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Title (English) My Little Friend

Title (Japanese) Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai

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Fantasy Novel

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Synopsis Hasegawa Kodaka is a half-English transfer student who has recently enrolled in a Japanese high school run by a religious order. Because he looks foreign and has difficulty in acting normal, his classmates think that he is a delinquent and want nothing to do with him. One day after school Kodaka finds a classmate named Mikazuki Yozora talking aloud to an imaginary friend in an empty classroom. Yozora is a sarcastic, aloof girl, has poor social skills, and turns people off easily. The two talk warily, and find common ground in that neither of them knows how to make friends, yet they both want to have friends so that they will be perceived as being more normal.
Yozora goes off and starts a "Neighbors" club, enrolling Kodaka without his knowledge, so that they can learn how to make friends without going through the social discomfort and problems of joining an existing club mid-term. But just as they get started with the club they are surprised as another student wants to join - a girl named Kashiwazaki Sena who is smart, beautiful, athletic, and popular with boys. It turns out that Sena wants to have a normal friendship with other girls, but instead scares off other girls because they feel that they can't compete with her. But this is a club filled with strife as Kodaka doesn't really care to be in it, and Yozora and Sena can't stand each other and fight incessantly. [Thanks to Dave Baranyi for help with the synopsis.]

Review This immediately caught my attention because it is well-scripted and deals with a real teenage problem. Some people (and not just teenagers) just don't have the knack of making friends easily, and teenagers are quick to reject anyone who seems a bit gloomy or different. It's also quite funny, and it's quite believable that two of the friend-seekers actually can't stand each other. It's less believable that Yozora (see above) and Sena are much prettier and more personable than some social outsiders I've come across. One has to go to the anime "Princess Jellyfish" for a more forthright depiction of social failure girls. Sena is blonde, but this seems to be just anime hair-colour artistic licence, not an indication that she too is foreign.
As the show develops, it becomes evident that it's largely a two- hander, with two female leads. Kodaka is often passive, though on occasion he takes decisive action or makes a suggestion. The several other girls are really caricatures. It's easy to like Sena a lot, but Yozora is a darker character who establishes herself as alpha female and is often quite nasty to Sena. An interesting show, and I'm eager to see how it develops. (By the way, don't bother watching the "episode 00" preview. It tells one nothing about the flavour of the TV show, beyond suggesting that there will be more female characters, which is scarcely an enormous surprise. A complete waste of time.)

Credits Director: Hisashi Saito
Music: Tom-H@ck
Original creator: Yomi Hirasaka (light novel)
Original Character Design: Buriki
Character Design: Yoshihiro Watanabe
Art Director: Yuka Hirama

Episodes 12

Release

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 2011-10-06

Production various

Broadcaster BS-i, MBS,TBS, Chubu-Nippon

Animation AIC Build

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
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Title (English)	My Little Friend
Title (Japanese)	Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes
Classification	-
Synopsis	Hasegawa Kodaka is a half-English transfer student who has recently enrolled in a Japanese high school run by a religious order. Because he looks foreign and has difficulty in acting normal, his classmates think that he is a delinquent and want nothing to do with him. One day after school Kodaka finds a classmate named Mikazuki Yozora talking aloud to an imaginary friend in an empty classroom. Yozora is a sarcastic, aloof girl, has poor social skills, and turns people off easily. The two talk warily, and find common ground in that neither of them knows how to make friends, yet they both want to have friends so that they will be perceived as being more normal. Yozora goes off and starts a "Neighbors" club, enrolling Kodaka without his knowledge, so that they can learn how to make friends without going through the social discomfort and problems of joining an existing club mid-term. But just as they get started with the club they are surprised as another student wants to join - a girl named Kashiwazaki Sena who is smart, beautiful, athletic, and popular with boys. It turns out that Sena wants to have a normal friendship with other girls, but instead scares off other girls because they feel that they can't compete with her. But this is a club filled with strife as Kodaka doesn't really care to be in it, and Yozora and Sena can't stand each other and fight incessantly. [Thanks to Dave Baranyi for help with the synopsis.]
Review	This immediately caught my attention because it is well-scripted and deals with a real teenage problem. Some people (and not just teenagers) just don't have the knack of making friends easily, and teenagers are quick to reject anyone who seems a bit gloomy or different. It's also quite funny, and it's quite believable that two of the friend-seekers actually can't stand each other. It's less believable that Yozora (see above) and Sena are much prettier and more personable than some social outsiders I've come across. One has to go to the anime "Princess Jellyfish" for a more forthright depiction of social failure girls. Sena is blonde, but this seems to be just anime hair-colour artistic licence, not an indication that she too is foreign. As the show develops, it becomes evident that it's largely a two- hander, with two female leads. Kodaka is often passive, though on occasion he takes decisive action or makes a suggestion. The several other girls are really caricatures. It's easy to like Sena a lot, but Yozora is a darker character who establishes herself as alpha female and is often quite nasty to Sena. An interesting show, and I'm eager to see how it develops. (By the way, don't bother watching the "episode 00" preview. It tells one nothing about the flavour of the TV show, beyond suggesting that there will be more female characters, which is scarcely an enormous surprise. A complete waste of time.)
Credits	Director: Hisashi Saito Music: Tom-H@ck Original creator: Yomi Hirasaka (light novel) Original Character Design: Buriki Character Design: Yoshihiro Watanabe Art Director: Yuka Hirama
Episodes	12
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	2011-10-06
Production	various
Broadcaster	BS-i, MBS,TBS, Chubu-Nippon
Animation	AIC Build
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.