Rating: 
Summary: an ok comedy
Review: "the sakura diaries" is a romantic comedy about a love triangle taking place in college (with some sex jokes thrown in). sounds good? well, first off the dubbing was a bit annoying. urara's voice is VERY annoying. it just makes you cringe at times! but anyway the jokes will make you smile, the quality is ok, and the characters are pretty good. as for how long it lasts... one viewing is enough and that's what makes it average.
Rating: 
Summary: Was surprised at the lack of hentai....
Review: By the cover, you would think this is adults only material. But after watching all four DVDs, I think that this is probably the most realistic love story I've seen. And sex is maybe one fifth of the whole content. Yes, it is a bit racy, but in my opinion, the raciest thing is the cover of the tape. I would say that this is a really good anime for someone who is looking for a down-to-earth coming-of-age story. Probably PG13.I highly recommend it. I'm usually a romantic, but this story displayed love as it is. At least, the ending does.
Rating: 
Summary: Funny and sexy
Review: I liked this video a lot. I didn't really know what to expect, but it turned out to be a lot like Goldenboy, which I loved. The situations are goofy and funny, and Touma overreacts to all of it. Uraru's innocent sexuality was pretty good, too. I recommend this video to anyone who enjoys the funnier anime, like Ranma 1/2.
Rating:
Summary: Love Triangle
Review: I liked this video a lot. The back has a good discription of the series. It is the kind of series were if you buy the first tape you have to get the second to see what happens next. I think the theme song is the best! It is a very uniqe and special anime. It has good facial expressions,lots of near nudity scenes, and good artwork. So it's a love triangle of sorts. It's also hilarious. There are so many situations and so many great lines that it's hard not to laugh so much with the characters. It has its serious moments as well, but in the end it produced nothing but smiles from me as I watched it.
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Summary: Tokyo life stories with a sexual edge...
Review: I picked up the 4 DVD collection on the Amazon reviews claiming it was another 'Golden Boy' but was sorely disappointed to find this series has very little in common with 'Golden Boy' outside the fact that they are sexual situation comedies. However, despite 'Sakura's' lack of anime prowess on the art and direction side, it does have an enthralling soap opera quality dealing with a continuing romance triangle formed around young Tokyo students. Tounma is a country boy come to the city to get acceptance into a premier college (Keio), he ends up living with his lovestruck attractive younger cousin Urara. Urara has a crush on Tounma that dates back several years to a time when he unknowingly cheered her up at a low point in her life. Meanwhile Tounma falls in love with a super cute girl, Meiko, who has taken the entrance exam along side Tounma and finds interest with him. Jealousies and fantasies abound in the widening cast as events progress with Tounma failing his enterance exams and having to go to 'cram' school while faking admittance to Keio in order to live up to Meiko's high standards. This series is probably a take off from a manga series- evident from the fairly bland direction. The girl drawings are cute without being overly erotic although the scripting has the characters in all sorts of light porn situations as Urara attempts to seduce Tounma by wearing nearly nothing. Lots of masturbation jokes/references and odd Japanese mating rituals abound. Good stuff for the lovey anime crowd, but I'm sure this would be rather unappealing to the action/bloody bucket anime fans.
Rating: 
Summary: Sexy? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Review: I'll review this two ways: Maturely and then how I really feel. First, The Sakura Diaries is a refreshing take on the trials and tribulations of teenage love. In fact, it is a refreshing take on love, regardless of age, race, country of origin or even animated vs. live action. The struggles of the characters will ring true with you wether you are a man or a woman. The story is griping and despite big laughs throughout the episodes, spiked with pain, humiliation and embarrasment for characters and viewers alike. It's a definite must-see for people who love a good disaster unfolding. Now the second review:
...I avoided this series because I was afraid it would be exactly what it turned out to be: A romantic nightmare with overly-gratuitous nudity. However, what I wasn't prepared for was a grown man who couldn't stop watching [nearly the] WORST and most dysfunctional love triangle ever put to video. Urara (which in Japanese translatest to Oo-La-La), is like, 16 and in love with her 18 or 19 year old cousin, Tounma.
Tounma, doesn't know this chick from Adam and she bursts into his life at the absolute WORST time. If you know anything about Japanese culture, college entrance exams cause dozens of suicides every year. Not only does she do it at the wrong time, she teases the poor [guy] with sexual advances and then constantly freaks out when his poor, virgin, male brain snaps and tries to go for it.
(You never do figure out if she is crazy, a tease, or just plain STUPID) And poor Tounma tries to do the right thing, but who can hold out when the hottest chick this side of lolitta is running around the house naked all the time? About the 3rd volume, one character describes her as mentally ill, not realizing that she is probably DEAD ON. And the lies, oh, the lies, EVERYONE is lying except the biggest liar of them all, a rich jerk who is king of the campus. I dare you to watch one episode and not the rest of the series.
Prepare for MUCHO nakedness, masturbation, INCESTOUS feelings, and not ONE likeable character for a HOST of reasons. Not at all predictable. For a non-horror movie I sure watched through my fingers a bunch. Lot's of "OH-MY-GOD" as well.
Rating:
Summary: A romantic trainwreck you CANNOT STOP WATCHING
Review: I'll review this two ways: Maturely and then how I really feel. First, The Sakura Diaries is a refreshing take on the trials and tribulations of teenage love. In fact, it is a refreshing take on love, regardless of age, race, country of origin or even animated vs. live action. The struggles of the characters will ring true with you wether you are a man or a woman. The story is griping and despite big laughs throughout the episodes, spiked with pain, humiliation and embarrasment for characters and viewers alike. It's a definite must-see for people who love a good disaster unfolding. Now the second review:
...I avoided this series because I was afraid it would be exactly what it turned out to be: A romantic nightmare with overly-gratuitous nudity. However, what I wasn't prepared for was a grown man who couldn't stop watching [nearly the] WORST and most dysfunctional love triangle ever put to video. Urara (which in Japanese translatest to Oo-La-La), is like, 16 and in love with her 18 or 19 year old cousin, Tounma.
Tounma, doesn't know this chick from Adam and she bursts into his life at the absolute WORST time. If you know anything about Japanese culture, college entrance exams cause dozens of suicides every year. Not only does she do it at the wrong time, she teases the poor [guy] with sexual advances and then constantly freaks out when his poor, virgin, male brain snaps and tries to go for it.
(You never do figure out if she is crazy, a tease, or just plain STUPID) And poor Tounma tries to do the right thing, but who can hold out when the hottest chick this side of lolitta is running around the house naked all the time? About the 3rd volume, one character describes her as mentally ill, not realizing that she is probably DEAD ON. And the lies, oh, the lies, EVERYONE is lying except the biggest liar of them all, a rich jerk who is king of the campus. I dare you to watch one episode and not the rest of the series.
Prepare for MUCHO nakedness, masturbation, INCESTOUS feelings, and not ONE likeable character for a HOST of reasons. Not at all predictable. For a non-horror movie I sure watched through my fingers a bunch. Lot's of "OH-MY-GOD" as well.
Rating: 
Summary: Meh.
Review: If I could choose one word to describe this anime, it would be "meh".
Sakura Diaries tries really hard to be sweet, dramatic, ect... and I wont say it's not, to a certain extent, cute. However, there are too many downfalls for me to give it the benefit of the doubt.
The main female character, Urara, is painfuly cute, sweet, and loving, to the extent that one wants to throttle her. She happens to be in love with her cousin, Touma, who is in love with this preppy chick named Meiko. Meiko vows she'll only date a boy from Keio University. Touma, (who seems to have the collective intelligence of a ping-pong ball) decides that the best choice would be to lie to Meiko, and say he attends Keio.. when really, he's stuck in cram school.
I suppose that this would have been a much better anime if only Urara hadn't been so insanely inept and tedious, and they'd left out a good bit of the fan-service.
This anime has it's share of ecchi-ness.. more so than it needs, in fact. If they'd left out some of it, I would have given this a higher rating. It's not that I'm against some ecchi-ness in anime, once and awhile, but the fanservice here was simply there for the sake of having fan-service; not to enhance the plot or characters. I mean, there's the lovely scene where Urara decides to prance around the apartment, wearing nothing but an apron and some underware.. When she sees herself in the mirror, she proceeds to say "So that's what Touma was so nervous about!" (or something to that effect). Now, I'm not sure if that was a "Gee, I'm really hot!" sort of comment, or a "Gee, I'm naked!" revelation.. Either way, it was pointless and dumb. For a character portrayed as innocent and childish, she sure loves to make herself into a peice of meat for men to stare at. (...)
All in all, if you're looking for a sweet, soap opera-like anime that Sakura Diaries tries so hard to be, I'd try To Heart, or Love Hina.. Sakura Diaries most certainly isn't the pick of the litter.
Rating:
Summary: Meh.
Review: If I could choose one word to describe this anime, it would be "meh".
Sakura Diaries tries really hard to be sweet, dramatic, ect... and I wont say it's not, to a certain extent, cute. However, there are too many downfalls for me to give it the benefit of the doubt.
The main female character, Urara, is painfuly cute, sweet, and loving, to the extent that one wants to throttle her. She happens to be in love with her cousin, Touma, who is in love with this preppy chick named Meiko. Meiko vows she'll only date a boy from Keio University. Touma, (who seems to have the collective intelligence of a ping-pong ball) decides that the best choice would be to lie to Meiko, and say he attends Keio.. when really, he's stuck in cram school.
I suppose that this would have been a much better anime if only Urara hadn't been so insanely inept and tedious, and they'd left out a good bit of the fan-service.
This anime has it's share of ecchi-ness.. more so than it needs, in fact. If they'd left out some of it, I would have given this a higher rating. It's not that I'm against some ecchi-ness in anime, once and awhile, but the fanservice here was simply there for the sake of having fan-service; not to enhance the plot or characters. I mean, there's the lovely scene where Urara decides to prance around the apartment, wearing nothing but an apron and some underware.. When she sees herself in the mirror, she proceeds to say "So that's what Touma was so nervous about!" (or something to that effect). Now, I'm not sure if that was a "Gee, I'm really hot!" sort of comment, or a "Gee, I'm naked!" revelation.. Either way, it was pointless and dumb. For a character portrayed as innocent and childish, she sure loves to make herself into a peice of meat for men to stare at. (...)
All in all, if you're looking for a sweet, soap opera-like anime that Sakura Diaries tries so hard to be, I'd try To Heart, or Love Hina.. Sakura Diaries most certainly isn't the pick of the litter.
Rating:
Summary: Its not that Perverted...
Review: It is a sexually charged anime but its mostly what any young college boy thinks about. I found the main female characther strange and endearing. Urara, is not a typical girl and that what makes this anime so funny. Don't get me wrong there is still content that is too sophisticated for young eyes, but if your over 18 and like funny anime this is a good one.
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