Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! – Season 1

I hesitated to buy this for a while because there are a lot of strange rumors and falsehoods about this anime, including one that claimed that Hana commits suicide when her love for her senpai is not returned. I am happy to report this is a false story and there is not tragic end to the anime. The story is a simple romance without straying too deeply into the overdone harem genre. Shinichi, the male protagonist, is a college student who is a complete loner. One day, a girl who was a member of the swim club at high school, who was encouraged by Shinichi, her senior, appears at college and slaps him on the back. She makes it her goal in life to end his loner lifestyle by hanging around with him at every opportunity. She is small for her age, often mistaken for a grade school girl from the back, but she also has endowments up front that make it clear she is no lolita. And she is proud enough of her assets that she often wears a shirt with the slogan “Segoi Dekai” on it – which can be translated as “So Big” or “Amazingly Huge”. She also doesn’t have a filter in her mouth or brain and shouts out things that are easily misinterpreted by people passing by. For example, when they go to a batting cage, she forgets to warm up and hurts her back. The next day, she meets him on the way to class and shouts out “My back really hurts after what we did yesterday!” or words to that effect. It is a funny show, with really good art, and the English dub is good, too, if you don’t want to read the subtitles. In an aside, The Japanese Red Cross used Hana Uzaki on advertisements for a blood drive, and American SJWs took offense at “sexualizing” the poster, so they replaced it with a brightly colored text poster. When donations dried up after the new poster went up, they put the Uzaki-Chan poster back up and blood donations skyrocketed, which reaffirms the slogan “Go Woke, Go Broke”. If you are offended by cute anime characters with special endowments, this anime is not for you. But most people will enjoy it. May not for kids, but there is nothing here that teens or older wouldn’t enjoy.