Its in essence, an ecchi. However, I feel that the underlaying background story and characters of the show were very well written, just the ecchi got in the way a little too much. If Golden Boy was just Kintarou going from place to place and helping people without his sex drive constantly getting in the way I feel it could have been a much better series.
Kintarou himself is a very interesting and great character. You expect most characters in ecchi anime like this one to fit in a specific role, dumb and honest, smart and sly, ect. At first Kintarou comes off as the dumb honest type, who wants to try and prove himself in various fields to impress woman, but constantly fails, which he does do. But Kintarou is a very intellegent person, who seems to have the skill of learning things that take most people years to accomplish in a matter of weeks. Too bad in the end hes always trying to use those skills to impress a girl.
...or is he? Kintarou always starts off with the seeming motivation to impress a female of choice, but if he does manage to get that girl to come around and like him, he inevitably runs away before any romance can develop. Which leads me to think all this 'impress the girls' plot is just something Kintarou is trying to see how various woman react to various situations, something given his brains I could see him doing.
Overall, the ecchi really got in the way of what could have been a great story, but its still worth at least one watch though IMO.
