Amaenaide yo!!

Fantastic


First of all the story was fantastic, I loved the characters the plot etc.
Believe it or not, aren I'm looking at you you fuck, the anime has deep underlying themes such as religion and taboo, it raises issues such as should
religious institutions be able to able to exert their sexuality on widely accepted people such as women instead of little children?
The plot follows a young buddhist priest in training who has trouble containing his sexuality, and goes through various trials including testing his faith to Buddha with many sinful girls possible corrupting him. Overall the animation quality was fairly decent, for it's time, and the ... dub cast really brings character to the story.
If you are a fan of ecchi and a riveting story of exorcisms and such then this is the anime for you.






I love it

'Amaenaide yo!!' or 'Ah! My Buddha' could be best described as an anime that sets out to deliver ecchi/harem type entertainment... and fails at it. In a nutshell, it's an ecchi anime with minimal ecchi, lots of plot holes, incoherent script and awful character development.

The story and the setting might look appealing to ecchi watchers, a young monk in a buddhist temple filled with hot nuns? It'll be interesting right? Well it would be but not in this anime. 'Ah! My Buddha' succeeds in screwing up this kind of a setting with tedious, sleep inducing subplots and fillers. In fact this whole anime feels ... like you're watching a filler that just doesn't seem to fit into anything. The story goes absolutely nowhere and half-way through this nauseating 12 episode series, you feel like you're going to vomit your brains out.

For starters, the "ecchi" here is sporadic and absolutely pathetic. Aparently the makers thought that seeing a half-covered thigh for 2 seconds classes as ecchi. Laughable. Moreover there's no finesse here, the ecchi is used in the most inappropriate moments and in the most innappropriate ways. Spirits of dead people groping teenage girls... seriously? Is that what we've lowered ourselfes to?

Second thing, the male protagonist - Ikkou Satonaka. He serves no actual legitimate purpose in this anime other than being everyone's buttmonkey. Punched in the nuts, kneed in the face and tasked with a buttload of chores. This kind of humour is only good if it's used in moderation, in this anime however it's the ONLY type of humour and it's grossly overused to the point where you just wish the male protagonist would stand up and leave the funny farm and all the slavers around him to their own fuckery.

Last but not least, all the rest of the characters and their development. The rest of the main cast, which is comprised of girls, is there to look fakely serious and remind the male protagonist that he's a "worthless piece of scum" who needs to control himself. 5 minutes later they grope each other in front of him and he gets brutally mutilated because apparently it's his fault. Uhm, excuse me? I don't know about you but I'm not a fan of sadism. This kind of a thing just doesn't appeal to me. As for character development, there is none. The characters have been 'programmed' to do the same thing every episode. Hurt Ikkou and get off on his misery. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat...

Despite the plot and the characters being dreadfuly bad, there are two things preventing this anime from being a flat out disaster. That's art and sound. The art is good and precise, granted, there are a few oddities here and there from time to time but the overall quality is impressive.

Sound is perhaps the only truly remarkable component of this anime. Suprisingly, the opening is very catchy and well made giving you the impression that you're about to watch something enjoyable. Too bad the anime itself couldn't live up to that expectation. The rest of the soundtrack is also good and voice acting, despite the horrendous plot, authentic.

That however doesn't change the fact that a majority of people will not enjoy this anime and it's current rating accurately describes what you should expect. Boredom and irritation. The setting certainly had a potential but the makers (I'm looking at you DEEN) couldn't and didn't excecute that idea in the right way. Quite the contrary, they executed it in the worst way imaginable.

You won't be missing out on anything if you decide to avoid this anime.

Anime such as this are so formulaic, repetitive and predictable to the point you know what they will be about by just reading the categories. It’s as if there is an Echidna out there (the mother of all monsters one, not that rodent) which gives birth to these shows with very similar traits, no matter who the father is. I am willing to place some harems above some others. Ah My Goddess and Love Hina were amongst the first, still pure and untainted by the ridiculousness of all those which plagiarized them later on, with far less quality and badly thought out settings. Well, hello, ... check out the name and the character attributes and then tell me it ain’t Ah My Goddess with a Love Hina lead. Watching them and their successors clearly shows how much the genre degenerated from romantic comedy with erotic innuendoes to pure fapping material without a shred of humor or taste.

Yes, I used the “T” word, indirectly calling all those who like such disgraces idiots. Well, excuse me for making a point here which goes beyond their egocentric selves and shows a sub market of wasted potential that diminishes the anime industry instead of flourishing it. But more on that later. Let’s first nerdraeg at the different sections of this dreadful thing which some did the mistake of making and others followed on by buying.

The story. Oh Sweet Mother of Jesus, the thing which this genre never cared about. Most comedies are the same as well but harems seem to not even bother TRYING to have anything other than a premise. In this case, the excuse for the endless fappingness is eastern monks. The setting is the same like in most others of this kind, a fail of a male specimen is surrounded by various super hot chicks, who have a really hard time staying dressed, covering their privates, or bumping on his crotch as if it is an ultra powerful electromagnet. Yeah, that sounds familiar; if it didn’t it wouldn’t be called soft porn disguised as comedy, aka harem. It’s as if all these shows need to do is have this premise and a random set of clothes to set themselves apart from the other, practically identical, shows. Which is double as lame, since down to it these shows use clothes not to define personalities but only to define fetishes. Maids, sisters, nuns, in this case priestesses. Plus, they finally aim to remove said clothes to provide even more cocktease, leaving the viewer staring at breast sizes and not people with a personality.

Anyways, the excuse here is that dork being sent to get close with Buddha while being accompanied by chicks who help him trigger his hidden potential. How? By making him horny! WTF? A priest getting better at holy magic by being tainted by lustfulness? Does that mean a psychotic killer who performs a mass (not the murder type) at some church will be ten times as crazy? What bullshit is this?

Crappy premises aside, the actual story is as per usual almost entirely fillers. The first episode is there to tell you the basics and the final episode of each season to provide a supposed closure, only for it to be as open and useless as the premise itself. The rest of the episodes are nothing but excuses for the girls to expose themselves. So if I am to give the story a score, that would be 3 episodes out of a full season, basically 1/7th of the total duration. There you go, a generous score of 2.

Then we move to the cast. Oh God Almighty, the section which is as looked upon as the story. The lead is the usual fail for life arsewhole who is incapable of even looking at a girl without having a nosebleed or not be beaten to a pulp by some neurotic bitch every 5 minutes. It was funny the first 100 times I saw it in Love Hina, but now it is nothing else besides lame. Seriously, are we supposed to identify with this ding-dong, who is good at nothing? Or to NOT identify but rather self-insert because of how bland he is? What kind of people would like such an archetype?

None. Nobody likes beta cucks. They can make them seem to be chick magnets because they have a good heart despite being wastes of space and still nobody will like them. Because they are never the main focus, they are the eyes of the viewer. The naked bodies of the girls are the highlight and the protagonists are losers just to prevent the story from becoming hardcore porn. WELL WHY NOT? How much frustration can a man stand before his weenie falls off from the constant blue-balling? This isn’t healthy for Pete’s sake. It’s just about drooling all over 2D girls without ever getting any boon.

Anyways, at least we have personalities to notice here besides boobs and underwear. Each girl has her own unique psychology, goals in life, reasons to aspire being like her… YEAH RIGHT! HAREM GIRLS WITH DEPTH; NICE ONE HAHAHA! They are solely defined by their breast size and the color of their underwear. Their clothes are not there to give them personality; they are there as a fetish for the fans of this dreadfulness to like. If they ever change clothes, they don’t become different people but rather a DIFFERENT FETISH! Being undressed is just the default state.

So these characters (which in this excuse of a story are some generic eastern monks in some generic temple) are nothing you wouldn’t expect. They don’t really develop and you have no reason to remember something about them, besides perhaps the boners you got out of them. I give them the score they deserve. A nice fat bottomed ace.

But you know what? As lame as these shows are, they can still have good animation and a brilliant soundtrack. Nothing holds them back from doing that. Love Hina and Ah My Goddess had wonderful artwork and superb music scores, and they are harems as well. Remember the magic world of the gods and their divine music? Naru’s singing at the concert? So why not have something similar in this show? BECAUSE THE PRODUCERS DIDN’T CARE! If it weren’t for the constant worm view of the camera angle just so we can see pantsu without a reason, there would be nothing to look at. And you can watch this anime in mute for all I care; the dialogues are retarded and there isn’t much of a plot to distract you from the main theme of this show; which is fapping excuses.

This turd has no message, no artistry, nothing out of the norm. It doesn’t even try to be different, it is a clone of the set-in-stone formula. Doesn’t worth it! Keep away! Try something else, preferably not harem.