Momochi-san Chi no Ayakashi Ouji

Orphan Himari Momochi's only link to her late parents is the house they secretly bequeathed her, which she does not learn of until her 16th birthday. Thrilled by the opportunity to know more about her family, Himari arrives at the rumored haunted house and is bewildered to find three young men already living there: Aoi Nanamori, who identifies himself as the guardian of the place, and his two familiars, Yukari and Ise. Although they allow her to stay overnight, they warn her to leave the next day so she can avoid harm from ayakashi—wandering spirits that sometimes attack human beings.

Surprisingly, Himari is unaffected by her spectral encounters and determined to move in to the residence. After she discovers that Aoi had become guardian unwittingly and is now confined to the property, forgotten by the outside world, her resolve only grows stronger. Touched by his story, Himari decides to find a way to free Aoi from his dim fate, and she convinces the three Momochi House protectors to accept her as their landlady. However, the mysterious Kasha who keeps sending hostile ayakashi to Himari's new home seems to have darker plans for Aoi's future.

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Nanamori, Aoi Main

Ootsuka, Takeo Japanese

Momochi, Himari Main

Kawaida, Natsumi Japanese

Yukari Supporting

Tachibana, Shinnosuke Japanese

Kasha Supporting

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Ise Supporting

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Nekobaba Supporting

Honda, Takako Japanese

Ryujin Supporting

Sonobe, Keiichi Japanese

Catfish Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Aoi's Mother Supporting

Sato, Akemi Japanese

Kudagitsune Supporting

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Miyakoshi, Tooru Producer

Shirahata, Bob Director

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Mar 26, 2024

YayaPotato

Recommended

Omg I almost this good anime because of bunch of negative reviews. Thanks god I gave myself a chance to completed this anime. This is actually my first time writing review for an anime that should deserve some positive reviews. This anime is highly recommend if you want some slice of life + romance. Because people kept comparing this to Kamisama Kiss, it received so many negative reviews. The anime is actually decent to watch if you want to kill your time. In my opinion, at least the art is better than Kamisama kiss. So do yourself a favor and give this anime a chance ... – you won't be disappointed. :) Definitely deserve a second season! Can’t wait for it 🙂🙂.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 25, 2024

violettheory

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

I don't normally write reviews, but I honestly think it's awful that this anime has such a low rating and a majority not recommended reviews. This isn't a perfect anime by any means, it's a bit clunky, and probably too rushed to give the characters any real room to breathe, but it's an interesting story and a nice romance. Don't let the score fool you, if the title and poster drew you in, you'll probably enjoy this anime. I'm beginning to realize that MAL underrates shoujo in general. An equivalently decent shonen would not be sitting at a 6.4, so keep that in mind.

I've seen ... a lot of people comparing this to Kamisama Kiss, but worse. I've never seen that anime, so I can't really make a comparison. But I can say it does feel Fruits Basket adjacent, but with much less focus on the characters and more focus on the mystery. Much of the anime centers around the main character's fish-out-of-water situation, how weird it is to finally go to your family home and find it inhabited with weird spirits who won't fully accept you or tell you exactly what's going on. Most episodes waver between hints at an overarching plot and a monster of the week kinda thing. Things would feel much more fleshed out and less rushed if this was a two cour show, but in this day and age just getting shoujo adapted is a big enough accomplishment so ya get what ya get I guess.

The strong suit of this anime is definitely the mystery and the romance. Teasing out character's motivations and backstories every episode is honestly pretty engaging, though this only centers on the main characters, side characters are left to the wayside, again, seemingly because they tried to cram so much into twelve episodes. The romance is very cute, grows believably, and doesn't progress like you would expect from the typical shoujo/romcom cliches. The art style is great, the patterned flourishes to clothing and wallpaper are gorgeous, though the animation quality is lacking sometimes (quite a few slideshow scenes that could have been fully animated but weren't). This is probably a personal issue, but if you aren't very familiar with the terminology associated with Japanese spirits and demons you might have a problem following some of the introductions and very brief explanations of the inhabitants of the house. Lots of new names and terms get thrown out with little to no set up or explanations, presumably because the target audience already understands the differences between an ayakashi and a youkai. It doesn't diminish the enjoyability of the plot, but it can be a bit annoying so keep that in mind.

Overall, if you enjoy believable romances, mysteries that are slowly solved over a season, and interesting world building, you'll enjoy this show. If you're in it for dramatic, intricate, character growth and lots of well animated action then you will probably not have the patience for this show. 7.5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 22, 2024

KANLen09

Not Recommended

The Demon Prince of Momochi House - It's Kamisama Hajimemashita, but 100 times worse. Let that sentence sink into your brain.

Everyone within the AniManga community sure knows famed mangaka Julietta Suzuki's Kamisama Hajimemashita a.k.a Kamisama Kiss, if not, then where the hell have you been? It's one of the famed Shoujo series that all girls will speak of when they have a classic that they can recommend to, hell even to guys who are not interested in the Shoujo genre, at least for the classics (which I recommend you read/watch the entire series in general). And yes, countless examples have followed this tradition, but not ... in the specific sense, which is where mangaka Aya Shouoto comes in with her work of Momochi-san Chi no Ayakashi Ouji a.k.a The Demon Prince of Momochi House. And let me tell you, despite it looking like an imitation copy of Kamisama Hajimemashita, it's nowhere near that level. Hell, everything looks like a carbon copy of the extreme bad side of it. And yes, I read the entirety of the already completed 16-volume, 64 chapter series so tell you my overall thoughts as a whole.

So first, the story elements of which all characters have their fate intertwined to one mansion where the border between human and the supernatural meets:
- The human side: the 16-year-old orphan of Himari Momochi being granted her old family estate as a gift of inheritance. Despite the many rumours going around that the house is haunted, she takes the challenge to reclaim the haunted house as her own, to which she finds 3 handsome guys loitering around in the estate for god knows what reason. As the sole proprietor of the house, she attempts to shake them off her house, but soon realizes that her destiny how lies at the hands of the same 3 Ikemen who warned her about the impending changes/fate within the Momochi House itself.
- The supernatural side: Led by Aoi Nanamori, he is one of the 3 entities whom Himari tries to chase out of her House. But the House itself has a hidden secret: the bloodline of the Momochi family must take its reigns and become the next Omamori-sama or "Nue", one which Himari was supposed to be as its guardian. But Aoi escaped into the Momochi House when he was 10 due to his family's problems when he was a human, and through the goading of an adult who tells him that he would be able to find solace within the House on a hill, there he is unanimously welcomed into the House, and soon realizes that he will become the Omamori-sama instead of Himari, which grants its user spirit-like shikigami powers when he's transformed into a Nue.

Feeling the Nanami Momozono and Tomoe semblance within Himari and Aoi? Strap on, because things are about to get worse.

With Himari's Omamori-sama power stripped down to just expelling entities from her own House, she has to settle down with Aoi and his 2 other shikigami lackeys: Yukari, a serving Mizuchi spirit, and Ise, a hard-headed Shoujo-like orangutan. The former is tolerable since he displays a fair expression, and like what he does, only serves his master to the fullest, which he eventually displays that affection to Himari as well, seeing how she is still serving as a co-linkage between her and Aoi as well. The latter is very brash and grumpy, and would bolster trouble even over the most minor things. But when it comes to the crunch, like Yukari, he's in loyalty to Aoi as well to drive out beings who dare to disrupt the House's dimensions, save for the one who always grates on their nerves: Kasha. The powerful Ayakashi who has a deep obsession and rivlary towards Aoi as the Nue, he is the definition of the boredom character, trying to annoy the heck out of everyone for some amusement.

The biggest sin, however, is Himari herself. Though she does give the usual appearance of a main character, it's not exactly enforced on her until she gets to the root of the problem within the happenings at Momochi House. And even then, she tries to take charge handling all matters from the wandering ayakashi to the shikigamis themselves, which is nice to see from the authoritarian standpoint of the female MC. The part that feels egregious is the romance section, because since this is a Shoujo, you can't exactly run away from Himari and Aoi having feelings for each other even in times of trouble. This is where Kamisama Hajimemashita does this better at knowing where to emphasize character growth that leads to expressive outcomes...wis an irony for the author herself that Aya Shouoto has an idea on where to take Himari's character, yet force it down the predictable route when creativity besets her back. Despite the difference between Aya Shouoto and Julietta Suzuki's approach of the Shoujo genre, you know who won, and had a better, yet creative approach that doesn't betray its themes and knows how to create a natural guideline on long-standing storytelling.

Being an Aniplex show, they do have shows that are definitely out of the ordinary like Yana Toboso's Kuroshitsuji a.k.a Black Butler. But this is even lesser for Shoujo-centric shows when it comes to the traditional classic Shoujo, which is where this show comes in. The production by studio Drive is just...there, it's not the greatest, but it's not bad in either way, just mediocre to a low-level decent, avoiding it being a literate imitation of Kamisama Hajimemashita. To make matters worse, director Bob Shirahata isn't someone high-profile of note, going through almost 35 years of main roles and assuming directorial roles for the lesser shows, the last notable one being the downfall of Nanatsu no Taizai a.k.a The Seven Deadly Sins via the Ensa no Edinburgh ONAs. I mean, I did not expect much from this show from the get-go, and my feelings were pretty much unchanged from start to finish, with the dip coming off from the 2nd half.

The music is decent, with both Ayana Tsujita and Tomoyuki Kono helming the department, they did a fair job creating the atmosphere for the show. The part that I don't get, is the theme songs. Muto's ED is calm and collected, just like an actual Shoujo work, but Yoh Kamiyama's OP is a pure wreck of a disaster. Sure, he can create songs like for instance with Horimiya's OP (and "Iro Kousui" IS a fantastic song BTW), but "Hozuki" sounds too much of a Shonen than a Shoujo-ish song, resulting in quite a dissonance of a song that is just plain bad, or even close to ear-numbing in my terms, yikes.

If there is any recommendation after washing off the distastes of the anime, I implore you to read the manga from the very beginning, because Shoujo anime rarely have follow-up seasons and tend to rush to get a stopping point, which this show unfortunately has done so. The manga is quite the opposite approach to the anime and is a decent traditional Shoujo romance work on its own, which I respect Aya Shouoto for her long and arduous work over 6.5 years.

Just take the standard word to "Go read the manga" and forget that the anime ever existed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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