Himōto! Umaru-chan
Cámara:
Takafumi KuwanoMúsica:
Yasuhiro MisawaReparto:
Himika Akaneya, Asami Yoshida, Yoshimitsu Shimoyama, 兼政郁人, Haruka Shiraishi, Akari Kageyama, Hiroki Maeda, Satomi Arai, Kyōko Chikiri, Rena Maeda (más)Temporada(2) / Episodios(24)
Sinopsis(1)
To her classmates, Umaru Doma appears to be the perfect girl. She's beautiful, friendly, and fashionable, earns top grades, and seems to be able to do any task asked of her with ease. She's even humble and polite! However, if Umaru's classmates could see her in the privacy of her home, they wouldn't even recognize her. Once she's inside the door, the pretty clothes come off, the orange hamster hood goes on, and it's time to pig-out on snack foods, binge-watch television, and play violent video games! This version of Umaru is everything that the public Umaru isn't: she whines, rolls on the floor, leaves messes all over the apartment, and makes life miserable for her poor older brother, Taihei. Even the most guarded secrets have a way of being found out, and, as Umaru becomes even more obnoxious and outrageous, her two lives are bound to collide in disastrous fashion! (Manga Home Entertainment)
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Season 1 (2015) (S01)
In the beginning, I was not very impressed with this anime series. Umaru Doma is a very cute main female protagonist and a very odd combination of a multi-talented, kind, and intelligent girl with a calculating, lazy and vicious otaku. She prefers to lounge around in front of a TV or a computer or read the latest manga. She is simply one of those characters who are easy to like and quite endearing while sometimes insufferable, making her quite funny. Yes, Umaru is at times unreal, although who else is there? Taihei, her older brother does not come across as particularly distinctive, and he initially struck me as being there to give his sister someone to make fun of. He is someone who could make her enjoy being insufferable and cute, which are the most important things for her existence. Then there was her friend Ebina, who was also nondescript, and I guessed she would be playing second fiddle. I thought I would drop it after the first episode, but I did not give up. I thought that I had not seen much cuteness this season, and I did not mind that this would probably be about nothing; there were episodic snippets from the life of a very energetic otaku. So, I watched the second episode, and I have to admit that I was (not) wrong once again. Sure, Umaru's character maintains her high standard and manages to entertain, and her brother did not get any significant prominence either. However, Ebina provided us with a new dimension in the second episode. It showed that this girl is not just some nondescript background character. She has a certain charm, her dreams, and her personality, and I managed to grow fond of her during the second episode. So "Umaru - Sister Act" was back in my good books and greatly improved my impression of the show. Plus, I liked this crazy show better with each passing episode. In fact, besides Umaru, who I practically fell in love with because her level of cuteness is simply immeasurable, and Ebina, I quickly got to know and enjoyed the other characters very much. Kirie was probably the most outstanding and simply amazing of the lot. So, in the end, the life of the energetic and crazy otaku and her friends provided a decent narrative, as I had originally expected. However, I also got to know a lot of great characters and had a lot of fun along the way. I was surprised that this show delighted me so much. I have to add that the soundtrack and the awesome opening are great, and I have been playing regularly as a cure for my bad moods. The music is full of energy and contrast, just like this anime series. Some may say that it is cheap to create the impression of cuteness using "chibi," although they used it to great effect in this show. It is mainly (K)Umaru, who I have grown to like, and if one accepts that this girl can "shrink" and no one around her (except her brother) recognizes her, then they find the conclusion entertaining. The final rating should probably be somewhere above average. With its energy and wit, it deserves at least four stars. However, this time I am putting my objectivity aside once again, and I am going to give it a full score because I have fallen in love with Umaru, her friends, their crazy adventures, and probably this whole anime series. 9/10.
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R (2017) (S02)
I love this anime series because it has one of the cutest collections of cute girls, and somehow I still cannot decide if I like Kirie, Ebina, Umaru, or Sylphy the best. Each one is cute in their own way, and each one is as entertaining on their own as they are when they are all together. Still, I was expecting some kind of progression in this second season, I was expecting Umaru and her identity to be addressed, maybe even a more romantic subplot, in other words, something interesting. Well, almost nothing happened; a few new likable characters turned up, although not really essential to the plot. There was no consistent narrative going through the whole series as the episodes were stand-alone. Sure, the main strength of this is the proverbial "cute girls do cute things"; however if it does not develop or progress, it gets a bit stale over time. This is why I cannot help it, and while I enjoyed it again, my initial infatuation and noncritical attitude are starting to wane a bit. 8/10.
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