I found this anime through the outro going viral at some point. It's an amazing outro I will give it that. Me and my friend had a conversation about it beforehand. We discussed what we thought the anime was. He claimed it was literally just BL rape porn with zero plot. I figured that since the internet seems to generalize things to a quite extreme degree, that it probably wouldn't be that bad. It was and wasn't at the same time. It's a confusing mix. I claimed that it might just be normal BL, and there are possibly just distasteful rape jokes. I was sort of wrong? I wasted an entire hour of my life watching this garbase so let's talk about it so I'm no longer suffering in silence.
Yarichin Bitch Bu, also called Yarichin Bitch Club fucking sucks. I hated almost every moment of it. It follows Takashi Toono joining an all boys school. He transferred in the middle of the year and he felt quite lonely because of this. And the only person who shows any kindness to him is Yaguchi Kyousuke, also nicknamed Yacchan. Yacchan is a cute ginger boy who is just really nice all around. He's a bit popular and throughout the show Toono seems to start taking a liking to him. And then joining the photography club. They could've found a way to make this not shitty, like in an Ouran High way. But they didn't. They do not give a shit about this anime making any sense at all. So anyways. Toono walks into the photography club and sees all these guys literally just fucking. So, I feel I can speak for the majority of people when I say this is not what a photography club looks like. And another boy named Kamashima Yuu also accidentaly joined. So theyre like "hey what the fuck." And then the club members just explain, "yeah. We're an amazing awesome SEX club that loves SEX. SEX is awesome and cool. And now that you signed up you are going to have SEX with us because yes." And obviously Toono doesn't quite like this. Yuu seems to not care that much though, so good for him? The club tells them that the club is indeed allowed and even some of the teachers are "regular customers." By this, I mean they are having SEX. So that gets rid of whatever sense of realism they had in the show to begin with, which was already very little. They also have a monthly SEX quota, so if they don't get at least 5 partners within the month they will be... drum roll please.... GANG BANGED!!!! WOOHOO!!! And considering that Toono very obviously didn't sign up for this shit, this definetly leaves this on some dubious consent grounds. For some reason a part of me doesn't think it's quite rape but its definetly at least really fucking strange. But I won't dwell on this because the show definetly also doesn't want you to dwell on it. There is a side plot in episode 1, where this emo boy attempts to kill himself. Yuri, one of the members of the club, "saves him." This is in airquotes because he didn't do shit. Just pulled him away and then, get this, called him ugly. And then said his heart belonged to him, and then walked away. Cool okay. I should also mention that Yuri is mentally disabled. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with but, he clearly does not have enough brain power or ability to think to properly give consent for anything. He can barely speak Japanese, and can say a few scattered words in English. If you can't speak you probably can't consent. Anyways. In this side plot, the emo boy, named Tooru Fujisaki begins to stalk Yuri. This gayass stalks this mentally disabled guy for like months because he "saved his life." Motherfucker, what? Eventually, while stalking Yuri, Yuri realizes and then comes outside to talk. He pulls out his dick, Fujisaki makes a heartfelt confession, Yuri then gives his phone number (not without a sexual inneundo) and then they kiss. Thats the end of that side plot. At some point there is a love triangle between 3 of the characters, Takashi Toono, Kamashima Yuu, and Yacchan. Yacchan like Yuu, Toono like Yacchan, and Yuu likes Toono. Wow how yaoiful. I didn't quite get if Yacchan like Yuu, or if he is jealous of him, or if it's both. Yacchan seems to be at least envious of the way everyone likes Yuu. Yacchan doesn't like that he doesn't quite fit in the same way. The anime finishes at episode 2, probably from a lack of budget or interest. I think that honestly a good thing. The few people that actually enjoyed it, could just continue with the manga. And the people who only watched it to be able to say they watched it, don't have to sit through more yaoi-induced trauma. I personally do like yaoi. This just sucks. At the end of the month, when Toono doesn't meet his sex quota, the members act exactly as they said they would. They were gonna gang bang (rape) him. And thankfully(?) Yuu claimed they were actually dating. So, the club backed off. Of course, in true Ecchi fashion, Yuu made out with Toono to show them "proof." And now that you're caught up with every single peice of meaningful-ish plot in this entire 2 episodes, then now I can talk about how much it fucking sucks.
Like I said many times, Yarichin fucking sucks and I hated it. I watched all of it with a scowl on my face, or a smirk when something ridiculous happened and I laughed. I've seen some claims saying that "Yarichin wasn't made for weird shit, its actually comedy." I can definetly see it, but unfortunatly, it is weird shit. The funny parts were funny, that is true. But the sex was god awful, and that was such a common occurence that it simply could not be overlooked. Every 5 or 10 minutes, a censored sex scene is thrust upon you, and its always a jumpscare. If they led up to it or made it make any sort of sense, then I would be less critical. It just comes out of nowhere, has nothinhg to do with the plot, and sucks. All of the characters have no personality. They have one trait, and thats it. The only character who doesn't fit into that is Yacchan, and he just BARELY doesn't fit. The anime doesn't try to hide that it's just barely concealed porn, and I have to give them props for owning up to it unlike most ecchi. The sex scenes are uncomfortable and unnatural. None of the characters have any sort of chemistry, and the only reason to fuck for them is love of the game. You see very little interactions between all the members that isn't sex related and that is such a shame. Some of these characters could be interesting. Tooru Fujisaki, Itsuki Shikatani, Akemi Kei, and Koushirou Itome are the best examples of this. What exactly brought Fujisaki to be so obsessive? Why was he on the rooftop that day? What does he like about Yuri? What does he see for his future? And for Itsuki is similar. Itsuki is of unknown gender and that couldve been played around with a lot. I love gender nonconforming characters, and I was happy to see Itsuki. It gave me hope for the show, which was ultimately shattered. I had so many questions about Itsuki. What are they? What brought them to the club exactly? Why are they so silent? There's so much to ask about all of them! I really liked Akemi Kei's character as well, but theres no reason to keep asking questions that will never be answered, because nobody fucking cared. It is so easy to write a good character, and even easier to write a mediocre character. And somehow, the writers decided none of that mattered in the slightest at all, and decided to make everyone a sex object for the viewers gaze. What makes an anime interesting is the characters, the world, and why certain characters act the way they do. And every aspect of each of those things was disregarded when maki8ng Yarichin, instead thinking, the more gay sex the merrier. This clearly had fujoshis as the main demographic, and I can't critisize as it's not my place to. I don't know what fujoshis do and don't like, but as an anime fan, I can assume that people typically care for more than just fan service.
One of my favorite animes of all time is the Monogatari series. This series has a lot of fanservice, it's mostly known for it to. But, it also balances it out with an amazing plot, amazing world, and amazing characters. It doesn't have literal sex like Yarrichin does, but even if it did, I do believe people would still like it the same. The difference here isn't the content, but how they go about it. Monogatari focuses in on each character and gives them a life, makes them feel alive, makes them feel like a real person. They also created a beautiful world with so many stories to tell, and never tries to limit itself to just the highschool. When fanservice is done, there is usually reasoning behind it, no matter how bullshit it is. Yarichin on the other is the opposite. The characters are 2 dimensional, forgettable, and aren't very likeable. The world is boring and really is just the highschool and a few other peopoles houses rarely. And the fanservice here is plenty, and with no reasoning. The way I see it, fan service has to be paid for with content. The more good content there is to do with teh fan service, then it's debt is eventually paid off. In Monogatari, I feel like the best example of this is a scene where Shinobu Oshino takes a bath with Araragi Koyomi. She is shown mostly naked. There is enough meaningful content in that scene to excuse her being used for fanservice there as well. The fanservice is made excusable, or at the very least tolerabgle by that. It's deep and meaningful. In Yarichin, there is no meaning. There is no good conversations, there is no plot, and even less is there absolutly no love between anyone. It's shallow. In the Goblin Slayer anime, the first episode includes a scene where a woman is raped by a bunch of goblins. It was put there as a lazy way to push the idea that the goblins were evil, and that the show was edgy. It was done extremely untastefully, and it was never followed up upon. Yarichin reminds me of that in a lot of ways. The rape scene in Gobling Slayer was completely unnecessary and had no reason to be there, as it gave nothing to the plot. Every single sex scene and or rape scene in Yarichin was completely unnecessary and had no reason to be there, as it gave nothing to the plot. That scene in Monogatari was maybe completely unnecessary, but it had reason to be in the plot as it established and streghtened Shinobu and Araragi's friendship. That is the difference. It a very missable difference, and it is very hard to explain, but I cannot explain how important that is. Yarichin had very cool character designs with interesting concepts, the blue print was right in front of them, and then they fucking blew it all somehow. It would've been so easy to just make okay characters, but nobody did.
I'm not disgusted of this anime as a bisexual man, I'm disgusted by it as an anime fan. I'm disgusted by how it presents itself, how it objectifies every single LGBTQ man in it, and how there was zero effort put into it to make it a good anime. I've said it multiple times before and I'll say it again, it would've been so easy to make these characters good or at the very least likeable, and they just blew it. I as a bisexual man don't feel fetishized by it for being gay, I feel fetishized by it because I exist and like sex as much as normal person. I don't respect this anime as an ecchi, but as a comedy I do. I found myself chuckling at a lot of the absurdities in it. It heavily relied on shock value, which does feel cheap, but I fell for it. I'll give the manga credit, because from what I've heard of it, it is much more clearly comedy. I think I will skim some of the manga and update this section at some point.
Now that we are nearing the end of the review, I'll talk about my rating. I rated the story 2/5 for everything I already talked about. The only reason it wasn't a 1 was because of Yacchan's side plot of being jealous of Yuu, because I was genuinly invested for those 6 or so minutes. I rated the merch 5/5 because it has a decent amount of merch, and all of it seems kind of nice. I did quite enjoy Yacchan as a character and I saw a few plushies of him and that made me happy. I also saw some really pretty art and fanmade merch. It made me genuinly want to buy some merch before I remembered what Yarichin Bitch Club even was. I couldn't differentiate between how much was fanmade and how much was official, so I just guessed. If they had a Pop Up Parade figure or just any cheap-end figure of Yacchan I would definetly consider buying it. I put the amount of filler as 1/5 stars because I much more enjoyed the filler than the actual ecchi shit. I didn't hate it with an overwhelming passion whenever things were at least close to normal. Overall, I had to rate this a 1/5 stars. It wasn't good, and it made me uncomfortable watching. It disapointed as a BL anime, it disappointed as an Ecchi anime, and it disappointed as a comedy by not make it obvious enough that it was ironic. I will say though, that I do think the anime isn't as bad as how I've seen it portrayed on social media. Goodbye and goodnight!