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Ai Yori Aoshi
Episodes: 24 (there is also a sequel "Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ ")
Genre: Shounen, Romance, Drama, Comedy, Slice Of Life
Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but bewildered girl dressed in kimono at train station. He volunteered to guide her way to the address she was looking for, which looked like in his neighborhood but turned out to be an empty lot. Not knowing what to do next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for additional clue -- a photo with two children whom Kaoru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancée who came all the way to Tokyo to marry him!!!
I've always been hesitant to see this since I'm not the biggest shounen fan, but I gave it a try when I was uploading episodes for the "Watch Online" and I was positively suprised. It's actually really cute! Aoi and Kaoru are so good together xD
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Comments: 2
Jhyarelle (Thursday, 10 September 2009 04:36)
This series was a good harem comedy and the romance was done rather well. My only problem was with the lead female romantic intrest, who name happens to be in the title of the show. Aio was too... To be honest, she seems to not have a backbone. Way too submissive especialy to her romantic intrest. Lucky enough the lead male was one of the stereotypical anime/manga good guys and never took advantage of her. The kind of good guy that would take a bullet for the one he loves, walk into a burning building to save her sister and on the way out rescue a cat trapped in the closet and wants nothing in return. Who knows what would happen if the lead male in this was Kuno from Ranma 1/2.
Out of all the more intresting female cast members in the show, the real one that was more intresting to pair the lead male up with was the foreigner Tina, an American who chose to go to school in Japan. A rare type of character in manga/anime these days. I'd describe her as what Ryoko from Tenchi (Pick a version) would be like had she been born and raised on earth and human.
This series is best decribed as Tenchi with normal girls and no aliens. The lead male is there to be fought over by the girls in the show. The girls, as in any normal harem fall under the categories of, the serious one, the cute one, the clumsy one, the destined one, the wild one. Sounds like there should fukus involved right? I like the wild one.
The show is quite cute and often goes on with out any major downers, unless the leads heroe's past were brought up or the BS about the female lead parents objections about the male lead. I was nearly brought to tears at certain parts which was plus with my girlfriend at the time. So yeah give this series a shot.
shartpa82 (Wednesday, 12 January 2011 07:56)
I'm still new to a lot of anime and it's terms so help me out please. I've seen this term used to describ a few anime's "harem comedy". What does that mean exactly? I started trying to watch it and the only understanding I can get from the term doesn't really make sense to me.