Kanda Sorata is just an ordinary high schooler who loves cats so much. Unfortunately his kindness to a cat consequences him into some trouble. He was banned by school principal from staying in general student dormitory. He must stay in a certain strange mixed gender dormitory named Sakurasou. Well…Sakurasou is a unpretentious dorm with several troublesome students who live into it. Live in Sakurasou is just like disgrace for other general students since Sakurasou is popular with disobedient inhabitant. Although he lives in the strange community like Sakurasou he still can be grateful because he can live with all of his dearest cat. The white one is named Hikari by him.
There’re other inhabitants in Sakurasou. First is girl named Misaki. She is third year and it means she is Kanda’s senior in school. She is really cheerful person who often does many weird things like discards her underwear into Kanda’s room, wears a lame cosplay suits, plays video games with him until dawn, etc. Actually she is genius student who got a high score in many times before when she was still in middle school. She’s in love with another Sakurasou’s inhabitant named Jin. He is her childhood friend. Second is a mysterious boy named Ryuunosuke. He’s often called ‘dragon’ by Misaki because his name contains a word ‘Ryuu’ which means dragon in English. Ryuunosuke’s face never revealed at the beginning of first season of this anime. He fends on himself at his room and never goes out even for school. Maybe he isn’t otaku who likes to stay in the room in a long time for many useless things. But the fact is true that he’s a computer genius. Third is a glassed gentleman boy named Jin. He is harem-master. He can easily beat women heart and then dating them. He was dating Misaki’s sister in the first time but all of that is just a lie. He has been crushed at Misaki since they’re kid. And the last one is Kanda’s female teacher called Chihiro. She is alcohol maniac and hasn’t married yet. She has a lot of bad manners. In the other hand actually she is really wise teacher who often gives Kanda many advices.
The story developed when Kanda met the newbie in the Sakurasou. She’s Shiina Mashiro. She’s blond haired woman with genius ability in art. She’s well know painter in English who often paints many masterpiece art. But she has bad behavior in social life that she cannot take her own necessity like picking clothes, wearing pants, studying, etc. But it looks like she never studies because she is genius. Then Kanda is ordered to do all of Mashiro’s necessary. When he realized Shiina’s geniuses he started to think for himself about what talent that he had. After thinking for a moment he supposed to make some game software. He started to learn about how to make it. He get some help from Ryuunosuke who has mastered a computer things for long time ago. Then he decided to apply for some game software contest which was held by a certain company. Unfortunately it’s too bad. He failed the competition and his game was rejected. He had some depression because of that. Luckily he has friends in Sakurasou who always support him. And then he tried to promote another his game concept. Eventhough he still didn’t make it as the result. Someone named Rita tells him to not get along with Shiina. Since her geniuses can beat him down even she doesn’t want it. It’s a big gap after all.
Story continued with the appearance of last newcomer of Sakurasou. She is Aoyama. She is Kanda’s classmate as well. The love story developed between Kanda, Aoyama and Shiina. Shiina and Aoyama clearly have a crush on Kanda. But it seems like Kanda have a confusion at they two. There’re any proofs that actually Kanda likes Shiina in several scenes but Kanda’s also blushing when Aoyama was in his side. So I rather call it complicated.
Here’s my opinion. I would like to show my opinion as plus and minus analysis. I think I will say it from the minus of this anime
Minus :
- To be honest this movie isn’t more than mainstream harem anime. It means a lot of ecchi things are showed as long as two season in this anime. So if you ecchi manic I really recommend this for you. Since I’m not good at something like that.
- The biggest moral value in this anime, the gap between someone genius and general, isn’t concentrated well. I think it would be a great anime if the struggle of Kanda Sorata had been more shown in the order to shrink the gap between him and Shiina. Since they’re a couple of lover.
Plus :
- Sakurasou no Pet na Konojo has a great animation and art. I can see Shiina as the cutest girl during this fall until winter anime season.
- I really like Shiina personality. She is genius but really dumb in many trivial things. I started to laugh when Shiina did her dirty jokes with her pants.
With all of these plus and minus things. I think I cannot hate this anime. I have finished watching all of episodes without leaving even a single episode. In my conclusion, Sakurasou no Pet na Konojo is just ordinary anime with an extraordinary animation. Because I’m easy on giving score. I think I should give it 8 in overall score.
