So last night, I read a discussion of Amaenaideyo, which someone said actually got good in the latter half. I don’t know; it just kept using the same plot over and over and over again, so I dropped out half way through it. As I said in my review:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:
Loser guy with secret power lives under the same roof with (multiple) total hotties, who consider him a pervert and often abuse — what? You say I should have stopped at “Loser”? Really, I wish I had. Either I’m getting really jaded or I’m getting a lot pickier about my animé. Three minutes into the first episode, and I’m telling myself, “Oh yeah, now I remember why I never downloaded this series before. It sounded stupid and unoriginal. Well, it successfully lived down to those expectations.
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It’s not even 2 minutes into the first episode before Yuuko strips Chitose to power-up Ikkou and save the day. It’s only two minutes after that until he walks in on several of the girls in the shower. This series strings a fairly thin plot between all the scenes of Chitose (or one of the other girls) losing her clothes. After the first couple of episodes, it tended to follow a pattern of the gang encountering a spirit in human guise, which somehow none of them realize is a spirit (excpet Hinata, of course). Chitose gets jealous if any other girl shows interest in Ikkou, but abuses him as a pervert. Somone gets nekkid, and Ikkou saves the day. All the girls abuse him, despite the fact that it’s Yuuko that is always stripping Chitose. Seems to me, she’s the real pervert.
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Ikkou is the completely lame and loser center of the harem. He’s whiney, self-centered, and irresponsible — but hey, he’s a nice guy despite all that. In other words, the typical harem loser-male. He appears to have gotten something of a grip by the end of the series, but he’s still too whiney, and the girls still abuse him. And of course, so does grandma, whose real job is to see to it that Ikkou masters his wild power.
It had a lot of fanservice, and there was a second series, but I’ve never looked for it. Hell, I was fast forwarding through it by the third episode, and that’s something I never did before.
On the other hand, the latter half of the DVD-only episode was seriously ecchi. It’s all below the fold, behind spoiler tags, and NSFW.
And of course, click on the pics for larger versions.
Yeah, damn shame the show was so stupid; the girls are really cute.
IF you want to bother, simply skip to the last three (?) episodes. I haven’t seen Katsu!
so I have no idea if it continues the improved version or slumps back into lamehood. And yes, that DVD-only ep was a surprise. Not a bad one, mind….
Yes, but as I have just discovered, it pales in comparison to Green Green’s unimported 13th episode. Although I like the girls of Amaenaideyo better. More, ahhh…well-rounded characters, you might say.