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This show broke me.

Let's gloss over all the amazing qualities about the world building, characters, story, or just how impossibly engrossing and endearing it is right from the first minute, because everyone and their mom has probably already raved about that. There's no doubt this show's got charm, and lots of it. Only those kinds of show can make me sit down and binge-watch them without wanting to do something else.

Instead, I'll head right to the reason I feel compelled to not only rate this 10/10 (a rating I reserve for only the best), and not only add this to my favorites, and NOT ONLY ... to go as far as rank it above even Steins;Gate, but to even add this glowing review mentioning something that I should probably be super embarrassed about, since I'm a man and gender stereotypes, blah blah blah.

I have never cried so much at a TV Show.

Not even Bojack Horseman. Yeah, I can hear the weebs sneering at me mentioning an American show. But hear me out. Steins;Gate took a few viewings to really draw any tears out of me. Godfather Part III choked me up real bad. Bojack's season 4 is extremely depressing, and I couldn't help but tear up by the end of it. A game called Doki Doki Literature Club has a mod that made me tear up even harder than that. This show. THIS FUCKING SHOW. It made me bawl. I have literally never done that before at a piece of media.

I saw it coming. Once it was revealed (light spoilers) this episode was going to be about Mitty and the experiment, I knew it was going to be hard to watch. And I tried so hard to brace myself. I really tried. But when the time came, it pierced so harshly and stung so bad that I just lost my mind and started crying. Lip quivering, tear-jerking, can't-breathe crying. In that one moment, I had lost all composure and broke down. I had to pause it mid-scene. It was almost like the curse in the show had manifested itself in real life, as cheesy as that sounds. I sounded like an idiot when I tried to speak, even if it was only an attempt to utter something simple like "you tear-jerking bastards" or "holy shit!". I still have yet to calm down. It still hurts. And not just emotionally, but physically, too. My face hurts!

It's been probably almost a decade since I've broken down like that, so I also started to mildly freak out in the middle of it, trying desperately to calm down and such. I know that sounds weird, but it's a foreign experience to me. As much as I've talked about those forms of media getting to me, crying is something I just can't get used to. It messes up my sinus and kinda ruins my day. I don't know how to deal with it. I don't like crying T_T

Oh, and my hands are also numb right now. I don't know why. So that's fun.

Anyways, this show succeeded where the other tear jerkers failed.

This show broke me.

And for pulling that off, I have immense respect for this show.

This is a couple years after my viewing, but I thought I should say something anyways. The reason it's even coming up is because the show was mentioned somewhere and got me thinking about how I don't even remember finishing it, and I was wondering if I had dropped it. Coming here, I see that I actually did, in fact, drop it, and all of its sequels, about half way through.

Why did I drop it? Because it is boring. Unbearably boring.

I guess I should have seen it coming, since it's an ecchi. So there's going to be big anime tiddies and gratuitous fanservice. But the ... thing is, Kill la Kill is also an ecchi, and KlK is fucking awesome.

So what does KlK do right that this show does so horribly, horribly wrong? I'm not completely sure, probably because it's been so long since I last attempted to watch it, but there are things in this show that irked me from the first episode.

First of all, nothing ever happens. From the first episode, we're introduced to this impossibly clumsy protagonist, who always manages to fall onto random women, with his face ending up in either their crotches or their big anime tiddies. Then the girl screams and Johnny Bravo's him, and he feels embarrassed until the alien girl (can't even bother to remember her name. Lala?) bursts into the room with some insane shenanigans that either blows up the area or results in an alien coming to challenge the guy for her hand in marriage, despite the fact that she is completely head over heels for the protagonist and will obviously not go for the challenger no matter how badly they kick the protagonist's ass, either because she's a rebel or because she's eccentric, I don't remember. This happens EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE. It's ridiculous.

I feel like this show has an element of tongue-in-cheek to it, like it's not taking itself seriously, but at the same time, I feel like they got the execution completely wrong, so it ends up being boring instead of funny. I only managed to put up with 15 episodes before I dropped it.

oh...that was like two things...

I also put some comments on my list entry. I usually do this for the REALLY good/bad shows as a "note to self" in case I forgot why my opinion was so extreme. If that makes any sense. I feel like my fresh commentary from the time will help. Maybe. Here's what I wrote:



"It took me 7 months to watch 15 episodes. This show is so boring that I just can't do it. Every episode is the same. Here's the formula: protagonist slips on a banana peel and falls into one of his classmates' vaginae. An alien comes from another planet to either kill/marry/rape/strip the protagonist/lala, the alien princess who fell in love with him out of boredom because she fell naked into his bathtub from space.



If that sounded like the plot to a porno, that's because it is. They just pussed out of going all the way and as a result this is horrible both as a show, and as a hentai.



Fail."

Oh yeah, there's also a girl the protagonist has a crush on. I don't remember her name. she's the purple haired girl in the top left of the cover art.

But nobody gives a fu

Apparently, this ONA is forgettable. Because I literally don't remember watching it. I just kinda randomly caught it on YouTube as a 25-minute compilation, and then when I went to MAL after finishing to log in to give it a score--I thought 5/10 summed up my feelings about it--I see the same exact 5/10 staring me back in the face.

I mean, I never liked Lucky Star that much, but to completely forget about watching a whole thing? Wow. I'm dumbfounded right now. Apparently, I watched this at some point in the past. And I remember none of it. But physical records disagree with my memory, ... so I can't even say "meh".

Well, that's my review. It's not horrible. It's not even bad. In fact, it was kinda cute. But it is middle-of-the-road and, quite literally, forgettable.

To this day, it continues to shock me that after two amazing masterpieces rivalling the likes of Cory in the House, that they would drop the ball this hard.

I mean, aliens? Aliens that can become electricity and travel through telephone wires? Are you fucking kidding me? My suspension of disbelief was shattered into a million pieces by this disappointing blemish on the series.

Everything else was perfect. The story sent me on a rollercoaster of laughing and crying, the art inspired me to take up painting again, the sound made my ears flow in a sea of pure bliss. But then they had to go and ... fuck it up, and I felt crushed and horrified.

Team Pico, for shame.

0/10

In this anime, you get to watch a overly-enthusiastic school girl sleep with you while acting like a 5-year-old. Making nasily "ehee" noises with this face: =^_^=.

Thus begins a 50-minute mystery journey that ends with a stunning revelation: Issho ni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako is a prequel to Bleach, and a sequel to the movie Inception.

Hear me out...

First of all, you can, and DO, teleport. Very often. Maybe you're a camera wearing a human disguise, maybe you're a wizard! Who wouldn't want to sleep with a wizard!? Maybe that's why she thinks she's five, you put a spell on her, you dirty old man, ... you!

This then goes into random dreams while she shows just how unhealthy her sleeping is by waking up every five minutes. Then she gets 3AM-horny and wants to kiss you, proceeds to ignore "you" for a body pillow, and then later gets a midnight snack thinking you are a ghost. Why would she "think" you're a ghost, unless...you are a ghost, and she doesn't want you to know that you're dead.

Really, if you think about it, that would explain everything. Why you don't have a physical body. Why you are in her bedroom despite her most certainly having parents that would object to a boy sleeping with her. Why only she can see you. Why you frightened her in the kitchen. Why you don't wake up at the alarm clock. Why you are able to teleport. Why she giggles every time she looks at you, and why when she's "kissing" you, the camera shows her kissing at nothing.

You are a god damned ghost. You're dead. And haunting her. She's your sister. She is happy to see you because she misses you. Give her a couple more years and she will run into a Shinigami and become a Faux Shinigami, you'll run away, and you will join them as an arrancar 100 episodes later. YOU are the final boss. YOU will end up killing the original Shinigami (her actual older sister) while the girl grows up to become Rukia Kuchiki, and Byakuya pretends to be her brother. Hinako IS Rukia Kuchiki. Issho ni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako is a prequel to Bleach, and it's possible that you get re-incarnated as Ichigo later on.

And then it turns into inception with not one, but TWO false awakenings.

It's a sequel to Inception, a prequel to Bleach, and the single greatest anime in existence. Ghost in the shell's got nothing on this...or DOES IT?

*BWOOOMMMMM*

This show is, without a doubt, the most pure, unadulterated bullshit I have ever watched, with a story more contrived than Bleach, ten times the asspull of Naruto and One Piece combined, and characters more obnoxious than even Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

If it were not for the way it was delivered, and the obvious satire on ridiculous anime tropes that this show embodies, it would be one of the worst anime of all time.

However, because of its deliberate flaws, it is actually enjoyable, despite being a borderline cliche bore-fest.

In other words, it's so bad it's good.

Story: 1/10
Art: 7/10
... Sound: 7/10
Character:1/10
Enjoyment: 9/10
Overall: 8/10

Also, I liked the little nods to Evangelion.

The story is fantastic. There are flaws in the logic, but they aren't glaring enough to detract from suspension of disbelief or overall enjoyment.

The first arc (episodes 1 - 26) is the best, it does a great job setting up the rules, and hooking the viewer. The plans, plots, and mind games are all brilliant. They did an excellent job executing the scenes, character reactions, etc. Everything felt natural.

However, the second arc (27 - 37) was not as good. The most glaring issue, in particular, was the terrible character development. One is an angsty teenager / I have a dark and tortured past cliche, ... the other is a boring androgynous copy/paste of L, that actively insists the thing that L only passively theorized without ever explaining her (?) reasoning, only "I have access to L's case files". It doesn't make sense because earlier on, all of that data was deleted in a tragic accident. It's weak. It doesn't have the same gripping suspense and charm as the first arc.

While the second arc isn't nearly as enjoyable as the first, it does have some very good suspense at times, and a strong, satisfying ending that I am perfectly happy with. If you have seen Breaking Bad and Dexter to the end, you will understand my distinction between a good ending and a poor ending.

And now I'll quickly overview the scoring points the site gave me. The site asked me to fill these out, so I feel an explanation is necessary for each. Note, however, that, and I'll only say this now because this is my first review on this site, they DO NOT represent my overall score. I didn't factor any of the below scores into my final score. I decided my final score before I'd even finished watching the show, let alone come here to review it. I wrote an explanation for that here: http://pastebin.com/8vzJvymf

Story: 9/10. I very much enjoyed the story. From the moment L is introduced to the ending of the show, it was a wild ride. However, it was, by no means, perfect.

Art: 9/10. I have no complaints. The art doesn't blow me away.

Sound: 5/10. I don't care for the genre of music the show uses in its intros. It also clashes with the rather cinematic soundtrack used in the actual show. Feels very amateurish.

Character: 7/10. I would have given it an 8/10, but "N" and "M" were just terrible.

Enjoyment: 9/10. I enjoyed this show very much, aside from little things that irked me. No reason to give it anything less than a 9.

Overall: 9/10.