Story: 9
I found myself shaking my head after first reading the summary. “This is just another shoujo,” I thought. “It won’t be any different from the others,” I thought; but then I realized how fun the plot actually sounded and tried at the first episode. Basically, in a nutshell, the story revolves around a young, handsome, high school boy Kanade Amakusa, who everyone has pushed aside as one of the “Reject Five” even though he used to be quite popular. This is only because of a disability, if you will, he gained last year that caused multiple choice questions to appear in his head to solve real life conflicts. Many of these solutions are usually perverted and weird. One thing led to another and he became unpopular, finally. This is a harem genre anime in which Kanade is surrounded by the other girls in the Reject Five. It’s basically a growing love story with hilarious elements mixed in between. I love how the anime knew that the plot seemed very “archetypical” and decided to play around with it a little. A humorous mood is always surrounding the air of this anime. I was really disappointed though, at the fact that was only 10 episodes long. I believe it would’ve been a lot less compacted and would’ve been much more humorous if the anime extended a few episodes more. Haha, or maybe that’s just me not wanting it to end. I guess the element that did the most for this anime was the irony. I mean, a conflict would erupt and instead of finding the most serious and calming solution as possible, Kanade takes the hard, humorous route and entertains us with his constant failure. I could not stop laughing at his constant catastrophes and screw-ups, because then we get to see more Kanade tries to start all over again. Overall, the plot was very well developed and there seemed to be very little holes and confusion. 9
Art: 8
The art is fricking adorable. I mean, I know I don’t normally don’t like that kind of thing and I don’t really approve of the flashing titties and skirts… but I couldn’t help but I couldn’t help it. The art style and design, with the bright colors, large eyes, cute patterns… It just fit the anime really well and there’s no denying that fact. It really had a well impact on the whole entire humorous and fun aspect of the anime. It wasn’t too serious, and it was pretty cute. Kanade was the only character that I believe could’ve been designed better. I mean, he was supposed to be “handsome.” That was his image, and that’s who he used to be; but I just didn’t see it. Also, I wouldn’t say the movement of the anime is very pretty; the only thing that got me was the color. Still very well executed. 7
Sound: 7
Okay, nothing was very special about the OST soundtrack. That was a big flaw in the anime. I would expect a cute, bubbly, song that cheers everyone up and is almost nonsensical to the plot, but I didn’t get anything like that, so I was pretty disappointed. The opening was pretty cute though, I mean, you have all of these adorable little girls, why not use them for a well-choreographed dance number? Normally I don’t like that kind of thing, but once again, it fit the anime really well. Now, for the voice acting. Okay, you can tell that the actors had LOADS of fun filming this anime, especially the actor for Kanade. He had so many different moods and tones in his voice that just cracked me up, so Kudos to him for keeping a straight face through it all. The acting was really well done for all the girls.
Characters: 8
Ah, my favorite thing to analyze. I won’t analyze all of the characters because there are just too damn many. That’s a weakness point or two to take away from the anime’s characters. Sorry, but too many characters is a reoccurring issue in anime these days and I many are added just for a small something that plays insignificant to the story and that mainly ends up screwing with the story a bit. And you’d think, in that entire sea if characters, that I would hate a few, but I really didn’t. The variety of the characters’ personalities and different viewpoints and sources of humor ADDED to the anime and just added more laughs. I mean, yeah, some characters were insignificant, like that one “little sister character” but I couldn’t help but enjoy the variety. I had to see it coming though, I mean, it IS a harem, duh, Stupid Hattie. And seriously, I even laughed at the side characters that seemed to play no value to the story, such as the “Flippant God,” (OMG he was hilarious) or his ugly neighbor who is a “boy lolicon.”
Enjoyment: 10
This anime was fricking hilarious. The randomness along with the amazing elements and characters really got me hooked. It would always cheer me up and I have never loved a shoujo anime like this. I hope they make more of this anime so I can get a less ambiguous ending and a refreshing second season.
Overall: 8/9
