This is actually a repost of an old review I wrote on MAL on November 14th 2012. I have no idea why I never posted it here until now Look I like Junichi Sato. I really do despite the fact that Ive only been exposed to a few of his works and Tamayura happens to be one of my favorites from him. However...I cant believe I watched this piece of trash Its a good thing its only four fifteenminute long episodes like the original Tamayura OVAs were and whaddaya know This is supposed to be a car advertisement like how Hokago no Pleiades is Ugh I cant believe I wasted my time on this dumb OVA. Its such a shame as this could have been a lot better and the issues it tackled could have been handled more appropriately. This anime is sponsored by Honda Motors...but how do they start off? By bashing bicycles and introducing characters who are such blatant stereotypes that you can tell just from looking at them for a few seconds that youve seen this type of character before somewhere A lot of people give Tamayura a lot of flak for supposedly being a KOn rip off which I dont think is true. Heck if theres a show haters should be calling a KOn ripoff its One Off The storys nothing special. Basically its about a girl named Haruno who envies her friends for having dreams and ambitions they want to pursue and thinks shell never be able to leave the rural town she lives in. Her jobs mostly consist of helping her parents at their restaurant and collecting eggs from chickens. All of a sudden out appears this random badly voiced Australian named Cynthia who I swear to God is a ripoff of Cynthia from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. Look at their character designs Im not even kidding who does nothing but shout bad English and shove her cleavage into peoples faces. You may think me saying that Harunos life changes after that might be great but...trust me its not. Is it just me or is the animation for this anime really blurry? The backgrounds look a lot more faded than crisp like it was done by someone who couldnt afford money to buy glasses. Not only that the movement thats there isnt very fluid. But ugh I need to get this out I HATE the character designs Cynthia because she looks like a ripoff of Cynthia from Pokemon which should be fairly obvious but the girls designs I dont like because....one: they look too much like ripoffs of other characters I swear Sayo looks almost EXACTLY like Tsuruko from AnoHana right down to her seiyuu who does the voice of Tsuruko as well two: I hate how the camera pans over the characters legs in what is clearly meant to be a sexualized veneer Then again the characters proportions especially around their legs look really off. It always makes it look like the top part of the leg above the knee is longer than the lower part of the leg below the knee. You can tell just from looking at the promotional pictures alone that their legs are too oddlooking and their only purpose is for the camera to creepily leer over them. I wish anime would stop over exaggerating female body parts and actually respect realistic human anatomy already Its driving me up the wall The only remotely good thing about this show is the music. I definitely liked the opening theme as its nice and soothing and the ending themes are nice too even though theyre both a little dull. The rest of the soundtrack...eh dull. Nothing groundbreaking or bad. Just...dull. I honestly dont remember. The soundtrack in itself is pretty bland and forgettable. I honestly dont remember one spec of it. Ugh the characters. I wont lie these have to be the most blatant and most shallow stereotypes Ive ever seen. None of the characters are properly or appropriately developed they follow their assigned gimmick way too much the very little pieces of personality they do have are obviously ripped off from characters from other anime Ive seen before and theyre overall shallow and uninteresting. This is made worse by the absolutely abysmal voice acting Harunos seiyuu is trying way too hard and that blue haired girl just refused to shut her freaking mouth I wanted to mute the audio every time that stupid annoying as hell blueberry head opened her mouth All she did as scream and moan about not having a motorbike and squealing over how hot Cynthia is Someone cut this character out of the show already Shes too much of a ripoff of Ritsu from KOn The other characters are just bland and uninteresting. Cynthia has to be the worst Australian portrayal Ive ever seen. Ive never met an Australian before but none I know talk in such bad English as she did and none I know go around showing off their boobs AND SHE DOESNT EVEN WEAR A FREAKING BRA WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?? to teenage girls What especially appalled me is that even though shes clearly not right in the head everyone suddenly likes her WHAT THE FUCK DID SHE DO TO GET THEM TO LIKE HER?? Show her boobs of course Oh God even the characters reactions to Cynthia are inappropriate and unrealistic If I saw a woman like her showing off her boobs Id call the police and get her arrested for public indecency especially since shes doing this with teenage girls It appalls me how anime characters love downplaying the flaws of a clearly problematic character and make them into a straight up object of desire for everyone That must be why the trope Draco In Leather Pants exists. Hell if anything I consider Cynthia to be the very inshow embodiment of this trope...AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY The rest of the show is just bad bland and downright boring. Even the supposed moral of the story is shallow and dumb even cheesy because of the way its executed. Everything else is just bad. The way the characters react to certain events: bad and unrealistic. All the coincidences: totally contrived and convoluted. The characters voices: UGH MAKE THEM STOP TALKING The whole girls riding motorbikes in the future. I cant see that. But from what Im hearing car sales are decreasing in parts of the world so I guess it was to be expected that advertising companies would go to drastic measures to sell a product. But can we do it in a way that doesnt involve churning out stereotypes and beating dead horses PLEASE? I took a college class called Effects of Media on Children and one of my assignments involved analyzing how advertisements rely on gender stereotypes to sell a product and how they affect people of all ages. This is NOT a proper way to advertise a product. Just watch this to consider buying a motorbike or kill time. Other than that give it a miss. Its dumb contrived and really not worth your time.