Finally a comedy after a long while of watching teen melodramas and sci-fi adventures. I’ll be blunt, this is by no means anime of the year material. It brings nothing you haven’t seen before in a slapstick anime. You have your parodies and references of other shows, and the occasional self awareness of it being an anime. You have the perverts, the girl whose personality is a bit over the top (girl in pink, though her real hair color is gray), and the girl who tries to tie her down (the blonde). The story is very simple, Sakura Ichiko is a young rich girl with too much good luck on her side. The gods of misfortune become aware of this and decide its time to share some of that good fortune around as Ichiko has such an odd abundance of it, and has been subconsciously sucking the good fortune of those close to her. A god of misfortune is sent to earth to suck up some of that abundant fortune, her name is Binboda Momiji. This being a comedy, you can imagine what the entire series is about then after…
Starting out I wasn’t all that into the show. The comedy wasn’t all that appealing, and the story seemed very simple. However, after getting to around the third episode I realized what a great show it was. I wouldn’t call it the best comedy I have ever seen, id say shows like Strawberry Marshmallow and Kodocha are much much funnier, but it is with a doubt now in my top ten. The art is standard, nothing amazing there. The music is decent. What makes the show shine is the characters. Momiji has become one of my favorite characters in anime. Shes dark and serious one second, funny and ridiculous the next. Ichiko has her moments as well, but the show is stolen by Momiji in just about every episode.
Overall the show was great with some great parodies and overall great comedy mixed in with some nice character development.
Score - 8.5/10
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