Keitai Shoujo

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Aida, Hiro (Main) - Voice Actors: Ishida, Akira
• Fujimiya, Momoka (Main) - Voice Actors: Nazuka, Kaori
• Gotou, Miya (Main) - Voice Actors: Ueda, Kana
• Mishima, Ichiru (Main) - Voice Actors: Koshimizu, Ami
• Tomoe, Sayo (Main) - Voice Actors: Takahashi, Mikako
• Yamada, Ayano (Main) - Voice Actors: Satou, Rina
• Kotaka, Keisuke (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Suzuki, Chihiro
• Rin (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nanao, Haruhi

Staff:

• Inoue, Shunji (Producer)
• Mitsunobu, Seiji (Producer)
• Yabuki, Tsutomu (Director)
• Watanabe, Jun (Sound Director)
• Satou, Kazuharu (Script)
• Koshimizu, Ami (Theme Song Performance)
• Nazuka, Kaori (Theme Song Performance)
• Satou, Rina (Theme Song Performance)
• Ueda, Kana (Theme Song Performance)
• rino (Theme Song Lyrics)
• Hatta, Masanobu (Production Manager)
• Higuchi, Hiromi (Key Animation)
• Kamata, Yuusuke (Key Animation)
• Kusumoto, Yuuya (Art Director)
• Nagamori, Yoshihiro (Key Animation)
• Shiomi, Kazuyoshi (Director of Photography)
• Tokinaga, Yoshiyuki (Key Animation)
• Usui, Hisato (Planning)
• Watanabe, Mayumi (Animation Director, Character Design)
• Yanagimura, Tsutomu (Planning)

Reviews:

• User Retro8bit (Score: 7/10):
  Cell phones...we use them in our daily lives, they help us communicate with each other and also come in handy with emergency situations. Amongst the popularity of them is the all famous text messaging! Why am I pointing this out you may ask? Because in "Keitai Shoujo" it plays a little bit more of a role when compared to other shows. Story: 6/10 I really did like the story in this ONA, while it is pretty standard as a whole, the situations of each episode was pretty fun to watch. There are a total of 5 girls in the story, and each of the five episodes revolvesaround one of them. (plus an epilogue at the end) It stays pretty basic with its school life formula, as you make your way through each skit you will notice that each girl seems to like the main male lead called "Hiro." Which in turn will make you realize that by the end of the series you were simply watching nothing more than a harem style anime. Yes that is what this title basically is, though a much more lite hearted one. There is no "real" sexual kind of themes to any of the females, least not when compared to other anime series. Most of their attraction to him is done in a more innocent way, and the whole story feels very down to earth in its approach in story. Its very suttle and well...nice! Yes, even though this anime is very basic when compared to other "school life harem" titles, it was also pretty enjoyable too. I liked the sort of calm atmosphere that each scene seemed to show, and it really brings more a realistic flare of appeal. Even though this series main drawing point is its whole "cell phone" idea, it actually comes off more as gimmicky, as the phones themselves play little to no actual role in the story, and you will simply see the characters text messaging one another every so often. The main plot to each episode is watching the girls living their daily school lives, most of which come with a certain style approach. (such as one girl getting pestered by strange guys, to another girl having problems with little kids wanting to lift up her skirt) It was never really made clear as to if these girls were even real friends with each other, since most of the time Hiro and his best friend would only end up bumping into one of them by chance. While the skits were indeed quite enjoyable, they also come with a heavy negative. And that is; the episodes are just too darn short!!" Even though the running time is technically 7 minutes an episode, almost half of that time will be spent watching the opening and closing themes. Which makes every story ark in the anime feel like 10% of the overall pie. Perhaps if they would have made the series without any kind of opening and/or closing scenes, and…
• User Leyren (Score: 4/10):
  It isn't all bad, and considering the fast pace you might as well check it out.. but don't get your expectations high. It feels like this series tried to be some Omnibus/Dating-Sim style series, but even for those it would be way too plain. Each of the first 5 episodes introduce one of the girls, some of them not even really meeting the male protagonist. Then in the 6th and final episode, it fast forwards to christmas eve where he confesses his love to one of them. So, there is no depth to any of the characters nor is there any romantic development - girl getsintroduced, timeskip, mutual love confession, the end. That's it. And considering which one was the girl he ended up with, it felt quite random.
• User 8mann (Score: 4/10):
  EN: An anime that defends what characterized the slice of life of the 2000s. In these 6 episodes of 6 minutes (actually less than 4 minutes), they briefly tell us stories of girls in love or interested in a boy who apparently they do not adequately reciprocate their feelings. In essence it reminds me of a strange mix between Hatsukoi Limited and 5 Centimeters per second. Although of course, saving the distances. It should be noted that the characters of the first episodes become concurrent in the following ones, since everything takes place within the same high school. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this show and theonly reason to see it is that it is a kind of documentary on how the first cell phones penetrated the culture of adolescents at that time. Those times when, in addition to calls, the vice was SMS. And the first with built-in cameras.nOn the technical side, it's nothing special but it does the job, or so I imagine since on the one hand it was very difficult for me to find this anime in a minimum quality, fortunately I was able to see it on YouTube (how ironic). The Hibari studio, who are responsible for it, can't boast much in these days of supposed past glories either.n------------------------------------------------------------------------------nES:nUn anime que hace apología a lo que caracterizó a los slice of life de los años 2000. En estos 6 episodios de 6 minutos (en realidad menos de 4 minutos), nos narran brevemente historias de chicas enamoradas o interesadas en un chico que en apariencia no les corresponde adecuadamente a sus sentimientos. En esencia me recuerda a una extraña mezcla entre Hatsukoi Limited y 5 Centímetros por segundo. Aunque claro, salvando las distancias.nCabe destacar que los peronajes de los primeros episodios se vuelven concurrentes en los siguientes, ya que todo transcurre dentro de la misma escuela secundaria.nQuizá lo más destacable de este show y único motivo para verlo es que resulta una suerte de documental de como penetraron los primeros teléfonos celulares en la cultura de los adolescentes por aquellos tiempos. Esos tiempos en que además de las llamadas el vicio eran los sms. Y los primeros con cámaras incorporadas.nSobre el apartado técnico, no es nada del otro mundo pero cumple, o eso imagino ya que por un lado me fue muy difícil de encontrar este anime en una calidad mínima, afortunadamente lo pude ver en Youtube (que ironía). El estudio Hibari, quienes son los responsables tampoco pueden presumir mucho en estos días de supuestas glorias pasadas.
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