Sorry, couldn’t resist for the last episode

You’re fired! Well no not really, none of us really thought Ren was going to get fired right? Anyways, here we are at the final episode of the up and down ride that was Kimiaru. With some drama, violence, and saliva trails the show wraps up. Final impressions at the end.

Series Impressions:

I was first drawn to this show by the silly concept and tasty looking women, which frankly continued to be one of the reasons I continued to watch the show. The animation quality was nothing to write home about, but the designs for Shinra, Miyu, and Mihato were especially attractive. Obviously this show has a lot of ecchi, but not done in the corny way all the panty shots were in Rosario + Vampire done. I’ll stake my claim that it was done in a much more sensual and sexual way, rather than just for the shock value of a lot of panties and boob shots.

While the girls were attractive, the main draw for this show was the comedy, and that’s what kept my interest enough to continue blogging the show. The first couple of episodes really grabbed me with the straight up humor they were able to provide. They didn’t rely heavily on parodies early on, just the introduction of characters and situations provided a lot of laughs. After that, they eventually switched to the parody barrage in episodes 6 and 11, with some of the highlights including Shuffle!, Fate/Stay Night and School Days. And who could forget the Kamina pedobear who took from the elite and gave to the NEETs? The show was at it’s best when it was indulging in straight comedy episodes, rather than the drama.

Speaking of the drama, yeah it was pretty lame. There’s little to say that I haven’t already said about it, but yeah, I could have done without a couple of those stupid Yume episodes which were the worst offenders. I accept and understand the need for drama to wrap up the series, but what the hell were they doing sticking Yume crap in there in the middle of the series. Sigh.

Let’s finish up here on a positive note with a quick character discussion. The stars of the show were definitely Shinra, Mihato, and the Colonel for me. I love the sensual, dominant ojou-sama type Shinra embodies, in both appearance and a delicious sounding voice. Mihato drew me in because she was a hilarious twist on your standard big breasted maid. She had the usual bubbly and ditzy stereotype, but then she often revealed the shit-faced killer alternate personality. I’m not a fan of pseudo-incest or brocon in a serious sense, but this didn’t have any of those problems because it was just for pure hilarity. Then there’s the Colonel, the epitome of GAR and manliness, a shining example of how to create a great supporting character. I will remember him far into the future as something we should all look up to be like. As for the rest of the characters, I mentioned earlier how I found Miyu and Benisu to be surprisingly interesting characters, and Anastasia was good for a few laughs when necessary. Ren was pretty mediocre for a male lead, but I wasn’t expecting much. The rest of the characters were pretty forgettable, with Yume rounding out the bottom of the barrel.

Final Verdict: When the focus was on comedy, it was a great ecchi-style comedy that could keep me laughing for an entire episode. When the focus was on drama it was a crapshoot of epic lameness. As I tried to gloss over and zone out during the drama as much as I could, I’ll rule on the side of the comedy. 7/10.

Here’s some scans to send you all off.

Surprise!

Coming in at the second to last episode of Kimiaru is this Shinra-centered episode with plenty of Shinra service. Oh, and there is some sort of “plot” involved with her too but it was kind of boring and I was just oogling her most of the episode, as well as laughing at Ren’s lack of skill with the ladies.

Life is back to normal in the Kuonji household it seems, whether it being catch with balls of energy or Miyu’s exercises. So far so good, no signs of silly drama and just good ole Kimiaru shits and giggles.

I wonder if there is a National Center For Maid Abuse, because it certainly happens often in anime and manga. I have to admit though, I’ve warmed up to Benisu since her background story episodes. Like most drama in this show they were pretty silly, and it kind of obscured a decently interesting character. As readers of my posts should already know, I’m a general fan of tsunderes, but not always her specific type. Regardless, I have found her much more amusing and likable in a support character role as someone to interact with Mihato which often produces amusing results. Plus she moans pretty erotically when getting molested by a sleeping Shinra.

I like where this is going, alllright (in my best Quagmire voice). However, it doesn’t end up meaning what I wanted it to mean, but regardless it was some more bonding between Ren and Shinra. Ho hum.

Mmmmm, definitely taking the subs and sticking them on DVD rips of this show for later uh…review.

Douchebag Russian mentor guy (who by the way looks nor sounds Russian) comes and makes our goddess depressed. May he eternally burn in the fiery pits of hell.

Ren gets a few rare man points for asking Shinra out on a dayto to cheer her up. Smooth move kid, but not as smooth as the Colonel impersonating that carnie. By the way, where the hell is my Colonel episode?! DVD bonus? Delete a Yume episode? Help me out here!

Looking good so far Romeo, moving in to seal the deal and…

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P.S.

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Marry me Mihato

I’ve shown a lot of Shinra fanservice here this season, here’s some manservice to try and even it out.

Praise the anime gods, the drama of last week or two is on hiatus (at least for one week). Kimiaru gets back to what it’s good at, parody and overall funny jokes. This episode involves fake trap trying to hook up with Benisu and a Kuonji family trip to watch cherry blossoms blooming.

Yes it is.

I’m out of town on spring break, back home visiting my folks, so this entry will be short again. However, it’s not like this episode is worth much discussions anyways.

A whole episode of continued Yume drama! Yay! Oh wait, that seriously blows. As I mentioned last week I really don’t care for Yume’s character and this drama is really forced and unemotional. I ended up skipping chucks of this episode because it was pretty intolerable. And they just sort of threw in Natose’s past as a random afterthought in the middle of the episode. I mean it was sad and all, but it really couldn’t have an emotional impact with all of the other crap in this episode. Furthermore, it was just tossed in without much setup and follow through. Just goes to show how little they seem to care about Natose’s character. Instead they spend 3 episodes on Yume. However, at the end there was certainly one tidbit of info I picked up.

In this case here is the convenient plot device that allows the Mihato route one would guess (I have not played the game, my Japanese isn’t quite to that level yet). She’s probably adopted or whatever, but this dialogue suggests that her own parents died, meaning Ren and her are not actually related. While I don’t think that means we are headed for a Mihato route, it certainly is interesting because they could have just left that out of the anime if they weren’t planning on having a Mihato end.

That’s pretty hardcore gangsta.

My apoligies on the post delay. I’ve recovered from my deathly illness but I was spending too much time marathoning UBW and preparing for my clerkship interview today. Without further adieu we have another plot-ish episode of Kimiaru. The focus is primarily on Miyu, and we pick up some bits of knowledge of her past and her personality.

This episode is basically a couple of days in the life of Miyu, as Ren stays and becomes Miyu’s personal attendant for a couple of days. She lounges around most of the time at first, having such daily schedules as guarding the house and surfing the internet. However, we learn that she really isn’t loafing as one would think and is really just taking a break from inventing contraptions and raking in the cash from patents. This episode also includes a little bit of Yume drama as she gets repeatedly ignored by the rest of the family even when she has something exciting to say.

Miyu is pretty delicious for a loli, because apparently she’s over 20 years old. I’ve always found her character moderately interesting and was a bit curious as to her real background. Well we find out a lot more about her this episode, we are shown that she is a super genius who graduated school early and made boatloads of cash off of brilliant inventions. Her character is interesting that way, because usually the brainy types are the girls with glasses and big breasts. She’s a pretty unique character, and she even has a really weird fetish (shorts) which I didn’t even pick up on until a commenter pointed it out a couple of episodes ago.

Ren was a bit wussy this week, getting way too embarrassed and flustered at first over Miyu being naked. I mean he’s seen her naked at least 3-4 times in this series so far, guy needs to get over it. He eventually does, but I could have done without the cliche, embarrassing blushes at first. Although that was generally offset by the awesomeness that is Mihato and how she handles Miyu. One of the few hilarious moments came when Ren got a bit too friendly with a sleeping Miyu and got caught by Mihato. That was the first time I’ve seen her evil side being brought out against Ren, I thought she tried to hide that side of her from him, but I was wrong!

Man, Miyu’s robot is one horny ass machine humping the rice cooker like that. Reminds me of Bender from Futurama, but only in the attraction to other mechanical objects, Bender is levels of awesome beyond De Niro in general.

There was a bunch of random, relatively uninteresting drama at the end that kind of came out of nowhere. Was pretty lame, both the Shinra-Miyu fight and Yume being emo. I find Yume’s character to be pretty weak and boring, and I think they made her that way on purpose because usually characters like her get way too much attention in most harem shows. It’s good that the ditzy airhead gets sent to the back here, although the drama of her not knowing what to do with herself and getting ignored seems really forced. Delinquent Miyu was much more interesting and funny than Yume drama, I love that gangster voice Yuko Goto uses.

Best male support character in ages.

I’m on death’s door here with the cold/fever/indigestion of the century, so this entry is going to be short and devoid of any type of real summary. The episode was semi-amusing but straying further and further away from the goodness that was the first 6 episodes. Ageha is alright, but I was just kind of annoyed at how Ren just let her play with him the whole time when he has much finer ladies at the Kuonji household.

The episode’s only real humor for me was the contest and how the Kuonji household was rooting against Ren and trying to sabotage the contest. The GARness of Kuonjii and Ren was pretty interesting, but not really enough to carry the episode. The other awesomeness was Mihato’s pufferfish and other antics, comedically devious characters like her certainly crack me up.

I miss the lack of plot in the earlier episodes, the only real plot I approve of is that in which relates to Shinra or Mihato… Looking for more random silliness Kimiaru, help me out here!

A panda is fine too.

This week is the first episode of the Ageha arc, as hinted in last week’s preview she temporarily moves in with the Kuonji family. While a bit less humorous than episodes in the past, there’s actual plot development in this one, which was actually handled decently and not overly dramatic or anything. And if you were wondering why the Kimiaru post format keeps changing it’s because I really can’t decide how to handle this show, it doesn’t lend itself as easily to summaries as previous shows I’ve covered.

Next Episode:
Part 2 of the Ageha arc, looks to be a battle of butlering between Ren and Kojuuro over Ageha.

Impressions:
This week we moved through another episode focused on one of the girls, with decent results overall. Drawing comparisons with the Benisu and Yume episodes, I think it ranked above the Benisu story plot-wise but lacked the laugh out loud humor of the Yume episode. The plot development and slight Ageha backstory was interesting and not overdone or melodramatic. I find her character pretty interesting, a bit of a tsundere streak to go along with her natural ojou-sama charms. I don’t really dig the scar fetish attempt, but it doesn’t really bother me in the end.

The humor in this episode was a bit lacking, I found the gifts she brought and the reactions to them pretty funny, and I was pretty surprised that Miyu was into shoutas. She is always trying to act older than she looks so I assumed she liked older guys, but alas I was wrong. The rest of the episode didn’t have that much humor, the beating on the guy training has been done before and wasn’t particularly interesting. However, it’s pretty hard to top the humor of last week’s parody train.

Ageha isn’t going to be the girl he hooks up with in the end (if there even is one), so I was surprised that she kissed him so forcefully, especially with it being both of their first kisses. Just points out another way in which this show goes against the grain, as we’ve had almost zero of the melodrama and snail paced plot that most harem shows tend to fall into. Instead we are treated to humor and fanservice with a random plot twist thrown in there to keep things interesting. Here’s to hoping for a Shinra end though.

Looking onto next week’s episode, I don’t have a problem with having two episodes for Ageha as her character is strong enough to support the additional content, especially with Kojuuro thrown into the mix. Next week looks to involve more of the household as well, with the apparent competition between Ren and Kojuuro. I’m looking forward to that battle of GAR, and I’m predicting large amounts of manly yelling from these two high-powered male seiyuu.

Was there a Sailor Moon girl with pink hair? Probably…

As much as the parodies may fool you, no this is not Hayate no Gotoku! However, this week’s episode is once again an amazing ride through slapstick and referential humor with tips of the hat to, at the minimum, D.Gray-man, Death Note, Fist of the North Star, Gurren Lagaan, Marimite, Prince of Tennis, Sailor Moon, Shuffle! and Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu. If you can spot more than that feel free to comment, I did what I could. All of this parody aside, fear not that there were a few shots of Shinra fanservice to meet the weekly quota.

Great stuff again this week, but instead of massive amounts of fanservice they went the parody route. There is really no need for plot here, and they were able to add another dimension of comedy to the show’s repertoire. They had dabbled a bit in parody before but had yet to fully indulge themselves in it. As I said before this may invoke visions of Hayate, but the style is quite different and done in a much more overt and obvious way, in comparison to the former’s more subtle and obscure reference and parody approach.

Next Episode:
Ageha comes to apparently live with the Kuonji’s for some time, starting what is indicated as a couple of episodes focused mainly on her. Looks good to me, she’s another great character.

Can’t touch this

A bit late again, but I’m trying my best. The FIOS guy is supposed to come at the end of this week so theoretically by then I’ll have good internets and the like. Anyways, this episode was the weakest of the five aired so far, it spent a lot of time on plot and Benisu’s past. Well, as long as we don’t have a Chiharu episode or something I’m probably ok with getting this one out of the way early. I’m still on a massive high from the first 4 episodes of this show.

Despite the kinda lame and cliche Benisu story the episode was still pretty good. It had to create some background story for the characters, and I’ve seen much worse for more minor characters like Benisu. Although in the game she’s one of the girls you can hook up with, it’s pretty obvious from the show so far that if he hooks up with one in the end it won’t be her. She has been kinda set as one of the side characters, and for good reason because Shinra, Miyu, and Mihato are much more interesting characters. And as always the episode was laden with plenty of fanservice, fetish goodness, and the high levels of GAR we’ve come to expect from Kimiaru.

Next Episode:
Yume episode time! This one looks to be complete with Sailor Moon and Death Note parodies, let the fun begin.

Only you can prevent unnecessary plot advancement

This post is late for a few reasons- the subs came out a couple of days after they normally do, the Giants won the Super Bowl and I got wasted, and my internet connection has been catastrophically malfunctioning over the past few days. In light of these issues I’m not going to post a detailed summary but just my impressions with light summary for this week’s episode. Theoretically my internet will be fixed next week and I’ll be able to make a proper post.

Impressions:

The gist of the plot this week is that Ren makes a couple of butler mistakes (tea too hot, dirt on a shoe) and it is decided he will go to a special butler training on an island. The whole crew comes along as a vacation to lounge around on the beach. They wasted no time here with a beach episode, and well, I applaud them for it because all the ladies looked pretty delicious in those swimsuits. Now of course Shinra had to hide Miyu’s swimsuit and make her wear a school swimsuit and a swim ring. Now personally I don’t get the appeal of those things, maybe it’s because I’m not a lolicon like Impz, and maybe it’s because I didn’t grow up going to a Japanese school and became attached to such swim wear. Frankly I think they generally look ugly and would much prefer women to be wearing bikinis. But the show is aiming to both appeal to and make fun of fetishes, and no loli is complete without a school swimsuit.

Ren is meanwhile spirited away to the butler training lair (lol) to improve his butlering skills. In another nod to Hayate no Gotoku!, the three families listed outside the lair who used it were Kuonji (the family he works for), Kuki (Ageha’s family), and Sanzenin (Nagi from the aforementioned butler anime). I find it amusing because if the show didn’t at least acknowledge the fact that Hayate exists it is much easier for people to flame it for copying. However, I think by now people realize how different the two shows are and those comparisons are being brought up less and less. I think the butler training in Hayate was at a church anyways, but I can’t say I remember 100%. I also found it amusing that the first thing the Colonel taught him was how to make proper tea, haha. One would think defending your master or cleaning the house properly would be job #1, but the perfect tea is apparently extremely important to the Colonel. And for his insolence Ren gets a forehead poke that sends him flying, awesome.

We had the seedy casino action that Benisu was participating in, which didn’t really excite me. Her character is not one that appeals to me that much when compared to the other ladies in the show, so I find her story (which will continue next week) to be kind of meh. Although she did make what looked like a Kaiji face so I give her points for that. I much preferred Shinra and Miyu getting drunk and sleeping together naked, that was much more entertaining. Kojuuro and Ageha made an appearance as well, and Ageha kept up her relentless beating and berating of the guy, who seems to love it ever so much.

Eventually, after surviving a sexual proposition and teasing from Shinra, Ren is able to go back and make the perfect tea and win the approval of Ageha and the Colonel. However, the aforementioned Benisu and Natase have gone missing at the casino, and he must go and rescue them. Overall the episode was enjoyable, although not quite as laugh out loud funny as the first couple. I don’t know what this silly plot business is doing in my ecchi anime, namely Benisu’s escapades and her past to be looked at next episode. Please, more Shinra debauchery, less plot and drama! Regardless, once again a good watch and I’ll hopefully see you next week.

Next Episode:
Continuation of this episode where we learn about Benisu’s past.

I have no idea how to spell your name, but does that even matter?

The latest installment of Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de doesn’t disappoint, and manages to show multiple characters (male and female) in various states of undress as usual. This week’s highlights include more Shinra x Miyu debauchery and an all-out game of capture the flag. Once again this show has long left behind any vestiges of dignity, decency, or shame . . . and I thank them for it.

Ren walks in on Benisu (I really have no idea how to write her name exactly, this is close enough I guess) in the bathroom clad in just her lingerie. While he makes a valiant attempt to distract her and get himself out of the situation he ultimately fails and is violently removed from the room. After the OP Ren is riding in the family limo with the Colonel driving, amazed at how nice it is. After an Initial D parody (which looked pretty funny since it was a limo against a racing car), they arrive at Shinra’s rehearsal, where Ren is amazed at her ability and beauty. They meet up afterwards and Shinra gives Ren the rest of her drink to finish, and after she walks away he sheepishly drinks it. Shinra comes back and teases him about the indirect kiss, and she obviously enjoys getting a rise out of him. Back at the mansion Shinra calls Ren in to her room to give her an intimate massage of sorts, teasing him at every step of the way. Miyu saves him by asking him for some help, and Ren goes into the kitchen where Benisu is massacring a chicken. Miyu says that if he can’t handle it then he can be her personal assistant instead. While Ren is out on the veranda thinking about Shinra, Natase joins him wearing nothing but a towel and panties. Ren is flustered again and runs off to the bathroom, where he finds Benisu once again sans clothes. The next morning, Ren goes to Shinra’s room and walks in on her doing things that are left to the imagination to Miyu in her bed. Miyu later runs out of the room distressed, and challenges Shinra to a game of Kuonji Flag.

Kuonji flag is a variation on your standard capture the flag, except here there are 3 teams, one for each sister and her attendants. The object is to get the other team’s flags, and the winner can make the loser do whatever she wants for a whole day. Shinra gets very excited and imagines how she could dress Miyu up like this, this, or this. Once the game starts, Yume sends her servants out while she guards her flag, figuring that her other sisters will forget about her and she can sneak out a victory. However, she is proven wrong when Shinra, Ren, and Benisu attack her position and steal her flag with ease. When Natase comes to attack them, Shinra orders Ren to hold her off, but Natase delivers a quick strike to his abdomen to knock him down. Ren wont give up though, and uses his best puppy dog eyes while calling Natase “onee-chan,” causing her to become distracted so he can defeat her. After capturing Yume’s flag, Shinra and Benisu rush off toward Miyu, to be confronted by Mihato. Shinra leaves Benisu to deal with Mihato, who lures Benisu out to their flag and uses some birds to distract her and capture her with rope and hold her in, suffice it to say, a bondage position. Shinra arrives and distracts Mihato while Ren jumps in, takes the flag, and takes off into the mansion. At Shinra’s flag area he is confronted by Miyu’s robot who knocks him down with a sonic attack. Miyu uses this opportunity to try and take the flag, but Ren will not be denied. He fights through her panty flashes and the robot biting his leg to plant the flag for Shinra’s victory. Later on in the evening Shinra offers her hand to Ren to kiss to show his loyalty, but Benisu wont allow it. Ren later walks into the bathroom again, but this time he finds a naked Colonel, who tells him to wash his back and have a talk with him about men.

Next Episode:
Didn’t take them long, a delicious looking beach episode. Mmmmmmmmm, tasty.

Impressions:
Ren’s reactions to naked and semi-naked women in this episode varied considerably. In the beginning when he spotted Benisu in the bathroom, he tried to distract her with what I would guess is a Japanese technique to calm oneself down, counting prime numbers. He did pretty well until she caught him staring at her rack. The next woman he sees in such a state is Shinra when she tells him to give her an ass massage or something, and he blushes all the way. I love the deep, seductive voice Shizuka Itou uses when she is teasing Ren, one of the many delicious aspects of Shinra’s character. He also has a mostly naked Miyu run to him and hold onto him in distress, and while hesitant at first, he motions to hold her tightly when Shinra comes downstairs and interrupts them. The fourth person in this episode is Natase, who considers herself Ren’s onee-chan so isn’t really ashamed to walk out wearing a towel and panties. Ren doesn’t seem to hold that same view and gets pretty embarrassed in this situation. Overall a wide range of responses, some of them standard silly embarrassment, and some of them have hints of some manliness or romantic interest about them. Oh and you can’t forget the best naked scene, when he walks in on the Colonel and his brain automatically mosaics him with the kanji for man over his package haha. The Colonel is an awesome support character, between him and Kojuuro the support character level of GAR is pretty damn high.

Speaking of female character’s in state of undress, there’s a new ED animation this week where the men of the show, Ren, the Colonel, Kojuuro, and Chiharu (yes he is a man), are drawn super-deformed and driving around in a limo with brushes. They show each girl on the show and brush off their clothes, leaving them in a bra and panties. Just goes to show that Kimiaru is not limited in it’s distaste for wearing clothing, it breaks free from the restraints of just the 20 minutes of actual show and says to its viewers, “hey, we can do this shit in the ED too, just watch.” The ED song itself is pretty cute, and the new animation combined with it is pretty hilarious.

It seems a bit early to discuss which route Ren is going to select, especially with many of these shows going with generic love comedy no-decision endings. However, this is an eroge and although I haven’t played it, my spider sense tells me we have hints of Shinra. Ren is obviously engrossed with her, amazed with her beauty and skill while she was conducting rehearsal. In addition, he was pretty eager to drink that can Shinra didn’t want to finish, and was not afraid to admit he was happy about the indirect kiss to her. He was also thoroughly enjoying that ass massage, but then again, who wouldn’t? It may be a bit early, but it’s my job as a blogger to speculate.

Another great episode this week of the best thing to happen to ecchi and comedy anime in a long while.

Punish me please! I’ve been a bad girl!

Wow, if you get offended by some panty shots, you will probably want to shy away from this show because it’s at a level beyond that. We have incestuous yuri licking, women rubbing each other in the bath, ero manga, brother and sister face to bare cleavage contact, and of course, the above pictured masochist girl getting herself off in the middle of school grounds. And I loved every minute of it.

The episode opens with a disturbing dream Ren is having about his sister with angel wings flying to save him, only to be interrupted by Benisu and a gigantic Colonel. When he wakes up it is decided that Mihato will be trying out to be Miyu’s personal attendant and Ren will be spending his trial week doing miscellaneous chores, and so Ren works on standard butler tasks such as gardening, sweeping, and other cleaning chores. Later they all have dinner together, emphasizing that the servants are all part of the family and they should all eat together as a result. After dinner Ren has a few more flashbacks of his abusive father, while Shinra and Benisu bathe together and Yume and Natose lay in bed together (hoho servants and masters are sure close in this show, deliciously so). Oh, and I won’t forget Miyu in bed reading what appears to be some ero manga I guess, she apparently has graduated college so that’s kosher. Hah, one more thing, Ren falls asleep in his sister’s cleavage. No, this obviously was not based on an eroge, nosiree. The next morning we get to see the licking action advertised in the preview, as Shinra cleans off Miyu’s face. After being flashed by Miyu, Ren goes out onto the veranda of his room, and finds that he shares it with Natose. Together they pledge to do their best tomorrow in serving their masters.

On the sixth day of the trial period Ren accompanies Yume and Natose to school, where he crashes into Mistina, who is apparently a masochist. She gets quite aroused by the apparent abuse of being crashed into and his cold gaze, so much so that the rubs herself repeatedly, and later on when they actually get to school she keeps it up. When they get to school they meet some more of Yume’s friends, Keiko (who seems relatively normal), and the not so normal Ageha and her butler Kojuuro, who we found out later is quite obviously in love with her. When Ren cleans Ageha’s dirty shoe, she is so struck by it that she offers him some of her special candy, which is apparently quite an honor to receive. Later in the evening at the mansion, Keiko shows up and asks Ren if he has seen a ferret, it’s gone missing and the one that finds it gets to increase their club’s funds. In his effort to capture the ferret he breaks an important vase inside the house, to which he pleads forgiveness from his masters. Outside he is feeling distraught, and Miyu and Natose have to come out and beat some sense into him. He is newly inspired and gets back to butlering, awaiting the household decision. In the morning the family decides that first, Mihato will be accepted as Miyu’s new personal assistant, and that despite Ren’s breaking the vase, he will be kept on as well, and Shinra orders him to be her personal attendant.

Next Episode:
Preview shows some lingerie shots, bath time, some Initial D type racing and Yume in her P.E. outfit, one can only imagine.

Impressions:
I’ll start out first with the new characters. We don’t get much of Keiko, and what’s there seems pretty normal so she will probably be one of the only non-screwed up people on this show. You need a couple of them to balance out the show, even Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei has one! Ageha is the abusive master who frequently beats the crap out of her energetic butler Kojuuro. Kojuuro is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama, one of the GARest voices around, giving manliness to roles such as Madarame, Viral, and Ikkaku. Ageha herself is voiced by another Hayate crossover (Maria in this case), Rie Tanaka, another seiyuu whose voice I enjoy. This show is certainly a big collection of some of my favorite voice talents, starting with the first episode and continuing on into the secondary cast introduced in the second. And last, but definitely not least, we are introduced to Mistina, the masochist girl. I was rolling in laughter throughout every scene she was in during this episode, I have always been one to laugh at those kind of jokes and sexual situations, it was great.

As for the content of the show itself, I was disappointed in the relative lack of Shinra-sama, but we did have to add in the secondary cast at Yume’s school. It appears that both Shinra and Miyu are beyond school age, so we won’t be constantly at school, but there are several characters here so I assume at least a chunk of time will be devote to school events and scenes throughout.

We obviously knew they were going to get accepted on as full-time, so the predictable breaking of the vase and the sort of drama and such that ensued really didn’t put me on the edge of my seat or anything. Even the serious sounding parts where Ren remembered their abusive past were hard to think of seriously because I had just watched Mistina orgasm in the middle of the sidewalk. Not that there is anything wrong with that, you really don’t want to take any of this seriously. Plus, this show is pretty escapist and fetish-oriented, so we really don’t need alot of serious drama, and accordingly it was a pretty small amount of time in this episode so I was fine with it.

Overall, the episode continues to build upon the great material that was in the first. Definitely enjoying this one so far and is a show I plan on carrying to the end.

Call me Shinra-sama, boy

Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de (They Are My Noble Masters) is shortened to Kimiaru, and as the full name is waaaaaay too long for me to type out and remember that’s how I’m going to refer to it. On the blogging front I’m back with a vengeance, after my nice winter holidays. In addition to Kimiaru I’ll probably be dabbling in blogging Rosario to Vampire. No summary this week, you can find one provided by Omni. I’ll start summaries next week, as it doesn’t look like it’s going to get much coverage in the blogs I read at least.

Story Premise- Ren and his brother complex-afflicted older sister Mihato run away from home because of an alcoholic and abusive father. They look for a job in town and Ren runs into twin-tailed Miyu who is suffering from anemia in the heat. Ren brings her back to the rich house she lives in and as a thank you they give Ren and Mihato a temporary job as butler and maid.

Impressions- Oh yes, Shinra-sama obviously gives off massive Hime (Kaibutsu Oujo) vibes, and I don’t mind at all. Hime’s delicious, mature, and imposing personality made her one of my favorite characters of the year, so I have no problem with the similarities. Shinra even introduced herself by saying that her name is derived from the word that means everything that exists in the universe. She does have her differences though, she apparently loves cute things, as shown in this shot of her rubbing on her “kawaii imouto,” her little panda toy, and the stuffed pandas she sleeps with. Ren’s sister Mihato is another character I find delicious, not only is she going to be the big breasted meido, but she has a brother complex and a dark and devious side to her. Shinra’s sister Miyu has potential as well, as despite Shinra’s declaration that she is a loli, Miyu insists that she is a sexy and smart woman. Ren himself seems pretty solid so far, I really like his “fighting spirit” for the lack of a better phrase, standing up to the Colonel. Dunno what’s up with the Naruto whiskers though, was a bit funny looking.

Aside from the great characters is the equally awesome voice acting. Shizuka Itou (Hinagiku, Wilhelmia, Tama-nee) is one of my favorites, and portrays Shinra’s dignified yet playful character very well. Yuko Goto needs little introduction and voices Miyu, and I am always impressed with the wide range of character types that she can play. I do prefer her voicing stronger and tougher sounding characters such as Miyu and Bell Zephyr (Night Wizard) over characters like Mikuru (Haruhi) and Kaede (Shuffle!). The final seiyuu I wanted to comment on was Tomokazu Seki (Souske, Yzak, Touji), who plays Ren. One of the best male seiyuu in my opinion, and one that is also quite prolific. In the first episode at least he frequently uses his Anime Tenchou and Yzak loud and yelling voice which is pretty GAR to me and something I look forward to continuing.

It’s easy to draw comparisons from this show to Hayate no Gotoku, from the premise of the story and some of the characters. I think the producers realize that, as in the preview for the next episode the make a seiyuu joke with Shinra saying that next episode Ren transfers to the school where she is the student council president, an obvious reference to Shizuka Itou’s work as Hinagiku in Hayate. However, it is also a show that is going to take a totally different direction from what I gather. It’s not a parody or reference anime first off, and there’s a much wider cast of characters at the mansion itself. We’ll see how it pans out in that direction. The animation left much to be desired in some spots, including just laziness or something, I really don’t get the joke if it’s supposed to be funny or make a point like in Lucky Star. However, aside from that the characters are great and I had a lot of laughs in the first episode. Definitely recommended so far and something I plan on blogging every week.

Woot, this is the good thing about introducing icons. Even I can hijack someone’s post when I want to make my own personal impressions. Kimiaru is definitely not a deep show but there are so many good things about this that will work wonders as a comedy. Firstly, the loli is so delicious that it is impossible to ignore her by any chance. I also like the Shinra-sama quite a bit, since she is an extremely good compliment to the loli in terms of character dynamics. To be honest, I really thought that she is a serious character (the haughty and serious type) when they showed her first playing as a conductor.

However, the fact that she introduces her loli sister just makes me laugh so much that I nearly fell off my chair. I do not really have any huge impressions of the other characters to be honest, but I am sure they will give more time to introduce them one by one. Just like Calawain, I cannot wait for the next episode!