I’ve fallen so behind on new anime. Maybe it’s time to call it quits.

Actually, no. I’m not gonna quit ’cause brainofgto will not have the last laugh!

Uguu~ not mean-spirited opinions about my animes.

I really gave it some serious thought though. I even discussed deleting the blog with Fin earlier tonight.

But I’m afraid the rumors of our demise were greatly exaggerated. I did, however, enjoy some of the emails we got. Here, have one more:

What’s that? That’s just the smell of sweet…

Anyway, you came here for anime so let’s talk anime. I think the last anime I saw was the sixth episode of Durarara. Yeah, that’s how long it has been. I even asked Fin what the “dude’s gonna turn into a cat unless he does cat deeds” anime was called. She couldn’t remember either (which speaks to the quality of that show), but she did remember Kampfer. We’ll let hours of private therapy explain that. So I pulled up chartfag’s Spring ’10 edition and the only thing I recognized was Kiss x Sis. This guy I know just kept going on and on about how I should check it out.

At first, I took his advice with a grain of salt because he’s never been quite right ever since a tree fell on him (true story), but duty calls and here we go.

You know, I remember when this was called Onegai Twins. The difference here being that Onegai Twins wasn’t completely shameless. Oh, Kiss x Sis goes through the motions…

It’s kinda like how the shounen hero will trip, plant his face in a girl’s crotch and scream “NOOOO!! THIS IS SO WRONG,” yet try as he might, that face just won’t separate from the crotch. By the way, I swear that I totally wrote this sentence before seeing the entire episode, and what did I find near the end? This:

Seeing as how I called it, I should write the next anime romcom. It’ll be great.

The premise of the show isn’t complicated. Keita has two sisters and they want to jump his bones every living second. But how do we reconcile this with the fact that all worthy Japanese women must be pure and virginal?

“Really innocent.” Really! Kiss x Sis wants to have its cake and eat it too.

The show already established that the sisters aren’t blood-related to Keita (This is another thing altogether. They waited until the last second to reveal this fact like it was going to be a mind-blowing twist. I can just imagine some guy watching this show, totally fucking amped that it’s gonna be an incest anime, like fist-pumping every time the girls do something perverted to Keita… then at the end, the anime goes “SURPRISE! They’re not blood-related” and the viewer is all dejected. “Aw man, not another anime ruined by NON-INCESTUAL RELATIONS.” So the creators hop out from behind the screen and goes “Haha, you already watched the first episode, now go buy the shitty soundtrack and blu-ray.”) so why not just push the envelope with it? Why not just go with a raunchy sex comedy about a guy and his step-sisters. But no, the girls are cute and pure… except they’re not, except they are, except they’re not, except they are… repeat ad nauseum. What you get in Kiss x Sis is almost schizophrenic. “How was your day at school today? My teacher was a total bitch, she took a point away on the midterm because my handwriting was a little sloppy… ohbythewayherearemytits.”

These perverted moments are interspersed with sappy scenes like when the girls are earnestly trying to help him get into their high school, but he misunderstands their intentions and tells them off in front of everybody. Aw. This isn’t just an ecchi show, guys; it has heart and sou-

But y’know, I laughed. I didn’t laugh with the show. I didn’t quite laugh at it either. Incest in anime or manga is nothing new, and as a first episode, this one was as ball-less as the show’s generic Nippon-jin lead. I laughed instead at what the show didn’t deliver. Imagine if Keita was replaced with someone who looked a little more… honest:

Imagine if the sisters were revealing themselves to that guy.

Or that they were sniffing that guy’s boxers (I bet he’s a tighty-whitey man though!).

Imagine if they had him tied up and molested.

That would have been an entertaining anime with some semblance of irony. In its current form, it’s just some boring nerdwank fantasy.

Whatever. What should I watch next?