Gakuen Handsome
Rated: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Status: Finished Airing
Source: Game
Score: 6.74
Rank: 5646
Popularity: 3495
High school student Yoshiki Maeda is starting a new year in the all-boys Baraman High School. On the first day, Yoshiki reconnects with his childhood friend, Takuya Saotome, and meets his odd and dramatic homeroom teacher, Teruhiko Saionji. Yoshiki's younger sister, Yuu, is aware of many of these handsome boys and seems to take pleasure in teasing her big brother about them. Yoshiki soon discovers a number of stereotypical romance characters and has no choice but to deal with their outright ludicrous and nonsensical boys' love antics. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Character dan Voice actor
Maeda, Yoshiki
Main
Hanae, Natsuki
Mitsurugi, Sakuya
Main
Kimura, Ryouhei
Jirou
Supporting
Kusunoki, Taiten
Kagami, Renji
Supporting
Nomiya, Kazunori
Saionji, Teruhiko
Supporting
Suzuki, Yuto
Review
APLpaca16
I watched this at 1am and actually cried laughing. The art is terrible, the story is terrible, the characters make no sense, and I love it. This is the best parody of those generic school yaoi/BL dramas that could ever be conceived. Everyone looks like they were drawn by a not-artistically-gifted 6th grader that just got into anime. The main character has no eyes and his 7 year old sister remembers playing with one of the MCs friends from 7 years ago. They blow up like 3 buildings. A guy dies and comes back to life. Inthe ending song the characters distort into oblivion in time to the music. I felt like I was suffering some kind of trauma-induced shock while watching it. TLDR: Gakuen Handsome needs to be put in the art museum where it belongs.
vmnoelleg
To be clear: this is yaoi SATIRE. Unless you've been a weeb since the days of newgrounds, you're not going to get this. ART: Imagine every thirteen year old's deviant art account when they started watching anime. That is the art of this show. And it was intended. The pointy chins, the yaoi hands- all intended. Literally every possible thing is wrong with the art, shading, proportions, perspective, everything. The characters are exaggerated versions of BL art style and the main character has no face which makes it fairly quirky SOUND: Pretty good actually. Goes to show that the animators actually do know what they're doing. Andthat (again) the horrible art is intended. CHARACTER: Every trope and stereotype exists in this show. Every line is either super rapey or absolutely stock. It's a perfect parody. ENJOYMENT: As someone who grew up on anime, this show brought me into a nostalgic state of when I started started trying to create my own images on MS paint. I laughed to the point of tears while watching this show. I've read quite a few cringeworthy BL manga and I can say that this short animation portrays all the faults you can find there with the perfect satirical touch. OVERALL: The type of viewers who will like enjoy this definitely had unironically enjoyed a doujin or something that was probably not much better than this.
