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ATTENTION
Stay away from this show if your morals are against 'paying for intimate intercourse' or you are sensitive to the topic in any way. This show is lighthearted with it. Always remember anime doesn't come from the same culture as yours, unless you are from the country that produced it.

Only watch this if your sense of humor enables you to enjoy Shimoneta and Prison School. If you are too 'vanilla' (let me be respectful here, please) to enjoy those, don't waste your time.

Now, if those were your cup of tea, please, serve yourself.

Leaving ERO aside, you can fin a lot of interesting topics ... to think about if you are just a little bit awake. That's what I find most appealing from this show. Since it produces situations that others can't because of moral handcuffs, this show is able to conceive pretty interesting ideas in which reflect.

There are a lot of interesting ideas scattered within this show.
The relationship between youth and mana, for example. How a person can have an old body but have a very young spirit, and just the other way around.
The difference in cultures as well. Something that you find interesting others can find it disgusting or feel concerned about it.
You can find more than one per episode, so you'll find plenty of sparkly new ideas to delight your mind.

A story is meaningful and enjoyable as how you tell it… and this way of telling this story wasn't it.

Having watched the OVA version and being a fan of the manga, this was such a disappointment! Everything felt cliché, it didn't take the time to developed the bonds (which is the point of this story, if you wanted a lighthearted rom-com there are thousands out there) between the characters so the moment when the MC realizes everything could have been different and his life crisis could have never resolved, falls completely flat.

Having 13 episodes could have meant the development could have been paused and deep, ... going for the meaningful psychological growths, but it went more for the comedy, which is not very interesting in this story. So, to the painest of my hearts, I think this was a missed opportunity.

I don't give it a 10 because the 'enjoyment' isn't consistent through every shortie.

You get to see other characters and interactions and possibilities at Aoyama-sensei universe.

Some of this stories are related to Conan, some aren't. Some are Awesome, and some are just your average anime tale (but with his characteristic style).

My most favorite one was 'Play it again'. First because of the characters, and second because I'm an old soul myself, therefore, I miss the old days when samurai and knight values mattered, and no one thought those values were 'outdated', or 'toxic' or boring. That one story was worth the watch of the whole ... bunch.

The other ones vary from a 9 to a 6. But they are short, so you won't loose much by giving them a try.

Sometimes I have one of those days 'feeling like watching something romantic'. Well, this is what I ask at those moments:

*Science fiction.
*Historical or folkloric stuff.
*A simple love story.
* Believable characters: tough boy finds a girl that suits his tastes and thinks she'll be perfect to fulfill his necessities (in this case, a girl that reminds him of his first love), misplaced girl finds a blunt and honest, fit and simple young man (but she knows the actual and complicated truth about him, but never talks about it).

This is perfect for those who believe in a 'love that transcends time', and for those ... who feel they aren't fit for this century because they are ancient souls who miss their past lives.

P.S.: No, you don't need to be a Rumiko Takahashi groupie to enjoy this. If you hate her because of her bad habit at develop 'stagnation' in her stories, this is good news for you! It's only 50 minutes, and has a 'wholeness' feel to it (instead of the 'openness' feel that her usual works give).

Enjoy!

This presents the world the story will be set in... and that's it. No character development, not even presentation. No plot. No nothing. It's just some scenes put one after the other. Not even good scenes either.

The world the story (which doesn't exist in this movie) will be set in, is one with a 'pocket' of time (reminiscent of tales from the fairy, I would guess), and with some gifted youths that are able to use the 'persona', which it's a reminiscent of avatars (like in some ancient indian or egyptian mythologies). That was the only interesting aspect of this waste of time.

P.S.: Be careful ... with the translation too: it can turn this bland piece of waste into one even duller.

'Living pitying yourself makes for a miserable life' Dazai to Atsushi

For people like us, who struggle to fit in the morals of nowadays trending philosophy, this show is a relief. There are different points of views on how to live in our, said, predicament. But to be able to achieve that (2nd season) we have to watch entirely the first season.

This season presents the characters, and outlines a bit of the story. We have, for example, Edogawa Ranpo (that tells us there are going to appear more awesome authors later on, which is basically what this show wants to teach us: english literature). Every character ... has its own form of mental disorder (depression, euphoria, oct, ptsd, stockholm, megalomania, etc...)

It might seem a bit odd after 5 or 6 episodes, but have in mind this season is an 'introduction' to the characters and the situation.

What I think is more important to understand and enjoy this show is that it depicts actual friendships (instead of 'cliché' tv friendships), it isn't about 'good fighting evil' but about the best you can do with what you have and making yourself better (as it used to be in earlier anime), and finally, a metaphor about western shallow values trying to overcome japanese roots. (You'll get a little taste on this in this season, but a full mouth of it in the next one).

The visuals are great, sound is perfect, and as the show goes on it gets better and better, so it's a safe bet.

This anime is one of those that follows the following scheme:

Two episodes for world introduction and character presentation.
Few episodes to define the statu quo of the lives of the characters.
Some episodes for The knot.
From 1 to 3 episodes to end it.

If you don't like the kinds of animes that follow that scheme, keep it in mind.

Concerning the plot, there is something to have into consideration: the characters are exposed to a world that they find 'nonsensical' so the story develops through their reactions to that 'nonsense' and how they feel the need to rebel against it. It's as deep as you are able to ... deepen trough what is shown.

It has a huge cast of characters. Some of them are cliché, but some of the secondary are well constructed, with subtle hint's of their personalities and backgrounds that are believable and feel like full characters that simply can't have enough screen time because story relevancy.

The main character is conceived to be the nexus between our world and that one, so the audience might experience the confusion of the weirdness on the world mechanics as well as the behavior of some of the cast. He is the vehicle to warm the audience into the journey of that story, but his development is on point. The way he changes his behavior, or don't, as his memories come back, as well as his wavy reactions (he don't reacts always the same way, it depends on the situation, and on many other conditions, but he still is coherent and cohesive).

In general, this anime deserves to be given a chance. Don't put it right next to the Goddess of animes, just watch it without any weird expectations and the journey would be worth your time.

Imagine for a moment you are an Alien.
Imagine that your race reproduces by Parthenogenesis. That you've been stranded on Earth as a baby and you are trying to figure this 'two gender to reproduce' thing. (I know it's weird, just humor me for a moment here, please).
Then, you start writing a journal with all the information you begin to gather, and you turn it into a story just so you can 'understand' things better.
Well, you would end up writing Nazo no Kanojo!

If you are somehow socially handicapped but you have a thing for drool, you could easily understand this. Just one thing: actual couples don't ... work like this. And so you know, there are couples with a drool thing out there (that's true!) but it still isn't like this.

Story telling worse than the worst you could imagine. AND characters are just cartoonish archetypes badly done. I dropped this after the 5th episode... and the best chapter of the was the first one. With that I'll end.

You are free to figure it out for yourself.

The story is great.

Characters are great, (even though some aren't understandable for normal human being like me, aka Black-Star), just don't expect development on their relationships with one another. Those relationships are sealed from the start. The story moves on, but their interactions remain the absolute same from chapter 20 onwards.

Just don't watch last episode and go read the manga instead. Last episode + death vs kishin battle are the worst thing done on this anime. Enjoy the ride (just don't keep the conclusion in sight or you will be disappointed).

It pisses me off a lot of japanese anime that people are not human beings ... with drives and desires and confusion and stuff, they are just... 9 yo forever. Tell me which one of you will live together with another person, have the trust to put your life in his/her hands and when that person falls to the deepest pit of his/her mind, you just give a handshake to them... ??? Well... talking about frozen guts on people... (just don't pay attention to the last paragraph, it wanted me to keep writing).

Go watch it, and judge it for yourself.

The story starts common and ok, but it starts spinning around, until it is a whole new story. And A WELL DONE one.

The character development you will find, in many of the characters. There are some questions that don't get answered BUT it left subtle hints towards that.

Overall, this is a very good anime, and a very good story even for those who aren't experienced in anime. Just don't bother with the english dub, is horrible. There is only one flaw in the narrative reaching the end, but I think that's because they didn't want to set ... on screen another loop, so they shortened like that.