Girls Bravo: Second Season
GIRLSブラボー second season
- Comedy
- Ecchi
- Fantasy
- Isekai
- Romance
- Harem
- School
- Episodes
- 13
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Jan 27, 2005 to Apr 21, 2005
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Yukinari Sasaki has always been small for his age, and years of mistreatment by girls have left him with an unusual reaction: whenever a girl gets too close—or even touches him—he breaks out in hives. By the time he reaches high school, it’s become a daily obstacle he can’t ignore.
In Girls Bravo: Second Season, Yukinari’s life takes an even stranger turn when he’s abruptly whisked away to Seiren, a city on a mysterious world that orbits Earth unseen. With women vastly outnumbering men there, his condition should be a nightmare—except for one exception: Miharu-chan, a new companion whose touch doesn’t trigger his symptoms.
Otaku Consensus
Girls Bravo: Second Season earns its modest 6.59 MAL and 60/100 AniList reputation: Ei Aoki and AIC Spirits keep the 13-episode cour moving with fast ensemble gag timing, Ryuuichi Makino’s rounded character designs, and a willingness to go raunchier than many mid-2000s TV harems. The critical verdict is consistent: the crowded cast can be funny and the screwball pacing has flashes of promise, but the season’s dependence on nudity, coercive sexual comedy, and familiar harem machinery limits its staying power and makes the 17+ warnings feel earned.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Girls Bravo: Second Season if your sweet spot is early-2000s harem anime that goes all-in on bawdy set pieces rather than slow-burn romance. At 13 episodes, it is a compact hit of school comedy, fantasy-isekai weirdness, and unapologetic ecchi: baths, pools, hot springs, panic reactions, and a cast built to ricochet off one another. It scratches the same itch as Love Hina’s domestic slapstick and the later To Love-Ru brand of shameless fanservice, but with a slightly rougher, late-night-TV edge. The best viewer is someone who wants a time capsule of the genre before modern self-awareness softened its worst habits, and who can tolerate jokes that contemporary critics rightly flagged as boundary-pushing. For harem historians, its controversy is part of the text.
Key Characters
- KKirie Kojima(VA: Chiwa Saitou)
Kirie functions as the sharper comic counterweight in the main trio, with Chiwa Saitou giving her reactions the snap needed to keep the ensemble chaos from turning shapeless.
- YYukinari Sasaki(VA: Mamiko Noto)
Mamiko Noto’s casting gives the male lead an unusually soft, reactive presence for an ecchi harem protagonist, making him feel more like the target of the genre’s machinery than its instigator.
- MMiharu Sena Kanaka(VA: Ayako Kawasumi)
Ayako Kawasumi plays Miharu with buoyant openness, making her the series’ main source of warmth amid the escalating fanservice and slapstick.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
AIC Spirits produced the season as a single 13-episode run airing from January to April 2005, which gives it a compact, gag-dense shape compared with longer harem sitcoms of the same era.
- 2
Director Ei Aoki’s season leans into fast escalation and reaction comedy rather than sustained romantic plotting, a choice that aligns with the show’s reputation as a raunchy screwball harem more than a dramatic fantasy romance.
- 3
Ryuuichi Makino is credited as both character designer and chief animation director, a dual role that helps keep the primarily female cast visually consistent across fanservice-heavy staging.
- 4
The content profile is unusually explicit for a TV harem of its period: AniList tags Nudity at 80%, Crunchyroll lists Sexual Content and Nudity advisories, and Newtype USA’s Chris Johnston wrote that the 17+ rating was well-earned.
- 5
Its numbers capture a recognizable but divisive cult footprint: over 50,000 MAL votes and a popularity rank of #2473, but a much lower MAL rank of #7380 and only 91 AniList favourites.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Girls Bravo is based on work by original creator Mario Kaneda, and AniList’s tag set frames this season as Shounen while also emphasizing Female Harem, Magic, Male Protagonist, Primarily Female Cast, and Primarily Teen Cast.
- Fun fact 2
- Hiroshi Ogawa receives both Mechanical Design and Accessory Design credits, an unusually granular pair of production roles for a school-harem ecchi series with fantasy elements.
- Fun fact 3
- The sound side pairs Youta Tsuruoka as sound director with Noriyasu Agematsu as composer, giving the season a named audio team rather than treating the music as anonymous sitcom filler.
- Fun fact 4
- Critical coverage clustered around the same point: Anime News Network’s Carlo Santos noted promise as screwball comedy, Mania’s Chris Beveridge called it naughtier and raunchier than standard harem fare, and THEM Anime Reviews objected strongly to the sexual-assault comedy.
- Fun fact 5
- Crunchyroll’s listing makes the season accessible beyond English-only fandom, with Japanese audio and subtitle options including English, German, Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Studios
- AIC Spirits
