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Ok, when I say “Sekirei - worth watching just for references” I meant that this show will remind you of many, many others, which is to say that it’s derivative to the extreme.

The first scene is a blatant “parallel” to Elfen Lied, except cheaper (visuals look worse, voices are worse, BGM is worse) and instead of the girl being naked, there is now a naked loli. Yeah, promising. We then segue to some attempt at establishing the stereotypes, comedy and angst all in one scene. Of course, the more condensed these parts, the more time there is for fanservice.

Speaking of fanservice, the OP gives some less than appealing hints of what’s to come. Even in these few scenes that one assumes show off the best, the bodies and the animation don’t look natural.

Awkward poses during fighting scene? Check.
.hack//sign’s Aura? Could be.
Kiss that activates sth (prolly henshin)? Check.
Enormous Tits Power Make Up! Old fashioned generic mahou shoujo? Check.
Ice Queen meets Vagina dentata for major turn off? Launching ice. Your doin’ it wrong.

Well, Japan sure looks the same 12 years from now. If you blinked when they showed the year, you’d think the story is happening in the present. Shouldn’t something change in 12 years? No, not the fact that the main male chara is a loser who failed college exam again and all he can think about as he find out is that he won’t find a girlfriend. After so many years, I stopped hoping that this cliche might die. By changes one would expect I meant clothes, transportation, technology (his cell, the TV on the building etc). Well, nevermind, maybe there is a reason why the story has to happen in 2020 (aside from the symmetry).

Just moments after he whined about his lack of girlfriend, a girl falls on him from the sky. Yeah. Never seen that one before. She falls on him face first, yet after they go down (in a poof of.. smoke? why?), her ass is in his face. I bet she wins at Twister all the time.

Well, at least she is nice, instead of being a bitch about something that wasn’t his fault. Whoa, “kawaii” he notices and half the plot has practically already happened.

They are attacked by a duo in unexplicably (well, just sayin’…) skimpy clothes, so she protects him i.e. he is squashed by her huge tits - complete with an odd springy sound. Komedy.

Wait, it gets good. Have you ever heard this one? Quoting actual subs here.
“It’s useless to run. (close up on duo) Fight us.”
(close up on chick and her heroic floppy hair) “I still won’t fight.”
“Even if you didn’t want to fight…” (showing off their power)
(clueless lamer, stunned) “What? Sparkles?” <- No, seriously.
(duo jumping off the building) "...WE DO!”
Chick grabs his hand and runs away. <- Awww.
(dominatrix duo:) "Wait! Damn you!" <- Clever.

They must have escaped because in the next scene the loser is asleep in some room.
Now, using your amazing powers of precognition, guess which of the following is true:
a) he is a prisoner of the girl for witnessing that scene
b) he is at home where she had dropped him off
c) she is sleeping next to him in revealing clothing

Yes, you guessed it. She is sleeping next to him in revealing clothing and when he turns around his hand lands right on her half naked tits. She is wearing only her panties and a shirt of his, which she immediately takes off, giving him an eyeful of her nekkid boobies. The best part is that just by straightening her back a bit, her tits give a HUGE bounce.

She, of course is oblivious to the effect she has on loser-kun. Loli dont kno.
The Loser goes outside looking traumatised and starts rambling outloud about her tits and everything being real and stuff like that. I wonder if this is meant to make him more endearing too (or, of course, easier to identify with). I just roll my eyes and despise a guy who goes into shock after seeing a half naked girl, especially as the next scene is a flashback (joy) to the previous day, after the chase. Btw, she really is pea-brained. She dragged him along, then thanks him for saving her. Why did I ever download this episode?

“It was really soft. A girl’s hand.” She was even wearing those typical anime fighting gloves. Gods, what a loser.

He takes her home because she faints due to hunger and needs to pig out on whatever food he has. Omfg, never seen this one before either. And she stays over because she has no other place to go. So let’s recap, she falls on him from the sky, they get attacked, she drags him along, eats his food, then wants to stay at his place, and he okays everything. Plausible. He is a loser who apparently never even touched a girl’s hand and she has huge tits.

Speaking of seeing things, look at his chest.
And her SD sexiness.

What follows is a flashback that shows the exact same scenes from a few minutes ago, except with shorter cuts and his dumb comments as a voice over. Just like you, Loser-kun, we remember what happened. He asks wtf, so she makes some vague comments about him becoming her Ashibaki. Apparently the part where she explains about “finding our most precious person” requires his hand touching her breasts, so she guides it to ‘em. A light covers the image of his hand on ‘em. Tsk, I guess interested viewers have to shell out for a DVD version.

The timeline jumps again, in time for the landlord to ask Loser-kun if someone is in his room. Loser-kun loses it completely. The landlord threatens that if there’s a woman in the guy’s room, he’ll have to leave ASAP. Uh, is that legal? It’s an apartment, not a convent.

More dumb dialogue follows. She is happy that he’s happy that he saw her tits. Or sth. The usual. They go out, she eats 12 meals, he has no cash left. Why am I still watching this show? I could just imagine what happens next and wouldn’t be off mark much.

He goes to the bank to get money. I guess 12 years from now people no longer use credit cards? No matter, he has to walk off by himself so that he meets the Evil Duo. Like in the early Sailor Moon episode (well, yeah, the OP mahou shoujo transformation reminded me of SM), the villains are doing some job that involves contact with many people, while in disguise - in this case they give baloons to children. They, of course, no longer look like dominatrixes, so, to go along with their fetishistic purpose, they are now dressed as maids?

The chick comes runnin’ - a coincidence, of course - so it’s a repeat of “look at our sparkly powerz”, now with pantyshots and strategically ripped clothes.

With her in-ca-pa-ci-ta-ted, he becomes the Heroic Protector and all that jazz. That’s cliched enough. But what’s worse is that in the end he runs away carrying her while the duo run after him and zap him. How can a guy his size carry the chick AND be faster than those 2 with ranged attacks?

They stop in an alley and she assaults him. You see, her body is getting all hot… I smell Awakening of Powerz. The guy, however, is confused. She is on top of him, ripped clothes and all, and what does he say? “This is really bad.” Hmm, maybe this anime IS original - despite the setting, it has a gay male protagonist. Eh, if only…

Finally, she kisses him and BOOM! CHIKA! CHIKA! Sparklies fly, orgasmic moans and all. She engages the duo in combat, but this attempt at something worth watching is brief: since she “joined with a man” and “gained her wings”, they will no longer fight her.

Some guy with an astonishingly adherent mask appears to the duo and spouts off more dialogue. More posturing, more komedy. Some exposition. Homely scenes with fanservice. A guy talks to Loser-kun out of the TV (brand of the TV? Tony. uhm, lol?) and Explains Everything That Is To Know In The First Episode. Then, of course, leaves without answering any question. I’m happy to say that I won’t be around when he or another will explain more.

Loser-kun receives a box from Some Random Secret Service Agent. Weapons? Sextoys? Close. Her clothes. She starts to get naked again, but this time he heads out before he glimpses more flesh than his fragile loser nerves can handle. She stops him. “We’ll head to the heights of heaven together!” Yeah, you do that.

Before they reach heaven, they hit the streets as the landlord kicks them out. As night falls they are on a bench, still homeless and hopeless, and it starts raining. He angsts. She is all genki and acts like Main Female Interest in this kind of anime. Extremely cliched dialogue all around. Also, of course, her clothes are wet. She kisses him again. Woo za! The episode is over now, right? Ah, moar spaklies! Finally, her pink wings. Hilarious. And I thought for a moment that this will be an action anime with lots of cool fighting and the like. Right.

Let’s recap: mediocre, occasionally ridiculous, visuals, lame music, lame dialogue, lame plot “development”, stereotypical characters, and the kick ass martial artist female main chara has sparkly pink wings. There isn’t even that much fanservice, aside from characters having huge boobs. Even in its genre there are better series out there. Not recommended.

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