English Dub Season Review: Bad Girl Season One

Overview:

A total goody-two-shoes adopts the persona of a bad girl. Too bad this very good girl isn’t very good at being bad!

Our Take:

When it comes to reviewing this series, I have to look at it in the sense of “would I recommend this show to someone?” That’s a tough question to answer, and I think it depends on what you’re looking for. I’ve gotten a lot more selective about the anime I watch. I used to do nothing but watch anime, so if I watched a show that wasn’t great every once in a while, then who cared? But now I don’t watch as much, so I want to watch something I will really enjoy. Bad Girl is not a show that I really enjoyed, but I didn’t hate it either. It didn’t do anything particularly well or unique.

The one thing I can say that’s very positive about Bad Girl is the voice acting. Monica Rial, Luci Christian, and Brittney Karbowski are amazing as always. I have to say I loved the performance of Kira Vincent-Davis, who played Suzu. She was my favorite character in the series, and I think that Kira was a big reason why.

Bad Girl felt like a yuri series that didn’t want to commit to being a yuri series. Usually, in a series that’s yuri, there’s a bit more focus on romance, and that wasn’t the case here. I don’t even know if I could say that Yuu lusts after Atori in a traditional sense. Bad Girl ends up being a show that I don’t feel I can recommend to anyone.