Majimoji Rurumo

Honestly I don't consider myself a pervert. Sure I have a certain preferrence to lolis but that's all. And yet I'm certain that if I were to pretend I was a pervert I would give a performance 10 times more convincing than this crap!

Shibaki is a high-school student, supposedly well-known for being interested in the ecchi part of life. He meets a magical girl, Rurumo (aka a cute emotionless loli) and her familiar (the -nyan character) and receives from them magical tickets that may fullfill his every wish, on the premise that if all tickets run out, he dies (the loli doesn't know that). The ... protagonist ends up using them on every episode to avoid disasters in his school life and to protect Rurumo herself (for example allowing her to stay at his house) who he grows attached to.

Only the performance comes out as downright corny. It's like watching Miley Cyrus twerk, she just doesn't have it in her (or on her, specifically on her behinds... anyway she can't do it). The protagonist acts way too saint-like for the character he's supposed to be. In way too many cases where he could get some he starts going all moral and just on us, whereas in other cases where nothing is happening he's putting an over-the-top performance to show that he has only girls in mind that just doesn't come out as natural.

The episodes are waaaaaayyyyyyy too cliche, most centering about Rurumo showing more human emotions through the various classicals (going-to-the-beach episode, animal-caring episode, mysterious-girl-joining-club episode...). The show is so cliche that you can practically imagine the plot of the entire episode from the introduction prior to opening credits (aka from the first minute). One thing I am glad for is that the wannabe pervert (how can they make this seem like a bad thing...?) sees Rurumo more as the immouto character than the maiden-in-distress, but again for 2 people living in the same house and "bound by fate" they somehow don't have nearly as many interractions as you would expect, making it feel incredibly lacking. In fact in many cases you will feel that pointless scenes get all the screen-time that could have been used for precious character developement. We still practically know nothing about the protagonist or Rurumo despite the anime now being in the 11th episode. The cat was for me the only likeable character but she barely makes a guest appearance in most episodes.

Spoiler: In the final episode the emotionless loli suddenly starts blushing way too often, shows that she has feelings for the protagonist and becomes excited about wanting to wear a kimono. You know, I'm starting to think I was hard on the protagonist. I mean his performance was unconvincing as hell too but it didn't ruin the character all THAT much. Rurumo's behaviour on this one episode on the other hand manages to ruin her image completely. And keep in mind, she's a loli so I'm not actually going as harsh on her as I should. In fact, all things considered, everyone's acting in the show was over-the-top and unconvincing. It's just that the protagonist got more screen-time and therefore was more obvious at it...

Overall incredibly predictable, cliche'd as f$%^ and with extremely bad performances by EVERYONE. The show just feels lacking and badly produced. Stay away.

So much goes to waste in this anime.
While I understand that there's really not much to go off of, the problems of this show are still obvious. The pacing is weird, characters suddenly pop in and out, and a lot of plot points are buried in the easy-going rhythm of the show.
The females dialogue all sound like background characters who don't even have names, the club the MC is in didn't even name two of the three characters in it, the MC has a little brother with like three lines in the entire show that I forgot about for like six episodes, and one ... of the characters on the cover art only shows up in one episode. Also the leading heroine (rurumo) doesn't really stand out. I wanted to see more of a connection between the two main characters, but there wasn't enough until near the end. The show takes too long to get somewhere.
This show could've survived with a six person cast, but there's way too many forgettable characters.

The art and music were a refreshing change from what I'm used to but really didn't go anywhere with it. I almost got a fooly cooly feel from it, but it didn't really expand on that.

I found myself struggling to stay interested in a few episodes, but in the end I finished it.

good-
- nice break from "mainstream" animation
- a couple of lesser explored ideas that people like to see
- Although cliche, interesting in it's execution.

bad
- bad pacing, not just slow but occasionally glossing over details
- cast was too large, forgettable characters
- slow to start, and then ends when you start getting interested
- nothing really outstanding, a general sense of mediocrity