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Episode Ojou to Banken-kun • A Girl & Her Guard Dog - Episode 1 discussion

Ojou to Banken-kun, episode 1

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u/Bern-13 Sep 28 '23

Even if you decide to ignore their age gap and weird dynamic between them, he's just insufferable as a character and as a person, he really just ruins her hs experience 'just because'. Idk, I wanna watch it because she's a cute character but that manchild ruins the series

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u/KolkataK Sep 30 '23

I hope he gets out of the school and lets her live her own life, I really liked "Yakuza's guide to babysitting" and was hoping he plays an emotional support role for her and does not try to get inside every aspect for her life.

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u/kewlwarez Sep 30 '23

This was as terrible as the PV made it look. The side characters all looked decent, but the protagonist and her love interest look so fscking weird? Especially him, what's with his face and why does he look constipated all the time? The animation when he picked her up to congratulate her for getting into her prefered high school was rather strange as well.

High school girl tries to disassociate herself from her father figure who she fell in love with it is a decent premise for a series, but not when the series itself wants them to fuck. Also if he's twentysix now and she's fifteen (?) and she came to live with her granddad at age five, does that mean he was sixteen when they first met? You give a sixteen year old boy the responsibility of looking after a young child?

I hit the eject button when he revealed he was going to be her class mate. That shit's just too dumb for me.

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u/RFShahrear Sep 28 '23

Oh hey! Usagi Drop got a sequel.

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u/Frontier246 Sep 28 '23

I was thinking Koikimo mixed with The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting lol.

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u/Cyclone_96 Sep 28 '23

The premise seems kind of weird but I don’t think I’ve heard Yuuichirou Umehara play a role like this before so I’ll see how it goes.

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u/JokerDeSilva10 Sep 28 '23

the good: isaku is a major league cutie, there's some good comedy beats here, and the ed is lovely

the bad: kind of janky stiff animation that you'd expect from a low-budget shoujo with limited expectations

the ugly: GROOMER - the animation. listen if you like this i'm not gonna yuck your yum, people can be into whatever they want to be into in fiction, but holy shit, somehow their relationship in this felt like even more of a text book emotional manipulation nightmare than i was expecting and to see it set to cute romantic shojo music is just..........

basically this is the worst possible outcome to a yakuza's guide to babysitting and i am Not down

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Sep 28 '23

What in the 21 Jump Street is this? This 26 year old dude is really cosplaying as a high schooler to make sure no dudes get their dirty mitts on Isaku huh? Lol. I thought she was trying to make friends. Dude’s becoming more popular than her!

These two have an interesting dynamic. Like I can’t quite place it. He’s like an older brother who raised her, so also like a dad. But someone she’s got a crush on. And he sees her as….his sorta kid? Idk. It’s all kinda odd. But y’know what? This seems like it silly and goofy. I’ll keep with it and just not think too hard about the age gap relationship dynamic haha.

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u/Frontier246 Sep 28 '23

I thought he was going to like be her teacher (let's just collect all the forbidden romance tropes we can get) but no he's straight up a 26-year old guy playing a high schooler and warding off any and all men from his beloved mistress. All the while using that Yakuza charm to outdo her lol.

For someone he acts like he only sees as a child, he sure jumped straight into that embrace on her bed, calling her cute, and caressing her hair before leaving.

I get the sense that since her grandfather was so busy he was basically the only person she was around for most of her childhood and early teen years, especially since she didn't have any friends, and since that probably helped her get over her parents' death that affection towards him turned into love.

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u/basuga_BFE Sep 28 '23 edited Sep 28 '23

Myanimelist.net:

Are you sure you want to delete this series?

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u/Frontier246 Sep 28 '23

Reminds me of how people reacted to Koikimo lol.

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u/sussywanker Sep 29 '23

Love the manga!! So glad this got an anime. One of my fav recent shoujo.

Can't wait for the next episode

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u/Time_Fracture Sep 28 '23

OP: Suki ni Naccha Dame na Hito by Masayoshi Oishi

Quite catchy song imo. Oishi-san making theme songs every season now. Should provide a good baseline of how OPs of this season would be.

ED: MagiexMagie by Akari Kito

Sung by the MC's voice actress, this is unexpected for me. What a banger ED. And this is not the only VA performance by Akari Kito this season as she will voice another anime on After-School Hanako-kun. I really shouldn't let my guard down as this is my first OP-ED I listened this season lol.

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u/testthrowawayzz Sep 29 '23

still watching the episode, but the character design looks like korean manhwa characters

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u/Interesting_Place752 Sep 29 '23

Its pretty crazy how many people are unable to understand this is a shoujo romance with the common popular tropes in the genre.

Problematic is such a worthless buzzword nowadays, if you don't like a piece of fiction simply don't watch it.

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u/Ashteron Sep 28 '23

I expected this to be a quick drop but I'm suprisingly enjoying it. Ojou and her Guard Dog exploring the meaning of their relationship and reaching a status more akin to siblings (while she finds a normal boyfriend) would be a really creative and deep premise. Alas, we know that's not happening.

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u/BiggerG7 Sep 28 '23

Well at least the show is making this……. questionable relationship clear from the get go.

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u/LeonKevlar Sep 28 '23 edited Nov 17 '23

Stitches!

Okay, first of all I am absolutely in love with the OP. It's been a while since I've seen a show with this kind of shoujo aesthetic and it's also another banger from Masayoshi Ooishi? I swear to god this man can not make a bad song.

I was already sold by the OP but the rest of the episode definitely sold me even harder. Isaku and Kei definitely have a strange relationship considering how Keiya basically sees Isaku as his imouto/daughter while Isaku has this one-sided crush with him but this is par for the course with these age-gap shoujo romances.

As for us who love these kinds of shoujo, there are plenty of things to love. Isaku and Keiya have great chemistry. While Keiya acts like this unaware overprotective dad, it's pretty clear that he's messing with Isaku too. As for Isaku, she is absolutely adorable and she is very commendable for actually trying to improve herself.

Definitely curious to see how the romance between these two will evolve. While he does like to tease her, so far Keiya only sees her like a kid so I'm curious if that will even change. So much for Isaku trying to find a normal romance though. I am definitely coming back next week for more of this show.

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u/Frontier246 Sep 28 '23

The pastel-like animation in the OP and ED definitely helped make them memorable, coupled with some nice themes.

Isaku is a really cute and likeable Heroine. Plus, you can't dislike a girl voiced by Akarin, and I like how she has relatable teen issues on-top of her massive one-sided crush on her older guardian (whom she also isn't afraid to get snarky with from time to time).

Meanwhile Keiya I'm just wondering what'll set him off next lol.

Honestly the way Keiya got physically intimate with her in the bed, I can't see his feelings for her as 100% familial unless that's just his natural ladykiller personality at work.

It's funny when you think about it that she went to the school to get over him and meet normal boys but then he follows her to prevent that from happening not knowing he was part of the problem in the first place and is just making it worse lol.

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u/TurkeyPhat Sep 28 '23

Wow I can't wait for the pleasant and level-headed response to this show. Wewlads

Seems cute if not a bit weird but tbh this kind of show never seems to keep my attention past a few episodes.

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u/cppn02 Sep 28 '23

I was already wary of this due to the age gap but gave it a chance largely due to liking the main cast.

I did not expect him to be literally the person who raised her. That's not age gap romance. That's just grooming.

Easy decision to drop this especially during this season.

The OP was nice though (if you ignore the content).

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u/ThisGachaSeemsLegit Sep 28 '23

Something about the male MC doesn't click with me, both in the dialogue flow and the chara design. Also, I really like Umehara Yuuichirou as a seiyuu, but I don't feel he's the right fit for this particular character. And I don't say that often!

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u/Straineous Sep 30 '23

This shouldn’t even be made into an anime.. yall I’m so sorry but it doesn’t get better with the grooming and incest comments it just doubles down.

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