Rainbowsphere

Ooookay. So I watched the first episode. Not surprising, but hey, it’s good. It’s not like this genre comes once in a while anyway. And it’s got a plot like that of A!MG! too. Goddess meets boy, goddess lives with boy, then more goddesses come in, while a human contender also enters the scene. Quite the norm, I say. But seriously, I was bought by the OP, which was FUKKEN WIN. It’s been a while since I’ve had a fill of good OPs in my anime.

Win OP is win.

Mikuriya Jin just finished carving a wooden statue out of a trunk of a tree. Proud and happy of his work, he plans to show it to school. Just when he was about to get the work after fetching his bicycle, he noticed the statue rooted on the ground. After a few moments, this happens…

Aa! Kannagi-sama!

Oooookay. Reality check 1.0, take 1. A girl came out of a carved wooden statue that I made. She’s soft, mushy, even though I think she needs to work on her proportions. But seriously, what the fuck is happening? I lost my school project, got a part of my house swarming with earth and roots and whateverstuff, and now there’s this girl… standing… on… where… the statue… was…

Poke poke…

That was so totally expected… or something…

So, she says she’s given some sort of incarnation from the statue, and that she has manifested from it. Turns out she was a deity of the shrine that was rooted to that tree to guard the land of Kannagi. She asked why she was manifested, and Jin told her that the tree she was talking about.

Gone, kaput, kapish, done for, over with, etc. Tree was cut down and the shrine was moved to another location. Okay, that’s bad news. Goddesss seems to be out of her place in the circle and her divinity and position as a goddesss may be in question. But even more, WHY WAS SHE SLEEPING ALL THIS TIME?! I mean, okay, I get the picture of her being the deity and all, but why, out of all times, was she sleeping when this happened? It actually sounded that she has some fault for this! Poor Jin, he’ll probably have a broken spine and be a vegetable for the rest of his life.

B-B-B-B-B-BACK BREAKER!!! (Jin looks like a masochist here too)

Jin was actually a straight guy. Not on par with Keiichi Morisato (K-1 was perverted in way, but this guy’s still a bit “underdeveloped” in that aspect), but at least nearly. He’s got a long way to go if he’s to try touching a goddess. But man, the angles for the boobpeep and buttpeep scenes were quite good. Though this does not bade well in terms of fanservice, it aims on something short of a standard, which A!MG! uses. This aspect would have to be interesting to monitor for progress.

You don’t get bugs crawling on smexy smooth bare legs very often.

The icky “impurities”. People get ideas about them FAST! They tend to taint the deity and corrupt the land with bad luck and misfortune. I’m sure you get the idea already when I said “taint” and corrupt”. And to think bugsex was icky enough. Some people have no mercy. But no fear! Magical Stick Lover (yes, she loves that stick) Goddess is here! With the help of calligraphy paper, a magical girl toy stick, and a “non-believer”, she will defeat the bad bugs of the day! After the deed was done, she then introduces herself as Nagi, the guardian deity of Kannagi.

JTFISH! DAMMIT! YOUR TAIYAKI BEAM JUST MADE NAGI TAIYAKIGASM!

As for seiyuus, nothing much to say. Shimono Hiro is certainly good at voicing Jin, but I still haven’t gotten a tinge of his Ikuto Touhouin voice from Nagasarete Airantou. I haven’t followed To LOVE-Ru, but Tomatsu Haruka seems to be doing a good job on voicing Nagi as well. I just have difficulties on the ancient Japanese though. Nagi’s way of speaking seems to date back to my grandma’s era. Explainable, since she’s living for more than a few hundred years.

In your box, packing your pr0nz.

The anime may have a few twists that are different from its manga counterpart, but it works in a way. More ecchiness than plotlines, if you would permit me to spoil a bit on perspective. But I’ve got no qualms about it. The staff seems to be taking its time, so I presume the series would take longer, which isn’t bad. We just have to see how the story progresses and see if it goes with my taste.

Also, unexpected cameo of Censorship-san. Commendable leaf censor, lulzor.