Well I guess you should aim for the wasteland when youre creating a big project like a bishoujo game? Im sorry.... I just cant come up with a good way to start off this review. After all this anime is just NOT GOOD. I only picked this up because I wanted to watch a visual novelbased anime this season and when I read the description I was expecting another Saekano. Well what I got was Saekano if Saekano was less interesting. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to my review of Shoujotachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu known in English as Girls Beyond the Wasteland. Shoujotachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu follows Buntarou Hojo a.k.a. Bunta who has no idea what he wants to do in the future. One day he writes a script for the drama club and ends up being approached by a girl named Sayuki Kuroda. Sayuki is aiming to create a bishoujo game and she wants Bunta to write the story for it. They also recruit other students at their school like Atomu Yuuka Buntas friends with the latter being talented at acting Yuuki an extremely shy girl who is a talented artist and Andou an otaku who really wanted to create a yaoi game and they form the group Rokuhara. Together Rokuhara works on the game 24 Hours with Asamorisan and aims for the wasteland ....Apparently. Now the story for this anime is dull and cliched. Believe it or not I dont mind cliches too much but this anime couldnt help but bug me about it the story was just so predictable thanks to the cluster of cliches. I honestly dont have a lot to say about the characters either. All of the characters are either uninteresting or annoying and I really didnt care about what happened to any of them. If there was one interesting character in this anime Id say its Atomu but thats only because I found his dark side just slightly amusing. Other than that one quality hes just as boring as everyone else. Well the story and characters may be forgettable but surely the animation voice acting and opening and ending songs cant be as bad right? In all seriousness they arent as bad but the animation almost was. It was kind of easy to see that the studio behind this anime Project No.9 put little thought into the animation. The opening and ending themes which are respectively Wasterlanders by Sayaka Sasaki and Sekai wa Kyou mo Atarashii by Haruka Chisuga Kana Hanazawa Satomi Sato and Satomi Akesaka arent the best songs ever but theyre doable. The voice acting isnt bad either considering Kana Hanazawa is voicing one of the main characters Yuuka but.... is it just me or does it sound like theyre not having a lot of fun with this one? Thats reasonable though considering how this anime turned out. With all of that being said Shoujotachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu was a below average experience and an overall disappointment. Are you looking for an anime where the main characters are creating a game? Id prefer that you watch Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata instead because at least that one has better animation and characters that are actually better to follow. If you insist on watching Shoujotachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu please dont compare it to Saekano because youll find that its a waste of time in comparison.