Although the target audience was probably teenage girls....there was enough of a kind of Shounen feel to this to keep this 25 Year Old Male interested...kinda like a reverse Bleach/Buso Renkin.....and that was good enough for me. The nice...albeit cheesy....sentiments in the last couple of episodse raised a slight smile. Slapstick 'Looney Tunes-like' subplot with the stepsister laying out traps is also quite amusing.
Art - 3
This was one of the biggest problems for me....and would probably given this an 8 or at least a 7 Overall score if it wasn't for the art. Why? Two factors........A) The artist doesn't seem to know how to keep things within it's outlines or adds outlines that don't make any sense. It's unrealistic.......tell me...how many people do you see walking by in this world where you can see their eyes IN FRONT OF their long hair. No excuses for this at all........and looks even worse when combined with B) The water-coloured background cheapens an already suffering drawing.....maybe the artist(s) should just work with black and white. This would get a 2 at the most if it wasn't for the impressive detail on every character's eyes.
Sound - 4
Not a fan of the theme.....especially when it's used mid episode for no reason whatsoever.
Character - 8
This contributed a lot towards the overall score . All character's backstories....personal feelings....and traumas are portrayed well. You feel their pain. Their loneliness. You are drawn in sympathetically to most of the characters more and more with every personal revelation. The one downside to this aspect is that the protagonist's constant complaining in the early episodes will give you the stong urge to give her a nice....hard.....high five.....in the face......with a chair, but by the end you'll forget that you ever once felt that way about her.
Enjoyment - 7
Despite the genre and the possible target audience. I enjoyed this a lot more than I probably should have. A lot of it due to the funny humour and serious lessons learned. Two totally different sides of one pretty enjoyable coin.
All of those points mentioned above bring me to my Overall score of a fair 6.
