Review of Akikan!

Before I say anything else I need to state that this is a very bad anime. If you consider the quality of storyboard, screenplay, scenario and even the choice of Fukuyama Jun as the voice actor for the main character (for his sake) this is indeed a very bad anime. But. I always try to be as objective as I can when reviewing animes and qualitywise this anime is basically gutter trash, but if you consider the entertainment you can gain if you keep the fact that it's a horrendous anime in mind, this is actually pretty "good". I am not sure if the producers of thisanime meant for it to happen or if it was coincidental, but it feels like this anime, unlike so many similar animes, doesn't take itself too seriously. Well apart from the female lead, but it's easy to disregard her. Infact it's easy to disregard every single character in this anime since they're all so bad. But as I said before they are bad in a funny way. There were so many facepalm moments in this anime when it came to the shortcomings of characters and character interaction that it became very entertaining. Everything was silly, the story was silly, infact the whole concept of this anime is silly.

Speaking of the story, what was the story? What story? The first grasp of a plot or story comes in episode 2 I think it was. When the pedophilic homosexual counsilor of the ministry of economy told the male lead character, for some strange reason, that there existed some sort of a discrepancy between steel cans and aluminum cans and that it was, yet again for some strange reason, important to once and for all come to a decision regarding this really, really, really important issue of which sort of can to use for purchasable beverages; steel or aluminum.

Needless to say, this story is a masterpiece when it comes to originality. One can only ask oneself; what mastermind came up with this? There is however something worse than the story and that is the script and consequently the screenplay. Every single line that was said by one of the characters in this anime was stereotypical, clichéd and/or unfitting to the scene. Needless to say, there were some true geniuses at work when the script was written, I can tell you that. Yet I have to go back to the very important fact that seen to entertainment value it really was "good", even the screenplay. I laughed alot during my time spent watching Akikan, of course I laughed for the wrong reasons, or one can hope the right reasons if my hint, regarding the producers intentionally making this anime as bad as it was, is right.

So, if you want to see an anime filled with stereotypical characters, scenes and dialog spiced up by the fact that half the cast really are cans filled with juice or soda then you should definitely watch this. I promise you will have a good time if you're; a) watching it knowing or seeing that the quality of the anime is of a level you could surpass yourself at home with pen and paper easily or b) you're a harem fanboy.