Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha.

I just love this show, lot of good comedy and romantic comedy, feel-good characters and solid fantasy world.

First off, the comedy.  Inari herself is a walking comedy routine machine.  Her clumsiness while being an idiot always draw funny situations.  And her honesty and easy to read faces usually prompt other to make fun of her.  She’s your usual energetic, klutz, non-sexy, and unpopular.  Almost like a shoujo type char but she has friends and able to make new friend pretty easily.  Personally, I love genki girl, so she’s my type. <3  The rest of comedy is also good and fresh. Their amusing reactions are hilarious.  I laugh my lung out every ep.

Second, the romantic comedy.  This anime has two couples, Inari x Kouji and Touka x Uka.  Inari x Kouji is almost like shoujo cliche story with Inari, the unpopular girl who has heart of gold, happens to like the most popular and handsome guy in the class.  As in shoujo, you also get jealously element from other girls which is pretty good drama.  But since the anime is seinen, the guy didn’t like her from the start and require some good event to trigger the flag.  I think I like it; nothing new, but the love was there.  Her romance stories come and go so it doesn’t get drag out.

Then there is most interesting couple in the history of anime, Touka x Uka.  Touka is 2D guy who haven’t outgrown the chuunibyou, while Uka is a goddess who like to play bishonen dating sim.  LOL  Just the premise itself is hilarious.  Not to mention this couple often fights each other giving us plenty of different sides of their personalities.  Especially with Uka, her bashfulness is shown only when dealing with Touka(otherwise play a cool&calm role). To see a full-grown goddess blushes with a HS guy is pure gold.  I think Uka character is the most unusual and probably the most popular.

Thirdly, the girl friendship.  Inari’s relationship with her friends are in full display.  They got plenty of meaningful flashbacks to build good memories, and new encounters to make new friend.  I thought the whole thing was very cute and touching.  Also YURI COUPLE INCOMING!

Fourthly, the mahou shoujo.  The whole story revolves around Inari’s power to transform herself into other people.  This power is kinda bit too anime-crap like so I didn’t like it that much.  However, they didn’t overused it, and it can be funny when she changes to male(or old male) character.  And most of the time, Inari use it to help other people. It also help her char develops maturity, to realized that she can tell her true feeling even without using the power. The god’s power also play a big role for the ending which is kinda lame and I don’t really care.  The ending kinda ruins it for me since it’s too short!  but what else is news.

Fifthly, the spirit’s world.  It creates a very well made world, I never see this version before so it was refreshing.  Other gods and creatures often play the comedy roles so it’s pretty light-heart stuff.  But they also keep it real with overall entity of god.  That their being is on a different world apart from human, and their encounter should not be taken lightly.  I love this part of the show, keeping the anime grounded, limiting the god’s power and making the encounter between Inari and Uka even more special.  The hug between them looks so cuddly warm.

Lastly is the directing.  This anime utilizes the ‘sudden’ quick jokes with unexpected timing making them very funny.  The story also keep you on edge with all the unpredictable weird stuff that you would not expect a god would do.  The dialogs are thoughtful and funny, even more fitting with kansai accent.  Also, they draw a lot of different cute outfits for these girls.  The cast is influenced by otaku culture like Uka’s drooling when playing reverse harem game(Orimo) or Touka’s Chuunibuu syndrom.  Man I laugh so hard when I saw Uka playing dating sim on KSIII(PS3).  And Uka’s huhuhu laugh is pretty much a copycat from Kirino’s.

Sadly the series is only 10 eps.  And they have yet get to the juicy parts: Uka x Touka and YURI couple. I need MOAR!

- Love OST and all VAs.

=- OVA(06-2014) -=

OVA is still funny.
Kid: I want to see mommy
Inari: Where is she working?
Kid: …no clue. But I’ll find her.
Aww.. the family part is heartwarming.  Damn I really like this show.