Girlfriend Episode 9 (I’m Running Out of Funny Ways To Say Boring)

So what would you say if i told you that this episode was full of character development, plot, excitement, twists, and people dying?

Yeah I’d say I was full of crap too. It’s Girlfriend. Nothing happened.

What kind of nothing this week? Well, MUSICAL NOTHING!

What do I mean by that? Let me explain.

So the episode is basically about these 5 girls who are in a band called “Cream puffs” or “Electric Cream” or…what the fuck was their name again? (goes back and looks at episode) oh that’s right. It’s “Cream Soft”. And they’re going to sing a song for the light music club “AHA! LIGHT MUSIC CLUB! SO WE MEET AGAIN!”

The problem is, the songwriter of the group doesn’t know what to write the song about. So yeah you know where this is going. During preparing for the school festival she spends the rest of the episode trying to figure out what to write.

BUT WAIT! you thought THAT was exciting, the student council informs her that if she doesn’t have  a copy of what she wants to sing by friday at 5, they won’t let her sing it! GASP!

Still unable to come up with a song, she runs around and talks to the other clubs who are excited to see them perform. (huh I wonder if they bumped into the girls from Shirobako that were making their anime movie)

Eventually of course after having fun on a rooftop at sunset she comes up with an idea for a song, and at the last moment is able to submit it.

But wait, that was too easy right? We still have 4 minutes of episode to fill! Apparently the costume maker of the group didn’t finish everything and now they won’t have it done in time! oh noez!

But it’s okay. the costume club girl steps in and finishes them at the last minute. So.. yeah that gets resolved too.

And so finally, it’s time for them to go on and she sings her half engrish song about being yourself and any other super safe theme you can think of.

And of course everything thinks it’s the greatest thing since Pocky.

And that’s basically the end of the episode.

My. God is this show safe. I mean, there’s locking your doors at night safe, there’s wearing a helmet and pads every time you leave the house safe, and then there’s Girlfriend safe.

This show doesn’t push the envelope, it glues it down with super glue so it can never be moved again.

The best way to describe this show is, I would call this show the elevator music of anime. It’s nonoffensive, but it’s forgettable, doesn’t leave an impression.

There is NOTHING original, interesting, or good about this show. It’s bland. BLAND BLAND BLAND. Every character is interchangable, I can’t remember if I met characters in previous episode or not, and scenes that should be funny aren’t because i’ve been lulled to sleep.

While Ushiwareta felt like a series about mannequins pretending to be human, this show feels like aliens are pretending to be human that learned their humanoid mannerisms by watching “Sugar a Tiny Snow Fairy”

Nobody in this show feels like they have any sort of negative emotion and there really is NOTHING at stake.

The things at stake have been, Not being able to perform a song, Returning a picture, having the school cafeteria be open or kids would have to bring their own lunches to school, and finding out if their senpais like them.

This is by the numbers slice of life. The only problem is, they completely erased ANY sort of male interaction. It’s as if they don’t exist. Here’s the thing. I could accept this if it was an all female academy, but it’s not. It’s a coed school but There hasn’t been a SINGLE NAMED MALE CHARACTER. NOT A SINGLE ONE. And it’s EPISODE NINE. Not even a TEACHER.

I just…i’m so bored watching this show. I don’t care about the band girl’s plight because i KNOW it will work out. It always does.

Oh well, it’s not hurting anyone. But… It’s not helping either. I guess with such a mediocre episode…it should get a mediocre score.

Episode: 5/10

Par for the course I guess?

–Hideki