Mayoi Neko Overrun!

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...

Kiriya, Nozomi Main

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Serizawa, Fumino Main

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Umenomori, Chise Main

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Tsuzuki, Takumi Main

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Tsuzuki, Otome Supporting

Satou, Satomi Japanese

Chikumaen, Kaho Supporting

Tamura, Yukari Japanese

Kikuchi, Ieyasu Supporting

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Suzuki Supporting

Arai, Satomi Japanese

Fujino, Tamao Supporting

Nanri, Yuuka Japanese

Naruko, Kanae Supporting

Horie, Yui Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Kawase, Kouhei Producer

Fukuda, Jun Producer

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Mar 7, 2018

nbyung09

Recommended

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 watching ... experience 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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 16, 2017

middleground4471

Mixed Feelings

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 other ... ecchi/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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 3, 2021

Upset_Nimbus

Not Recommended

The maids are helpful but you really can't predict what's coming next. Mayoi Neko is overrun with fanservice with a bit of wholesome and comedy sprinkled in. Now I do like my fair share of the lewd but this is really Mayoi Neko Overrun's star asset. The story? Well, it's an understatement to say it decided to take a ride in a Delorian going 89 miles per hour with an Abra in the back seat. The first two episodes were great I will give credit where it's due but after that Chise hard carries this anime as all of its wacky antics are caused by ... her free-flowing funds. If you are an avid pantsu hunter looking for some fine picks and a fan of some poorly drawn but simplistically adorable cats Mayoi Neko Overrun is full of the former but you will definitely see the latter!

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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