Shougo Mikadono's father has just passed away, and now he must become the head of Mikadono Group, his father's company. After completing the training to take over, there is just one other stipulation he must adhere to: he will need to find a girl he loves at his new school and marry her by the time he graduates high school.
Shougo transfers to Miryuin Private Academy, and it seems like he has many girls to choose from, such as Konoe Suruma, the class representative as well as his first new friend; Miyabi Kannagi, a standoffish but kind girl; Rinka Kunitachi, the student council vice president; Mei Sagara, who runs a cafe and dresses like a witch; and Mana Tendou, the student council president. However, there is a complication: one of them is his long-lost half sister, and he has no idea which one, so how can he become romantically involved with any of them?
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Andyis
Kono naka ni Hitori, Unlike many other shows, the main character actually has to urgently get a wife which helps develop the plot unlike many other romance stories where the story gets no where. The twist is that he lost his childhood memories and he has a lost sister who is trying to marry him. The main character seems like a really nice well rounded person as he is not too much of a pervert, loser or gets into too many accidents. However, as most characters do, he makes stupid decisons that piss people off. The people around him all seem to have their own unique personalities. Sofar, it has been enjoyable without too uncomfortable or stupid moments.
Overall, i would give this show an 8 as it is nothing special but nothing bad either. If you watch it without expectations you'll probably enjoy the comedy and the progression of the plot. However, as most harems are, its not perfect but at least the story is going forward ( doesn't look like a back to where you started story). It's obvious that the main character does not do things the easy way or else there would be no plot and a simple resolution.
I would recommend people who enjoy nice romance anime to watch this. However it isn't a show for people who want a clever main character that uses strategy to solve his problems like code geass or death note
Blood_Diver_A
(Previously on "WHO IS IMOUTO?”) Shougo had just came back from his father's funeral. He had learned about his large inheritance, but in order to receive it, he must attend a school and get married to a lovely girl. But, one of the girls is his long-lost sister. Shougo, heir to the Mikadono Group, knew he didn't want to bone his sister, so he became a temporary Private Investigator, searching and uncovering the identity of his long-lost sister. Will he succeed? Or will he bone his sister? With his naive, kind, and determined personality, he ventures forth into the unknown school called Miryuin Private Academy and searchesfor his sister. There, he encountered many women, like the blond, competitive princess Rinka, or the childish and quiet student council president Mana, or the mysterious witch girl. Every girl he encountered were suspicious and questionable. He needed an assistant and, thus, Ikusu, aka 'Mr. X', showed up. With 'Mr. X, as his partner, they followed up on some leads and would soon uncover the mystery. Or will they?
[Cue the CSI Theme Song: “Who are You” by The Who]
(On this Episode of "WHO IS IMOUTO?”)
Private Investigator Shougo has been, for three days, searching for the elusive Imouto. He has followed up on several leads, all of which had led to dead ends. As of now, there are five potential candidates, and they all seem very suspicious, as if they know who is the real “IMOUTO”, but refuse to tell him. He was getting desperate. He needed evidence, he needed some lead.
Just when he was at his wit’s end, Mr. X, his partner, burst through the door. She noticed his frustration and offered a suggestion.
She said, “Why don’t we do a DNA test? I’ll get the hair samples of all the candidates and then we can compare them with your hair.”
He had almost forgotten that Mr. X was a ninja in training, and it completely slipped his mind to use a DNA test. What a fool he was.
He said, “Your right! Why didn’t I think of that? Go get the samples, and then perform a DNA test.”
She complied and went out the front door.
[Several days later.]
The results were in, Shougo was holding a vanilla envelope, which contained the answers. He opened it and stared at the contents.
“My God”, he said, “This can’t be true!? Can it?”
“What? What happened? Who is it?” asked Mr. X.
“This girl. I…I was close to her…very close to her! And, yet, she’s my sister!”
“Tell me, who is it? Tell me!" she yelled.
He stuttered, “It’s…it’s…it’s…
*Tune in to next time on “WHO IS IMOUTO?”. Where we reveal the true “IMOUTO” or is it?*
slyffer
In my view people are underestimating this anime. Recommend seeing 3 episodes before of drop the anime, mysteries begin starting the episodes 2~3. Watch 3 episodes before of give the note for the anime please. I must also say before that if you do not like animes with hot scenes that appear panties and etc. .. you should avoid this anime, although my goal here is to give you a chance to show. For me, the author of this work is doing a very good job at getting to have both an anime thriller with a theme so simple, I see that many people did not understand theessence of the work (his main focus is the suspense, you should not expect he works upon the characters and how their feelings etc. ..) and I come here to try to convince people to give a chance to the anime.
Good talking a little anime itself.
He tells the story of a son of an owner of a large company who dies and leaves everything to his son but for him to assume the company he has to get married first, on the day of the funeral of his father appears a person saying his sister by (his father would have had her with another woman who is not the mother of the protagonist), the protagonist moves to a school after the death of his father to find a woman to marry, but before that he needs solve this mystery and find out who is his supposed sister by father (because he does not want to marry his sister.) The anime is totally focused on this mystery and to help in this development appears several other girls in the protagonist's life when he starts attend the college, the anime works fine its mystery story leading you to believe that is one of the girls and it's nothing you of a smack in the face and you already start to distrust another person holds the anime and you're wanting solve the mystery and find out who is the sister that, if you love to solve mysteries and uncover clues like a detective advise you to watch this anime.
Proof of it all, is one that appears 2 or 3 girls with the same cell that changes the voice, the question is which of the three who can be? Or is it someone else? Who supposedly said on the radio for the school Shougo (protagonist) who stop looking for her sister? Who was the girl who called him six hours every day? Whoever stole the phone of one of the girls who had thrown it in the trash? Whom is actually the person who helps Shougo and lives on his side?
That's just some of the mysteries that await you, who seek to be unraveled by someone!
How about you become a bit like detective?
Note: Since the goal of the anime is the suspenseful if I dwell too much on his description I could end up giving spoilers and many Eventually grace.
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History: 10
Suspense is the essence of this anime, and he is very well done in this part, as I said above still can not solve the mystery, and keep seeing the episodes to see if I can find any clues.He will play for one side to the other and making you believe a track that is not true and nothing you're already distrusting someone else (as I said above), every detail leaves you intrigued and each new track makes you seek links with other previous tracks to try to solve the mystery, it really is exciting in that respect.
Art: 9
The anime art is good, and very detailed, perhaps a bit too colorful and glossy, but you get used to it,scenarios are well made in every detail and the characters also has appearances quite pleasant with well defined traits.
Characters: 7
I think it might be one of the weaknesses of this work, I really think that it ta strong in its suspense because the characters do not make you like them, do not have a work upon the feelings of the characters, what they think, what they think, really the whole work is focused on suspense.
Sound: 7
The sound should be the weakest part of the anime, are not well placed, in the opening scene has a sound more or less, the closure is a bit better, if you expect an anime Kimi to Boku like that in my opinion has a fantastic sound and good choice of songs, Kono naka probably will not suit you.Some scenes even have music and they do not fit the times he has, but as the anime style is mystery, suspense think to understand a little of that side, the strong anime of this genre does not have to be sound (is how I see it)
Enjoyment: 7
The anime is fun and provide a sense of wondering what will happen next, if you expect an anime filled with comedy, comedy scenes without forced and more natural, you probably will not like this anime.Now if you expect that anime makes you actually engage with it, try to understand what goes into it, that detail is what this show is for you.
Benduski
NakaImo Fast review. Story The problem with this anime is that it was predictable, the story is good but predictable and in the 9th episode i knew who the sister was, it was obvious if you payed attention to the things they said and what they knew till that episode, and even in the first episodes i knew she was going to be the sister with another suspect that i had, but i knew it, was predictable so the story was fine. Art & Animation Being an ecchi harem anime this should have great art, but it was just good, nothing amazing or great, the uncensored parts were fine, Ikusuparts were good and funny, it was good overall, don't expect much nudes.
Sound
It was fine, the voice acting was good, but the background music was ok, the OP and ED were boring, overall was fine.
Character
Almost everyone were ok, just Miyabi and Ikusu were interesting and sometimes Konoe, but it was fine because of somethings that you will see, if you get to watch it.
Enjoyment
I enjoyed the art and the comedy mixed with the ecchiness, it was fine.
JonBort
Every guy wishes to become someone successful and famous that all the girls would just scream out his name and asks for marriage. And that is Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru!, shortened as Nakaimo, premise. So allow me to vent out my thoughts for the show. STORY: 5/10 It may not be the first to feature this, but Nakaimo still delivers a story that has been retold by many animes before. From the start of the story, the show made it clear that it will definitely include some incest - specifically brocon - which I am now getting used to. Nakaimo centers around Shougo Mikagami,the next head of his late-father's successful company who is sent to Miryuuin Academy to look for a life partner but is thwarted when news of him having a little sister who attends the same academy as him came in and is now struggling to find her. Along the way he meets various girls that took interest in him but Shougo is having trouble choosing from them fearing that one of them maybe his little sister.
The story's a first but the main concept is as bland as ever. But a plot twist in the end did earn a few points for me. However, it alone can't make this stand out from the bunch. The story can also be humorous from time to time while fan service is just waiting around the corner preparing for a proper scene to show off some thin fabric and skin, which kept me either ogling or annoyed when it became too much. The story all throughout didn't exceed my expectations but what was surprising is the revelation on who Shougo's true little sister is. Wanna find out, watch it yourself.
VISUAL QUALITY AND AUDIO: 7/10
Like its story, the visual is what you'd expect from the given genre. The art emanates warm colors found in the well detailed backdrops. Character design is pretty especially how they highlight a given character that it separates it from the rest of the cast. Animation's decent too.
Voice acting is well delivered and greatly mimics the character's expressions. Soundtrack is good but not all memorable.
CHARACTERS: 7/10
Nakaimo features a cast of wacky people; the protagonist, the busty honor student, a tsudere swimmer, a cross-dressing ninja, a blonde elitist, a gluttonous president, a young shop manager, and even a loli teacher. Given that, their personalities and characteristics are quite unique but it still what you'd expect from an anime of this genre. Their girls' ways to approach Shougo is quite amusing and sometimes humorous. Character development takes place as the story progresses.
OVERALL: 7/10
Not the kind of an anime that will go against the flow but Nakaimo delivers a fun-filled romance story. I greatly enjoyed this that I finished the series and I'm still willing to watch it all over again. So Nakaimo is worth checking out in your into the common harem genre.
Caleb_Marvell
How to start this review... I guess I could start by saying that Nakaimo: My Sister is Among Them!, or Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! if you prefer the Japanese name, is an ordinary harem/echii anime. Or, at least, that's what I thought when I began this series. In all reality, it's a unique series to it's genre, and I mean the harem genre, not the echii, since there are multiple animes with similar echii aspects. As for the story, I found it unique and interesting throughout the entire series, and quite enjoyable really. The story goes like this: The president of a highlysuccessful company has just died, leaving his entire company to his son, however, in order to inherit it, he must get married by the end of his high school life. So he has been sent to a new high school to start looking for a bride-to-be. But, there's another catch, he has a sister that his family never knew about, and she goes to the same high school as him, and what's even more surprising, she's in love with him and wants to marry him. So now, he has to figure out which girl is his sister out of an entire group of girls that are potential wives. When I found all of this out, it got better each episode. The thing is, you never know who his sister is until the very end, and the series keeps making you think one thing, but then takes a giant curve and gets you thinking about another thing, and I never saw the ending coming. Very good story.
Artwork, similar to most animes being made these years. The designs of the characters are well made, you are able to tell them apart easily, and the setting seems modernly realistic. All aspects in which make a good anime.
As for sound, voice acting was well done, I recognized some actors and actresses from other animes. I didn't like all of them, but that's just me. Overall, very professional and well done.
I think what I liked about this story were the choices in characters. The main guy seemed really cool, and down-to-earth, unlike some characters you may find in animes these days. He was mature in some parts, but had just the right amount of a perverted side to him as most normal teenage boys would, so he seemed real to me. As for the girls, I liked them all, especially Rinka, my personal favorite. They all had different personalities, and they were all in love with the main guy, or at least I assume so. In the story, they each get their moment in the spotlight, so the screen time was evenly distributed between them so they each have about 2 episodes about themselves, and the moments in this anime that made me laugh the most were always where the girls were thinking that Shougo has a thing for guys whenever something weird is happening between him and Ikusu (which obviously isn't a guy).
I can honestly say that I didn't hate this anime. In terms of fanservice, believe me, there's plenty of that. There were moments of awkwardness that made me cringe, which is common in most echiis these days, and of course, there's always just enjoying one guy getting loved by a bunch of girls to an extent where you wish all his girl troubles were yours. It wasn't until the end where I was unsatisfied on where the story went. This isn't really spoiling anything, but like in most harems, the main character never chooses which girl he will get with, it'll end with all of them proclaiming their love to him or something like that. Even though it had an unsatisfying ending, I do recommend this to anyone looking for a harem/echii with fanservice and a good storyline.
CinnamonHime
+ Imoutos! + Absolutely cute and pink art, makes me feel like a cream puff if you know what I mean... + Miyabi is cute! x3 + Funny and cute episodes, like when they're at the ball or amusement park + It surprises the viewer couple of times +/- Old (good?) character types, a good girl, tsundere, a rich girl, a genki and clumsy girl and a cosplay girl - It doesn't take "can't sister and brother be lovers?" -theme to any deeper reflection. - Too many pointless fanservice and naugty jokes - Homophopic moments and jokes - The mystery is kind of boring- Like usual, the main guy doesn't have any personality
- The plot is forseeable after all.
NewYearsDay
Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! Where you get to watch a young man named Shougu Mikadono play the pray like hell that I don't fuck my sister game, which is a fun game to play. *shh it's the one we all think it is*
Prind
At first glance, this anime looked like a harmen anime and I was right from the first look. But surprisingly this anime tries to approach the viewers with a mystery story for the next 12 episodes while the main character looks for his sister so he doesn't accidently marry her. To make it worst, his sister has a brother complex which doesn't help at all. So in conclusion, bad mystery (easy to guess whats going to happen), obvious harmen, and insest to wrap it up. Skip this anime unless you are here for the mediocre butts and nudes. Overall Rating 6.2
IDC_SAO
All i can say that is the anime should be called "Will I Bang My Sister?" because... duh its a harem and boy he doesn't know which one is his sister among his group of horny lady that want him
Brom2855
My sister is among them! As undoubtedly noted in synopsis, this follows a young lad slated to helm his father's company. To that end, he's transferred to a prestigious school with the goal of choosing a wife. To add a plot twist, he gets a mysterious caller who names herself his sister--and in that culture, marrying your sister is a terrible scandal! That's most of the story. Most of bits remaining consists of Shougo's getting along (or not) with the various girls. This is a harem story and ecchi genre, so panty shots and other lewd stuff happens. The aforementioned mystery begins appearing in episode 9,but if you've read any detective or mystery stuff, you'll probably be able to guess some of it.
Overall, the story was meh. I don't mind some suspense, but had to force myself to sit through very bland characters and their schoolgirl doings to get to the "what's really going on behind the scenes?" Just me, but the story felt stilted aside from the mystery.
Art's pretty straightforward. Each girl is reasonably pretty, and the expressions look human enough. It's possible to forget you're watching an anime, if try hard enough, but otherwise nothing remarkable.
Nothing about the sound or music impressed me. Maybe my high standards, but it felt like the anime's producers were rushing to get it done rather than get high-quality work.
Characters...eesh, seen better. Shougo is very much not a confident guy, always easily pushed around. It's only when he decides to take on the mystery that he suddenly becomes fascinating. Even after, nope, he doesn't have any confidence with girls; frequently it's the girl who asks him on a date, he just goes along with it.
Now the girls:
1) Konoe is a typical "easy catch for harem guy"
2) Myabi, your really insecure girl
3) Kunitachi, student council member who puts on a fierce air to hide her own bashfulness around Shougo. If this is an tsundere character, that never gets explored nor explained.
4) Tendou, student council president, is just a rambunctious kid with great love of food
5) Sagara was genuinely interesting for a bit, as she is involved deeply in the mystery and doesn't fall for Shougo suddenly, but after the series she's just another has-been
Enjoyment...if you come without standards, maybe you'll enjoy the suspense and fan service. I prefer anime with a good story, believable characters, and solid plot. Definitely not a good choice for serious anime fans.
Overall, it was very bland. I found the answers to the suspense probably the only exciting thing, everything else felt too rushed to be worthwhile. I actually stopped watching midway through once because this was so dull.
DreamyGhost
I guess I'll never see profiteroles the same way after watching this one... With a really flawless plot, what screws it was the share of uncensored fanservice moments. Can't say it wasn't good, but great animes don't appeal to that... {STORY - 5/10} After the death of Kumagorou Mikadono, his son, Shougo, gets transferred to Miryuuin Academy, with the mission of finding the girl with whom he would spend the rest of his life. This needed for him to become the new president from his father's entreprise, the Mikadono Group. Problem is that Shougo has an unknown half-sister, whose has promised marrying with him and studies at thesame academy. Soon enough, Shougo starts attracting some particular girls, unable to date them under the risk of getting in love with his sister.
An well elaborated main scheme, based on all this situation, is proved to be related with Shougo's ascension. Discovering who his real sister's identity is required to avoid a huge scandal against the Mikadono Group.
Constant calls from a misterious girl that artificially modificated her voice and claims to be Shougo's sister makes him concerned. The device used turns into a lead. Still, putting and end to this mistery seems impossible, as the suspect changes everytime...
{ART - 6/10}
Nothing that much impressive, but overally gorgeous. All girls are beautiful and the eye design is amazing. Everything looks so smooth and sweet...
{SOUND - 7/10}
Simple backgrounding and really nice OP and ED songs. Both of them match this anime's style, being cheering and cute. Other thing I noticed is the use of unrelated songs at Mei's cafe. First time this happens to me...
{CHARACTERS - 5/10}
There are few, but all of them are very distinct. Shougo is one of those confident guys, who has a charming side and respects women. Not knowing who is his sister prevents him from showing true affection to all the other girls that he knows...
Konoe and Kannagi are the first ones Shougo meets. The fact that both are childhood friends is forgotten as he suffered an accident on that time. Konoe shows a calm and sweet personality, being a total pervert on the inside. Kannagi loves Shougo since the first day they met, but she's unable to show her feelings and wants to stay by his side all the time.
The cafe owner and prodigy girl, Mei Sagara, deeply relates to Kannagi and is a essential piece from this puzzle. Rinka is also on the middle of this entire scheme, as her father is a Mikadono's rival. After being helped by Shougo, she starts developing feeling for him too. Like on many other seinen manga based animes I've watched, there's also a woman that disguises herself as a man... I don't know why but I feel attracted to this type of character every time I see one...
{ENJOYMENT - 10/10}
It's impossible not liking an ecchi... Other than that, the mistery involved is awesome. It just keeps you wondering who the real sister is on every episode, with a true answer being shown only at the ending... It was totally unpredictable and that's why I liked it so much.
{OVERALL - 6/10}
Choosing someone affraid of a blood relation, Shougo is both lucky and unlucky. There's a girl somewhere that wants to meet his brother and be his new family, but her identity is unknown... Shougo has to discover who she is and stay by her side. Until that, starting a deep relationship with any girl could mean trouble and some other problems may get on his way. An investigation full of twists begins...
YuriShipper
This is my first review so please bear with me. A TL;DR synopsis of this series is a guy who's trying succeed his late father's company, but has to find a lover first. Twist? One of the prospects is his unknown sister. Story - Score: 5 As far as story and plot goes...well.... This was something that hasn't been done before (the core plot theme anyways), but for some reason it kinda makes you shake your head all the same. Another interesting develop-able plot turned into another generic harem situation, which this anime pretty much is. As one of the other reviewer stated, this wasjust a dragged out cat and mouse game. To be fair, it's supposed to do that because that's what the main plot theme was supposed to be: him trying to find a lover while to trying to avoid picking out his sister. However, he makes it plainly clear that he's trying to avoid at all costs. So people who are looking for a wincest anime? Don't get your hopes up please.
Like many wincest potential animes, they are all doomed to deliver. And this one is no exception, if his views and stance is not clear enough. This isn't a spoiler per say because honestly the majority consensus not only in the anime industry but in society in general for incest is terribly harsh. Therefore the wincest element is always just reduced to a plot device or attraction gatherer. And the true ones are tend to be very niche. Don't trust me? You can go see it for yourself.
Anyways going back to the story itself. This is a fairly paced story. It doesn't drag out too long, but in doing so it sometimes feel like it's been a little rushed at times. Also the ending will leave you perplexed due to the anime covering only a portion of the light novel it was adapted from. So honestly it's not even a finished anime. And a second season seems to be not a possibility anytime soon, so you would have to rely on the original source for the conclusion...
IF anybody decides to revive that project. It seems like it has a poor fan base, considering that the source material had already wrapped... years ago... So honestly you're probably better off having to read the wiki or scouring through the net to learn how it all ends.
Art - Score: 6
Nothing too special, nothing thought provoking nor anything that would push the envelope. Something that was nice and safe. Just your standard typical anime art style. Ecchi art style at that.
Sound - Score: 6
Like the art, your standard run of the mill music. From its opening to its ending. Pretty forgettable to most. Few of the scenes music was pretty nice almost like from a generic visual novel game or something, but that was just it. Just pretty nice.
Character - Score:5
Run of the mill characters as well. You got from your nice, kind, ideal girl to your tsunderes to rich proper lady, to the airheads... Your basic harem staple. Nothing new.
Same with the protagonist. Standard guy who's a closet perv, but is afraid and wish-washy to go far with any girls, but this time with the mystery sister as an excuse.
Enjoyment - Score: 6
Honestly I gave this a fair rating just because of the fact that even though there were times when it made me groan, it also made me chuckle a bit when things started to get a bit wild. Not in the ecchi sense, but the weird moments sense. So I don't wanna be mean and give it a poor score just because it didn't please me all the time, but that does not mean it has fully redeemed itself. Nowhere close.
Overall - Score:6
Warning: This show is not for everyone. People who like a bit of story alongside with their dish of moe and fanservice stuff rolled into a harem sushi? Then this show is definitely for you. People who expected incest. Sorry. See my story review comment above (If you all came here because of (a) certain reviewer(s) from youtube said this is incest..well..they were slightly right?). People who wanted a great, complex, mind blowing or even a concrete story? Umm.. ha ha ha... You're in the wrong section, friend... This show have deviated a bit far from it's original source to become an ecchi/fanservice guilty pleasure sin. Typical fate of good number of anime adaptations or even original creations at times.
Personally speaking that's where the whole show should've focused on. Just be your typical ecchi with some comedy moe moments at the side. At least that way it could've been another staple of the ecchi/moe genre, but instead it tried to mix both it and the original source's story in an attempt to deliver something that all fans could enjoy, resulting in a shaky mess....
All in all, it was not bad... but definitely not good. It was a stable harem series. Nothing more.
Honestly this should've been a VN (visual novel) or even a galge (gal game)... Those girls would've been perfect for that kind of stuff.
LegionIscariot
"NAKAIMO - My Little Sister Is Among Them!" is an imouto harem about a boy Shougo who is supposedly an only child. But after his father's death he is mysteriously contacted by someone who claims to be his little sister. At his new school Shougo is approached by cute girls, any one of which could be his sister. So he must try to control his desires and fight off temptation lest he ends up in a forbidden relationship with his brocon little sister. Its an entertaining anime (if you're into brocon/siscon). Alot of harems tend to have very dull girls but not here. The girls are writtento be very entertaining. A bad tsundere can make or break a good harem but thankfully here the tsundere is done well too. So all the characters are likeable.
They also show tits 👍
There is even a reverse-trap (a girl who dresses up as a boy). Every good harem needs a trap.
This anime is very similar to Sister Princess. An anime about a boy who moves to a new school on an island to find out he has 12 sisters who want to marry him.
You'd think this would just be your straightforward ecchi harem. But its also mystery with some twists.
It does have some boring filler though.
kawaii123456
It's bad. I don't normally just say that first but this one warrants it. Bad being subjective, let me follow up with the objective good. It has a proper ending. If you were into the show, and cared, it resolves the main plot issue of the anime. The others that it hasn't really touched upon yest are left open for further development. Unfortunately I seriously didn't care so YMMV. The series big problems ? It's a comedy that didn't make me laugh, NOT ONCE!!!!! . It did manage to put me to sleep so it may have some value there. There were opportunities but they weren't wellused. I did watch it dubbed so maybe the humor was thee in the original Japanese and didn't make it over.
It's a romance ? Nah not really. I certainly didn't feel it. Maybe it was the whole setup of having the main character forced into the situation, maybe it was the fact the attempt of a mystery element overshadowed any possibility romance. Or maybe, it was just the fact that what passes for romance is, really weak.
Mystery ? I went with my first instinct and was right. Kind of killed it, but even if that wasn't the case it still wouldn't of been a good mystery. To make a mystery work, you need the riddle, you need clues, and you need motivations for the actions that make sense, and you need tension. There was no tension here. Can't say more without giving away too much of the structure. There was no real motivation for most of the key actions that were meant to contribute to the mystery. If the killer isn't a psychopath they need a reason to kill. Here you just kind of scratch your head. The clues are just annoying. You get clues, that are important, accurate and then invalidated for silly reasons.
The story fails on multiple levels. The hook is novel and interesting. It has an incredible amount of potential but there's just too much you have to overlook. No spoiler here, but at the beginning you are told, the father had been dying for 6 months and it's clear he wasn't comatose, yet the takes no time to convey information needed to his children, or provide for them, undercuts the premise. After that it goes down hill on trying to draw you in. As mentioned up top, the arc resolves, so there's at least that.
Characters. Shougo is interesting. He has his motivations, mostly acts believably in dealing with the insanity. Some of his reactions are off even taking into account the restrictions of the genre but that's hardly unreasonable. The other characters take 2D women to a new level.
The art is OK. Faces are distinct and expressive, emotions well conveyed. Backgrounds could be better. The artwork was meant to be a supporting feature not the star and it does its job.
The sound, oh the sound. The music was nothing special, but the voice acting was annoying. Most of the female characters sounded either weird, flat, or annoying, occasionally all three at the same time.
H3LGh45t98
Totally underrated. The cover art, the synopsis as well as the overall ratings it was given on this website (which I personally do not agree with) might give hints that it'll be your standard cliche harem anime. I suspected as such at the beginning. Don't judge a book by it's cover. I can't say that it's completely original but it's definitely above that your cliche harem anime. Interesting plot development, mystery and plot twist. Introducing new characters into the story is smooth, not just appearing out of nowhere and 'we have a new transfer student today' kind of thing. It's not repetitive in how the MCapproaches and deals with each character. AND most importantly, the MC is not a blockhead, he actually can use his brain for something for once.
The only drawback for me was the fact that it has quite a bit of uncensored parts, which might deter those anime fans who don't want to see that kind of stuff. You were warned!
Overall, this anime really deserves more attention.
lunarpen
I can say without a doubt that this is the worst anime I've ever seen. I have to wonder, why did I decide to watch Nakaimo in the first place? I guess because the premise seemed interesting. Sadly, it turned out to be a total waste of time. Story: The premise of Nakaimo is pretty simple: a standard harem with one twist. Unlike something like Oreimo (where the protagonist knows who his sister is and is fine with dating her), the protagonist of this show didn't even know he had a sister (because of some poorly explained head trauma), and is doing everything he can tonot end up with her, even though the sister makes it clear that she plans on marrying him. I guess the appeal of this premise is the mystery behind who the sister is, but with one look at the poster, I guessed who it was perfectly. Once that aspect is gone, you get a completely bland, forgettable mess. The pacing was horrible too. The harem has a whopping six girls (one who is added later), and within 12 episodes, they try to give each of them at least 2-3 episodes of focus and "character development". These episodes only exist to make you frustrated about who the real sister is. It's not spoilers to say that each girl is framed as the real sister at least once, and it's just annoying to see that be thrown around so much. I'll get into how that went later, but the pacing ended up a mess because of it, and any attempt at a story is buried behind a ton of worthless fluff. In the first episode, one girl is hit by a truck. There are no consequences or impacts on the story. It's just something that happens.
Art:
The actual animation wasn't that bad, but the art was a pain to look at. The character designs were bad and the quality was the definition of low budget, and that's not even mentioning the ridiculous amount of fanservice found in the worst places. Also, I don't think the animators knew anything about how things look. There was a scene where a girl's dress strap goes untied, which actually can happen, but the animation makes it look like some sort of invisible pervert was untying it behind her back.
Sound:
This is harder to talk about because I don't actually remember any of the OST (that's how boring it was). But, the opening was catchy, and that's probably the only good thing about the show.
Characters:
Take your standard harem cast, boil down any potential interesting character development, and you're left with the starch-bland cast of Nakaimo. The protagonist is so generic that I can't even remember his name, and he's the kind of character who acts however the episode wants him to act with no continuity to his "established" personality, which is the worst type of character. The girls are all standard tropes, but instead of being entertaining or having some sort of twist like characters in other harems, they get no development whatsoever. I mentioned that the show tries to give each of them a few episodes of their own, but those attempts always fell flat on their faces. The characters are boring and generic with no depth at all, and to top it off, they're not even designed well.
Enjoyment:
This anime was a chore to watch. After starting it and then neglecting it for weeks, I had to sit myself down and watch the remaining episodes in one go. Even if I liked harems, I wouldn't like this show. I mean, right before this, I watched Nisekoi (which I actually really enjoyed), so I guess I just got my hopes up.
Bottom line: this anime is a boring, generic, ugly waste of time. There's no reason you should watch it. Even if you're into fanservice harems, you're not going to find any enjoyment here.
Citrom509
// CREWMATE // THERE IS 1 IMPOSTOR AMONG US - would be the 2. best title for the anime. # SPOOOOOOOOOOOILEEEEEEEEERS So, its a Harem, Ecchi, fanservice, kinda detective, and amnesia anime.. The story involves around the young student Shougo Mikadono who's father passed away, basically he needs to find a wife, he said to be an only child, but sudenly he's notified that he has a half sister form an other woman. And we know what that means? Try to figure out from a couple of grills who's your blood relative, while every fn last one of them teases you with brother stuff. Yeah,that. Anyway, you can get the general idea who the sister is around the 9th part, and it is revealed.
There are a couple important characters, beware, spolers, again.
Konoe Tsuruma a big tiddy THICCC waifu, who will become the MC's wife in the end
Miyabi Kannagi she is the Sister of the MC, big reveal, shes a flat loli type character, pretty cute ngl.
Ikusu Mizutani a tomgirl i guess.. he looks like a boy in uniform, so reverse trap? anyway, she tries to help the MC figure out whos the sister. nickname MR.X - henlo umbrella you want back your name? too bad, honestly, the most important characters are just Konoe and Miyabi. even tho there are like 6 mains.
The characters are cute, well modelled, every way, and hence its a fanservice ecchi anime, yes you can see boobies.
8/10 would NOT watch it again, too predictable, and a slow phased story, overly built on fan service and the mysterious whos your lil sister stuff.
But a good anime to watch and add to the collection, pleasing to look at it, not just at the naked parts, but at all. Although its predictable, the story stands for a pretty good anime. Just. Good. (got an8 because of horny stuff)
Herr_Meister
If she looks like an imouto, sounds like an imouto and acts like an imouto, then she probably is an imouto. Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! also known as NakaImo or My Sister Is Among Them! So it is supposed to be mystery anime in which main character, Shougo Mikadono, is looking for his future wife, but among those girls there is also his mystery sister. OMG what a twist! This guy doesn’t think incest is wincest, so he wants to find out who is imouto and avoid choosing her accidentally (imouto for some twisted reasons wants to be chosen though… she isone of those incest-imoutos like Kirino Kousaka from Oreimo or Akiko Himenokoji from OniAi, if that's your thing this anime is must-see I guess).
There may be some spoilers ahead. But I think I don’t even need to tell you who is imouto to ruin the mystery, show ruins it without me.
At first this concept sounded pretty stupid to be honest, but also kinda promising comedy-wise so I decided to watch. I like harem, comedy and ecchi combination and mystery sounded refreshing addition, how that would even work?
Well… it didn’t work.
Mystery was just not very good. Honestly I guessed it right before watching any episodes, judging by the character designs alone I had a hunch who is imouto and it turned out to be right very soon with all those little but obvious hints and even more obvious red herrings… That was very disappointing, I was almost expecting to be proved wrong because that would’ve made mystery good, or actually I wanted to be proven wrong. But it was just as predictable as I feared. Predictability is of course a curse in mystery genre and this anime suffers from it a lot.
And yes I also predicted that after the mystery Imouto is revealed (the end of this anime) eventually it turns out they are not siblings after all (in light novels) - that guess was right too it seems. Sighs… Plot twists in light novels are honestly just ridiculous and confusing to be honest, but not surprising in a good way. Good mystery is surprising, but simple. This was anything but…
I only talk about anime from now on, so imouto remains imouto for me, I am not planning to read light novels and honestly seems that anime is at least better than them… It doesn’t mean much though.
Story: 3 Good ideas here and there, but mostly gone totally wrong. Everything goes as you expect or then your expectations were too high. Seeing those hints or identifying red herrings doesn’t make you feel smart but makes you wonder if you are expected to be stupid. Fortunately show seems to realize this at times and don’t dumb down the most obvious. But it still doesn’t save the mystery from being predictable which makes it boring and frustrating to watch.
Art: 6 Mediocre. Nothing special, not ugly, but pretty simple and rather generic character designs. Very light colors, which is a pretty interesting stylistic choice. There is nudity which means some bare oppai here and there. You’ll be warned.
Sound: 6 Nothing especially stands out, for better or for worse. VAs do their job, OP and ED are there but I don’t remember them anymore... that tells something.
Characters 4: There is this usual harem-cast, one guy and his girls. I personally liked Shougo, he is generic and has not much character, but he is not a complete loser. He is actually somewhat capable, not just kind. He can dance, reason and control his sexual impulses pretty well even in those lucky pervert situations he finds himself in all the time. And he is also rich, future president of his father’s company and sort of guy that girls would actually be interested in (for monetary reasons alone). Problem in many harem animes is that the main character is very useless in all ways, yet all the girls fall for him just because he is after all a nice guy. Shougo is a rich guy who is also nice. Yet he is boring as main characters usually are, there is nothing especially personal in him, and he doesn’t develop much. There is also this cliché that he has lost his memory and these ”new girls” are actually his childhood friends who have (of course) always loved him. Yes they have that cliché too. Girls are also pretty unoriginal. Tsundere, airhead, another tsundere who is elitist, cosplaying genius, reverse-trap modern day ninja and girl that is practically just boobs. Honestly that is how I would describe Konoe Tsuruma, she likes cream puffs alright, but other than that her character traits are just... her cream puffs (more ways than one). Okay she is also revealed to be homophobe, not a redeeming quality. Another homophobe is the tsundere Miyabi Kannagi. She actually says that the incest is better option than homosexuality!?.... Like what is wrong with this anime?! I understand that many in Japan are rather conservative, but I haven’t seen such a homophobic anime before that says incest is better option…. It’s just those jealous characters in that one episode but still… very weird and frustrating.
Cosplaying genius Mei Sagara and elitist-tsundere Rinka Kunitachi are a bit more promising characters, but development is minimal and all girls have pretty much same arcs, they are all suspected to be sisters for some reason, they fall in love with MC and join his harem after misunderstandings are cleared up. Airhead class president Mana Tendou joins the harem just because all others do and has no arc of her own.
Mizutani Ikusu or Mister X, and of course she is really a girl that surprises no one after you see and hear the character and Mister X is also the cause of previously mentioned unneeded burst of homophobia. She is some sort of joke character and as spy, or sort of ninja, she tries to uncover the identity of the sister along with main character, she also hangs around naked for ninja-related reasons (just fan-service) and despite her cross-dressing and obvious lack of sexual education she is probably the best option of all those girls.
Enjoyment 5: I’m easy to please, yet this mystery was so lacking. Comedy was at times poor as well and overall predictability made this anime mainly boring. It had some ok jokes though but not much, not enough to make it enjoyable. I was expecting a surprising twist.... it never came.
Overall 4: Predictable attempt of ”mystery”, ecchi was mostly just mediocre at best, characters were cute but rather shallow and had no development. There were boobs though.... so I give decent I guess. I've seen worse :D
