Keep, surprisingly. It wasn't on my list but I saw it go by on the torrents and got curious. It's better than it has any right to be.

It's a fan-service comedy in which the fan-service is actually a part of the story. So the panty shots are not totally gratuitous. Unlike Triage-X, the story in this series doesn't exist solely as an excuse to give us fan service.

NSFW below the fold.

The show begins with a group of terrorists hijacking a bus, for some reason or other. Our hero Yuuta is one of the passengers. They're being chased down a freeway by about 20 cop cars, but then a girl in a strange costume on a weird motorcycle guns past everyone and gets in front of the bus, and jumps through the windshield.

She announces herself as "Strange Juice", and then clobbers all the bad guys, but misses one because he isn't wearing a regulation bad guy costume.

In the course of this Yuuta sees some panties and spikes. Turns out he's got a lot of power, though it's never come out before.

Well, he takes the bad guy into the water and they both almost drown. But the bad guy chants something as they're falling. Two girls, identity unknown, pull him to shore, and while he's laying there suddenly a strange light comes out of the sky and hits him.

It was some sort of spirit, and it possessed his body and kicked his spirit out. So now he's a ghost. The body still lives, but it'll take something special for him to get back inside it, a strange magic book.

This spirit cat is our source for plot exposition. They're in the building where Yuuta lives, but the Yuuta ghost cannot enter his room because the whole place is full of anti-spirit charms. The cat tells him he has to find the book to have any chance.

Turns out his neighbors are all cute girls. Also turns out that one of them is Strange Juice, and the others are supporting staff. Turns out that there's a Secret Underground Baseâ„¢ beneath the building.

But that's not the most important thing. We also learn that if Yuuta sees a girl's underwear, he spikes and causes an asteroid to hit the planet exterminating all life.

Fortunately, it gets better. Spirits are not constrained by the laws of physics and they can travel backwards in time. So when he blows up the planet (which happens twice in the first episode) he can undo the damage.

This is the first Noitamina show I've ever watched, and I was pleasantly surprised. This ain't great art and makes no pretensions in that regard, but it's silly fun, and that's not a bad thing.

And if Yuuta ever sees the girls in the bath, he'll probably blow up the whole solar system.

UPDATE: By the way, the seiyuu doing the cat is a newbie. This is her second role. But all the other seiyuu are top drawer, and that's usually a good sign. I didn't notice any obnoxious animation short cuts either, so it looks like this has a decent budget.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 12:32 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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