This Is Me #5

D-Frag! Anime Review

This is easily the best show to come out in the Winter 2014 season. D-Frag! is a perfect example of how to abuse the fact that you're watching an anime. It excels at being completely outrageous, both in its characters and plot, it can transition hilarious moments to very serious moments in the blink of an eye, and its content is extremely trivial yet somehow extremely entertaining. In a lot of ways, it reminds me of Gintama in just how absurd every episode becomes.

D-Frag! is classically set in a high school and the authors have chosen to fill its halls with the most random smattering of students you could ever think of. The only thing anyone has in common is that they are all failures. The main character is a delinquent who is actually a really nice guy and wants to help people out. The main love interest (in a very odd way) runs a do-nothing club. The rival club president cannot make amends with her friend. The school president is largely responsible for most conflicts as opposed to keeping the peace. The other delinquents in the school get beat up by the female population.

The show is able to combine real characters in real settings with the most unrealistic interactions. Of course, a teacher who sleeps all day in a club room seems very unrealistic, yet it properly portrays the fatigue that adults feel. D-Frag! properly portrays everyone's failure. We pretty much suck at what we strive to be and we unintentionally hurt people around us a lot of the time. To me, this is what story telling is all about: portraying reality through fiction. On top of that, anime allows writers to be as absurd as possible which usually makes things incredibly hilarious.

9/10. D-Frag! is great to watch and easily to relate to.