There's a place where the gods live, a floating island in the sky. Mayu is a young cat god who likes to get into trouble. She's been grounded by her mom, but uses her power to escape so that she can go gambling. She gets caught, and we learn that this isn't the first time.

Her mother takes away Mayu's power and banishes her from heaven aka Takamagahara, forbidding her to return until Mom calls her back again.

So once on Earth, a human girl named Yuzu found her and took her in. Mayu has been living with Yuzu ever since, some four years at this point.

Let's get some cast work in here:

Meiko, Gonta, Mayu, Sasana.

Mayu and Sasana were introduced to each other by their fathers when they were very young. The two of them seemed to get along very well, and their fathers decided to betroth them, each thinking the other's child was a boy. In fact they're both girls. But Amaterasu, the top god of the stack, approved the marriage contract. Sasana doesn't seem to mind this, and is ready to get married at any time. Mayu has rather more mixed feelings about it all. Sasana is a nice girl and all, but Mayu would rather marry a guy.

They're both cat-gods, with two tails. Meiko is the granddaughter of the god of destruction. She was in the same class as Mayu and Sasana when little, and was stuck up and desu-wa, and thus isolated and lonely. But Mayu invited her to play one time, and she's been hung up on Mayu ever since.

Gonta is the officially-assigned god of this here particular town. He's got a different kind of tail -- and only one tail -- and it looks like he may be a doggy.

Gonta also happens to be infatuated with Yuzu, the girl who took Mayu in. Yuzu is a kind girl and doesn't seem to mind Mayu free-loading. And since Mayu didn't lose all her power, once in a while she comes in handy.

And then there's this moe-blob, name of Shamo. That's a can of beer she's buying.

I can't really figure out where they think this series is going. At the beginning, based on the OP, I thought it was "cute girls, mostly with kemono-mimi, doing cute things" but the first episode doesn't really unfold that way. About the only thing that's clear is that it's comedy. What I'm wondering is if they're really going to try to tell some sort of story, possibly of Mayu eventually facing some sort of crisis, acting nobly, and because of that gaining redemption from her mom.

Or maybe it's just a joke series. I think the second episode may make that more clear. I will watch it when it comes out.

By the way, this really has a stellar cast. Mayu's seiyuu was Manami in AsoIku. Yuzu's seiyuu is Horie Yui. Shamo's voice was Uiharu in Railgun. Meiko's voice was Eclair in Dog Days. Mayu's mom's voice was Kuroko in Railgun. But Kuroko was the only one I recognized.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 05:18 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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