Media Blasters recently announced it has licensed the ecchi-comedy Kanokon. Does a show like this merit any sort of attention?
Based on the light novel series by Katsumi Nishino, Kanokon revolves around Kouta, a first-year high school student who moves from the countryside to the city. On his first day at his new school, a beautiful second-year female student named Chizuru asks him to meet her alone in the music room. When he arrives, she tells him that she is in love with him and, after some heavy kissing, accidentally reveals to him that she is in fact a fox deity. From that day on Chizuru constantly hangs on Kouta, which embarrasses him greatly due to others watching and calling him the Great Erotic King. Meanwhile, a wolf deity named Nozomu transfers into Kouta’s school and class. Since meeting him, she is all over Kouta, causing Chizuru to become annoyed at her new competition for Kouta’s affection. Who’s going to be the one for Kouta, and will he be able to handle her?
Now this is another show where most of the humor is derived from the fan-service. There is a lot of quirky, perverted silliness, some of which use some great double entendres. Some things made me laugh so hard that I almost fell out of my seat. However one of the biggest issues I have with the show is the fact that it throws away one of its main premises in favor of more perverted humor. I was led to believe that there would be more dealings with the animal deities, but instead we get a cooking episode by #3. This is what happened with Rosario + Vampire, and that didn’t fare out so well. I am also surprised with some of the stuff that made it onto Japanese TV, especially the bare-assed spanking scene at the end of the third episode. Of course it’s not all bad.
I'm on the fence on what to give this series as a grade. It's truly a guilty pleasure of mine, but at the same time there are far better series out there that you could use your free moments to watch. Having said that, I'll go with my gut instinct and give this series a light B-average. However, don't watch this with your family in your premises. Don't watch it with your lover. Don't watch it with your friends (unless you can make a good drinking game out of it). Just watch it alone, and never speak of it in front of anybody. Hell, admitting that I enjoyed it makes me feel like I'm putting myself at risk of damaging my reputation.
Labels: Anime, Anime Calamity, comedy, Kanokon, King Baby Duck
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