Goldenboy Genre: Comedy Quickie Guide Average Overall Score (of 3): 8.1

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Reviewer: Guidoman2000 Overall Score: 10
Type of Review: General
"Golden Boy is about a freester, Kintaro Oe, who has enough credits to graduate from law school but chose to study life itself. He travels all through Japan on his trusty bike, looking for something new to see in life. Kintaro is certainly interesting, as he is very willing to learn about life (while he can be a big perv at times, he also looks willing to help other people)... "
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Reviewer: Jix Overall Score: 8.0
Type of Review: General
"There's something about this short series that either makes you love it or hate it. It could be that Kintaro, the main character, can be a bit weird with his strange fetishes and weakness for beautiful women, or because he always seems to get in way over his head yet still manages to miraculously come out triumphant at the end of each episode... "
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Reviewer: KalaxDG Overall Score: 6.0
Type of Review: General
"I began to watch Goldenboy more or less ignorant of what the anime was about, and after the introduction scene I knew I was in for one hell of an annoying, poorly made, half-hentai 6 episode series. The anime began as a rather stupid looking guy almost gets nailed by a speeding sports car as he rides his bike. The driver is revealed to be a very scantily-clad woman (BOUNCY too, an effect accomplished elsewhere by Cowboy Bebop and Nuku Nuku), as well as hentai), who also ends up being his boss at a new computer programming firm. I found this scene to be very indicative of a series I would hate. Boy was I wrong... "
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Reviewer: Frank Overall Score: 7.5
Type of Review: General
"James Bond was just as mixed as the martinis that he drank. He was equal parts agent, hero, and womanizer. Now take the womanizer part of Bond and multiply that tenfold, and you get young Kintaro Oe, a man who seems to obliviously attract women as much as he lusts after them. Goldenboy's central character is a man of many talents, but he is, unfortunately, held back by a series that isn't nearly as deep as him..."
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