Jun 13, 2014
It's very easy to misinterpret this masterpiece as your average ecchi-sketchy show, or even label it as "borderline hentai". Admittedly, it gets extremely raunchy many times. But that's the allure of the show and the artists challenge to its viewers. Can you look past the lewd and see the authors stark depictions of the every day life of a girl suffering through extended child abuse?
Spoilers ahoy, you've been warned.
Story: 10/10
From the first episode we're introduced to our hero Keita, your typical unaware harem protagonist. He's got girls hanging off him left and right, to the envy of his entire school. The major plot of
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the show is his twin sisters attempt to get him admitted to their highschool.
Their infatuation with their brother is apparent extremely early, always sneaking into his room at night or trying to fool around with him. For all you wincest fans, I'm sure you're well aware of how often incest occurs in reality. There's the normal siblings fooling around as toddlers/children, playing doctor of sorts. And then there's the real stuff where they know what they're doing. That last one rarely ever happens, and when it does, it's usually a sign of something having gone wrong in the household. And something is very wrong in this household.
One of the heroines, Riko, as part of her character design, wears a bandage on the side of her face. One could assume perhaps she has a blemish she's hiding, as one would expect of someone wearing a bandage. However, this show takes place over the course of almost a year. Any normal blemishes would have long disappeared by then. Compounding that fact is the appearance of numerous flashbacks to when the trio were small children. Riko wears the same bandage in the same spot. By now, a casual viewer may just write if off as lazy writing, but it's actually a carefully crafted plot device.
The main characters mother and father (especially the father) encourage this incestuous relationship, even offering "chances" to Keita. Normally, parents are against incest, at most willfully oblivious or ambivalent. Outright support raises many red flags. And that red flag is that the father has been abusing these girls for a very long time. Riko is a rather rambunctious girl, likely she resisted his advances at one point and he hit her, scarring her. In her shame she covered it up with that bandage we see in the flashbacks. Ako is also a victim in this.
To deal with this trauma, they seek out their new brother, Keita. Throughout the anime, the girls try to sneak into his room for the night, because they know if they stay in their own, their father will pay them a visit. Keita, of course, is a bright young boy and is well aware of this, that's why he acts so oblivious to their advances. If he dares speak up against this, his father will hurt him, maybe even kill him. The mother is likely in denial about the whole thing, thinking it's just a silly game.
All this masked in what appears to be your typical harem-comedy.
Art: 6/10
Nothing really special.
Sound: 6/10
Again, nothing memorable. The ED is pretty good though.
Character: Refer above 9/10
Enjoyment: 10/10 OR 0/10
If you understand what I mean by those dual scores. On one hand, it disgusted me how heart-wrenching it was, and I did not enjoy that. However, the fact that it did that deserves a 10.
Overall: 10/10
Wonderful show with something for everyone. For the casual viewer, you have a fun little incest romp. For the critical viewer, you have incest deconstruction and multi-layered plots and characters.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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