Episodes: 12
How: Streaming.
Grade: B-
Summary: {From MAL} Hasegawa Kodaka has transferred schools, and he's having a hard time making friends. It doesn't help that his blond hair tends to make people think he's a delinquent. One day, he runs into his bad-tempered solitary classmate Yozora while she's talking animatedly to her imaginary friend Tomo. Realizing that neither of them have any actual friends, they decide that the best way to alter this situation is to form a club and start recruiting.
That is how "Rinjinbu", The Neighbours' Club, was formed, a club specifically designed for people who don't have very many friends. As other lonely classmates slowly join their little club, they'll try to learn how to build friendships through cooking together, playing games, and other group activities. But will this group of relationship-challenged misfits really be able to get along?
How it is.....
So, it's a show about a bunch of outcasts and awkwards coming together to make friends. The entire time they don't seem to realize that the group has made friends, each other. They go out for karaoke, they fight, they make up, they go swimming and of course they flirt with their lone normal male member.
It's a harem show. Other than Yukimura and Sena's random, no name admirers, Kodaka is the only male in the entire show. All the girls {even his sister} drool and fight over him during most of the series.
There's also a long lost childhood friend spin thrown into the mix, of course it was pretty obvious that the little boy from Kodaka's past was actually a girl.... Yozora. It wasn't until the end of episode 11 that Kodaka makes the connection, after Yozora cuts her hair due tot he fireworks incident at the festival. He puts it together.... she had all ready put it together, the first time she saw him and his scary face.
Characters...
Just so when I get around to watching Season 2, I can come to this and remember things easier...
Kodaka Hasegawa; "Pudding Head" He has a scary face and strange colored hair, this makes it very difficult to make friends in his new school and is part of the reason he joins the Neighbour's Club {the other being Yozora gives him no choice}.
When he was much younger he use to live in the area and had a friend named Sora, some things happened and he had to move away before he could tell Sora he was leaving. Yozora turns out to be "Sora", he seems to like Sena though... It's a triangle! Sort of.
Yozora Mikazuki; Lets face it, she's mean. It's no wonder she has no friends, she's always bullying other kids and not many people could put up with that. She and Sena have "wars" of sort that Yozora is cruel, Sena trys to stick up for herself but, just ends up crying in the end.
The only people that seem immune to her are Rika {she's a perv} and Kobato {who she really hasn't picked on}.
Sena Kashiwazaki: The blond with the huge breasts, extremely popular with the males in the school she still has a lot of trouble making friends. Guys just want to do her and girls hate her because she's so pretty.
She's the first member of the club after it's creation, Yozora didn't want her in the club but she was persistant and ended up in it anyways.
Sena's father is the headmaster of the school, he also seems to know Kodaka's father and is the reason he was accepted into the school. She brings Kodaka home to meet her father so that he may thank him for helping him.... In the process it seems her father sort of likes Kodaka and I get the feel he wants him with his daughter.
Kobato Hasegawa: Kodaka's younger sister, she's an Otaku of sorts... she dresses up as a character from the Anime Full Metal Necromancer and tends to be in Cosplay mode at all times. She has a bit of a bro-con as well.... getting extremely jealous of his relationship with Maria.
Even though she's in Middle School she joins the "Neighbors Club".
Yukimura Kusunoki; The other male, sort of.... He comes to the club because he admires Kodaka's manlieness and wishes to learn from him. For some reason {Yozora} he's always dressed in girls clothing....
Rika Shigume: A genious basically... she spends her days inventing things instead of going to class and the school is just fine with that. She's also quite the pervert, throwing sexual things out there at any given opportunity.
She's a fujoshi, fantasizing about Yukimura and Kodaka quite frequently.... or in between her making sexual advances on pretty much everyone in the club.
Maria Takayama; She's a rude. kind of annoying 10 year old that lives in junk food until Kodaka comes along.
Somehow she's a nun and "teacher" at the school. Yozora tricks....bully's her into becoming the supervisor for the Neighbor's Club. Being just 10 years old at least she's not trying to date Kodaka, it's more of a big brother relationship that really gets Kobato upset when she finds out about her.
