This review is mainly comprised of spoilers Before heading in our review one small thing: these are my opinions meaning that they may differ from person to person. If you dont like what Ive wrote I highly encourage you write up your 400+ word essay on this show no really i mean it we dont have that many reviews for shows on Anilist + I lack writing skills so this may sound like a drunk guy explaining the office and express your feeling through the use of words and images. With that being said here we go: Anime Introduction Senpai Ha Otokonoko Senpai is an Otokonoko / My Crossdressing Senpai is an anime about selfdiscovery. We are very quickly introduced to our 2 out of the 3 main characters: Sakichan an overly cheery kouhai that confesses to our protagonist in the first seconds showing her talk now think later attitude Makoto the crossdressing high school student and Ryuuji his childhood friend from kindergarten. In total the 12 episodes showcase various problems Makoto Ryuuji and Saki go through trying to understand their feelings. It has an LGBTQ+ theme to it as Ryuuji is trying to sieve through his feelings for Makoto while Saki is overanalyzing her part. Makoto is also having his fair and share of problems in his family mainly that his mother is disgustingly opposed to the idea of her son crossdressinghe got caught once poor soul. Characters The characters presented in the anime mainly the holy 3 protagonists have immense depth to their character. 1. Sakichan: Despite her happy 24/7 face she deals with great emotional pain including: her parents divorce and her uncertain feelings towards to her senpai. She represses her own emotions as shown in her indifference to any choice she is put to make: I like them both however this is no easy task to keep for long and she breaks down in front of Ryuuji and not Makoto in order to conceal her real feeling to her oh so dear senpai. We can also see that her lack of decision making actually ends up helping Makoto himself when he was uncertain about joining the basketball club. 2. Ryuuji: Our gay protagonist unbeknownst to his dear friend also faces challenges with his affection towards him as he sees it as disgusting constantly avoiding handling it. He is also overly protective of Makoto to the point where he examines every move of Makotos other friends after the whole school found out about Makotos true identity most of the classmates and people from other classes started to avoid him mainly Saki. 3. Makoto: The shows bread and butter our crossdressing maid uniform wearing protagonist has a very difficult question to answer. Does he want to live as a girl or as boy? On his journey to find out he realizes that it cannot be a smooth ride and that he will need to take the bumpy path littered with sadness and adding new questions that need answers. Makoto wants to both achieve his wish to be allowed to be cute and to not upset her mother who is deeply disturbed by the idea from an incident in her past. With help from his friends and his own determination to solve the crossdressing dilemma he confronts his mother with his weird hobby asking only to be accepted. This shows his side of courage which Ryuuji lacks and also strong sense of decision making which Saki lacks. Story Telling The story telling in this anime is fantastic. It explores a theme not many people are comfortable watching in a funny but serious tone leaving many bits of advice to the viewer as the 3 friends explore themselves emotionally. Each episode brings a theme that it tries to solve to leave its viewer a message like in the last episode where all ends well after Makoto finally approaches her mother about his fondness over cute things and the anime ends on a positive note revealing how courage even in small amounts creates connection through working together with what you thought to be an enemy. Sakis and Ryuujis arcs also have valuable lessons to learn but youll have to watch the anime to see them :3. Animation The animation of this anime is eh alright. You can get behind it for most of the shows runtime but it shatters the immersiveness when emotional scenes take place the most prominent being in episode 3. Overall the animation is ok not being the 100 trillion dollars budget Solo Leveling animation but not so bad you find a powerpoint presentation has more frames. Enjoyment After all that Ive written up until now I think that you can clearly see that I did enjoy this anime and with no exaggerations it will be for a long time my favorite. I couldnt care less for its subpar animation because the story is all that matters to me here. Its a masterpiece of the delicate themes we yes WE deal with in our own world family friend group etc.. Even if you are not conflicted with your own sexuality you can still relate to the 3 main characters in other ways. Do I recommend this anime? If I had wait a minute... 12 episodes each 30 minutes... uhhh 6 hours to live this is the anime I would chose or something like that. What are you waiting for? Do you like lgbtq+ themes? Do you like femboys? Do you like average animation that in some moments ruins a little bit of the immersion of the anime?? THEN THIS IS FOR YOU. Conclusion Senpai Ha Otokonoko is an amazing anime with a lot of thought being put into every character so you are sure to find someone to empathize with one or more characters. The only place where it lacks is the animation probably because the budget wasnt big enough but if you are ok with overlooking it then do give it a try I also want to thank anyone that took their precious time of their lives to read this piece of spaghetti that I put in front of them just reading means a lot to me. Thank you again and have a great rest of the day/night