Story: (6/10)
The story’s setting is like any other school based anime you watch. You see the typical track field, the school classroom, and the typical festival. The story itself, however, is something you don’t usually see in an anime. The main character, Keita, has to choose between one of his two sisters, Ako and Riko, who aren’t related to him by blood, to marry as he tries to enter the same school as them. Unfortunately, you don’t get to see who he marries in the end, which I was disappointed by, but you do see the female characters try to get the upper advantage over each other to win Keita’s affection which I found to be quite interesting. As you may have expected, Kiss x Sis is sexual in a lot of ways. From using objects as a way to show affection to almost having sex with your sister, if I can say one thing about this, it’s borderline from becoming a hentai. Well of course you couldn’t have an ecchi and harem anime without its clichés. You’ll see many clichés throughout this anime such as nose bleeds, boob grabbing, and panty shots. You’d expect these clichés to be dumb, but for some odd reason Kiss x Sis does it in a funny way in which you will forgive it.
Art: (8/10)
The animation for this anime was produced by a company called Feel. If you haven’t heard or don’t know the animation company, Feel, they’re the ones who produced Mayo Chiki!, Yosuga no Sora, Outbreak Company, and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO. The art style and environment to this anime looks typical. I’m not saying that’s bad, but nothing really stood out to me.
Sound: (8/10)
The opening and ending theme songs sound J-popish, which I don’t really mind, but I didn’t find them to be memorable at all. The same goes for the background music, but it seemed to match each scene, which is fine in my book. The voice actors and actress did a fine job too, I couldn’t really complain.
Characters: (7/10)
What’s an anime without its characters? The characters itself are pretty generic, but have a clear distinction between them. There are some clichéd side characters such as the loli and big breasted female character. For the rest, there’s actually some uniqueness to them. For example, one of the characters is bad at cooking, while the other is not. Using the character’s uniqueness, the writers use the character’s characteristics to make each character seem like the best fit for the main character to date. All the characters certainly elevate our main character by giving his harem role.
Enjoyment: (8/10)
The reason why I gave this an 8 out of 10 is because I felt awkward and uncomfortable at times. There’s this one character, in the show, who is your essential loli. One of the many things I did not like about her is that she’s flashes her panties at Keita, which feels really weird and awkward considering she is in middle school, but hey, I give props to the creator for writing something that we usually don’t see. The thing I like about Kiss x Sis is that it tops the last perverted thing they did. If you’re going to make a harem and ecchi based anime, at least make it outrageous enough for you to like it and kiss x sis exactly does that.
Overall: (7/10)
Overall, I enjoyed this anime, but I felt empty after watching this. It felt like something was missing. I enjoyed the show, but I didn’t feel hooked with the overall storyline. After I finished, I asked myself, “Was that it? Is there any more?” I wasn’t satisfied with the story and I certainly wasn’t satisfied with the ecchi. It felt like it needed more. Kiss x Sis will certainly entertain you with outrageous sexual acts, but it lacks meaningful story that I can’t really connect.
