Comic Girls

This anime series follows the lives of the girls living in the Bunhousha Women's Dormitory. They are high school girls who, when not doing their usual studies, work on their manga projects. Our protagonists are Kaoruko 'Kaos' Moeta who is struggling to come up with ideas for her manga; shoujo artist Koyume Koizuka; Ruki Irokawa, who draws erotic manga; Tsubasa Katsuki, who writes popular shounen manga. As the series starts we are introduced to the household at the same time as Kaos so we get to know the other characters as she does. Over the course of the series we see them working on their various projects and getting up to the sorts of things high school girls do... all the time wondering if Kaos will actually get a manga published.

There are plenty of anime series centred on groups of school girls who share an interest and this is a decent enough addition to the genre. The characters are likeable; one can't help feeling sorry for poor Kaos as her various ideas keep getting rejected by her editor. The best laughs are provided by Suzu Fura; the seldom seen, slightly creepy, writer of horror manga who also lives in the dorm. The introduction works well and the things the girls get up to are fun to watch even if they aren't particularly memorable... it is one of those shows that is a lot of fun while it is on but likely to be forgotten once the series is over... of course then you can enjoy watching it again in a year or two!

These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.