Short summary : A somewhat asocial guy drinks by mistake a magic potion which transforms him into a sheep plush, and “forcibly” becomes the familiar of a beginner magical girl.

I was mostly looking forward to this show because the original game was designed by Noizi Ito, but sure this show is different of the image I had in mind. Well yeah, I did see all the magical girl thing in the CGs but 1) almost forgot about it cause Nadeshiko (Nako-chan) is mostly what I remembered from them, 2) eroge usually have more… “mature” story ?

Anyway, they did a good job at keeping the original design. As for the interest of the show, well I would say that it’s ok to watch it if you have some free time in your hands. This is mostly a Card Captor Sakura rip-off, and it’s 12 episodes long only, so if you’re not too demanding you can give it a try.

On a random note, I love the main theme that we hear throughout the serie in different versions.

Sumomo the magical girl, and the main character in his plush form. Her mission is to collect 7 star drops with this kind of big spoon. When I said it was a CCS rip-off…

First, you take Tsuruya-san… then, you mix with Nagato… and you have (somewhat) Nadeshiko. Is it… perfection ???
Long green-ish hair and from a rich family like Tsuruya-san, and with a kinda emotionless face like Nagato. As for her personality, she’s calm like Nagato and reliable like Tsuruya-san. She’s also very protective over the crybaby Sumomo, like Tsuruya-san is protective over the crybaby Mikuru. Well all these similarities are coincidental and can be found in lot of other characters though.

Another similar point with CCS : Nadeshiko is totally Tomoyo for Sumomo.

Nona, aka Asparas-san. A nice rival character. I immediately recognized Yuki Matsuoka as her seiyuu because the first thing you hear from Nona is her laughter (Matsuoka is Tsuruya-san’s seiyuu too).

Well the show has some good points that makes it different of CCS too, so that’s still enjoyable to watch.

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Encore un “classique” de la fin des 90’s dont je me suis souvenu recement.

J’aime particulierement l’instru, aux sonorités qu’on a pas l’habitude d’entendre dans un morceau français (c’est peut-être pour ça qu’elles sont plus connues aux States qu’en France).

Bon quand ça chante, pas de doute c’est français. Peut-être que ça serait mieux passé en anglais, mais ça reste encore largement écoutable je trouve.

Un des rares morceaux français qu’on puisse à mon avis véritablement qualifier de “R&B”, terme trop souvent galvaudé pour qualifier les morceaux Hip Hop un peu lent et sans insultes sur la police.

Les Nubians – Makeda

Et en plus elles chantent en boubou, c’est la classe.

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Short summary : Makoto, a shy guy, confesses his love for a girl who rides the same train as him, Kotonoha. But a short time after he started to date Kotonoha, he finally falls in love with Sekai, the girl classmate who helped him to confess his love, and eventually dates her in secret.

So, this is the anime adaptation of that infamous H-game with very depressing bad ends (suicides, murders…), and pathetic main character.

Indeed, Makoto is pathetic. Really, the most dumb and irritating main character EVER (like, the guy was reading a pr0n magazine in a shop when dating his girlfriend… WTF ?).

Also, I may not be a fan of Kotonoha (who is your typical big-breasted shy and plain girl), but the fact that everybody in the show treats her like shit just pisses me off, honestly. It’s so irritating that I actually WISH for a bad end to happen. Well, a Makoto bad end, that is. Kotonoha should just kill him and go for a happy yuri ending with Sekai.

I only have screenshots of my favorite character, Setsuna, Makoto and Sekai’s classmate. Well, she is also one of the characters who acts harshly towards Kotonoha, but she actually doesn’t think bad, and doesn’t know anything about what Makoto and Sekai are secretely plotting, so she can be forgiven. Setsuna is the kind of character who is funny while being cool and kinda emotionless. She also cares a lot for Sekai. She’s the main reason for me to watch this show, I noticed her already in some CGs from the game and was looking forward to see her in the anime too.

Really, I won’t tell you to watch it, you might be as irritated as me. Also, if you don’t like shows featuring yandere (sweet girls suddenly going psycho and murderous), or drama animes with bad end, you should definitly avoid this show.

Nice Boat !

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