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BEST STUDENT COUNCIL: MAKING THE GRADE (VOL. 2) |
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Saturday, 31 March 2007 |
 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | ADV FILMS | | | ▪ | ASPECT RATIO: | | 4:3 FULL SCREEN | | | ▪ | AUDIO: | | ENGLISH AND JAPANESE DD 2.0 | | | ▪ | RUNNING TIME: | | 125 MIN | | | ▪ | RATING: | | PG | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 03/13/2007 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 04/01/2007 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | SCOTT CAMPBELL | | |
Best Student Council is a comedy/social situation anime with some fairly original, often very weird things going for it. If you like Azumanga Daioh, Pani Poni Dash, or any of the other slightly oddball comedy anime out there featuring school girls with too much time and energy for their own good, you may have just found your next viewing pleasure. Best Student Council features socialization, conflict, and comedy - normal and not normal forms of it. Sometimes it’s almost believable and you find yourself being able to relate to it. Other times it just throws you a curve ball and you have to just laugh or sit there shaking your head. The animation is colorful and bright, with a wide range of characters in both visual and personality type aspects. There’s not too much that could be considered inappropriate about its content, so it’s also safe for most ages with a PG rating. It offers many things that are different enough from the other anime that are like it to make it worth picking up and giving a chance. It’s downright funny for the most part, and who doesn’t like to have a good laugh?
Disc two has us already established and into the swim of things with the Best Student Council and all of its members. Now that Rino’s been a part of the Best Student Council for a while, most of the girls are starting to accept her. What they can’t quite accept yet is this puppet she carries around with her 24/7. Her puppet friend Pucchan is a little more than rude, and just who is really controlling what he has to say? Mixed in with discovering the answers behind the puppet, the girls also grow closer to each other as they learn about the joys and sorrows of dating through one of their fellow members. Then there are grades in school – something that Rino seems to have a lot of problems with. If that weren’t enough, plenty of further bonding goes on when Sayuri confronts a demon from her past and begins to discover that she’s just a normal girl who also happens to be a master of the sword. Just to top it off, the girls confront their biggest challenge yet – putting on swimsuits when all the boys want to watch Kanade swim. Best Student Council has plenty of odd, but also totally normal yet entertaining twists and turns dealing with school life and beyond, and this volume is no exception.
EXTRAS:
The disc extras include a clean opening and closing animation as well as a look at the pilot episode that got the show on the air.
IN SUMMARY:
Best Student Council is Azumanga Daioh with more craziness and less repetition. It takes the idea of a “slice of life school situation anime” and takes it up a notch by adding plenty of “wow, that was weird” and a plethora of always varied happenings and conflicts to keep you laughing the whole time through!
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