What They Say:
The story begins with Izumi Hayato running to be student body president. But when a beautiful girl swings in promising the liberalization of love while flinging condoms into the audience, he ends up losing to her and becoming the vice president. At the student council meeting, the newly-elected president invites herself over to Izumi’s house, where she promptly announces she is to become Izumi’s wife thanks to an agreement – facilitated by alcohol – made between their parents when they were only 3.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
With some fun progress as of late for Izumi between both Misumi and Ui, the series has definitely had fun upping the sexytime factor and making it feel like some silly teenage fun, or at least the fun we as adults remember it being through rose colored glasses. With this episode, we get into some problematic territory even for this show with its character designs as we get the diminutive character of Sawatari brought in. She’s basically a grade schooler in height and looks compared to the others, who themselves already looked young and uncomfortable in some situations. When she ends up passing out from carrying all her stuff, Izumi does the right thing and helps her, but it ends up causing him more problems since he just attracts that kind of attention. And that gets her following him and leading to more complicated situations, such as scaring her in a way that requires her to need a show and wash her clothes.
Ayup. Another naked girl in his home with the president he lives with. He’s doing his best to get her out of there quickly, but Sawatari is doing her best to try and find out more about him and the president, believing that there’s more going on. There are some cute things she picks up on and his regular panics are equally fun to watch. Amusingly, Sawatari’s real goal is to help Misumi and her position with Ui by sorta kinda blackmailing him into adding Misumi to his list and she’ll even throw herself in as a bonus prize. This gets all manner of cutely uncomfortable as she does her best to sway him to her cause by using her sexuality. Izumi may not resist in the right ways to put an end to it here, but he does his best to bring to the situation to a close because it’s plainly clear that it’s not what he wants.
In Summary:
Though I’ve enjoyed the series a whole lot in general, even with its awkward moments, the addition of Sawatari here is that small bridge too far in a lot of ways. While I actually know a number of folks that I consider friends that are very young looking in both appearance and height and could easily fall under this umbrella, the anime world uses it for its own creepy ends and it continues to come across as wrong in far too many ways. It all makes sense in the context here and in the real world I totally have no problem with it, but for the intended audience here it’s just going after a pretty creepy fetish. More Misumi and Ui, please.
Grade: C
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Apple TV via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
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