Some quick first impressions: Chi’s Sweet Home, Kyou Kara Maou Third Season and To Love-Ru

Chi’s Sweet Home

Ever since I first saw the promo, this series intrigued me. It was a show about a lost kitty, and yet it was labelled as a seinen-show and animated by Madhouse and the episode director of Death Note and the assistant director of Shigurui. Well, it turns out that the guy was just looking for something completely different to work on, and rather took this to the extreme. Chi’s Sweet Home is a really cute series, though with just ninety seconds for each episode, it’s way too short. Heck, even Hanoka was longer. How many episodes will there be anyway?

Kyou Kara Maou, Third Season

A few years ago, I watched the first few episodes of this series, though I dropped it when the sexual innuendo became a bit too much to take seriously. I became intrigued again, however, when I found out that the director of Simoun and True Tears was behind it, so I decided to give this series one more shot, just in case this turned out to be more than fangirl bait. It didn’t start off too well, when the very first scene features a bunch of unicorns, though thankfully there were one or two scenes that at least hinted at potential. Overall, though, I feel that this series really needs to take itself more seriously. The main character is a king, yet he seems to know nothing about how to properly run a country. What bugs me the most, however, is that it’s been seventy freaking episodes and the characters hardly feel different. A 13-episode series is excused to have minimal character-development, but 70 episodes are plenty of time for the characters to go through changes. Really, what the heck have these characters been doing in the first two seasons?

To Love-Ru

Well, so this one turned out exactly like expected, and that’s a bad thing because I was expecting this to suck. There’s nothing much to say, actually. The only reason why you’d want to check this out is because of the fanservice, nothing else has any value. Things are badly explained, the main character is just another “typical high-school boy”, who turns out to have the mysterious power of attracting cute girls. It’s just the same we’ve seen over and over again. In any case, after watching this series, I was edging for another episode of Kyou Kara Maou, and that’s not a good sign.

8 thoughts on “Some quick first impressions: Chi’s Sweet Home, Kyou Kara Maou Third Season and To Love-Ru

  1. Kyou Kara maou alternates between serious episodes and comedy… You should really watch the first season, the real plot comes in around episode 27.

  2. For me, I think Chi’s Sweet Home is just one of the cutest things I’ve ever come across. ^.^;; Anyway. I really think you ought to check out Uninhabited Planet Survive, unless you’ve already done so. The anime is a few years old, but really good. ^_^ I think you’d love it.

  3. I loved Chi’s Sweet Home although I wasn’t expecting that I would. I did find it strange that you said that it is 90 seconds long. The episodes that I saw were 3 minutes long.

  4. I love Chi’s Sweet Home. At first I was unsure about the episodes being so short. But now I think it works really well for the type of show. Also the show is on Mon-Thurs so for me it is the perfect thing to cheer you up every day. 🙂

  5. I think I read that Chi’s Sweet Home isn’t really a series but its just a wrap around program and shows after one show to lead into another. Either way it’s really cute and at such a short length its easy to get into it.

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