 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Tsuyokiss Cool x SweetJapanese: つよきすInformation Episodes: 12 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Jul 2, 2006 to Sep 17, 2006 Broadcast: Sundays at 02:05 (JST) Source: Visual novel Duration: 25 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older Statistics Score: 6.531 (scored by 80378,037 users) Ranked: #681822 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #4994 Members: 20,600 Favorites: 22 Resources |
Details Characters & Staff Episodes Videos Stats Reviews Recommendations Interest Stacks News Forum Clubs Pictures More Info Reviews Filtered Results: 8 / 8 Sort Suggested Most voted Newest Oldest Filter Click once to include and twice to exclude Clear AllYour Feelings Recommended Mixed Feelings Not Recommended Categories Funny Informative Well-written Creative Preliminary Spoiler  Dec 12, 2006 ===Foreword===In this review I might be quite often using the term “tsundere”, which simply stands for a personality which is initially aggressive and then loving. For more information see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere.Xinil, please don’t kill me for posting a hyperlink…===Animation===I don’t really like commenting on animation, since my artistic skills/thinking are very close to non existent. In my opinion the animation was good. It was nothing special. The backgrounds were simple, but the character designs were nice, and stayed consistent throughout the whole show. There also weren’t any drops in the quality of the animation. During the show there were bits where the characters were shown in... different costumes, and sometimes barely with any costumes on. However this is excusable, since this anime was based on a hentai game, therefore it is aimed at a male audience. Though I wouldn’t say that girls should stay away from this. To tell you the truth there was barely, if any, fan service or ecchi in the series at all, but as mentioned before those scenes did sort of even out this fact. If I could give this a more precise rating, then it would be 7.5.===Sound===The sound was all right. The opening tune was the more notable one. It’s quite a catchy tune, at least the first thirty seconds of it. The ending song is pretty good as well, however it is on the soft side which I didn’t really like since the whole theme of the anime is quite cheerful just like the OP. On the other hand this does have a “relaxing” effect to it. Background music was fine, but nothing special. The voice acting seemed to be done relatively well.===Story===The story isn’t the strong point of this anime. It starts off with the lead female character Sunao Konoe who wants to start a drama club in her new school. However she is stopped by Erika Kiriya, the student council president. She sets up all sorts of challenges for Sunao, which makes the story start off in a cheerful and funny way. Then it starts developing some of the supporting characters, which I think was a waste of time since they didn’t really play any major part in the plot. And then the last few episodes suddenly jump to romance between Sunao and her childhood friend Leo. The romance isn’t bad, however the fact that the story jumps in this way just wastes time. Half of it is basically wasted on useless character development. They should have just stuck with the core plot and carried on with that, after all, 12 episodes is too little for developing many characters.===Characters===You love tsundere? Then you will love this show! All female characters, except for two or three, are tsundere. Originally this was supposed to be the strong selling point of the game, where this was quite notable. However I’m unsure whether it will have the same effect for the anime as well. The female characters aren’t bad, but their tsundere personalities aren’t done too well. It does come out quite strongly, like heavy quarrelling between certain characters, like the Coconut and Crab. As for character development, there are only a few characters that get developed fairly well and others don’t get any development at all. There are some male characters as well, including the main male lead Leo. Again, he is your average male character. He’s the only male character who gets fully involved in the story, the rest is there just for comedy and to fuel the story at times. Nothing special, apart from a curious fact that he is tsundere as well. How shocking. The other male characters are his friends, one of them who is a sensible guy and another who is a pervert. Then you have a scary principal with scars on his chest and a sexy teacher with a parrot that can speak Japanese fluently (and play the drums). Quite a “typical” cast, nothing surprising on this side.===Enjoyment===I had quite a lot of fun watching this. It was quite a welcoming change to see so many tsundere characters in one series. The main objective of this anime was comedy (with some light drama here and there) and the never ending quarrelling between the characters. And I think that it was accomplished well. I can definitely see myself watching this again someday… Reviewer’s Rating: 8 What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0Show all  Oct 24, 2007 A romantic comedy that tries to be original with it's "Drama" theme but it is pretty much the same as any other. On the other hand if you're a fan of Rom/Coms you might still enjoy this anime. ^_^Here we have another high school romantic comedy anime to add to your collection. However unlike the truly great ones like: "Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", "Midori no Hibi", "Ah! My Goddess" and "Full Metal Panic" the plot of this anime is so ordinary it's boring. Watching a girl struggle to get a drama club established in her school is something that really could happen, which doesn't give... this anime an edge like other ones. This is one of the major downfalls in this romantic comedy. However this does give the opportunity to pump out a series of random events, with the standard clichés found in most comedies. This is pretty much how the entire series flows, with the romantic element barely playing any part in the series until it reaches the halfway point. From here the series picks up a bit, as the romance starts to take the lead in the story and there is even one major development that even I couldn't predict. Nonetheless it was ruined by the ending, which didn't even make any sense and it probably was the director's idea to end with both of her goals completed, but the result was a bit of a mess.The other is the animation which can be described as effortless, meaning no real effort was put into making this series look good. I can say that it looks decent for a romantic comedy nevertheless this anime was released quite recently so the standards have changed.The music is nothing special and nothing good or bad can be sad about the background music, on the other hand it does have a pretty catchy Opening and Ending Theme song.Overall this turned out to be an alright show to watch to pass the time and it is not at all disappointing to see it end after just 12 episodes. For a comedy the jokes weren't funny half the time, especially throughout most of the series the jokes were "daikon" related. The romance was what helped the show, no matter how predictable it was and it sort of helped put an end to the terrible jokes. Nothing can be said about the characters because they are also the typical mix clichés, with no real depth to them. So all in all this anime tries to be like an average rom/com but even fails at that, but some fans of rom/com may still enjoy this.^_^ Reviewer’s Rating: 6 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Jun 18, 2008 Before I say anything, let me just make it clear that the summary above is incorrect. The show is about Sunao, and her desire to have a Drama club in her new school. She has to make her way through the student counsel, and their leader Eri, or Hime. Hime is a total ass, and makes Sunao do all these round about things. It just goes through Sunao's fight for her stage, for her want to act, for her love of Leo and for her friendship with the various members of the student counsel.The music in this show was such that you hardly notice it,... making it perfect background music.The story was a good, if overused, concept, and they stuck with it and played it out well.The art... I don't know, I liked it, but then again I'm not really a connoisseur of these things.The characters are also rather basic, there isn't much as far as development goes, but they're cute.All in all I liked this anime a lot, it's not the best I've ever seen, but not the worst either.All in all, if you like shows like this, you'll like it. It's a bit basic, but cute and fun. If you're looking for something fun, short and sweet, this is it.=^.^= Reviewer’s Rating: 8 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Jul 11, 2008 Tsuyokiss, the anime I watched after Tonagura. I can easily compare the two since they both have highschool life and childhood love themes. It's surprisingly good. Good enough to be better than Tonagura that is. It's not a must watch, but it has great potential. I feel like it should have a remake of about 30+ episodes to become magnificent. Check it out to know why.It's a comedy show with childhood romance, some respectable action, and drama. It also has a lot of fanservice.The story is good and when I think hard about it, it's like a fusion of Tonagura and Clannad. It's about a... girl creating a drama club, dealing with the student council, making lots of friends, and fulfilling an unrequited childhood love. The show had a problem presenting the story because it was too short and lacked detail but anyways, the story was still okay and had great potential.Considering that this is an anime released in 2006, the same as Suzumiya Haruhi and Ouran Host Club, the quality is bad. Nevertheless, the characters are drawn nicely and proportionally. All the characters, specially the girls, look good, unlike Tonagura with the disappointing hairstyles and the way off proportionality of Hatsune-neesan. The art has a good base, it just didn't develop well and came out with an older quality of animation.The sounds are the biggest let down. No problems with the voices, and sound effects. The voices are good by the way, but the rest were so-so and the OP and ED songs were not good, specially the OP song, it's most unwonderful.*TIP:* -there is always a continuation footage after the ED song-*NOTE:* -the extra footage idea is brilliant, just like Luckystar's-The characters are great, but a few are a bit disappointing. This show has a good variation of interesting personalities. The problem is that the show failed to properly present some of the supporting and extra characters and just gave random appearances. This is most likely because the show was compressed into 12 episodes.Tsuyokiss is enjoyable, specially for the boys because of the good looking girls. It really has good potential and will surely become great and most enjoyable with a good remake. Reviewer’s Rating: 6 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Jun 17, 2010 After going through so many anime and game, my experience tells me that mostly all visual novel game have one thing in common: 1 lucky guy got surround by lots of lots of pretty girl with romance add it but in the end he choose 1 and happy ending, that's call harem in genre. Even it had a chance to be animated, they all are probably the same.Some great visual novel like Keys visual novel or D.C./Ef and to name the other were the best with their good story telling moment, weather is mysteries, suspense, tear-dropping moment. But for Tsuyokiss, trying to be 'Cool X... Sweet' (that's in their full tittle) wasn't enough to bring the whole house down; but a least they alter the way how harem anime look like. Rather focus on the guy, Tsushima Leo, who was the main lead in the game; but the anime focus on Konoe Sunao, one of the main female (and tsundere!) in the game who is the main lead in this show.This anime is completely different from the original and the other visual novel anime. Point 1 is what i mention earlier. Point 2:Though i don't know the original game plot line. The anime is about Sunao who is love stage play and being doing it from childhood til today. As she enroll her new school surprisingly and shockingly she found out that:A, the stage play club has been disbanded. Much of her disappointment B, Leo also enroll this school (who also kept calling her 'daikon' (bad actress) unintentionally, but actually is for being strong and great. That's what he mean) . Much of her dislike.C, Seitokai prez won't let her establish the club, and instead 'torture' her form start to finish endlessly. Much of her getting fired up!Because of this (and SHE IS A Tsundere!), is her 'mission' to establish the club no matter what.Point 3:Rather throwing Sunao with Leo into a loving-harem-romance situation, the anime staff just have to throw Sunao into crazy situation (and a lot of 'daikon'!) to show off Sunao tsundere side. Plus she didn't do it alone, everybody is involved in the situation, weather is ninja girl, Leo, loli, other male and female cast are here and making sure the show keep the flow energy that are made by Sunao and the rest of the cast.That's the 3 point of being different. Overall from this 3 point, point 2 of the story is nothing special and not worth remembering. Is just serve as a normal basic for a slice-of-life story. But point 1 and 3 was somehow able to overwhelm point 2 weakness.The cast however also not worth remembering, the only character was Sunao only. But still they were able to put some gimmick for their own like for example 'Crab girl' Kinu and 'Coconut girl' Nogami always calling their nickname and fight. (and Nogami wins!) Other of course Leo kept calling Sunao 'daikon' is something strangely i find never gets tired of the jokes. Only some have their own stand point and character status, other like Otome who is the ninja girl, or Erika the Seitokai prez and a Ojou-sama, for example. Still that wasn't enough.Why? The visual and art quality. Look very decent and normal, nothing special. It almost fall in the category of 'poor', but instead hang in between 'decent' and 'poor'.Speaking of hanging, the music, opening, ending also has nothing worth remembering or special.Lastly, the cast seiyuu. You find someone you familiar seiyuu like Mizuki Nana (Sunao), Nakamara Mai (Erika), Kobayashi Yuu (Nogami), Wakamoto Norio (The principal), and to name other. Might consider needless talent but i praise their voice effort on the show. Especially Mizuki and Nakahara-san as they play out their role. Of course the other were likable as well.Tsuyokiss, 'Sweet X Cool' might not 'Sweet X Cool' enough to convince why we should watch the show because if the bad visual quality. But try think of it this way: What happen if a show is focusing one of the main heroin of the game rather the guy? Will she have his love or the guy went out with other girl then sad ending? Well, that's just thinking.Not a worth remembering anime but a good change on how we think about harem. And more daikon!!! Try out Tsuyokiss, and you be the judge. Reviewer’s Rating: 7 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Jul 21, 2009 This review is completely opinionated and should not be taken overly seriously.WARNING: I highly suggest watching the anime before reading this review as to preserve the quality of your watching experienceAlthough the story was somewhat fun it was overly disappointing. Besides being 80% fanservice and very predictable it lacked originality. another one of those animes where the girl always thinks about a boy since childhood and is motivated by the actions of that boy. girl meets boy in new venue and gradually falls more in love with them. insecurity and depression sets in due to another girl who likes boy. boy turns out to help... girl passed depression and feelings are conveyed and recieved. Nothing else happens(dissapointing for it to end that way). ive seen this done a million times but due to my ablility to completely absorb myself into anything and treat old as new i enjoyed the story to some extent.I liked the art style and animation seemed smooth. The way the expressions are drawn really annoys me though. it almost seems as though they're getting ready to each a banana vertically(up and down) whenever they smile and once or twice the animation seemed overly recycled and relied upon.Seeing as i don't pay much attention to the sound i have no right to remove points or comment on it.The character layouts carried a few original characters which is more than i can ask from most anime. besides the few original ones though everyone else is rehatched and boring. the typical shy, kind, idolizing, first friend for the heroine and the cold, cool, strong, and strict character who's nice towards most girls. Of course theres the frequently used dense, nice, popular male lead and the heroine is just another hides her true feelings with an angry front type. overall nothing special really just another set of the same types.The enjoyment for this was good. it was fun and made me laugh often and for those who like fanservice(i don't mind a bit) it was probably the holy grail. in the end you enjoy watching this girl give it her all throughout and finally have her dreams realised.Overall it was good but not really special. it was very rehashed but contains all the same fun elements as well. it looked good and made me feel like i was watching another wacky and enjoyable cartoon only with more fanservice and a little bit more reality. It leaves you mostly satisfied without much more to long for from this genre. Reviewer’s Rating: 8 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Aug 15, 2015 I’m often told I’m too critical, and that sometimes it’s okay to enjoy a simple, easy story. I understand why people think this way of critics, but just because something is lighthearted and easygoing doesn’t mean it doesn’t need effort put into it. If you want to watch a fun, light anime then the anime must use various methods to give yout this feeling. Comedy takes as much effort as any thoughtful story.There’s nothing very brilliant about Tsuyokiss. Nothing about it stands out from its genre. If you have no interest in Slice of Life stories about school, then there’s nothing here for you. It’s... not even an admirable failure, like how Date A Live has sparks of originality but holds itself back. The only purpose this anime has is to deliver a light story with amusing characters, but it’s successful in doing that.Plenty of school life anime has been released since. Plenty of them tried to add craziness to make it feel alive, like Kemeko DX or Akikan. Nothing worked like this anime. Somehow, I found way back to this unassuming anime and rewatched it. That’s because Tsuyokiss doesn’t breathe life into its world by artificial craziness or just making everyone scream their lines. It does it by having a wide cast of characters, each with their own quirk.None of them are deep or as memorable as Galaxy Angel, but they’re all branching out out from the archetypes they start with. They start as tsunderes or lolis or best friend or sexy blonde, but quicky get a bit more than that. It didn’t dawn on me that Kani is supposed to be the loli until very later. That’s because she’s defined more by her short fuse and simplistic worldview. Erika isn’t just the beauty. She’s a person who is so successful she’s bored of success, and is dying for someone to challenge her and stand up to her. Her stereotypically beautiful look is just a visualization of this nature.It’s an anime that’s aware the characters need a life outside the plot. The romance doesn’t pop out of nowhere. Rather, it’s added smoothly like another aspect of everyday life. Romance in real life may be dramatic, but it’s rarely something that traps people’s lives. People keep meeting friends, going to school and do things other than fantasize about their crushes (or if they don’t, that’s a very bad sign and it stops being romantic). Showing Kani playing video games with the guys, Sunao’s fight to establish a drama club and attempting to get a day job are all here to show these characters lead an actual life and don’t just serve the plot. Everyone also seems to have hobbies or things they’re into.It doesn’t always work, of course. An episode about Nagomi’s familiy problems is means well, but is out of place. It’s a series that creates unique characters with silly attributes, not deep ones. Such a story would be more fit for something like Mushishi (Actually, Mushishi would be a whole lot better if it had one). This stands in contrast to the part-time job episode. That one takes advantage of Kani’s and Sunao’s personalities – one is a self-absorbed actor and the other is childish and vulgar. Boring females with straight long hair seems to be everywhere for some reason.The whole tsundere thing was supposed to be the game’s selling point, but only Sunao feels like an actual tsundere. Then again, she’s only the second girl to be involved in the romance. Sunao is another good example of using an archetype and playing with it. She’s not aggressive and hides her feeling for no reason. She’s a wannabe-actress with big ambitions and a big obsession. Her obsessive nature comes into play much more than the tsundere one, with Shizuka and Honoka acting as foils (althugh of different kinds). It’s these ambitions that drive most of the episodes, with Sunao trying to do everything in a gradnois way even when it’s not needed. Tsundere is also, in a way, an act – so it fits to make your tsundere girl an wannabe-actress. It’s the hobby and the obsessive nature that lead to tsundere-ness, not the opposite.As always with these things, the male is competing against growing grass to see who’s more boring. The lack of effort put into such characters is astonishing. Just compare his designs to the other males, who do have a personality. Shinichi has big eyes that give him a soft look that goes well with he’s romantic but wimpy nature. Subaru sports narrow eyes and sleeveless shirts that show his confident, calm nature. These two act in unison.What is Leo’s personality or purpose? He’s not even a voice of sanity, because that’s a role Subaru or Nagomi often take for that group of friends. Even if a character’s only role is to be a voice of sanity, the character it’s related to can affect how it’s done. Shizuka is the voice for Sunao, but she also acts as an admirer that goes well with Sunao’s view of things. Leo just stands there, doing what requires of him. There was no way to connect anything he does to a personality. When Kani thinks Sunao is sad for a silly reason, it’s because Kani has a childish nature. There is no moment like that for Leo.That’s why the series loses steam when the romance kicks in. I could live with the switch in tone. These characters are alive enough to make me care about their emotional problems even if they overdo it. When one person in the romance exists so there will be the romance, it’s hard to care about it. A romance never exists alone. A romance always grow out of two people’s personalities. It’s not a mystery that can have no relations to the people involved.Isn’t it odd that most romances directed at males have these terrible male characters? Look at a shoujo romance and there will be pretty girls and pretty boys. Look at a romance directed at males, and the male lead is so boring you run out of creative ways to say it. What does it say about viewers?The art style is very simple and contains nothing flashy. There aren’t any unique character designs, except Kani’s braids (co-incidence? She’s the best character) and Yoshimi’s hair color. It’s weird how characters that aren’t very important like Yan, who becomes active only in the second half and Murata have more effort put into their designs than main characters like Leo or Yagomi. It understands its style, and everyone has a colorful hair and the simplicity of it all goes well with the story. If you look at the visual novel though, you’ll get something different. There’s something so lifeless and stiff in it. If they tried to replicat the visual novel’s art style I wouldn’t survive.This flaw is all too common, but at least everything surrounding it is fun enough. Tsuyokiss has nothing to offer to those who don’t like the genre, but it does what a school anime does good enough. I could tolerate not aspiring to greatness, so long as the creators understand their style well enough.3 tsunderes out of 5 Reviewer’s Rating: 6 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Jun 24, 2010 I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that this series was not completely littered with ecchi/fan service scenes. From what I had seen of it before watching it, it seemed like it'd be full of panty shots, top heavy girls and erotic scenes. This anime seems to be one of those average series, that doesn't often appear on peoples' anime lists.STORY: If you're into those high school drama and romance genres, (like the ones used for almost every eroge) you may take an interest in this. In fact, Tsuyokiss (or CoolxSweet) was originally an eroge, although with a slightly different storyline compared to the anime,... or so I've read. Now, although I'm glad they put it in, the creators have 'tried' to be original, by 'sugar-coating' that high school drama/romance crap with Sunao's passion and determination for a drama club in her school. I like that, yeah, it does make a change, but it doesn't cover it up completely. Some of us anime fans are teenagers, and as a personal opinion, I see and hear enough drama at my high school, not to mention having to deal with some myself currently since April. (I'll be glad to go since this is my last year.) You don't really notice that high school drama until about 3/4 in. Honestly, Tsuyokiss would have been without it.ART: I think the bright colours may have been what had attracted me to this anime, and I don't think I really cared about anything else. I'm thinking this was about 2007 though, when I decided that I was going to watch it at some point in my life. Right, well. Overall art design is pretty average. Animation is pretty average. It's an average, for-the-hell-of-watching-it anime, so don't expect anything outstanding.SOUND: Both the ending and opening are annoying. I can't really remember much about the sound though. Must be, wait, wait - pretty average, if I can't remember it or it doesn't phase me.CHARACTERS: Characters are cliched slice of life characters (expect for Noriko. ... certainly... unusual..). Oh my God they're annoying. Especially Erika, Kinu and Otome. Could kick them all in the teeth.The reason why this anime cannot rise above its current ranking can be understood after watching it. Average. However, the most enjoyment I got out of it, is Sunao's perseverance for a drama club. Reviewer’s Rating: 6 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all |