Chu-Bra!

Genres: ecchi, lolicon, pantsu, pettanko, boin, comedy, drama, school
Themes: face faults, abnormal social tendencies, overly accepting peronality, kawaii, moe
Studio: GANSIS
Licensor: ?
Year: 2010
Demographic: shounen
Fansubbers: Doki

Summary: Hayama Nayu is a model middle-school girl. She is energetic, cheerful, and gets the best grades in her class. There's just one thing: she has an obsession with girls' underwear. After deciding that too few people have enough knowledge of underwear, she decides to create an Underwear Club to help increase awareness. Little did she now how much of a stir that would cause!

Review:
Early on, everything seems very normal, if a little slapstick. You have the has-no-social-norms cheerful girl, Nayu, you have the jock/tsundere, Yako, and you have the large-breasted shy meganeko, Haruka. Nayu just transferred in and makes friends out of Yako and Haruka.

After lunch one day, Yako and Haruka notice Nayu having a conversation with someone on her cellphone in the hallway. Upon approaching her, Nayu's half of the conversation seems like she is talking to an older man about her underwear! Along with the incident during the opening ceremony when Nayu accidentally flashes her "adult panties" for her entire year to see, this gives the impression that Nayu engages in enjou kousai: compensated dating. Rumors abound, and eventually she is confronted with them. Apparently, her brother is a famous underwear designer and she test-drives a lot of his prototypes!

Interest is eventually piqued about Nayu's underwear obsession, and it turns out that she is extremely knowledgeable not only about the design, but also the proper way to size and wear underwear. Seeing a need to spread awareness of this very important article of clothing, she attempts to set up an Underwear Club (Shitagi-bu), regardless of the protestation of certain faculty and the incredibly prudish Handicrafts Club.

Over the course of the anime, she manages to attract more legitimate attention to the club and to the importance of underwear.

Ratings (out of 10)
Animation: 9
Art: 8
Character depth: 5
Character growth: 8
Closure: 9
Plot Holes: 10
Poignancy: 9
Predictability: 9 (not very predictable)
Realism: 10
Complexity of Plot: 3
Suspense: 4
Overall: 7

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