story and none of the stories feel like they're actuallycontributing to any growth or change in the series beyond some of the starting few where characters were being introduced. The characters are also incredibly flat and while they are amusing, I don't think any of them really passed the bar to be all that likable or really interesting beyond simply being a personality type that one may like. As such, the core of the anime is the comedy, or rather that's all it has to live and die on. And in terms of that, it was decent. The majority of comedy as one would expect from such a series is centered around the stupidity of Yoshiko which often got pretty bizarre, and while that was amusing at first it started getting really old really fast and though there were still moments that stood out as exceptionally funny, it did feel like it was just repeating itself and dragging on at times resulting in Yoshiko invoking more feelings of simple annoying rather than amusement. There was also comedy that came from the various other characters, and that I felt was more solid in that there was in general a lot less of any specific type and hence there was a lot more variety. Still, overall it wasn't tremendously funny and overall still too reliant on being kind of bizarre. Amusing enough to crack a smile a good deal but nothing that ever really made me laugh out loud. Thus, overall, decent.

The art and animation were okay for a gag anime but never all that great to look at. The OP song was crazy and fit really well. They also did a pretty good job with the visuals for the OP, which weren't that elaborate but were different each episode. The ED always played over portions of the episode that were still going so it didn't have set visuals and the music too was generally overlaid with voices so hard to judge in and of itself through solely the EDs, but it felt like it fit.