Softenni is a comedy anime with a sports theme. It's about the soft tennis club in a school in Hokkaido (northernmost of the main islands in Japan), where we have the club president and gourmet Chitose Akiyama, the soft tennis ace Kurusu Fuyukawa who's often dressed up in weird costumes, the hotblooded idiot Kotone Sawanatsu, the foreign student Elisabeth Warren who wants to marry the coach, You Michimagi - a former national champion. We also have the perverted minded Asuna Harukaze.
As, I said, it's a comedy anime, and on top of that only 12 episodes, so unlike other sports themed anime shows, this doesn't drag the theme till your eyes bleed. Of course there are games and training camps, but there is also Asuna making everything to something perverted and Chitose who can't even hit the ball, even as the club president. Not to mention the coach - the former national champion - is so laid back you can at times wonder if he really cares about the soft tennis members.
This is a good anime with a happy aura around it and while being about sports, it doesn't take the sport too seriously. The animation is good and there are some unexpected events. Even if this isn't really a review - at most it's a summary or recommendation - I decided to give this a rating and - drums please! - after doing some math on what 80% out of six might be, this show gets a 5 star rating. I would had liked more of it, but only because it was just pure fun to watch and I would dare to say it's the best comedy anime of the spring season.
