CLXXXVI: "B Gata H Kei: Yamada's Fitst Time"

Again, I'm just thrown by the types of anime out there today. This title, B Gata H Kei: Yamada's First Time, is just as charming, yet ridiculous, as it sounds. Rightfully, all I can say is "What in the blue hell?", because like with MM!, it came as a fast ball to me, and if you checked my review, I was at odds with that one.

Well, on to the anime's story. The titular character is Yamada, her first name isn't disclosed. She is a beautiful student with just one overbearing fault: she's an oversexed 15 year old girl that is still a virgin, yet that doesn't stop her from being lustful and flirtatious. Guided by an Eros Deity (that looks like a chibi form of her with a mustache), she plans to become intimate with 100 men in her high school days. But, being a virgin is the roadblock she has to overcome, and the story really kicks off from there. Seeking the inexperienced boy, aka "Golden Cherry", she accidentally finds him: Takashi Kosuda. After an awkward first meeting, she'll go to any length to lose her innocence to this guy, but despite their different statuses in school (Yamada = popular and attractive/Takashi = ordinary and uninteresting), she could see something more to him than just being her object of lust. However, as with any romantic comedy, it's not without extra heads to mix things up.

The anime is 12 episodes long, though break them up and technically, you have 24 that's roughly... 12.5 minutes a piece. Yes, like with Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, they are 2-in-1, save for the lame "Title made after popular media" bit. Made in the Hal Film Maker studio, this was completed, and made its run last year. Interesting enough are these two things:

• Despite the short anime run, the manga is 9 volumes long, running from 2004-2011. Again, events unfold somewhat different, and more plot elements/characters appear more frequent in it.
• The anime, however, is licensed by Funimation, and English voices are confirmed. It's debut in English is set to begin at the end of this month. But given it's theme, it'll see a TV-MA rating.

I'm not believing this, but Greg Ayres, who had the lead role of Negi Springfield in the harem anime Negima!, is voicing Takashi, with Yamada voiced by Brittney Karbowski (who voiced Alice Morisato of Highschool of the Dead), and her Eros Deity by Alexis Tipton (who voiced Outer Moka Akashiya of Rosario + Vampire.)

Off the wall to me, I'm grading B Gata H Kei: Yamada's First Time a 6 of 10 for the time being. If it's as wacky subbed, then I'm sure that when the dub gets released, if ever, it'll be just as crazy.