Takumi Tsuzuki is a high school student who attends the Umenomori Private Academy, free of charge, alongside Fumino Serizawa, a childhood friend of his whom always says the opposite of what she feels. He spends most of his time at school fending off Chise Umenomori, the granddaughter of the board chairman and a pampered princess, who is constantly roping him into her eccentric hobbies. After school, he goes to work at the "Stray Cats" confectionery, a cake shop run by his adoptive older sister, Otome Tsuzuki, until it's time to go to bed. This is the average routine in the day and the life of Takumi.
Mayoi Neko Overrun follows another seemingly average day in the life of Takumi. With his sister away from the shop, having gone to save someone else in need of help, Fumino takes it upon herself to wake him up so that he won't be late for their usual walk to school together, giving him a glimpse of her blue and white striped panties in the process. What a nice way to start the day.
When Otome returns home, she brings with her a girl named Nozomi Kiriya, whose hair and mannerisms resemble that of a large cat. It turns out that she is a runaway that Otome can't help but take in. Takumi's ordinary days are transformed into splendid chaos as he tries to unravel who this mysterious beauty is and what she's running away from...
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Comentários
AuroraFlame
I have very mixed feelings about Mayoi Neko Overrun. It's quite something to say that a series is both generic yet still one of the more... unique harems to come out in a while. This all stems from the fact that the scriptwriter, director and key artist changed every single episode for the twelve week duration of the series. The result is that studio AIC squanders what little potential the series already had and gives the directors free reign to do one-shot episode experiments. What would have been a mostly cliche but still above average harem turns into possibly "the" trainwreck of the year. Starting offwith the positive: The most interesting part of this series was that despite a formulaic harem setting, the show had a motif; a constantly echoed theme that ties all of the characters and stories together. The theme is stray cats, both literally and figuratively. The show examines what it means to be abandoned and alone, what it means to search for and find a place where you can belong, and what it means to have a family and a home. While not as well-developed as it should have been because of the aforementioned trainwrecking, these ideas are woven into the plot and the backstory of every single character. It all starts when Nozomi, a blue-haired emotionless catgirl with abandonment issues, is taken in by protagonist Takumi's older sister. This unofficial adoption forces the other two members of Takumi's harem to reexamine their own lives. Blond tsundere Fumino grew up with Takumi in an orphanage, a victim of non-stop bullying. Even blonder ojou-sama Chise is surrounded by wealth and yes-men who abide by her every word, but the fame of her parents ensures that they are never around and she is always alone.
Despite archetypal definitions, the characters in this series manage to have a little extra depth to differentiate them from other harems. Otome nee-san is far more mature and understanding than her carefree attitude would lead you to believe. Same goes for Kaho, a childhood friend and conniving corporate rival of Chise's, who in one episode fosters a misunderstanding in order to strengthen the bonds between all of the characters. Two seasons prior, AIC made Sora no Otoshimono a successful harem by playing up the fact that the protagonist was an unabashed pervert, proving an interesting contrast to the indifferent or wimpy male leads of most harems. Well, Overrun does the exact opposite here. Not only does Takumi try to weasel his way out of dealing with the girls, but his indecisiveness is actually justified by just how irritating and passive-aggressive the girls actually are. Nozomi is silent as ever, but the writers don't even attempt to push Chise or Fumino as moe or submissive. They are incredibly overbearing and often cause Takumi a lot more trouble than they're worth. The characters are not quite unlikeable (I was fine with them), but it was still interesting to see a show actually get away with making a guy not want his harem.
Speaking of Takumi, for a male lead in a harem, he is surprisingly absent. The show is supposedly about his developing relationship with these girls. Yet even from the first episode, he frequently seems like a supporting character in his own series. Late in the show, there is an episode about the family taking care of a lost young girl (which again allows the characters to reflect on their own thoughts of loneliness) and Takumi doesn't appear at all. This is a mixed blessing but moves toward the positive. One, the show starts with Fumino and Chise already having a crush on Takumi, preventing any contrived or shallow origin story for their romantic interest in him. The chronic absence of the male lead also keeps the girls from fawning all over him like other harems (though like I said, their characterization already prevents this). The girls have a lot of scenes to themselves, where they meditate on their own thoughts and solve their own problems. If you are tired of seeing harem girls waiting around for their "man" to come and fix everything for them, this series can be refreshing occasionally.
Describing the series like this, you'd wonder what went wrong. And here is where we come back to the dreaded switching of directors every episode. The show is a mess. Every individual episode is solid enough, but the series itself lacks coherence and is riddled by random, one-off fillers in the midseason that fail to progress the story at all. This is probably the only harem I've seen where one of the girls full-out confesses to the guy early in the series, in three episodes which build up to a nice climax despite starting off a bit shaky. And yet it takes this build-up and does nothing with it, opting instead to just go for random gag episodes. Four in particular stand out: 4 was from the director of Gag Manga Biyori and jumped the shark for many viewers, as it ignored previous plot developments, and "all" characterization up to that point. If you've seen a lot of harems, you'll know the main guy always has an otaku sidekick to make him look good by comparison. Ever wanted to know what would happen if that idiot otaku ended up being the lead in a show? Well, Overrun gives you the chance to find out in episode 6. I've gotta admit: that otaku's got guts. He literally wastes millions of dollars and still manages to troll everyone. The worst of these fillers was easily 7, which is the season finale of some super robot series. Here, Overrun subverts like no one has ever subverted before. The episode is not a parody, it is played completely straight. There is no humor, it is a completely different series featuring Mayoi Neko's characters, and it's absolutely boring. And then 8 is an episode of Saki. The final four episodes return to the main storyline, but even then: one of them doesn't feature half the cast, and two more juggle the generic school athletic competition plot. The series starts off promisingly, then proceeds to waste just enough time to make sure we don't see the fruits of that progress by the end. It's a shame because by the time the story comes back around, there are quite a few nice, sentimental moments that make you wish it went a bit further.
The technical side of things is a mixed bag as well. In the visual department, the character designs (both male and female) are quite nice to look at. The artwork manages to keep a consistent style across all of the characters. For once, a series finally decides to give characters eye colors that don't match their hair; this complimentary coloring for the female leads is especially nice. Still, with the show constantly cycling through staff, the art suffers from notable inconsistencies across the series. Episode 1 has thinner lining and more shapely clothing, episode 5 has more angular faces and emotive shading, etc. A few episodes (4 & 6) have a lot of off-models, though some may have been deliberate (though it's contested whether it was worth it). For the most part, the art survived the episode transitions better than the storytelling did. The animation is below average and never really on par with the art, but being a comedy series, it doesn't really need to be.
On the sound side: the voice acting is serviceable but as the actors are voicing archetypes, it never goes anywhere beyond the range you'd expect. The OP song is average J-pop but the lyrics really have no rhythm and seem rushed all the way through. On the other hand, the ED has a tropical ring to it and actually sounds quite nice. What background music is present is usually done well. The problem is that there simply isn't enough of it. Entire scenes and large portions of the episodes are completely silent with no music at all. Sometimes it successfully contributes to the atmosphere, but sometimes the lack of music makes unfunny scenes even less funny. Still, the recurring piano theme played during all of the emotional scenes is commendable.
My biggest disappointment with Mayoi Neko is that AIC basically sacrificed the actual adaptation to create a display booth for the talent of the various directors involved. While it may have not been a big deal with just any harem, Overrun seemed to have started off doing just enough differently from the rest of the pack to make me think the show had some potential. The fact that it's based on a light novel series and not the usual ero-manga, and a popular one at that, adds to this notion. If that weren't enough, the more faithful manga adaptation has received near unanimous praise. If you can forgive its faults, there are a lot of nice emotional beats that make it a decent recommendation for sentimental rom-com fans. Otherwise, it's strictly for harem watchers and trainwreck gazers. There is simply no excuse for a show to have so much filler when it has a short run time and a wealth of material to adapt. It feels like I've watched a four or five episode show when the series was slated for twelve. I shouldn't ever feel like that.
EDIT: The Railgun maids get a 10.
KatayokuTsuneki
In short this show is a disaster. Well, the first three episodes were sweet and I actually enjoyed them. At that time Mayoi Neko Overrun! seemed like a typical harem with a good character development. I was even thinking that Overrun is worthy of eight points, no kidding. But then the randomness came. Y’know, randomness is not really equal to bad quality. Take a look at Galaxy Angel — that show is so damn random but it’s hilarious. It has good humorous episodes and equally good dramatic episodes in stock. But sadly I’m not here to speak about Galaxy Angel, I have Overrun to review. Thusafter three episodes of enjoyable story I got some stupid fanservice stuff, overblown instant drama, surrealistic comedy wannabe and so on… What the hell was going here? Did this show get flu or something? Overrun was trembling with fever between various plot bases. It looked to me that each episode was done by its own team of creators, and those teams never got a chance to talk and share ideas with each other. Judging by the giant list of Overrun’s episode directors here on MyAnimeList, I presume that I was right.
Ah, I especially want to talk about the culmination, the zenith of all that randomness: the mecha episode, which was 7th if I’m not mistaken. The episodes from 4th to 6th already were fillers, but the mecha surpassed all my expectations. At first I thought that it’s going to be a parody of genre, but nope, the creators just took the character design from Overrun and merged it into some stereotypical mecha plot. They made the 26th episode of Grand Braver, a fictional anime series which some of Overrun characters watched. Well, I’m not against such spin-offs. Have you seen Kujibiki Unbalance OVA? Damn, that was fun. But again, here the creators didn’t even try. It’s a straight-forward last episode of a mecha show. Since you don’t have a clue what happened before, so there’s no deep plot, and you absolutely have no jokes to laugh at. Personally I’m not a mecha fan, so the Grand Braver was extremely boring. I watched this for about 3 hours, constantly pausing it and going to kitchen to make another cup of coffee or grab more snacks. No, seriously, I was about to drop Overrun but couldn’t. Sadly I’m a faggot, so I never drop anything. Sigh.
It got better after the mecha but that’s just because you can’t do anything worse than that. Overrun never returned to the level of its beginning. Oh, and the last episode was a recap. So nice of them to remind me of all the horror I went through.
Because of all those problems we have absolutely no character elaboration in this show. They’re just doing all the director wants them. Tsuzuki, the male lead, can be a borderline otaku freak or some dude who don’t give a thing about what happens around him; Umenomori ranges from spoiled whiny brat to depressed lonely girl; Kiriya switches from just strange and introverted type to gloomy and dispirited one for no apparent reason… Only three of regular cast are somewhat stable: Serizawa, residential tsundere, the otaku Kikuchi and that other guy, but he’s just furniture so he has no personality at all.
By the way, let me put something straight. AIC decided to do 13-episode anime and had 8 volumes of ranobe to work with. So why did we get so filleresque show, huh? I can’t believe that ranobe can have a plot so retarded. If there are any people here who read them, I want to know what they really consist of, so I beg of you to tell me.
But okay, enough with the plot. Maybe Overrun has some strong sides on technical plane? Well, the artwork is decent, the music… Erm… There was music, right? I guess it’s decent too, since I can’t remember anything good or bad about it. So no luck here either.
And thus it’s time to wrap up. Overrun is overrun with fillers, plot stupidity, clichés and lacks any noticeable good aspects except the beginning. I can recommend you to watch it only if you’re masochist.
So at last, Overrun, here is your 5 points and sayōnara! Even the power of Umenomori zaibatsu was not enough to make you enjoyable. Hm, wait, maybe I should check my bank account or something…
P.S. For this season I picked up Mayoi Neko Overrun! (with exclamation mark), Angel Beats! (with exclamation mark again) and K-ON!! (with two exclamation marks). I think it is a really good marketing move to make the viewer uncomfortable with all those titles constantly shouting at him.
Benduski
Story It's not a great story, you will not have a complex story on this one so if you care about story on a comedy anime then this is not for you. The story revolves on a mysterious girl that acts like a cat or it might really be a catgirl they don't really explain why she is like that and she meets this guy Takumi who was an orphan and convince her to live with him and her ''sister'' who adopted him and basically is about their daily life and comedy. Art & Animation The art style is very good, I liked how well animated this wasand it was consistent every episode, the characters design were very good.
Sound
The sound was very good in every aspect, voice acting, i loved the OP, i never skipped the OP.
Character
I liked every character but they could have developed the catgirl, I liked Fumino it was too tsundere though but they were funny, they will make you laugh every episode, this is why i liked them, but i still don't know nothing about the catgirl Nozomi.
Enjoyment
I Had a fair enjoyment out of this.
Karxes
Mayoi Neko Overrun- Just like a Benz car, great at first, and then 2 months in it's the biggest mistake you've ever made. Just like anyone else, I read the reviews for this anime and of course everyone says it's horrible. But of course, just like everyone, I couldn't resist the great introduction, and the cute pictures and characters so I watched it. Actually at first I it was pretty good, the story with the main character being an orphan etc. etc. and at that moment I was like WTF if everyone talking about? this anime is great! great art and story! WARNING- DON"T BE DECEIVED this animeis a disaster after like episode 3, it just seems like filler. There is no story to it, it's not even funny anymore, and all the characters are so very repetitive. From this point on, the ONLY THING that was good was the art.
Overall this anime would be amazing if you just watch the first 3 episodes, or studying animation (doubt it). If not, stay away from this it's a horribly, terrible anime.
8thSin
'Mayoi Neko (Stray Cats) Overrun!' is a harem comedy mainly about one guy and three girls in a cake shop called "Stray Cats". The owner of the shop is a tennen ("natural boke", someone who has zero common sense) woman who likes to find stray cats and sometimes kids, and provide them shelter in the shop. Our protagonist Tsuzuki Takumi is one of those human stray cats, and the story begins with the arrival of the second human stray cat, Kiriya Nozomi. STORY: 6/10 Pretty common setting with plenty of parodies. As far as I can tell, only first and last three episodes were the main story withKiriya Nozomi as central focus, despite all the episode titles were about her.
Just as with the animation, there was a different director for each episode. It seems like they were given the freedom to do whatever the hell they wanted to do with filler episodes from ep 4 to 9, and that's exactly what they seemed to have done.
Episode 4: Possible 'FMP Fumoffu' onsen parody with a sudden parody of Ping Pong (2002) movie?
Episode 5: Went for character development with fan service.
Episode 6: Entire episode on a PV shoot, reminds me of 'Haruhi' movie shooting episode.
Episode 7: Entire episode on mecha parodies.
Episode 8: Entire episode on a custom Jenga game.
Episode 9: Went for straight romance drama.
Whether it worked or not is up for debate, but they all had great slapstick pacing, and I personally found the noticeable difference in direction to be quite entertaining.
Final episode was a recap of the series, which is pretty rare nowadays. The commentary was pretty funny, and I think it represents the freedom in production of this series very well (since it shows that they were given total freedom even the series composition stage).
ANIMATION: 8/10
Notice the animation director and the production studio for animation work assistance is different for every single episode.
Animation quality varied by episode, like episode 1 (Studio Comet) and episode 8 (Sunrise) were significantly better than the rest, but generally above average for harem comedy series.
Character design was decent, with big-eyed attractive girls and signature features (cat ear hair, red cross-patterned ribbons etc) and comments. Despite great influence by animation director and work assistance, character animation consistency was better than average, with exception to episode 11 (Studio Blanc.), which had distinctly different drawing style that I think worked pretty well.
You can tell none of the animation directors and studios wanted to be seen as a slacker (less deadline rush probably helped too), and we are treated to quality animation with subtle difference in style for every single episode, which I found to be very fun to watch.
SOUND: 7/10
Voice acting was very strong, especially for Serizawa Fumino and Kikuchi Ieyasu. Filled with emotion and highly motivated seiyuu staff.
BGM was unremarkable, but that is expected for harem comedy series.
OP/ED were extremely weak seiyuu songs. I can kind of imagine a bunch of NEETs dancing otagei to it. Three "special EDs" for episodes 6, 7, 11 were somewhat interesting though.
CHARACTER: 7/10
Picking a girl for the indecisive protagonist sure is difficult for this series. We have Nozomi, who's a tennen cat girl who's good at everything and goes along with everything. Then Fumino, a tsundere childhood friend (i.e. the "invincible character" if this was 'eroge'). Finally Umenomori Chise, a super -pushy billionaire lolita. I have to say I liked the balance with tsundere and pushy loli fighting for the guy with tennen as a mediator.
Yes, we have a lot of stereotypical character personalities here, but they're all so off-the-chart in each characteristics (like tsundere so much that Fumino always means the opposite) actually made very interesting story developments possible, though they do get a bit annoying after a while.
Character development is not really expected in a slapstick series like this, but Fumino did start expressing her feelings, and Nozomi's gradual realization of friendship and family was depicted very well.
ENJOYMENT: 9/10
I personally liked the characters, and thought there were couple of really funny episodes. Just like Haruhi 2009's "∞8", most of the watch value was in subtle difference in animation styles and in this case, different director for each episode too.
The original setting and story may be unoriginal, but there was abundance of creativity in production stage of this series made possible by one-episode-only staff and teams. Changing animation style, good pacing, hilarious gags, constant fan service, repetitive violent retribution, great directions.
It's in a crappy genre where you can't expect any story, character development or value to begin with, but there was some of each in this series.
As far as watch-and-forget comedy goes, this is as good as it gets. 'Mayoi Neko Overrun!' was hands-down the best comedy of the season for me since all other comedies this season were plagued with horrible pacing and letdowns.
Neuko
If Mayoi Neko Overrun! was an anime meant solely for humour, it might have recieved a higher rating, as there are times when it really excels in that area, thanks to its inventiveness of situations and some clever use of character animation. However MNO is catagorically meant to be an anime based on romance as well, which means at some point the humour has to back off a little to allow the romantic part of the story to progress. To be fair MNO does open up in reassuring fashion, conveying all the romantic gestures you'd expect from a romance-based anime, and it almost succeeds in pullingsome emotional heartstrings while stirring some deep curiosity in the personalities of the key characters. However, beyond episode 3, the promising plot disintegrates, and eventually to the point where it fails to even develop the hidden romance between the two main characters.
The random style of some episodes is a nice diversion from what is otherwise a plot with as much depth as a sheet of tracing paper; it just never seems to address any meaningful conclusion, goal, or resolution regarding the relationship between a passive Takumi and a pretentious Fumino... surely a dissapointment for romantics. For that matter you might as well focus as much attention on the other characters, since their storylines have about the same depth as the main two characters.
Having said that, MNO is by no means detestable - throughout the anime the characters remain somewhat likeable, thanks in no small part to the charming and high quality art, along with the usual winning (abeit cliched) anime poses you'd expect to see in harem type anime. Loosen your focus on the main characters and avoid trying to follow a goaless story here, and MNO is an enjoyable enough anime at least to pass the time on a rainy weekend.
nbyung09
Mayoi Neko Overrun is basically 12 anime in 1 anime. It has a different episode director, animation director and key animation every episode. How does it matters? It actually doesn't matter. If you are one of those who hate "generic" otaku anime, PLEASE DON'T WATCH THIS ANIME. It has everything you don't want to have in it, like tsundere, dense MC, harem, fan-services. If you get bothered by the major premise, there is no way you can enjoy the minor staff. But if you are one of those who actually appreciate and enjoy school harem anime, Mayoi Neko Overrun! will definitely be a refreshing and rare watchingexperience for you, since there are 12 different styles of presentation. You don't see anime do this that often, especially in the harem category. Hope that you can match up with the "Denpa" comedy. That's how most of the anime by AIC works, just like Sora no Otoshimono, Oreimo, Haganai. They bear the weight of being entertainment gearing towards male otaku audience, but they still putting a lot of effort in the meticulous matters (that actually majority of the watchers do not cares, they don't even notice, Oreimo is the biggest example).
Story: 6
The overall flow of anime feels like Kotoura-san (another anime by AIC), 3 episodes of story, Slice of life for the middle episodes, then get back to telling story near the end of the anime. This pace changing is not very viewer-friendly and got a lot of complain in Kotoura-san, but it works out well here.
Story is fair, actually the worse part of this anime is the story. I mean the first 2 episodes.
The middle part is where this anime shine. It is fair to say that the Mayoi Neko Overun! starts at episode 4.
The general feeling of the story is heartwarming, just like every other work by Matsu Tomohiro (R.I.P.), its original creator.
Art
Art is pretty good. The 12 different styles of presentation already provide enough things for you to pay attention to. The occasional 3D animation is great, especially in the episodes preview where we get 3D maids.
Sound
It has an incredible voice acting cast. If you are a fan of Japanese voice actors, you sure would know how big that cast is and you would probably enjoy the anime just by listening to the seiyuu's performance.
They do put some effort in their opening and ending too, just standard AIC things. Not on Oreimo or Heaven's lost property level where you get a new ed every episodes. But you can expect there may be different ed in a few of the episodes. If you are one of those who skip everything then it doesn't matter.
In episode 4 there are some very funny use of background noises and bgm, you can pay some extra attention to it.
Characters
Just the characters you can expect from a harem anime. It's a cute and fun cast and so it's great. As much as I admire originality, there is no need to blindly search for originality in every aspect of a show.
Kiriya Nozomi has a very cute and interesting design. I will not be surprised if Mashiro Shiina's design is inspired by her. Since Mayoi Neko Overrun is actually quite popular in Japan back in 2010. If I recall correctly the BD sales at first release is around 4500 which is well above average.
Enjoyment
Comedies are more towards random or slap stick comedies, Baka to test/ Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou's style. Keep it in mind that you're watching a comedy then it would be enjoyable. In other words, if you know how to have fun, you'll enjoy it. I know it sounds stupid but you'll understand what I mean if you are a patron for these light novel comedies.
There are a lot of fanservices too, and I like it.
Overall
I usually rate any anime that I thoroughly enjoy a 10, but I can only give it a 9 here because to be honest I don't enjoy the first 2 episodes very much.
Another thing to keep in mind is that I'm like the perfect target audience of this anime. If you don't care about seiyuu or don't like school harem romcom, fan-services and all the other staff I mentioned, I expect the rating would be a lot lower for you.
xHikaruSora
The anime is centered around "Tsuzuki Takumi", and the main characters are introduced during the first three episodes (Takumi is the only male main character). Serizawa Fumino (Takumi's Childhood friend), Kiriya Nozomi (a "stray cat-girl"), and Unemori Chise are the main characters, which are introduced in the first two episodes. All three commonly have contradicting opinions and actions, and Unemori Chise gets in quarrels with Fumino quite often. It becomes apparent that the 3 of them fall for Takumi by the end of the first season, for the kindness and way he is (Season 2 is guaranteed, based on Manga to Anime comparisons). The dialogue isvery humorous, and the situations that Takumi is put in because of the three females makes you chuckle, regardless of how well you can suppress it. The scenes amplify the effect, since Mayoi Neko Overrun is an ecchi type anime. Episode 4 contains the most embarrassing scenes for the characters, and the way it is shown really makes you laugh.
No real battles, similar to the anime Spice and Wolf, but with a Cat-Girl rather than a Wolf-Girl (although the main character describes Fumiyo, his childhood friend, as a Wolf).
Animations are decent, could be slightly smoother and less... artifact-filled, and they could have extended the amount of time it took to go through the Season. Episodes 1-3 seem okay, as they are all for getting to know all the main characters, but it begins to feel rushed and compressed from the Manga afterwards. The main problems would be in the anime progression. The first three episodes were good. After that though, everything seems to go a bit off-topic. Randomness is very high, and you could begin to question why it was written this way.
The sound and art would be the strongest points of the anime, in my opinion, but they could have used certain soundtracks for different scenes, as I feel that some of them aren't exactly appropriate for the scenes. Animation is smooth, but you can notice that they cut some corners around the last few episodes.
Overall, I rate it 8 out of 10. The concept, artwork, and sound are good, but the execution of the plot/storyline was not great at all. Suggested for comedy fans.
Ratton21
Being one of my first reviews i hope this helps, This show focuses on comedy and not enough development of the characters. I would really have liked to seen takumi form some sort of secret affection for at least one of the girls. This being said it still was quite funny and is a good show to watch
Mugen900
From what I've read from other reviews, I'd probably agree with them in certain ways when they say that this anime doesn't make any heads or tails in it, you might think it's a usual harem type of genre but it kind goes from one point to the next, you really can't figure out as to whom the male character connects with. But still, it is decent enough to be watched because what it lacks in plot makes up with couple of good slap-stick comedy, As for the art of this anime, I find it very good because it kinda look like atypical manga that has come alive, never mind if there are some differences between the two. The characters, well, I'm focusing on the schools uniform for girls. I like the way that it matches with the female characters especially when it's Fumino who's wearing it, her long black socks really accentuate her very well, as if the two are mend for each other (the girls uniform and the long black socks), I also find Othome very attractive in a bikini, the way she's drawn really makes her versatile to wear any of the characters clothing from her everyday get up to her work clothes, she'll probably look good wearing the school uniform or one of Chise's maid's uniform or in some rare cases be in the nude. The bike shorts in the last 2 episodes of the anime really does give the girls (most of them that is) that professional sporty look, since the bloomers kinda makes things too ordinary even if it's sexier that the bike shorts. So, even if this anime has it's share of twist and turns that you can't seem to make of, it is still decent enough to be watched so I give it a rating of 4.
Trivia:
Bike shorts or spats (as they were called in the anime) were first made up of black knit wool before being made out of spandex.
Bloomers (as they were also called in the anime) are also called Boyshots.
middleground4471
Takumi is just your average nice guy who has two beautiful girls fighting for his affection; one is his childhood friend who has a short temper and the others a spoiled rich girl. Things get crazier though when a mysterious third girl who acts just like a cat enters the fray and wacky adventures ensue. Yeah, so basically it's just like any other ecchi comedy. Story 4/10 Every episode has our characters going on a different adventure whether it's going to the hot springs or going to the beach. However, the biggest problem I have with this anime is the lack of comedy; what makes otherecchi/harem anime so great is how funny the characters are, but these characters just aren't that funny. For example, an episode where the characters go to the beach has a lot of potential, but instead they just do everything people normally do when they go to the beach.
I think the writers believe fan-service and comedy are the same thing, they aren't, they're completely different. Flashing a girls panties is not a joke, showing bouncy boobs is not a joke, it's sexy, but it isn't funny.
The show does have some good jokes (guy sees girls panties, girl punches guy is always funny), but the jokes are too far apart and too few. Sometimes, while I'm watching an episode, I'll be asking myself "where's the next joke?"
Characters 6/10
Umenomori: Umenomori is the rich girl who can make almost anything happen (no matter how impossible) using the power of money. She provides the set-up for a lot of the characters adventures, but my biggest complaint with Umenomori is she isn't that funny. I feel like all the jokes are coming from the other characters like Fumino and Takumi.
Fumino: Fumino is Takumi's childhood friend who has a short temper and always says the opposite of what she means. I always love tsunderes so naturally whenever Fumino punched out Takumi or got red in the face I laughed, but my problem with Fumino is the romance between her and Takumi feels so forced. Also, I'm so sick of this cliche where the girl loves the guy, but doesn't say anything so there's just this awkward tension between them, and that comes up a lot in this anime.
Nozomi: Nozomi is the cute innocent girl that acts like a cat by saying meow a lot and having hair that makes it look like she has cat ears. Yeah, that whole cat-act Nozomi does was cute at first, but after while it gets really annoying. STOP saying meow, talk NORMAL. Furthermore, other than looking cute, Nozomi does nothing except act more like a cat. Oh, and it is never explained why she acts like a cat to begin with.
Otome: Otome is the big boobed owner of the bakery where the characters all work. Otome is a really funny and likeable character, but she's never around.
Satou & Suzuki: Satou & Suzuki are Umenomori's two maids and my favorite characters. I know that sounds weird since they're mostly in the background and barely say anything, but they are both just so adorable and I love every joke they make with them.
Overall 5/10
I enjoyed watching this anime because it did have a few funny jokes in each episode, but I don't really like the characters and there needs to be more jokes. Furthermore, the romance feels so forced and Takumi is such a boring main character. I'd recommend something like Girls Bravo or Heaven's Lost Property over this.
Temere
It wouldn't quite claim being a comedy gold, but it is up there. The humor in this anime is certainly that only a tsundre harem can provide. It's has both unique aspects and jokes that you see so much its almost expected. But it still does not fail to make you laugh. The story is simple and humor filled. Only until toward the end does it get a bit on the feels side. still keeping a serious plot, it just manages to weaved well placed humor at the right times to make it all funny but not so funny that it's ridiculous. If you liked thestory line and humor of Baka to Test, then you will enjoy this
Art styles is what you'd expect from standard. Simple, not too overboard with object skins and cell shading with an addition of light shades, tones and gradients where required. It is almost a text book example of 2010 anime art and animation styles.
Sound is really well done throughout the anime. besides the fact of the overused cicadas in any generic anime, it does utilize its music budget well when trying to create an atmosphere for the current scene. As for the opening and ending, the beats and tunes are good but the vocals seem out of place or off putting compared to the music.
Character development is slow but satisfying as the hero and heroines all get their fair share of development as well as knowledge of their past. The storys of each one get explained on a need to know basis when the episode calls upon why they do what they do.
Overall enjoyment is great. Humor, mild fan service every couple of episodes and added feels in the end. It really does take the romance genre as seriously as a comedy anime can at about the 8th episode mark as things really start taking place. It is well worth the watch.
