STORY: College drop out boy meets a cute boobilicious girl and proceeds to move into a dorm with other girls of different shapes and sizes, and also begins his quest after catching his first Sekirei to become a master or something... Okay that's all I got, the "Oh it's exactly like those other things" joke are lazy tiresome and a bit repetitive, but anime like this is exactly what it should only get and deserve.
And Sekirei is absolutely nothing different from any ecchi anime you'll see, lazy characterizations? Check! Clueless and borderline retarded female lead? Check! Female lead devoting herself to the main male lead for, no joking about this here, no reason at all and despite they only just met? You know it...
But, the gimmick this time to get you interested in the tittie show is this is like pokemon, as the Sekirei practiably act like mindless tools for battle and follow their master's demands as this ecchi anime is also a generic action anime, you know, the kind that only clothes take damage (There clothes should only be treated as a health bar before they "faint" apparently). Not that it's a terrible idea or anything, but there is an obvious marketing underside to the idea, as the girl just love to repeat what type of Sekirei they are. I'm the fighting type! I'm the fire type! etc, etc...
The girls range from all kinds of sizes, you got you perfect woman build, the ridiculous proportioned ones, and even a loli so no pervert is left out, as there's enough for all. As character's go... The main lead is too generic to even care about, even his name escapes me (I know I can just look it up on wiki or something but why should I if generic hero of ecchi anime is a more suitable name?) and the lead female or pokemon-Sekirei whatever has the IQ of half her breast size in centimeters, so there's no dodging the "oops, I saw your panties" jokes or "OMG, you're naked!" routines, even we get full frontial boobs in this one, but just like any other ecchi, is nothing more than cock teasing to point of saying, "Why isn't this just a hentai?"
All Sekirei manages to do is kill brain cells and empty wallets, well until the next tit anime comes along, and if you're the type to fall for it, then more power to you, because it least you're fueling one of the bigger budget anime producers, Aniplex, and maybe they'll use the money to make more Fate/whatevers or other colored Exorcists so that they can market something not as completely bland as this.
ANIMATION: At least... The animation is fine, action scenes are good and the titties are... well, bouncing, so that's all that should matter anyway for anime like this.
SOUND: I can't remember, it's forgettable to the point of amnesia. Didn't watch the japanese version as much as the english version, and I did check out Funimation's dub and it's underwhelming, but even Funimation knew that the effort of a good dub would be unfitting for this anime. Chuck Huber is in it as a type-casted professor so at least that's kind of a treat.
OVERALL:
The Good:
+ If you're in it for titties, more power to ya.
+ Don't worry, they're animated quite nicely.
Mixed:
+/- A decent idea / A gimmick used for easier marketing.
The Bad:
- About as deep as every generic harem you've ever seen.
- No memorable character, retard main female lead.
- Forgettable audio, both english and japanese audio are just as lazy.
I'm not trying to talk shit here, and I know I didn't really give this anime a chance (Though I can get enough information from watching two episodes to write a review speaks volumes of how truly little there is offered in this anime in terms of everything but titties) and of course it's only about the titties and it's redundant to criticize the show for it, but this is almost insulting, but if you really want to watch this, try watching it with a few friends and have a blast cracking pokemon references or even do your own Mystery Science Theater 3000 commentary with this show, that's probably the best way to get through this the non-shameless way instead of beating off to this.
