I realize that the official English title is We Never Learn, but I reject that because I was actually able khổng lồ read this Japanese title, và it translates to lớn We Can’t Study, not We Never Learn. This irritates me because We Can’t Study sounds better, & is more correct. Despite this, I’m actually going to call the anime Boku
Ben from here on out, as that is it’s short-form name.
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Brief Synopsis
Our protagonist, Yuiga Nariyuki, is a student from a poor family who is absolutely dedicated to studying in order to get a scholarship for University. & the school just happens khổng lồ offer a great scholarship, which, after a turn of events, is offered lớn Nariyuki on one condition: that he tutors & helps raise the grades of the school’s geniuses: Fumino Furuhashi (literary arts genius, hopeless at math), Rizu Ogata (math / science genius, hopeless at literary arts), và Uruka Takemoto (athletic prodigy, hopeless at English).
His goal is lớn help these three get into the school of their choice. The kicker though, is that Furuhashi wants khổng lồ go lớn school for math, & Ogata wants to go lớn school for the literary arts. Takemoto is just hopeless at English.
And so begins the daily life of Nariyuki as he tries his best khổng lồ tutor these three, in addition lớn running into a couple other interesting characters!
Wait A Minute…
I know what you’re thinking. “This sounds exactly lượt thích the premise for The Quintessential Quintuplets! What a scam! Yomu, you can’t possibly nhận xét this anime without at least mentioning this!”.
Well, there you have it. I’ve mentioned it.And with that, I’ve done my due diligence.
Let’s move on with the review.
A Dynamic Cast of Characters
Boku
Ben features a great cast of characters, which are the cornerstone to lớn any great slice of life anime. Nariyuki himself is a great character who acts reasonably and helps khổng lồ create many fun situations. Furuhashi, Ogata, Takemoto, & others are also all great characters that not only provide us with a wide variety of hair colours (which I love), but personalities as well.
It’s hard khổng lồ put into words, but they all just fit together perfectly, lượt thích a puzzle. Ogata is very calculating, but has this super dễ thương side that also gives us many super đáng yêu pouts, one of my weaknesses. Furuhashi is very warm và understanding, but easily embarrassed, often on someone else’s behalf. Và Takemoto is very confident and outgoing, except when it comes to lớn Nariyuki…
Plus there are a few other characters that were awesome, that I suppose are technically main characters as well but they aren’t introduced until later, & aren’t a part of Nariyuki’s bộ vi xử lý core tutoring group, so they feel sort of in-between the role of main and side characters. I won’t spoil them though, you can watch and see for yourself!
Studying Slice of Life
Is this going khổng lồ become a new off-shoot of the slice of life genre? Sort of like what isekai is for fantasy anime… Maybe!
It certainly makes sense, because tutoring is the perfect way to put a boy và girl together on a regular basis in a school environment. Just like school club anime, only I’d say that tutoring puts the girl & boy even closer together as they have lớn sit next to lớn each other, look over each other’s work, et cetera.
Which makes this genre more suited khổng lồ romantic comedy, which is what we get here with Boku
Ben. Girls spend a lot of time with the dependable và respectable Nariyuki, and surprise surprise, we get a lot of scenes where one or more characters end up incredibly embarrassed for some reason or another.
It’s more cutesy than a purely comedic slice of life, & I’ll admit I’m a bigger fan hâm mộ of straight comedic slice of life anime. That said, I found Boku
Ben filled with fun moments – each episode was enjoyable in itself.
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Comparisons to lớn A Similar Anime
Now that I’ve given you an idea of what Boku
Ben is about, I’m going to lớn come back to that initial point of Boku
Ben being very similar to lớn The Quintessential Quintuplets.
I know many people are going khổng lồ simply write this anime off as a copycat of The Quintessential Quintuplets. The fact is that both of these anime were based off of manga, và according to lớn Wikipedia, Boku
Ben ran 6 months prior lớn The Quintessential Quintuplets. Mind you, I don’t know too much about manga so I can’t confirm 100% which idea came first.
But it doesn’t really matter, because both of these anime, despite sharing many aspects, are very different.
Quintuplets was a lot more about mystery, the girls falling in love with their tutor, và sentimental moments – with some comedy mixed in. Yes, there was tutoring in there, but much, much more time was spent in other situations, like a festival, skiing, et cetera. The focus was more on the romance / mystery, of the girls falling in love but not knowing which one the main character would over up with.
Boku
Ben is much more heavily focused on what I suppose you could điện thoại tư vấn “teenage love comedy”, featuring awkward situations between girl và boy. Embarrassed faces, weird situations, et cetera. Boku
Ben still has romance, but the tone is much more casual. Và that makes the anime more comedy focused, in my eyes.
Final Rating
Now that I’ve explained how Boku
Ben is different from Quintuplets, I can get into my final rating of this anime.
I rate Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai a 8.5 / 10.
Something about this anime just worked, perfectly, for me. Much more so than Quintuplets, which is why I’ve given it a higher rating. I think that this studying slice of life genre just works better in a more casual and comedic tone. Boku
Ben lớn me was a very fun & vibrant anime to watch – one that is also filled with a diverse cast of super dễ thương girls!
I’ll also give Boku
Ben the Cute, Comedic, Colourful award, for possessing all three of these qualities!
