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1. I have no idea what this series is supposed to be about. 6/11
2. • Is this supposed to be a harem comedy?
   • Definitely seems ecchi.....
   • An ecchi harem action comedy? (5/11)
   • I'll watch this to the end because I want to see if this turns out to be as bad as I think it will be.....
3. • Looks like a 2:1 harem.....
   • The lack of agency for Shizuno Urushibara is a turn off for me. (4/11)
   • So I checked Rebecca Silverman's review; and she seems to think that the source material is better than this adaptation. Oh, brother; this seems like it's gonna be a slog.
4. • Now a 3:1 harem? Tell me it ain't so.....
     It is.....
   • Shizuno Urushibara is still lacking in agency..... (5/11)
5. This ecchi beach episode is too much.....SERIOUSLY. (2/11 | Awful)
   
6. Well, this episode wasn't half bad; everyone comes together for the good of each other. I'll call it 8/11 (Good).
7. • If the harem becomes 4:1 then I refuse to rate this series higher than 3/11.
   • I dunno; I guess I'll rate this episode at 8/11 (Good).
   • Shizuno Urushibara seems to be establishing some (limited) agency.
8. Interesting character development for Elena Arshavina; but it's looking like the harem is becoming 4:1. Rating this episode at 9/11 (Very Good).
9. Ends on a cliffhanger; and the harem isn't present. Rating at 10/11 (Excellent).
10. All right, I'll admit it: I'm impressed. Everyone came together as a team. Rating at 10/11.
11. • A surprisingly humorous pajama party.
    • A cliffhanger; still, I'm reluctant to rate it at 10/11 ─ It barely qualifies at 10/11. Can it even deliver the promised payoff? I have my doubts; and even if it does, it cannot make up for all of those other crappy episodes!
12. No explanation is provided for the dragon; and that is a fatal flaw. Add in the ridiculous humor, and I'm rating this at 7/11 (Decent).

Cons:
This series has an epic failure of logic.
In ep.#11 Keima Katsuragi procures a horse on short notice without any explanation. This episode is surreal.
Ep.#12 has a break/flaw in the world setting.

1. The basic setup is given..... (10/11)
2. The group seems to be coming together! (10/11)
3. • Humor is surprisingly effective.....
   • Unexpected sleepover.
     (10/11)
4. Love is hard for an otaku. (10/11)
5. • Did Starbucks sponsor this episode?!
   • Hirotaka Nifuji's younger brother, Naoya, is introduced.
     (10/11)
6. • If Starbucks didn't pay for sponsorship, then someone on the writing staff sure loves them!
   • Christmas Eve (10/11)
7. • I like the internal monologues.
   • Boys night out & girls night out.
   • The fourth wall is broken.
   • Narumi and Hanako dish on what Hirotaka and Taro would be like as gay lovers. (11/11)
8. The 2 couples compare & contrast their respective relationships. (11/11)
9. The 2 couples go to a theme park. I just realized, there have been no girls in miniskirts. +!!! (11/11)
10. Friendship is a beautiful thing, isn't it? (11/11)
11. Slice-of-life. Still, pretty good! (10/11)

All-in-all, Yamibō is a series which requires some patience. Many (though admittedly not all) of its vignettes are stronger than what they may initially appear to be, enough so that they balance out the weaker elements, and the series does eventually make sense. Give it your trust and you should be rewarded.

• Jean-Karlo Lemus & Monique Thomas sorta recommend it.
• See entry in "Recommended by Others (public list)"
• This wiki is necessary reading.

1. 1&2 espionage and terrorism on an overnight train.
2. ep.#3: the beginning of the backstory involving "Jill" & "Gargantua".
3. ep.#4: ep. 2/3
4. ep.#12 is a real tear jerker. What will the last episode be like?
   The ending is ambiguous. So life is a circle? Or is it fated?

   My base rating is 9/11; but I like the OP & ED, so I'm increasing it to 10/11. But episode #12 makes me rank it at 11/11.

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1. Because YouTube user DarthGlorik recommended it; I will watch it until the bitter end. So the setup of a couple of orphan fraternal twins move to a rural area and the episode wastes no time getting into both harem and ecchi territory! I am disappointed in DarthGlorik.
2. I didn't notice it in the 1st episode, but there are ecchi shots in the 2nd ED. And, of course, more harem antics.
3. So, finally, there's a serious kiss; but this is a harem/ecchi show -- so it probably doesn't mean anything. There seems to be a quota for a certain amount of ecchi/episode -- excluding the 2nd ED, that is.
4. Not exactly hentai, but definitely NSFW!
   And let's not forget the fanservice in the two-part ED!
5. OK, so this is definitely the uncensored version. Still, it is nice to see romance actually occurring in this series ─ too often a series ends before either party confesses to the other.
6. Sibling DNA tests come back negative.
7. "I hate Nao" ─ a love triangle.
8. "It's hot....." ─ a love triangle continued.
9. Sora admits her fear to Nao.
   "Don't remove my wasteband."
10. So Sora finally admits to herself her incestuous desires for Haruka.....
11. Incest revealed.
12. Pro: Turns out the OP has foreshadowing in it.
    Con: I will need to rewatch; I think that I'm missing some things.....

• I couldn't help but be reminded of the reviews that I've come across of School Days; I do not know if the comparison is apt.....
• So, apparently, this series is an adaptation of a visual novel. The VN is about a boy with a harem; each girl's arc is adapted and when that arc ends an ending title card is shown that says "Fin" in the lower-right corner.