Mikakunin de Shinkoukei (Engaged to the Unidentified)

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Japanese: 未確認で進行形

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 9, 2014 to Mar 27, 2014

Premiered: Winter 2014

Broadcast: Thursdays at 02:13 (JST)

Producers: Sotsu, DAX Production, TOHO animation, RAY, Ichijinsha

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Doga Kobo

Source: 4-koma manga

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural

Theme: School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.37¹ (scored by 183,909 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #2442²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #583

Members: 395,132

Favorites: 1,221

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Synopsis

Just an ordinary teenager, Kobeni Yonomori receives quite the surprise on her 16th birthday—a fiancé and a sister-in-law she never even knew she had. As a result of an arrangement that her late grandfather made, Hakuya Mitsumine and his younger sister Mashiro have moved from their countryside home to the Yonomori household in order to deepen their relationship with their new family members.

Mikakunin de Shinkoukei follows Kobeni's "love life" with Hakuya as she tries her best to adjust to the abrupt changes forced upon her. However, as some extraordinary secrets regarding the siblings come to light, Kobeni will find her life changed forever.

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Background

Mikakunin de Shinkoukei originally premiered on Japan's ABC station, and also aired on Tokyo MX, BS11, and AT-X. The series was simulcast on Crunchyroll and several other websites outside of Japan. Sales for a six-volume DVD set of the series began March-August 2014.

Although the anime follows the manga closely, the final episode is original to the anime.

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Adaptation:	Mikakunin de Shinkoukei
Side story:	Mikakunin de Shinkoukei: Mite. Are ga Watashitachi no Tomatteiru Ryokan yo., Mikakunin de Shinkoukei: Kamoniku tte Midori-ppoi Aji ga Suru no ne.
Other:	Zentaiteki ni Sensation

Maeda, Kunihiro
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Yoshizawa, Takashi

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Kamata, Hajime

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Yoshikawa, Atsushi

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Takashino, Shuuichi

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Opening Theme

"Tomadoi→Recipe (とまどい→レシピ)" by Mikakuning! (みかくにんぐッ!) (eps 2-4, 6-12)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Tomadoi→Recipe (とまどい→レシピ)" by Mikakuning! (みかくにんぐッ!) (eps 1)
	2: "Masshiro World (まっしろわーるど)" by Mikakuning! (みかくにんぐッ!) (eps 2-11)
	3: "16-sai tte iu no wa Tokubetsu na Kanji da (16歳っていうのは特別な感じだ)" by Jun Ichikawa (eps 12)

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Jan 27, 2024

Zeno_Artaxerxes

Recommended

*** MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD ***
Note: My reviews are like a note for my future self. I try to not spoil anything in it, because in the case I want to rewatch the show, I don't want to know too much about it other than what I think I will remember or surface level details that don't really matter much. I just want to make sure my future self understands a bit of how I felt about it and why I gave this mark.

Review start:

A good slice of life anime with a bit of supernatural stuff in it, adapted in quite a good way knowing that ... the manga is a 4 koma. I wouldn't call it awesome, but it was nice enough to finish it ig. Maybe it was just me, but the voices were a bit too high pitched and they seemed to always scream... had to lower down the volume quite a lot, a first for me tbh.

Story: 7

The story is pretty basic... you can clearly see the whole big plot points from the beginning kinda. But it is okay, because this isn't really something you should watch for the story.

Art: 9

The art is really well done... after all, they are the studio that did Oshi no Ko and Plastic memories.

Music: 9

The OP and ED are pretty catchy, and the first part of the OP is top tier stuff imo.

Characters: 8

Now here this is a bit of a hit or miss... sometimes the character's personalities do become quite annoying... especially the couple because of their shyness and such... The interactions between them is still overall nice and funny, but man, they do no grow from their stuff... which is quite a shame to not see much progress... after all, they are a couple and everything....

Enjoyment: 8

At first I couldn't say I really enjoyed it, for some reason it seemed quite weird to me how the episodes went... and the first episode is quite a bomb shell already in a weird way... but episode by episode I started to grow more attached to the characters, even tho some interactions became a bit annoying to watch, it still made me want to see them more.

Overall: 8

Right now it has 7.37 from 182.442 votes Ranked #2320 Popularity #579 Members 391,741, which seems like around the mark it deserves. Gave it an 8 just because a bigger mark wouldn't hurt it, and in the end, I did enjoy it overall. The manga also I read that it's gonna end with the next volume... after 14 y of running.... yikes, quite a long time... especially when you think that the anime came out in 2014. I will most likely read the manga as well, as I want to see the end of their story with my own eyes and see how they grow. I would say this is an anime to be watched casually, as it isn't something to be taken serious at all. Just chill and have fun.

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Jan 28, 2024

PanzerIV-J

Mixed Feelings

A show that is so amazingly good, only held down by it's lack of well made drama, that comes off as bland and milquetoast-esque, and it's very slow development throughout it's 12 episode run.

First off, this is not a bad anime, it just does some things very poorly, which can lead to the viewer feeling pissed off by it's lack of focus on the central romance plot. Secondly, I rated this a 7, so it wasn't bad, but it is very annoying and frustrating how it has the potential to be a 10/10 show, but doesn't make use of nearly any of it's potential.

All of ... the show's problems leads down to 5 major points.
1. The romance between Kobeni and Hakuya progresses extremely slowly, which it feels like it doesn't progress enough to lead to the conclusion of this series. This is by far the most frustrating part of the show because when progress is made, it is undoubtedly very well done, but it happens at such an undeniably slow pace that it gets really frustrating to watch, since it feels like the romance actually progresses once every 4 episodes.
2. Lots of filler content gets to be hard to bare. This kinda coincides with #1, since the filler content feels like 60% of the series, where no progress is made, partially leading to the slow progress for the romance between the two MCs.
3. Dumb & annoying characters that are there just to disrupt scenes. I am directly stating Benio, Mashiro and Konoha for this, they all take the stage for 70% of every episode, with very little focus actually being on the main point that Kobeni and Hakuya are engaged. Now they are meant to be this way, to be comic relief, but they take up far too much time in each episode that it doesn't allow the engaged couple to get closer to each other emotionally.
4. The engaged couple maybe gets ~15 minutes of alone time in the whole 12 episode run. This ties into all other complaints here, in the fact that it's so unrealistic for their love to be deepened when they get almost no alone time to actually chat and learn each other in all of these episodes.
5. The ending is so stale with tension that shouldn't exist, thus it makes much of the show feel mute, like nothing was gained and ruined some of the development that happened previously.

All together though it really is a good/decent anime, one that I can overall recommend, but cannot say that it is altogether something that I can recommend to everyone.
If any two of the points I pointed out makes you not want to watch then I wouldn't, this anime takes a lot of patience to push through for something that is overall good, and if you do not have the patience then you will be upset and it will likely make you frustrated.

🗿 7/10 🗿

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Apr 4, 2020

Spyqi

Not Recommended

It may be unpopular but I found this show lack luster where it needed it the most. The relationships did not progress at all the characters did not develop and carried no weight tbh wouldn't of cared if one of the characters died.

The shows art and sound is nice but after a bit its boring and has no attractive qualities because of the dead plot.

The main character was boring to look at and had no amusing qualities. The girls look nice but that's about it for characters. They don't look bad but aren't memorable in any way and don't make you care. The raccoon girl ...

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