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anime: Inu x Boku SS
Feb. 26th, 2013 09:56 pmInu x Boku SS is a 12 episode anime that aired early in 2012 (with an OVA several months later). Set in a high security apartment building called "Maison de Ayakashi," all the residents are part human and part youkai, believed to be reincarnations of their youkai ancestors, and many have youkai "secret service" bodyguards.
Our Heroine, Ririchiyo, is a bashful tsundere prone to making haughty snipes when she's nervous (which is pretty much any time she has to talk to someone) and her bodyguard is Soshi, a ninetailed fox who is a master of a variety of handkissing poses and prone to swearing his eternal devotion whilst surrounded by a field of shoujo sparkles, and occassionally hinting at a dark and angsty past. (Our Heroine isn't particularly thrilled at being dropkicked into a supershoujo.) Other residents include a lazy Ittan-momen who operates as a big brother figure for the rest of the residents, a yuki-onna who appears to have every possible fetish that involves teenaged girls, a young gashdokuro who is exceptionally spacey and obsessed with food, but tends to snap to attention when the local tanuki is threatened, while the tanuki, for his part, is a sweet and earnest boy who wants to be seen as a delinquent because delinquents are Tough Guys, and the tanuki's rabbit-ear-wearing gossipmonger bodyguard. There are also a variety of maids, as well as Ririchiyo's nomadic fiance, who is obsessed with S&M and runs around in a cape and mask. (Do not expect his ideas about S&M to have anything to do with reality.)
It's a shounen series that often feels like a straightup shoujo series, up until you get to the fanservice, which is jarring until you just get used to it. Which actually describes a lot of the series, which is very entertaining and addictive, but also weird and had me going "what am I watching?" a lot. The OVA is 100% random crack that just had me staring at my screen. There's a central romantic plotline about which I have mixed feelings (on the one hand, there's an adorable crackyness to it, on the other hand, the fact that he has a stalker wall of Ririchiyo is only the tip of that iceburg.), but a lot of the series is also about the residents and their varieties of relationships, and Ririchiyo making friends and trying to get better at communicating with people. I was pleased that, unlike many anime, the revelations about Soshi's Dark and Angsty Past didn't overpower Ririchiyo's narrative and resolution.
I've read spoilers for the manga after the material covered in the anime and can't help but think that I'd love that plot, but not as a followup to the first arc. (But if they make it an anime, I'll still watch it.)
Our Heroine, Ririchiyo, is a bashful tsundere prone to making haughty snipes when she's nervous (which is pretty much any time she has to talk to someone) and her bodyguard is Soshi, a ninetailed fox who is a master of a variety of handkissing poses and prone to swearing his eternal devotion whilst surrounded by a field of shoujo sparkles, and occassionally hinting at a dark and angsty past. (Our Heroine isn't particularly thrilled at being dropkicked into a supershoujo.) Other residents include a lazy Ittan-momen who operates as a big brother figure for the rest of the residents, a yuki-onna who appears to have every possible fetish that involves teenaged girls, a young gashdokuro who is exceptionally spacey and obsessed with food, but tends to snap to attention when the local tanuki is threatened, while the tanuki, for his part, is a sweet and earnest boy who wants to be seen as a delinquent because delinquents are Tough Guys, and the tanuki's rabbit-ear-wearing gossipmonger bodyguard. There are also a variety of maids, as well as Ririchiyo's nomadic fiance, who is obsessed with S&M and runs around in a cape and mask. (Do not expect his ideas about S&M to have anything to do with reality.)
It's a shounen series that often feels like a straightup shoujo series, up until you get to the fanservice, which is jarring until you just get used to it. Which actually describes a lot of the series, which is very entertaining and addictive, but also weird and had me going "what am I watching?" a lot. The OVA is 100% random crack that just had me staring at my screen. There's a central romantic plotline about which I have mixed feelings (on the one hand, there's an adorable crackyness to it, on the other hand, the fact that he has a stalker wall of Ririchiyo is only the tip of that iceburg.), but a lot of the series is also about the residents and their varieties of relationships, and Ririchiyo making friends and trying to get better at communicating with people. I was pleased that, unlike many anime, the revelations about Soshi's Dark and Angsty Past didn't overpower Ririchiyo's narrative and resolution.
I've read spoilers for the manga after the material covered in the anime and can't help but think that I'd love that plot, but not as a followup to the first arc. (But if they make it an anime, I'll still watch it.)