Review of A Girl & Her Guard Dog

Ok so, the big controversy about this anime is the age gap. Everyone is making a big fuss about it, but I won't get into any of that in this review. I am personally ok with such age gaps and rather enjoy them even; if you're not and are absolutely convinced that it is not ok, just skip over this anime. Alright, starting this review, I have been excited about this anime since last year and I couldn't really wait to see it because I felt like ugh, finally a classic, typical, shoujo plot. We've been missing those for a really long while now. After havingfinished this anime, I am gonna say that just for the concept and plot, I would've normally given it a 7/10. Regrettably, the poor execution, direction and animation made me downgrade it to a 5. The animation was barely anything professional.

I am cutting this anime some slack while being hard on it at the same time. That is because we don't normally get anime series with such plots and I would very much like to encourage it. I can also imagine that not a lot of money was put into it, which made the overall quality of the anime just about acceptable. There are some animation mistakes, but I am trying to give them a break because of what I've mentioned above.

The ultimate reason it became a 5, is because it seriously could have been much better, and because it didn't live up to its full potential. That affected the enjoyment part of it a bit. HOWEVER, speaking from a shoujo enjoyer perspective, it hit some really nice marks for it. It won't disappoint in terms of romance events and scenes. If you're craving some physical romance instead of the common innocent love that's usually presented in other anime, I would recommend this anime for you.

tl;dr > romance scenes are nice, but production quality falls short. Nonetheless, still enjoyable.