- A big busted female alien with glasses comes to Earth and after getting a secret identity, comes to live under the same roof with a wuss male teenager. Only difference, she is not pretending to be a teacher but a student.
- Ok, just sticking to this minor similarity is not much of a comparison. You can easily call it similar to “Boobshells in the Sky” if you stick to story details. But then you see how the character designs are pretty much the same (same character designer too). Or how the names of the characters follow a similar construction in kanji. Or some voice actors are the same.
Despite the differences, the two shows are not identical.
- WITS flavours the setting by adding an alien mascot, and the glasses the lead girl wears are not just for flavour but some sort of scouters. This offers some really cool visual effects when she uses alien technology. They even added a theme in the story so instead of having just an albino wuss who was in a coma for years and now looks younger (for real) he is now someone who tries to make a movie. There is also some Men In Black conspiracy going on later on. In this sense the premise is a bit more interesting and complicating.
- WITS is also animated by studio J.C. Staff and not by Daume, which means we get far better production values and far juicier fan service.
- The ending is terrible. PT is amongst the very few in the genre who offer a solid ending but WITS just takes the lame easy way out most others do.
And now let me tell you something it is not alike at all. Many compare it to Ano Hana just because there is an Ano in the Japanese title. GET REAL! Ok, the director and character designer are again the same but there are no ACTUAL similarities.
Enough with the comparisons; now let’s talk about the anime as a stand alone. It is… um… plain. Yet another romantic school comedy anime with a wuss protagonist and chicks who love him for that; the end. Despite being an “original” it has checked everything in the list of clichés and it doesn’t try to experiment with them later on. Random bumping on naked girls? Misunderstanding? Romance? Convenient solutions? It is all here. What is even worse is that the ending is completely lame and puts a shame to the makers who had the balls to do a proper conclusion in PT. So basically you are watching this for the same reason you would be watching any other average and throw away another romantic school comedy anime: Cheap laughs and softporn before you forget it in a few days and go look for something else to watch.
I find no value in this show, since it is not trying to show anything we haven’t seen before in a thousand other anime with similar themes. I am also not enjoying it at all since it is following the formula so tight, it feels like the nth rerun of a b-grade film. And guess what, it really is if you have seen PT or more than a dozen harems. So no, not good.
And now for some excused scorings.
ART SECTION: 7/10
Analysis: General Artwork 2/2, Character Figures 1/2, Backgrounds 1/2, Animation 1/2, Visual Effects 2/2
SOUND SECTION: 6/10
Analysis: Voice Acting 2/3, Music Themes 2/4, Sound Effects 2/3
STORY SECTION: 4/10
Analysis: Premise 1/2, Pacing 1/2, Complexity 1/2, Plausibility 1/2, Conclusion 0/2
CHARACTER SECTION: 4/10
Analysis: Presence 1/2, Personality 1/2, Backdrop 1/2, Development 1/2, Catharsis 0/2
VALUE SECTION: 1/10
Analysis: Historical Value 0/3, Rewatchability 0/3, Memorability 1/4
ENJOYMENT SECTION: 2/10
VERDICT: 4/10
