Play It Cool, Guys follows four regular guys as they go through their regular lives in Tokyo, sometimes being exceptionally goofy. The anime isn’t especially interesting — all things considered, the 24-episode anime produced by Pierrot shouldn’t be a success. Its premise is weak, its plot nonexistent, and its comedy isn’t laugh-out-loud. Yet, somehow, it works — beautifully, even. The characters of this quiet, comfortable slice-of-life anime navigate Tokyo like lost puppies, endearingly hopeless, at times funny, at times painfully earnest, bumping into one another and finally learning to stand on their own two feet.Play It Cool, Guys’ main characters are Hayate, the 20-year-old who hasn’t learned to come out of his shell; Shun, the high school student who is still a child; Takayuki, the office worker who’s forgotten how to enjoy his life; and Souma, the vocational college student who still needs to find his path. After a chance encounter and a fortuitous sequence of events, the four end up forming an odd group of friends, awkwardly looking out for and pushing one another to do and be better. With how sweet and charmingly honest they are with one another, not to mention the absence of girlfriends, the show often yields to the temptation of romanticizing a lot of their interactions — the bonds are certainly strong enough to warrant that. Yet, the anime never seems to cross the line into Boys’ Love, arguably for the best.If Play It Cool, Guys isn’t a Boys’ Love anime, then what’s the point of its story? Hayate, Shun, Souma and Takayuki come from completely different backgrounds, lead pretty different lives and couldn’t be further apart in personality. Their friendship makes little sense. However, what they can’t find in their friends and classmates, they find in one another. The clumsiness — both literal and metaphorical — that has always kept them on the outside is what pushes them together, solidifying their bonds. Shun finds a mentor and inspiration in Hayate; Shun is Souma’s biggest and most honest supporter; Takayuki is Hayate’s role model, and Motoharu reminds Takayuki of the difference his work can make in people’s lives. At one point or another, in their odd, awkward ways, they all spur the others on in a virtuous cycle, demonstrating how friendship can really change one’s life.
Play It Cool, Guys follows four regular guys as they go through their regular lives in Tokyo, sometimes being exceptionally goofy. The anime isn’t especially interesting — all things considered, the 24-episode anime produced by Pierrot shouldn’t be a success. Its premise is weak, its plot nonexistent, and its comedy isn’t laugh-out-loud. Yet, somehow, it works — beautifully, even. The characters of this quiet, comfortable slice-of-life anime navigate Tokyo like lost puppies, endearingly hopeless, at times funny, at times painfully earnest, bumping into one another and finally learning to stand on their own two feet.
Play It Cool, Guys‘ main characters are Hayate, the 20-year-old who hasn’t learned to come out of his shell; Shun, the high school student who is still a child; Takayuki, the office worker who’s forgotten how to enjoy his life; and Souma, the vocational college student who still needs to find his path. After a chance encounter and a fortuitous sequence of events, the four end up forming an odd group of friends, awkwardly looking out for and pushing one another to do and be better. With how sweet and charmingly honest they are with one another, not to mention the absence of girlfriends, the show often yields to the temptation of romanticizing a lot of their interactions — the bonds are certainly strong enough to warrant that. Yet, the anime never seems to cross the line into Boys’ Love, arguably for the best.
If Play It Cool, Guys isn’t a Boys’ Love anime, then what’s the point of its story? Hayate, Shun, Souma and Takayuki come from completely different backgrounds, lead pretty different lives and couldn’t be further apart in personality. Their friendship makes little sense. However, what they can’t find in their friends and classmates, they find in one another. The clumsiness — both literal and metaphorical — that has always kept them on the outside is what pushes them together, solidifying their bonds. Shun finds a mentor and inspiration in Hayate; Shun is Souma’s biggest and most honest supporter; Takayuki is Hayate’s role model, and Motoharu reminds Takayuki of the difference his work can make in people’s lives. At one point or another, in their odd, awkward ways, they all spur the others on in a virtuous cycle, demonstrating how friendship can really change one’s life.
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