Kujibiki Unbalance

Synopsis:

Unlike most schools, Rikkyouin Academy has a different way of electing it's student council. Instead of the traditional voting process they use a lottery to determine what positions will be held and by whom. Once elected however, each student must complete a variety of tasks set before them but these tasks can range anywhere from the mundane up to dealing with robots, aliens, spies, and even terrorism. Failure, is not an option as it results in immediate expulsion. Chihiro Enomoto's lottery drawing, to become the next candidate for student council president has just brought his string of bad luck to an end... maybe.


Reviewer: Endosanity
Number of episodes watched: 12


Review:

Kujibiki Unbalance is an anime that tries to go a slightly different route in telling it's story by combining it's nonsensical story elements and confused characters and attempts to put everything into a comedy routine... but in the end it turns out to be less than humorous. When you put all this together, don't be surprised if you're asking yourself "What's the point of this show?" to which the answer would be, there is none. The only underlying plot-line that is even note worthy is seeing if Chihiro has what it takes to become the next student-council president or will he give up and fail in his endeavor. The thing is that when watching this show you see how these kids have to deal with some bizarre and practically life-threatening situations, but unfortunately, the characters that this anime drops into these half-baked scenarios are uninteresting and have no forceful screen presence. This leaves you feeling indifferent and not really caring if they will complete a task or fail and the end result isn't all that funny even though this anime really tries to lean more towards comedy in the overall scope of things.

The animation is typical but putting that with a lame group of school kids that are making their way through a hodge-podge of odd-ball tasks from episode to episode, the end result doesn't provide many laughs and the entire show is easily forgettable. Actually, I can't think of any worthwhile aspect of this show to even convince you to pick it up to begin with.

Kujibiki Unbalance (opening)

Recommendation: |Low|

Media type: DVD
From: Anime Works
Spoken languages: English;Japanese
Subtitles: English