"Ore no Nounai Sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love Comedy
wo Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru", or "My mental choices are completely
interfering with my school love comedy" or to make it simple
"NouCome", is a new 10-episode romantic school comedy anime, animated
by Diomedea, that finished airing a few days ago and has gotten quite popular
in a short time.
Story
The plot revolves around generic high
school male character Kanade Amakusa, who is suffering from a curse:
"Absolute Choices". This curse requires him to select an action from
a list of 2 or 3 options that appear before him at any time, and he has no
control over the choices that appear; and he MUST choose one of the options. To
make things worse, almost all choices are to make him do or say embarrassing or
perverted things; as a result, he has tainted his reputation to the lowest
point possible. One day, while coming back from another awful day at school, he
makes a choice that causes a beautiful girl fall from the sky, which was named
Chocolat; well, that's an original name. He soon discovers that she was sent
from God to help him cure his curse. To do that, he has to do completely ridiculous missions given to him by God himself. It is every single bit as
hilarious - and also stupid - as it sounds. [] This show reminds me a bit of
Date A Live. Both were very enjoyable shows, with funny scenes and other stuff,
but at the same time, the whole premise is so stupid, you sometimes wonder if
you should even watch it. Well, if you can handle big amounts of stupidity (in
the setting), you should give it a watch, because it's a good show. [] As the
episodes go on and Kanade completes missions, there is a kind of development in
the story, but not enough to be on equal level as the comedy. Also, the more
missions he completes, the less embarrassing and bad the choices are, while
still not remaining great. Meanwhile, as your typical school romantic comedy
show, there are A LOT of girls, and every single one of them have more or less
interacted with Kanade. The three main girls - Chocolat, Furano Yukihira and
Oka Yuoji - are also the principal love interests, and bring much of the
comedy aspect, too.
Characters
Most of the time, for anime like this one
(with stupid premises), an important factor to make it enjoyable is the
characters. So, were NouKome's characters good? Yes, they were. And actually
very good at moments. All the characters that we care about are enjoyable and
likeable. Even if most of them are generic archetypes, they don't look like it
so much, which prevents us from getting bored. Kanade, even though being a
generic protagonist, the situations he gets into makes him very funny.
Then, we have the three main girls. First is Chocolat, the mysterious god
Messenger. She is a beautiful blonde girl, who falls in love with Kanade very
quickly. She has a childish personality and often is like a dog, as she
follows orders as sit, lay down, or catch, and has an ahoge that she
wags, just like a dog would wag its tail. She is a big sweets glutton, which
she eats all the time. Due a loss of her memories, she can't help Kanade
with his curse much at all. She is cute, cheerful, positive and easy-going, but could there be something else about her?
Furano Yukihira is a semi-tsundere
flat-chested girl with an extremely strange sense of humor and will often tell
jokes with a blank expression. When she is talking in public, she uses a deeper
voice, but when she normally has a very soft voice, which she hides along with
her passion for cute things.
Oka Yuoji is a cheerful, hyperactive, smart
and air-headed girl, who is kind to everyone. But for her exact same hyper-activeness,
people try not to be too close to her. While not knowing the reason behind
them, she is aware of Kanade's missions and is sometimes willing to help him.
Then we have Seira, the sadistic student council
president, who seems to know a lot about Kanade's curse; Oka's best friend
Konagi, who is extremely kind, pure and innocent; Ayame, a prideful and harsh
huge-breasted bitch; Yuragi, a young girl who calls everyone big brothers and
big sisters; and Utage, a loli teacher who has had the same curse as Kanade in
the past.
All of them have their funny moments and
are enjoyable overall.
Sound
As far as I remember, there wasn't any memorable music in the show.
There are these nice generic music for romantic comedies, without anything
standing out. The opening theme, "Sweet Melty Love", was a bit
catchy, but still nothing special. The ending theme however, "Taiyo no
Tsuki no Cross", is a nice and at points beautiful song. The voice acting
was done well, counting the fact that most of the voice actors are not
well-known or new.
Animation
The animation was done by Diomedea (Studio Barcelone), known for
creating Campione and Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu. It was great and beautiful, with well-designed characters and background details. The animation
was colourful and smooth during the whole show. It is not a masterpiece of
visuals, but it is still very good.
Final Verdict
Story: 6.5
Characters: 7.7
Sound: 6
Animation: 8.2
Enjoyment: 9.2
Total: 7.52
This show is very funny and relaxing, with a slight romance, enjoyable
characters, smooth animation, but a stupid premise and not special for the
sound. As I said before, if you can handle stupidity in anime well, you should
give this one a watch.
This ends my second anime review. I hope
you enjoyed it. Feel free to comment, if you want to express your opinions.
Thank you for reading.
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