Momoko Futo is an average high-school girl going about her everyday life. Though laid-back and cheerful, her life is anything but mundane as her eccentricity and clumsiness never fail to spice up her days. Her two best friends are always with her: the cute and innocent Mayumi Furui, and the calm and cool Shibumi Shibusawa. Without any spoken dialogue or narration, Joshikausei aims to recount the comedic shenanigans these girls get up to through the expressive sounds and gestures that they make.
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Stark700
Some anime this year impressed me. There are also some anime this year that made me wonder if the creators were high on something. Then, there’s Joshikausei. There’s an old phrase that you’ve probably heard of before: silence is golden. As a short anime without any dialogue, that’s what Joshikausei represents. The manga itself is also silent without dialogues. So now the real question comes, how would this show work? Was the author high when they made this? Not quite. It’s actually real simple. The show is about high school girls interacting with daily activities. An easy draw of the show is the character chemistry between thethree main girls – Mayumi, Momoko, and Shibumi. The show explores their lifestyle that reminds what normal people would do. Sometimes, characters are represented with fan service in the case of Momoko. The first episode is a testament of this with the suggestive leg shots plastered all over the place. But an important part is to see the character interactions. Joshikausei explores the limits of language and how characters communicate with their expressions. Their emotive performances combined with music carries the mood of each episode. Writing a series like this isn’t easy. For a manga with over 80 chapters of content, it’s not hard to see why. At the end of the day though, it works out just fine and dandy.
Joshikausei isn’t long and ran the risk of looking like a humorless joke. Embedded into the show is simple slice of life storytelling featuring a trio of girls. Every episode is only 3 minutes so it’s an easy way to pass time. The real question is if this silent anime is a golden treat for you. For me, it’s just so-so.
Blood_Diver_A
[The Quiet Girls] From the studio that brought you Rance 01: Hikari wo Motomete The Animation, Koikishi Purely☆Kiss The Animation, Baku Ane: Otouto Shibocchau zo! The Animation, and Real Eroge Situation! The Animation, comes Studio Seven's latest series entitled Joshi Kausei. STORY: It's a story about three “silent” high school girls and the random events that happen to them. You'll watch the girls get involved in some strange skits, such as riding a skateboard, playing with each other's thighs, be concerned about fortunes, and create origami in a family restaurant. And to spice things up, the girls are also involved in some risque situations like wearing wet clothesafter a rain shower, having a hand print near one's thigh, and planking over your sleeping daughter. Three-minutes of silent action. It doesn't get more exciting than this folks!
ART/ANIMATIONS:
Be entranced by the stunning plainness of its art and animations, you can appreciate the lack of details from its background art, the rigid movements of non-human objects, and the plain and uninteresting character designs. You can also contemplate as to why Studio Seven's other works, mainly hentai adaptations, appear more refined, animated, and well-produced, considering their previous history, this should be their specialty, unfortunately it doesn't show here.
SOUND:
Watch as the characters move their lips and speak dialogue, but alas, no dialogue is heard because every character live in a world of silence. Watch as the characters create various sound effects from squeaks, squeals, and cries to grunts, sighs, and moans, accompanied with many facial expressions, such as happiness, sadness, anger, embarrassment, shock, and concern. Hear multitudes of background music that successfully fits the mood and tone of the scenes in question. Hear a 30-second ending song called “Silent Days” that is accompanied with moving animations of the girls in different locations through images, playing with water guns, wearing school swimsuits, flying on a rainbow, and looking over the bridge.
CHARACTERS:
Meet our three protagonists: “delinquent” girl, glasses girl, and short-haired girl. “Delinquent” girl is beautiful and cute, has long, light brown hair, carefree, and somewhat unlucky. Glasses girl is calm, composed, and levelheaded, and has long, light blond hair. Short-haired girl acts childlike and is naive, and has short, black hair. Be impressed by the show's lack of character development, its lack of character personalities, and its lack of memorable characters.
ENJOYMENT:
So, sit down and watch as the time quietly goes by, and by the time episode 12 rolls around, you'll have forgotten what the previous episodes were about. But, that's okay, this series isn't suppose to be memorable, its a quick “cash-grab” for a studio whose strengths lies in hentai adaptations.
P.S: Our “delinquent” girl finally says one line of dialogue, and that's “I'm home!” What a fitting line for the end of this series.
Plk_Lesiak
Ugh, this show... Who thought this was a good idea? :/ One of my favourite short comedy anime is Morita-san wa Mukuchi, where the extremely shy protagonist doesn't speak a word during the whole two seasons and we can only hear her thoughts from time to time. It was a cute gimmick that fueled the lighthearted SoL comedy of that series and made me remember it despite the rather plain "cute girls doing cute things" formula - I'm sure many people would find it boring, but it was well-crafted and relaxing. Here, the silent cast is not a gimmick. It's a pointless hindrance that adds nothing ofvalue to the whole setup - there are obvious places where dialogue takes place, but we don't hear it. The gags are mostly piss-poor and don't utilize the lack of dialogue in any interesting way. Fanservice is weird and obnoxious, with the opening episode (!) missing the mark in a particularly spectacular manner. Characters are boring cliches. Not even the visuals or the ending song are particularly appealing (and that also is very important in making these kinds of shorts memorable).
There's nothing even remotely interesting or memorable here, and the humour doesn't land more often than not. I've seen worse shows, but I'm not sure I ever saw one this pointless - truly a waste of time.
ExemplarCayman
This is a collection of three-minutes long vignettes of a certain high school girl’s life. The gimmick is that there are no dialogues, so it’s basically pantomime. The gimmick works. That’s it. 9/10. No, really. The situations presented are far from mundane, so the plot actually keeps you engaged. The characters express more personality than 90% of the anime casts. There are backstories, twists and deepest lore. The art and music are fine. Fun things are fun. Dixi. Incidentally, the first episode is about anime thighs. It’s not representative of the content and exists solely as pleb filter (just kidding, it’s actually the opposite - an appealto the degenerate demographic which is like the main group of people that actually buys the BDs in Japan). Anyway, the point is this is not a gravure series, so there is no fuel for the “ironic weeb” act, the only enjoyment will come from the show actually being good.
Leonoreora
Do you have 40 minutes to spare? Go watch something else. I was hesitant to continue after the first episode and I should've stopped then but part of me was hoping it really couldn't be that bad. I usually don't dislike what I set out to watch but man this show was incredibly boring. A little sad to say but don't waste your time, you'll just be disappointed. There isn't really any story, the art is decent but the characters are very bland -maybe it's because they don't speak, you dont really get an impression of their type of character. Would've probably disliked it lessif the characters actually spoke. Can't say it made me want to read the manga.
Groenboys
Three girls live their daily lives. You have the cute one, the smart but goofy one and the cocky one. The whole concept of the anime is that nobody talks, so all the anime comes from the visuals. The run time of each episode is three minutes and you can finish this series in half an hour. Here is where most people would say that this anime does a mediocre job and just move on with their lives. But for me, I just want to take the time to tell you why I like this anime. We live in an anime landscape that is tougher then everbefore. Anime try to one up eachother in quality, popularity of certain anime has boiled down to which has the most stupid title and/or premise, japanese animators get barely paid for their hard work, and with all of this happening time moves on with new series coming out every quarter.
This all makes you forget the little things in life. And Joshikousai reminded me of those little things. Like having goofy exchanges or having fun with just some paper. There are more things then just the best things or the worst things.
This anime won't change your life. This anime may not even be funny to you. This anime may even waste your time, but I have a soft spot for this anime. Watch it if you just want to take a break from all crazy things that are happening now.
ABPAEAE
A decent concept with a poor execution. I gotta commend the creators for doing something unique and original in an industry flooded with a lack of creativity, but it really just doesn't work. There isn't a terribly lot to say about this anime; everyone unanimously agrees that this show was just the definition of "meh", and one of the weakest releases of the season. I stuck with it for the whole 12 episodes just to see if there's any hidden gems in there, but there really isn't. In the end, I would not recommend watching this anime, but the synopsis is worth a read as aconcept. Maybe someone can do it better in the future, or maybe it was just meant to remain as a manga.
renyrells
I am not sure what other reviewers were expecting from this show and I don't know why everyone decided this was the show to shit on for the season. It's a 3 min ep. 12 ep. series based around the gimmick that no one speaks. At 3 min. a pop the time investment is incredibly small. You can watch the whole series in less than an hour and each episode is charming to some degree. Would i recommend it? IDK It's a pretty pointless show, but it was a good little snack to have every week. And that's all it was ever meant to be.If you have a short road trip or flight or train ride, you could kill time with this show.
LegendAqua
Joshikausei is about the daily lives of three girls and silent hijinks ensues... An anime short having no dialogue can either be a waste of time, or like the early adopters of comedy can work...to a certain extent and Joshikausei was... Well it was ok, it was ALMOST a time waster if not for the quick 3 minute length and much like how sometimes comedy doesn't need to explain the joke, well if characters never speak besides grunting or noises and you still get the visual joke, it's doing "something" right. Well from what the characters do with their actions you know how the characters personality are, stereotypicalsure, from Momoko Futo voiced by Rika Tachibana, the chaos factor and troublemaker of the group, Mayumi Furui voiced by Yurika Kubo as the shy type and Shibumi Shibusawa voiced by Tomomi Mineuchi as the voice...well in this case person of reason but also a slight perv as well.
Production-wise, the animation done by Seven was ok in all respects, typical for such an anime short but the animation does get fanservicey which might have given off a bad first impression as a result and the character designs and backgrounding was ok. Nonetheless, the animation overall was ok...just ok. Well might as well get this out of the way but the voice acting, well since this anime short is silent...was there even a need for the seiyuu's?...well if want your characters to make noises then...uhhh...ok.
Joshikausei isn't a horrible concept for a comedy anime short, emphasis on "anime short" and alot of the situations the three main characters go through does have some funny moments from time to time and sometimes they go straight out fanservice route, which puts a detriment to LA's argument but nonetheless Joshikausei isn't harmful, it's bite sized, almost Charlie Chaplin-like comedy.
Anime can be very experimental, most of the time going into some weird yet ambitious premises, but sometimes one little detail can either derail the premise, or it can make an anime and Joshikausei as simple as being "silent" and being an anime short at that, well it's not groundbreaking but it does it's job.
NextUniverse
I forgot that I had watched this some time ago, but I still want to make a review on it so I will do so. The girls don't speak. But their stories have a lot to say. More or less the entire anime is just a trio of human girls going on with their day to day lives. Sometimes silly. Sometimes nostalgic. They just don't speak. Maybe making this review completely empty would be a good idea. But such is not possible (I've tried, MAL is surprisingly good at this stuff). Something I will add on as well is that this anime is very human, simply because ofhow simple it is. Though I suppose the same is true for others, like Aiura for example. But it is a nice touch to it if nothing else.
The key visual should give you a good idea of the production values. Not necessarily the highest valued thing in this anime.
What really matters though is the enjoyment, and I enjoyed this short, it isn't brilliant, but it suffices for its quality. It's just good.
The manga is exceptionally better by the way.
Overall, 6/10.
Barusamikosu
[Short review gang] tl;dr - Good idea, poor execution. Perhaps 2/12 episodes were entertaining. Mayumi is cute. Rationale: No audio means visuals should tell the story. In this show, the visuals are often confusing and the animation and pacing of each scene don't help clarifying it. The studio seems comfortable with anime basics, but not with universal storytelling fundamentals. Them having voices (giggles, screaming, etc.) also made it weird to hear no words whatsoever, I would have prefered more silent characters. Conclusion: If you're looking for mute skits, Nichijou has a few but good ones. Or watch this if you want to, it's not a big time investment.
DiscipleOfAzura
So everything is dependent on perspective. This is a 3-min/episode over 12 in total so if push came to shove, and you have an hour spare, could do worse! 3 JKs go about their daily lives together and it's actually pretty charming - as they don't talk at all. The art is surprisingly good for such little screen time, the music is also decent and seeing as there is no talking between the 3 girls it carries the load well enough. Pretty interesting for a non-speaking show, worth investigating and seeing as it's short won't interfere with anything else. EDIT - ironically the review is asking for meto write a longer review, so I'm going to try and pad it out in an extended opening and closing sequence. Look! Cute girls running and being happy! Enough words?
RobbyRob
Mmm...not really a good show. It is episodic for the most part, but otherwise nonsensical. Animation is bland, non-inspiring. Honestly, there is nothing much to it. The action feels stiff. Sound wise, there is nothing. Because voicework is nonexistent, the sounds should make up for it. Sadly, it is also uninspiring. Characters...again, because of the lack of anything to work with, they are forgettable. They have quirks, but because of the lack of substance, they don't have anything endearing behind them. You really can't feel anything for them. Eh...overall, not a good show. Won't lie when saying that I wasn't bored by it.
lamaraptor
You know some of my favorite anime characters don't even have voice actors. The student council girl from Yuru Yuri, the older brother in Non Non Biyori. You can say so much more in this medium without words than you can with them. This show is a perfect example of show don't tell. It does end up being a little simplistic, and there's not a whole lot to it. Episodes are short and to the point, and you can watch the whole show in the time it would take to watch a single episode of anything else. It wasn't boring, but for it's lack ofa whole lot of real substance I give it an average 7/10
Doc_Smoothy
daily life of 3 high school girls (and one salary-man) shown through nothing but laughs, groans, music and verbal communication. Simple premise indeed, but was I pleasantly surprised by what I saw. Each of the main cast members show a surprising amount of character throughout the short series. Sure they are all character types we've seen before (the hyperactive ditz, the cute moe type and the straight man) but for such a simple concept I wouldn't expect much outside the box. Watching them go about their day almost feels like you're in a foreign land where you don't speak the same language and can onlycommunicate through verbal communication.
The entire execution of the premise reminds me of late 90s video game cut-scenes or even some Pixar short films. They create an experience that differs from one you'd get hearing spoken dialog (or considering this is an anime site, reading subtitles). It sort of boils everything down to the most basic of emotions in a way that would massively overstay its welcome in a full length episode, but hits just the right spot in 3 minutes.
I don't understand at all why this series seems to be so disliked. Did people expect an epic riveting story from twelve 3 minute episodes centered around 3 high school girls with no dialog? Its a very short series so at least give a couple of episodes a shot. If you're into slice of life this would be a nice change of pace from the often dialog heavy genre.
Vendy13
Well, this certainly is an anime. To be fair, there's nothing offensively wrong or bad about Joshikausei. It's more the lack of much at all that I take issue with. I'd say my biggest gripe about the anime is that it is supposedly centered almost entirely around the premise of being a "silent" (i.e. no dialogue) anime. Despite this singular feature being the show's only significant defining characteristic, it doesn't really hold true to the concept. Much of the intent of the characters and surrounding situations relies on words and sentences written out visually, merely acting as pseudo-speech as opposed to a proper substitute for the wordsjust being spoken. The occasional little speech/thought bubbles depicting what would otherwise be spoken are a much more effective execution of this idea, however typically a mix of the two methods are used. My other primary issue with this setup is that many times characters' mouths will still move as if they are audibly speaking... despite the VAs only making an "Ah" or "Ooh" sound. It almost feels like a bad dub at times due to this.
I'm really not sure why the studio decided to halfheartedly approach this idea, when in doing so it nearly defeats its entire purpose.
In regards to the other aspects of the show, as said previously there's nothing too great nor too terrible.
The soundtrack is overall fine and fitting, with the ED (or OP, as listed in MAL for some technical reason) standing out a decent bit. The voice actors themselves were fine, however the need to "speak" only in sounds can make the high school characters feel a bit infantile instead of cutesy.
The art and tone is adorable at points, however the animation is subpar more often than not. Certain scenes nearly delve into ecchi territory, but never commit and practically stay within a PG rating. There were some odd ー what I could only call ー continuity errors where the movement or positioning of the characters and objects did not flow from previous scenes. Also, there's a weirdly dark (in comparison) and emotional origin episode that completely doesn't fit in with the rest of the series. It was kinda jarring, but made me giggle because of the sudden change (and then everyone clapped).
Somehow, even though it's already a very short runtime, it still felt like each scene dragged on. It almost seems as though the episodes would benefit more from a 2 minute runtime rather than the 3.5 it settled on. That said, it still basically takes longer to read this whole review than watch the entirety of the show.
Joshikausei didn't really need a review this in-depth, because it really is just an anime that exists without doing much more. It's short enough that it can be worth a watch to get some nice reaction images, probably.
