~~well, looks like the stony-cat itself grantedt me that wish, the entire 12-episodes of Hentai Ouji anime somehow compensated the 14eps I wasted on SakuraNoPet---and it works! Hentai-Ouji to Warawanai Neko is a lot more enjoyable and more watchable than the SakuraPet, and here's how:
STORY = 7
A story about wishes, and a newer elements with the 'cat god'---ofc there's the anime "Nekogami Yaoyorozu" which 'cat god' is also its element---but this one is a different version altogether so given with the creativity of a stony-cat (statue), a hopeless pervert guy lucky enough to be voiced by Yuki Kaji, and although it has harem elements on it, but yep, give it a go of 7.
ART = 9
JC Staff created this, so no qualms about the art. Now if they also focused on the characterization+plot rather than "fanservice", then~~
SOUND = 8
I really didn't give much qualms on the op.ed.songs~~ but this anime has a powerhouse of seiyuus who can pull off this harem into a rom-com:
Yokodera voiced by Yuki Kaji [Eren from SnK];
Tsukiko voiced by Yui Ogura [Alice from Heaven's Memo Pad];
Azusa Azuki voiced by Kaori Ishihara [Madoka from Rinne no Lagrange];
and Tsukushi (Ms. Steel) voiced by Yukari Tamura [Sakura from DC Da Capo; Rika from Higurashi, yep she's veteran];
That much, and you know why this portion has a high score.
CHARACTER = 6
I don't get harem stereotypes. They don't jive with the character-development, and it's like there's an unseen force or a "god of harem" [or just the writer] who manipulates elsewhere where the shoujo ends falling to the shounen without a definite reason or outcome or as how the plot went on.
You juz end up scratching your head and say "wtf~" after failing to comprehend as how exactly do they end up falling---as I'd like to call it "anti-feminist" but okay, we can work that as to give it the benefit of doubt to support logic.
I'm usually strict about character developments. I don't like it when writers just make their characters "end up" without due reasons. In harem anime, it's either I rate them as with a low score, or I don't write a review at all, as not to give them any score.
In Hentai Ouji, however, there's a "stitch" of characters, an interaction of characters (you'll get it by the ending) as to put the harem into action with enough reasons why.
ENJOYMENT = 6
Originally rated as 5, I placed a 6 on this portion because of the final 3 episodes. Also, I enjoyed this MORE than the SakuraPet, so it has its merits getting a rate of 6.
OVERALL = 6
After watching Outbreak Company, I settled with the thought that anime in this kind of fashion will be my most basic anime to watch. Any less than that with its all nonsense like To Love Ru and Sakura-pet, and I'd drop it flat. [Except for Asobi ni Iku Yo, which has a powerhouse-seiyuu cast]
Hentai-Ouji was droppable for me juz by the first sight of it--however, because I was running low of anime to watch, as much as trying to keep an open-mind that no harem anime are alike.
PS: The reason why I kept mentioning SakuranoPet here is because they're frequently discussed having a lot of common. Well, it might be, but I won't press to say that by characterization, Hentai-Ouji and SakuraNoPet share the "deep character relationship" because no---Hentai Ouji is what has deep character relationship, not to be compared with SakruaNoPet's shallow implications.
I could recommend better rom-coms than this anime; however I can give this a slack: Hentai-Ouji is lighthearted enough for hopeless-romantic girls who thinks there's a guy out there that no matter how perverted he is in mind, but does not so in actions (yes, there are guys like that---a rare breed). Anyway, those who have a huge attention span with romcoms may juz enjoy this anime to their smiles' content.
