Hakuouki SSL: Sweet School Life (2015)

A light hearted sweet high school drama, that's what I found it to be. I saw people writing more negatives about it, but I liked it.

Yukimura takes admission on an all boys private academy which just started admitting girls. She did this as per the suggestion of her neighbour boy who attends the same school. Bits and pieces of her life in an all boys' school is shown here.

The past shown and the present time - the events that happen have a connection. Even though it builds up your curiosity, ending was predictable and that curiosity build up didn't reach anywhere. Still I found it light hearted and not boring, because it is just 6 episodes.

I am not going to mention anything about acting, music or cinematography. For cinematography, I am not a professional. For acting and music, nothing was worth mentioning ( in a good way - nothing was extra ordinary, still the actors didn't do a bad job). Infact I found Yukimura's character pretty mature, as she didn't have to overact to present her character. For some characters, the writer portray them as extremely cute or extremely stupid. Yukimura didn't have to do either of this. So that made this watchable for me. Even though one of the teachers had such a role, and even though the plot was very weak, it was still bearable for me.

My review is my perspective, so it may or may not suit you. Give one or two episodes a try and see if you are up for it. I liked it.

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This show honestly had an ok storyline which was very mediocre, but also something I'd probably watch. I thought 'Why not give it a chance', but that was a horrible, horrible mistake...

Story/Plot:
The story was mainly about a girl in highschool whos teacher and different people she meets fall in love with her and it tells the short story of all of them getting to know her.
Most of the time, I was just asking myself WHAT IS GOING ON? AM I JUST DUMB? I still don't have the answer, but all I can say is it was very confusing for me. All the guys seemed to fall in love with this girl who literally just sat there and did nothing, with boys begging at her feet for her affection. I'd understand if she actually had a PERSONALITY but being the reverse harem protagonist that she is, she does nothing... and gets everything. I'M SO FUCKING CONFUSEDDD. Also, I don't understand why the teacher fell in love with her, and honestly he creeped me out so much - like why is an old man crushing on this girl he's never actually spoken to... But, honestly, I LOVED the green cardigan guy. He's so irrelevant that I forgot his name, BUT STILL, I LOVE HIM! I don't even know why lmao but he's the only reason I continued watching.
Overall, the story was ok, but in the actual show it was so shit xDD
Rating: 4/10

Acting/Casting:
All the people cast as the characters did well in their roles, and as I mentioned before, I loved the green cardigan boy. However, the blond dude was perfect for this character as well, because he was the only one that was kinda funny and just made the shit story a little less bad c: Also, the female lead, as much as I hated her character, did a good job of acting out an innocent high school student and the yellow hoodie guy had an AMAZING smile - it was creepy, but cute.
Overall, the acting for all the characters was as good as they could of been, based on all the average roles they had to play.
Rating: 7.5/10

Music:
I don't recount a single soundtrack lol. From what I CAN remember the music was usually appropriate for each scene.
Rating: 5/10

Re-watch Value:
I will never watch this mess of a mini drama ever again, unless I really wanted to see the green cardigan boi again... idk, I think I'm obsessed with him for no reason - CAN WE GET A DRAMA WHERE HE IS THE MALE LEAD? Sorry I'm getting distracted... C;
Overall, I don't think I'll ever re-watch this series because it's just so... meh. Unless, I wanted to laugh at something so bad it's funny lol
Rating: 1.5/10

Overall Rating: 4/10
It's a waste of your time - don't watch it m8

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