超(ちょう)GALS!(Super Gals!) also known as 超(ちょう)GALS! 寿(ことぶき)蘭(らん)^A) is a manga and anime series about Kotobuki Ran – a shiro-Gyaru and the de-facto Queen of Shibuya – living her day-to-day life filled with chaos and fun.

So far I’ve only watched the anime, but I plan to read the manga at some point in the near future.

I ended up watching the whole anime in a relatively short amount of time because I was having so much fun.

However, I can’t comment that much on the story since I watched it raw in Japanese, so I didn’t always get the nuance or details of what was going on (still being in the process of learning Japanese). That said, it was able to maintain my attention and I could still understand what was up.

All that said, I do think the series suffers from one thing in particular, which is that sometimes very ridiculous and downright impossible things happen. It leans a bit more cartoony at times, which makes it hard to be super immersed. I consider this a bit of a downside because – unlike with something like Totally Spies – it’s hard to tell what is or isn’t real in some cases.^B)
I think there could be a way to do it properly, but it didn’t really handle the balance between cartoony/immersive/serious very well at times.

Overall I think it’s a really good series though. There’s a lot of content and a lot of fun stuff happens in there. Plus it does get serious at times, though how well that lands I can’t really say…those were coincidentally the parts that I understood the least.

I also think that Kotobuki Ran is a very very fun character. One of the other characters (Asou Yuuya) describes her as a ‘dream girl’ and I think that’s a very apt description, at least for someone like me. She’s also incredibly stylish, so she’s usually wearing some pretty nice-looking outfits.
The fashion and variety in the outfits here is actually really nice in general.

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