Ranked #1360

I''s Pure

I’s Pure is a Shounen, Ecchi, Romance about a boy Seto Ichitaka, who has had huge crush on a cute girl in his class, Yoshizuki Iori. This may be the setting for a typical Romantic Comedy but I’s Pure is able to do great things with this plot.

The story starts of normally enough with us getting to know the characters, which is easy enough because they have the generic personalities; hot girl, indecisive guy, perverted friend, childhood friend, etc. Even with these typical personalities the characters are pretty amazingly developed in their own way, through so many situations and after the awkward beginning, the romance begins to develop well throughout the story. Of course there's comedy but it is played down, quite a bit. Like any other Rom/Com, this anime does tend to rely on cliches but the cliches aren't a problem. The real problem is how quickly the story jumps from one situation to another and that is because this really short anime is based on a long manga. But it is pretty easy to overlook that, especially for those who haven’t read the manga, seeing how well the story is illustrated.

The quality of animation is great, with so much detail put into the environments and the characters move fluidly. The girls are well designed, which is essential for an ecchi romance but like most of these types of anime, not much detail was put into the guys.

The music was pretty good and it definitely suited the anime but most of the time it was barely noticeable, to make any difference to it.

Overall this is a typical ecchi, romantic, comedy that manages to push the envelope, due to its not-so-original but captivating story. The characters were surprisingly well developed in such a short amount of time. I’s Pure was so close to getting a higher score but it didn’t because it summed up a 15 Volume manga into 6 regular length OVAs. This means that a lot of major developments and some important characters were left out of the story, which was a big let down. At least the parts of the story it tells, it sometimes does a better job than the manga.

So if you haven’t read the manga you wouldn’t be disappointed but you may feel a bit left in the dark about certain situations, which is why I recommend reading the manga.

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Did it manage to put the awesomeness of the manga within 6 episodes?
Read this review and find out!


I opened the first episode, it seemed kind of cool. After a bit of watching you soon notice that they have skipped so many that should have been there. Much of the ecchi scenes totally vanished and were nowhere to be seen. Much of the comedy was dropped as well, same goes for a lot of other scenes. But I wasn't sad at all.

[Ecchi: Nakedness you might say. It however is not pornographical, it will in most cases not show any inappropriate body-parts].


The Anime maybe didn't had the ecchi, it maybe didn't have some of the unimportant scenes the manga did had. But it had something else; great animation and a fantastic story line. To me it wasn't just a sum up, it was better than what I expected.

The Anime isn't totally like the Manga, but who cares. I bet most of the people who have seen the Anime completely didn't know there was a Manga at all. But they still liked it..?

Yes they did, if they didn't, they either hate it's genre or they have no taste at all. The Anime shows love how it's supposed to be. Love is doubt, a lot of doubt. Not only does it do this fantastically, it also does it in a way that excites you. In this a lot of Anime fails and are labeled as 'yet another one of those'. This one however, excites you, and that by all means is what a Anime should be.

Next to a to me fantastic experience of story and development, it also had fun bonusses which perfectly resembles the Ecchi scenes that were so non-consistant in the Anime. Aren't the creators considerable.


This Anime is one which will take a small amount of time, it's only 6 episodes. But if you really don't like an Anime in which they might get a little bit dramatic at times, just to tense/spice things up a little, than this Anime isn't for you. I still suggest you to watch it however, 6 times 20 minutes should be doable for any Anime-watcher out there. Not to mention that some scenes are really worthwhile and animated fluidly. read more