Review of Kiss Him, Not Me!

I have seen bad Shoujo, bad ones that don't know how to execute a scene, don't know make characters likeable and memorable, and how to provide entertainment without purposely striping, make sexual tension, and flirting in a awkward way. They are more likely "strangely enough" attract peoples attention "mostly females" because of how hot their bodies look or their stereotypical personalities are. Strangely, this show is straight and it's weird, but it works. I had to tip my hat for the creators of this show (most importantly the manga where they got they resources from), I think people in both genders can watch this show, sure,it's meant for women as they say, but that sounds like an excuse for not actively making creative work, instead, being lazy and provide jokes that women can only understand. If you would have a show only meant for boys or girls, then I don't think it would deserve so much credit if it really excuses why the opposite gender couldn't enjoy as much as the actual gender do.

This review will be over the Plot, The Animation, Sound, Characters, and its Flaws that it had.

Plot: This plot wasn't so much interesting if you were to discuss it on paper, which I am. You have a chubby woman named Kae, and she is an Otaku who is strongly into Yaoi and fantasizing her classmates being couples. Then a tragedy happens, one of her favorite characters, Shion (yes you will have to remember this stupid character), gets killed off of the show, and she gets over dramatic and shuts herself out for about a week, with no food or water. Finally, her family gets her out of her senses, but suddenly, Kae lost a lot of weight, and pretty much looks a model (the anime side, not my side, I only see a drawing on paper).

Now, excusing my plot explanation for a disclaimer, this logic of not eating or drinking anything for a week is obviously for comedic purposes, and it is what got peoples attention, and you can see why it did. This logic obviously doesn't work, but it's more like, "Eh, it's a cartoon, let it do what it wants." Anyway, back to the plot.

Because she looks hotter than ever, she attracts many sorts of attention, she attracts a male that makes fun of her weight, she attracts a male that tries to forgive himself for his friends sake of making fun of weight, and finally, she attracts a male that seemed awfully rude to her, even when she was injured. Not to mention she has a male friend that talked to her, even before she lost her weight. Now everywhere she goes, she always has 4 male friends with her, including a female that later joins the roster.

Obviously, all these characters has feelings for her, except one, because he is an air head that only hung out. I'll describe about these characters later. There isn't much of the plot anymore, other than short sub plots in each episode, they want to date Kae, that's all.

The Animation: I liked it how they manage to pull peoples attention by turning a fat person into a super model by shutting yourself, but they don't express the animation so much. Sometimes you get bored of a scene, and looked at what the other people are doing because you got bored looking at the main characters, but they don't do anything but freeze where they are and don't do anything. Sometimes they have decent animation I can give credit for, even the ones that are doing the animation for humor, other times it's just lazy. Every time, when Kae has a "special" moment to say, it's all glitterly, sparkly, and pink, and it gets old after the 6 time they used it in the first episode, I get that it's suppose to visualize how men see it, but it doesn't excuse why they use it in every 3 minutes whenever she smiles.

The Sound: This music track does have some good musical background for the atmosphere that catches your ear, but most of it is bland and isn't noticeable.

The Characters: I think the characters carried on the show quite well, it's the only real reason why I did. Overall, most of these characters did deliver some good humor and dialogue to follow, but only for half of the show.

Kae: Kae is a otaku, yaoi fan who loves to fantasizes men as couples. She is very kind to people, is quite shy at times, and doesn't express much of love, but appreciation. This is a good character you could understand and like, especially the humor she delivers, you don't have to be a yaoi to understand, you could just hear what she says and think it's ridiculous, but then realize that some people actually think like that. I liked this character, and I don't think we can have a yaoi fan that can be annoying again for awhile, at least I think that is the case.

Yuusuke: This character is bland and boring, you can understand his relationship easily, but he isn't interesting. He is just kind and athletic, he does display a little bit of character trying to steal a chance to be alone with Kae, but that's all you get out of him. He does deliver good dialogue that makes him funny, but it doesn't really display his personality.

Nozomu: He is just temperamental and wants to date Kae for looks. Also he is good with kids.

Hayato: He is a bit of a coward, childish, clumsy, and he doesn't do anything for the show except one episode. Now those qualities doesn't make him a bad character, however, this show fails to display this character, rather, he is just put in just for his personality and stereotype, I didn't get a laugh out of him which is disappointing, and he doesn't do anything remarkable. Therefore, he is the lamest character out of this roster.

Asmua: He is just an air head, who is also kind, gentle, caring, and a bit weird. He is, however, protective, and gets serious when someone picks on Kae.

Shima: A female who is also wants to date Kae, she stands out more than Hayato does. She is rich, well-known from a lot of people (which is hardly mentioned) talented with drawing and creating mangas (about yaoi). Finally, she is a hardcore fan of yaoi.

Other characters: They just play their part.

The Flaws: While I do credit for its humor and characters, it does a few things wrong, for example, one episode (for japanese) plays the music loud enough that you can barley make what the the characters are saying, sure, in subtitles you can easily know what they are saying by reading it, but think about people that went through that don't read the subtitles and understand the language, that would be a problem. The beginning wasn't the most exciting part because it only focuses on having a crush on Kae, but when you get to episode 3, you will see the charm it gives away, but by episode 8, it loses that charm and goes back being bland.

Conclusion: I was just surprised that it was good, it completely changes my opinion about how a show about yaoi could be boring and goes no where, but yet, this show proves that it could be entertaining in the right elements. I think it deserves the credit that is given to us, and hopefully you, the audience, agrees.

I give it a 6/10, if the ending didn't end with a joke that had a serious topic on top of it, then I would give this a 7, oh well, I got some laughs out of the show, and that's what matters.