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It saddens me that this has been given such a high rating. It saddens me that the reviews are, mainly, positive.

Why?

This is not a faithful adaptation to the manga at all. It's really annoying to me that people watch this and like it, knowing that they're missing out on so much more.

The anime makes the characters flat. It takes one aspect of their personalities (for example, Tohru's kindess or Kyou being angry) and exaggerates them to the extreme. There is no depth to anyone. They also change some characters entirely (though in fairness, one of the reveals about a certain character hadn't happened in ... the manga yet) and cut out characters who are very important .

Another thing that annoys me is that they didn't really keep the strong messages of love and friendship. Instead, they changed it into mostly a comedy series with some attempts at drama. But they put too much focus on the Zodiac. The manga makes it clear that the Zodiac is NOT the main plot. It's about the characters and their motives, feelings and relationships. Not about how awkward it is when they turn into talking animals.

Is the anime good on its own? No, not really. It's watchable, but only if you haven't read the manga and are a shoujo fan. But I still wouldn't recommend it.

TL;DR: Read the manga instead. It's actually decent.

Yes, I realise that one episode reviews aren't the best. But whatever.

So, should you watch this? No. No you shouldn't. Don't waste your time with this... psuedo-incest piece of shit.

I'm sick of this whole "they're not blood related SO IT'S OKAY!" incest. No, Japan. Stop. If you're going to make a series about incest, there is no point unless they're blood related. Non-blood related sibling incest is so overdone at this point that it drives me mad.

Then there's the art. Whoever animated this obviously never took Anatomy 101. Yes, it's anime and it doesn't have to be realistic. But DAMN. Everything is ... off. The characters are far too skinny, have ears the size of the eyes of a 90s shoujo anime character and so on. Ugh. They put CLAMP's spagghetti people to shame.

It also doesn't help that the characters are all annoying and stupid. Nao is a slut, and her brother's just pathetic. He does have an awesome porn collection, though. I'll give him that.

Because I was so bored while watching, I decided to count the number of panty shots. There were about 14 or so. Panty shots add NOTHING AT ALL to the story and they are annoying as Hell. Stop it, Japan.

Please, don't waste your time on this. Watch one of the better series this season. I'm giving this one more episode, but I'm expecting to drop it.

So I've been following the Kaminomi manga for quite a while. However, this review is about the anime and not the manga, so therefore I'll try not to be too biased (and probably fail miserably).

Story - 8/10.

I like the premise for this series. It's original (from what I know) and it's amusing. Despite this, it's quite... hard to explain to people. In a way, it makes no sense unless you actually watch it. It's not complex or anything, but it's just hard to summarise. Or maybe I'm just stupid.

Art - 9/10.

The art style is lovely. I love the colouring. Also, I didn't spot any major ... QUALITY moments so that's good.

Sound - 10/10.

The music is brilliant. From the theme songs (God only knows is one of my favourite anime openings of 2010) to the BGM to the character songs -- it's all amazing. The voice acting is good, too. The only way they could have improved the voice acting was if they replaced everyone with Wakamoto Norio.

Character - 7/10.

To be honest, several of the characters bored me. I don't like Ayumi's type of character, Elcea is annoying and Shiori is too cliché (gotta agree with Keima on the librarian-type girls here). It wasn't horrible writing or anything, but they just didn't interest me. On the other hand, Keima is AWESOME, as is his mum. I also love Mio. And, in a surprise turn of events, I liked anime!Kanon more than manga!Kanon.

Enjoyment - 9/10.

I looked forward to a new episode every week. I liked pretty much all of them, except for a couple (but you get that with every series so it's okay). I got several laughs out of this series.

Overall - 10/10.

This is one of my favourites. Okay, sure, it's not in my list of favourites, but it's up there. Depending on how season 2 is, it might earn a place. I'm highly anticipating season 2 (is it April yet?), because the next few girls are awesome. Especially Tsukiyo.

tl;dr: Go and watch this. It's totally worth it.