Reaching a period of life where they are neither a child nor an adult, 12-year-old Hanabi Ayase and Aoi Yui meet with life-changing events. Due to the mischievous demeanor of her male classmates, Ayase does not think highly of the opposite sex. However, her perspective begins to change after she is paired with the kind-hearted Takao Yuuto for a class assignment and unexpectedly shared their first kisses with each other on the school rooftop.
With her best friend discovering love, Aoi yearns to seek her own. She finds herself falling in love with the rash Kazuma Hiyama after protecting her from a rejected suitor who had talked behind her back.
12-sai.: Chicchana Mune no Tokimeki follows the four in this phase of adolescence. As they grow up alongside each other, this sweet romance depicts the innocence and excitement of first love.
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Comentários
Sakura_megami
If I had to choose a word to describe this anime, it would be "cute". This anime was so adorable and cute that it really touched my heart. I judge anime based on enjoyment and whether or not it executes it's stated genres to perfection. For example, This anime was romance and it gave us a lot of romantic scenes. I fell in love with all the romance scene. The characters where also adorable and I imagined myself as the heroine, Ayase. This anime explores topics like first love, growing up and friendships and relationships at a young age. I know a lot of peopleare going to pass out on this anime because it is about children but I wouldn't recommend you doing that because it is a really good romance anime and focuses a lot on the two relationships in the anime. I can dare say that this "children" anime has a lot more romance in it then some of the other romance shoujo anime I've seen.
AnimeEnjoyer420
Recommendation: Skip it unless you have the highest possible tolerance for corniness and overly-sweet sentimentality. This review covers both seasons of the full length anime, not the original short OVAs. Positives: + Sweet and innocent. Red flags may go flying up when you hear it's an anime about 6th graders in love, but there is zero fanservice or sexualization of the characters here. It feels like it was written for the actual demographic it portrays (middle school-aged girls), rather than for otaku voyeurism. Rest assured, there is nothing in this series that could possibly qualify as objectionable or creepy. + Convincingly portrays the transition from childhood toadulthood and all the anxieties and grey areas that come with it. All the blushing and nervousness in the romance comes across as more true to life when it's 6th graders doing it rather than high schoolers or even adults, like in most anime romcoms.
+ The chibi comedy stuff can be pretty cute. It's not like it'll have you laughing out loud, but you'll probably at least smile at how adorable some of it is, like when Hanabi wags her twintails like a dog when she gets excited.
+ The increased roles for Inaba and Tsutsumi significantly improve the 2nd season, and they are arguably more well-developed and interesting than some of the main cast. They both end up being pretty likable despite their initial portrayal as jerks trying to steal away the main girls from their boyfriends.
+ Marin as the romance teacher is a fun ongoing bit, though it would have been nice if they had given her more to do than just repeating that one gag.
+ Season 1 OP has a bitchin' guitar riff.
Negatives:
- This show is a fatal dose of syrupy sweetness. It is so overpoweringly corny that I had a hard time making it through, even with my high tolerance for that kind of thing. Every possible situation is a setup for one of the boys to deliver an embarrassing line laden with shoujo tropes like "if you ever cry, I'll be the first one by your side". The dialogue is cliché, cringeworthy and doesn't feel like the kind of things anyone would ever say in real life.
- The male leads lack personality or interior lives. Yuuto in particular has exactly one personality trait ("cool") and is never developed beyond that. You never even get basic details like what he likes or dislikes, what his family is like, or what his dreams are. He is like a robot that exists solely to deliver embarrassing lines of dialogue.
- Lacks balance. The show is primarily structured around its two main relationships, Hanabi and Yuuto, and Yui and Kazuma. Unfortunately, it tends to go into deep focus on one of these relationships for 2-3 episode arcs while totally ignoring the other during that time (Yui and Kazuma get the short end of the stick more often than not). It's not quite as bad in the 2nd season, but the relationships are forgettable enough that you will start to actually forget them when they get backburnered for long stretches.
- Kazuma is thoroughly unlikable and lame. His immaturity is probably accurate and appropriate for his age, but he's such a miserable little shit that it's hard to understand why Yui likes him at all or why she's so devoted to him when he treats her the way he does. Their romance falls flat largely because it's obvious that Yui deserves better and you don't really want to see Kazuma win, especially when a better character starts trying to woo her in the 2nd season.
- Cocoa's presence as a bitchy manipulator is grating and repetitive. Somehow she always manages to manipulate people and convince them that they're doing something wrong even though she gets caught lying and loses face in front of the entire class repeatedly. It's like everyone exists in a state of perfect naivete where their memory resets at the beginning of each episode and they all forget that she's a lying snake that can't be trusted about anything.
- Basic and cheap animation and questionable character designs, especially when it comes to some of the side characters
LegendAqua
12 years old???, then why do they act more mature than that????. Ok look, LA knows this anime isn't for LA's demographic but LA is kinda a sucker for romance anime and LA watched the ONA for this years ago and wanted to see how this would get the full anime treatment that Houkago no Pleiades did. 12-sai follows the relationships of 12 year olds of Hanabi Ayase voiced by Ai Kakuma and Yuuto Takao voiced by Soma Saito as well as Hanabi's friend of Yui Aoi voiced by Juri Kimura and Kazuma Hiyama voiced by Shun Horie and follows their experiences and obstacles in firstlove and follows some typical cliches of the romance genre.
If LA could analyze the two relationships, Hanabi and Yuuto's one is the more generic one out of the two, with Yuuto pretty much solving EVERYTHING that comes into his and Hanabi's relationship with his smooth-talking to coincidental incidents, if anything LA is reminded of Usui from Kaichou Maid-sama as the main character who "can do no wrong and EASILY fixes any obstacles in his and Hanabi's relationship", Yuuto and Hanabi's relationship right from the start is TOO stable and leaves little room for growth as LA's biggest annoyance to this relationship is Yuuto solving everything by himself and for a relationship with no flaws and hardly moves up (sure their 12 years old, but still!!, we get invested into a relationship for them to grow, not do the same things over and over and over again), is a hard relationship to get invested in. Yui and Kazuma's relationship however gives us something more than that, that of a twice shy relationship but with a role reversal we usually see in a romantic genre, the role reversal in this relationship is that the male is the tsundere while Yui is the headstrong *ahem* "give no shit what you think" character of the relationship and because Yui and Kazuma goes through their own obstacles by tandem from Hanabi and Yuuto's but they however not only resolve their obstacle but they give us character development, growth and depth (most noticeably Yui as a character development angle and Kazuma in a relational development angle) and for that, Yui became LA's favourite character of this series.
Onto the other characters, Coco is your typical "rival-ojou love interest villain" girl for Hanabi and she is HIGHLY predictable in failure due to Yuuto resolving everything, Coco...you just can't win...just give up and on speaking of giving up, the three idiots are WALKING ANNOYING COMEDIC RELIEF and their running gags of "wanting to emulate Yuuto's manly quotes" to just plain out causing some of the cliche obstacles thrown at the two core relationships, the three idiots really are double edged swords, they move the plot forward predictably but are also annoying useless comedic trio. Huh...LA didn't think that Maid-sama would have more relevance in this anime review but whatever. Marin at the very least have a purpose to be a thoughtful best friend to Aoi and Hanabi and when they are in doubt, they go to her for advice, IRONIC as most of her advice although thoughtful as being the friend of the both of the core female characters, her advice is unneeded for the most part. Finally rounding up the cast, LA will point out the "other" love rival to Yuuto and Hanabi's relationship by the name of Ayumu Tsutsumi voiced by Tetsuya Kakihara, well the biggest problem with him is that his screentime is soo low he just becomes a one-off "love rival" against Yuuto...he's by the by for a love rival, very forgettable in the long run.
In terms of voice acting, there tends to be LOTS of squeak that can get really annoying (LA is looking at you Ai Kakuma and the three idiots), however once again Yui's voice actor Juri Kimura was LA's favourite voice actor, she actually tries to sound like a 12 year old and actually ACTS like on to without the squeak aside from Juri Kimura, LA actually liked Sayuri Hara who voices Cocoa as a "playing against the type" role for Sayuri as she usually voices genki-type characters...this role as Cocoa for Sayuri is a complete 180.
In terms of animation by OLM, Inc who helms this anime from SynergySP from the OVA, they're character designs have similarities to the OVA's but more "sparkly" typical considering this is a typical shoujo anime, however with it's comedic moments, the animation goes full chibi with blank circle eyes animation and LA can see that it IS a comedic moment thus can be playful but in animation sense, LA can just see this as being "kinda lazy" and not take the comedic moments in a stronger sense. Overall, animation is janky between it's shoujo-romance and comedy moments.
With all these faults and promising elements to 12-sai has, overall, LA can easily say that IT IS a cliche storm of romance tropes just heavily toned down due to the demographic they are trying to show this anime too and to be completely honest as cliche as it is, it's still hits the mark at pleasing it's demographic, it's cutezy puppy love with no high-tension drama, but still having the typical romance anime tropes we see, it even makes sense from it's animation quality standpoint as it's chibi and comedic for the most part shows us the tone of the anime throughout.
12-sai is getting a 2nd season so if the 2nd season can do something MORE especially with Yuuto and Ayase's relationship instead of being the ever-stable relationship that never changes, then LA will honestly say that the 2nd season will be pointless. 2nd season hopes aside, 12-sai's first season at best is an "ok" romance shoujo anime in the cliched view of a 12 year old and that's not such a bad thing.
MetalTsundere
I do think that this show did live up to it's expectations of having a cute and innocent relationship or 12 year old kids. and for me i think the fact that they're 12 and in elementary is their selling point because i think it would have been boring if the characters are in high school, it would appear as a generic shoujo anime. Story. Like is said, I do think that this should lived up to it's expectations of having a cute and innocent relationships as the series circles around the two girls Hanabi and Yui adapt from the fact that they are now ina relationship.
this goes on going dates calling each other in their first names and more.
you just smile seeing them being together.
Characters
The main characters are pretty much likable, even even Yui and Hanabi stays the same with no character development because throughout the series they remained the typical goody good girl and Takao and Hiyama remained as your typical school idols, I think their likability makes up for it but still there could have been some improvement the least.
The rest of the characters except for Ayumu are forgettable and Cocoa you'll remember her for being a brat.
Sound
I think the sound is pretty okay, though I think Takao and Hiyama sounded mature but I think it's to make them more handsome.
I think Hanabi and Cocoa are the only ones who believable character as she sounds like an actual 12 years old.
The opening and the ending was okay and the sounds are pretty generic..
enjoyment
Yes i did enjoy it as i consider this one something new, and believable, despite it's cliche's.
Overall.
I do this this is a good anime who lives up to it's expectations, of there's there's obvious room for improvement but the likability of the main characters makes up for it, and i do this everyone can enjoy this.
nerdmeetslife
This anime is definitely for a younger demographic- specifically 12 year old females- and with that being said I think the anime was great. Story 7: It had a very basic plot with not too much drama, the main drama was the classmates being jerks sometimes. Relationships were established pretty early on and the plot was mostly about them, young 12 year olds, learning about it. Art: The art was decent. The only problem is the eyes are large, wide-set, and basic and the eyebrows are just lines so when the animation on the eyes isn't perfect it is very noticeable. But eyes are often wonkyin anime and this anime liked to do a lot of still frame, dramatic shots.
Sound: Loved the voice acting. A++. The sound effects were meh and repetitive though.
Character: I think the characters all worked well together but there wasn't anything extravagant. They definitely each played one type of basic character and didn't have much to them aside from their one character role.
Overall 7: I consider 7 to be a good rating- I would definitely recommend picking this up if you like a cute, mushy, innocent romance.
Trashier
12-sai.: Chicchana Mune no Tokimeki tells the story of two 12 years old girls, Yui and Hanabi, it's a story how they found their first love and how they live that love. Storie: 6 out of 10 There are many better romance story but what i liked about 12-sai is that they tell the story of two girls that fell in love for the first time, and each girl have different problems. It is a story show the innocence of a 12 years old girl (or at least what it should be). The development is really slow, 1 little problem per episode and the end is always thesame.
Art: 7 out of 10
The art is nice and cute, it fits the anime style.
Sound: 5 out of 10
Imagine the most generic background music to set the mood, that's it.
Character: 6 out of 10
The character development is slow and is always like:
1º: Girl is afraid or insecure
2º: Girl do many stupid actions
3º: Boy smiles
4º: Happy ever after or at least until the next episode
This is nice in a real relationship once a month, not in a 20 min anime every week.
Enjoyment: 7 out of 10
I enjoy it not because it has good or because the story is good but because it was a nice change of pace from the other animes.
Overall: 6 out of 10
If you like innocent romance give this one a chance.
Leyren
Keep in mind that this is a romance where the main characters are 12 year olds. Think back to when you were that age, and how you behaved (especially concerning love) back then. If that sounds annoying, embarassing or cringy to you, then this show probably won't be a good choice for you. There's really not much more to say about it than that. There is no depth or tragic backstory to the characters, or some fancy drama build around them. It's plain and simple, 2 couples of kids falling in love, and experiencing what it means to have a boyfriend/girlfriend and being in love ingeneral. Insecurity, blushing, cute and awkward moments, classmates getting in the way, love rivalry, some changes the female body goes through at that time, and so on.
HeyYouPikachu
This anime is romance between 12 year olds, it follows two couples Hanabi x Yuuto and Yui x Kazuma. Aside of the romance it's also has their school life but also I think friendship is also a major part in this series. I would describe this anime as quite cheesy, cliche, cute, charming, immature and silly. As a romance fan, I enjoyed this show. The greatest thing was, although these characters are much younger then most animes, they had more progress and development with there relationship than current shoujo anime out there. We have the couples get together from the first episodes, it's quite suddenand spontaneous, but love is like that. It was nice not to have to wait 12-24 episodes for just a confession but just get straight to it. There love is very innocent and shy, and more often than not, they're blushing over everything!! it's adorable but maybe on the excessive side. They're shy to tell how they feel, but slowly start to open up more as it goes on and you'll probably get more openness than most anime.
Ohhh so many cheesy lines and sparkly moments, but hey I guess it comes out that way when you say your true feelings. I'm just glad this side was even present in this anime, because usually characters are in denial of their feelings or hide them.
So being 12 year olds, other then just romance, the anime also deals with getting there period, buying their first bra, etc.
I love the art, it remind me of the old school art style but touched up for this day. It has this realistic look when it comes to the style and overall appearance for example their hairstyles. The main characters, especially Hanabi, wear different outfits each day and some quite cute ones actually. I like how they put detail into changing their clothes everyday, even down to different hair ties.
The characters are quite cliche, and the supports are quite annoying. For example Kokoa, a girl interested in Yuuto always gets in the way and stirring trouble. But she reminds me of the team rocket in the sense she always has to turn up in every episode just to be shut down in the end, probably only to bring the couple closer together. Same with the boys in their class, always nosing into the couples business and getting in the way. But they're kids afterall.
There;s also the character Marin, best friend of Yui and Hanabi. Although she's left out of the group with no boyfriend she's always playing her part by giving wise love advise and being enthusiastic support to her friends.
Also I did like the chemistry between to the two couples, there love is just so charming and innocent.
Of course this wouldn't be a romance without a love rival (who isn;t actually much of a rival) but it;s just totally necessary to keep up the cliche story so we have to chuck him in somewhere ;)
I love the OP! it fits in the anime so well, it's upbeat and fun with good romance lyrics to fit in the story. The background sound was good, aswell the music, it;s quite happy tune that reminds me of christmas lol
Overall, I would recommend this to girls who want their romance dose, specially if you go for the old school style over the romance anime's nowadays! but the older audience may have a hard time watching with it's immaturity of kids and cliche characters $ plot.
GelatinPowers
What's the first thing you thought of when you saw this anime? - "Wow, this basically sums up my elementary school life." [6] STORY: Yes, it has an original idea of showing 12 year-olds instead of highschool students, but that doesn't change the fact that it's pretty stale and cheesy. The plot itself is weak and there's not much to talk about it. It's relatable enough to the point where you have some déjà vu to back when you were in 6th grade. If you couldn't relate to anything in this entire anime, it doesn't have to be "My first love was in 6thgrade" it can be your fellow peers experiencing there first love or you remembering boys in your class and how obnoxious they were or maybe even if you were one of the annoying boys, then I want to know where you went to middle school/ elementary school and happened there.
[7] ART: It's cute and well-drawn. It's not some masterpiece drawing and animation, but it's good and fitting since they're children. The eyes design bothers me a bit though, it's not the fact that the eyes are HUGE, it just bothers me.
[7] SOUND: The opening and ending aren't too good, but the voice acting makes up for it. The voices fit so well with each character, they're same I imagined the character's voice would be when they made their first appearance.
[4] CHARACTER: Let me start off by saying that they're really annoying, mainly the boys, but the girls too. Yeah, yeah, I know that they're only 12 years-old, but that doesn't mean they can't be considered annoying.
I'm not going to rant about how and how much they tick me off, so I'll just end it saying this: Meh.
[6] ENJOYMENT: Not sure what to say besides that I enjoyed this cheesy and cute anime.
[6] OVERALL: How I rate and review anime are different. I rate them based on much I enjoyed it, and I review them based on everything else, although this time they matched each other.
tokiichii
Story : 4/10 The story was too cliche, literally and it basically shows how 12 years olds go date and have relationships but I like the fact how they make everything innocent, like the fact that they say Yui just gets much more mature and not say she's getting menstruation for that.. and I ship Tsutsumi with Ayase (o3o). Art : 8/10 I swear! The eyes becomes smaller and bigger for some reason. I promise my eyes aren't lying. Sound : 5/10 The like the opening music but not the ending :( Character : 8/10 Character Designs were cute. (because I'm a shota/loli-con) Personalities were fine, except for those other girl characters.(WTF, They're already being bitchy)
Enjoyment : 5/10
I mean.. It was funny (sometimes, mostly because I see them suffering [yes, i am a sadist, I laugh at pain of other people]) The one with ponytails, chose over the black haired boy but I ship ponytail girl with blondie.
Overall : 6/10
I don't like harems nor love triangles because I feel bad for the person who wasn't chosen choosen by the girl/boy. and too much youth.
hyproescalier
First of all, this is a kid's show so don't even try to complain anything, im pretty sure the author/director knows what's he/she is doing so don't listen to these people that disagree. But for me this anime is good all and all, it's quite relaxing and soothing to watch which makes you smile every minute, the story, characters and plot is very simple which is to make it easier for kids to understand. if you like cute/adorable litte unique romance that has unique characters which is they're 12, then this is what you're looking for. If you're looking for more anime like this go to ciaochannel from youtube, I'm pretty sure it's their studio or something, plus they got a lot of shoujo romance upcoming more for kids and it's quite decent btw.
Xcchi
This anime was super cute and brought me back to when I was twelve years old, getting my first boyfriend, making and losing friends, it was around the time everything changed. I do find myself relating to the second couple more than the first because they are the shy ones and don't really know what to say to each other. That's how I was when I was with my first boyfriend. This show is super cute, and has some pretty good fluff episodes, as well as humorous ones thrown in the mix. I give this anime an 8/10, here's why. Story: 9/10 This story follows two setsof couples, all the characters being 12 years old, getting into their first relationships. This anime shows the awkwardness of first love, friendships strengthening, and how to cope with jealousy. I really enjoyed this story, even though it's target audience is a younger crowd. There were some points I did not like about this anime, but I don't want to spoil anything.
Art: 6/10
The art really wasn't as great as it could have been. There were times when the characters were a good distance from the screen, and they just looked kind of off to me. There were also some times where the animation was off too. I'll give it this, the character designs really matched the attitude that they gave off, and I did like that quite a bit.
Sound: 6/10
The opening to this song was really good. I honestly didn't skip it at all. I typically skip an opening if I don't like to listen to it, so the fact that I didn't skip it is a good sign. The ending is decent, I did skip it for episodes 2-11 though.
Character: 9/10
The characters were really well portrayed and I loved (Almost) all of them! There were a couple characters that just got annoying, but the rest were awesome. There was one character who has a thing for one of the main character's boyfriends and she was just a big bully. I did not like that character at all, honestly I could say that I hated her. The character development was very small, but it was there. I am rating this so highly because of the way the characters interacted with one another. It was really cute.
Enjoyment: 8/10
I really did enjoy this anime, even though I'm not in the target audience. It has been a while since I've seen a good romance anime, and this one definitely had it's cute romance scenes. There were times I was watching that I had a big doofy grin on my face because of some of the things that were said, it was just really adorable.
Overall: 8/10
I really look forward to watching season two, I need to see more of the cutesy romance this anime supplies.
hnahkltn
The anime itself is a slice of life about young girls having their firrst love so can't blame it for the plain storyline. At first the anime gives in a 'cute' vibe but then it's just painful to watch because of the overdone romantic scene. In fact it is just too unreal for a mere 12-years old. For adultS, who watch it for amusement and for nostalgic, 12-sai is a good material. It can help you survive the fear of getting older and remember the taste of first love: bitter-sweet. But for those who don't even share the same feelings, they definitely want to smackthe table or crush computers due to unreal love and the characters keep spouting out adult-like lines (yet still innocent on some levels).
The art is very typical, not too bright but also not too dark. But sometimes the sparkling effect is not very necessary. And I don't enjoy the slow motion, feel like watching Indian films.
The soundtrack is up at the right time. For example, the romantic scenes.
Also, the characteristics of the characters are too boring. In fact, I have too say they don't have anything special at all.
Otaku_for_Once
So did i like it? Not really i found it pretty boring. Would 10-12yos like it? Probably, this is what i would’ve loved to watch then. This is the sort of 12 year old i would’ve wanted to be like, not some weirdo, who still hasn’t been in a relationship at 15, so from that pov i guess it’s not too bad a show. But comparing it to all the others romance anime’s i’ve watched it’s pretty bad. I’ve never had these experiences irl but i’ve wished for them and i guess this anime shows experiences that could happen, maybe that’s the charm of it,it’s a very plain realistic ankme(maybe that’s why i don’t like it, i like extraordinary stuff haha)
