The anime adaptation of Fumizuki Kou's manga features Kaoru Hanabishi, a normal every day college student. For years, he lived independently and alone. One day, his entire life gets turned upside down. He meets a young woman about his age one day at the train station. She appears lost and is searching for someone. In kindness, Kaoru lends a hand, without knowing that he was who she was searching for.
Aoi Sakuraba is the only daughter of a wealthy family. As such, her hand is well sought after. Unfortunately for her family, she already has her heart set on Kaoru, her betrothed. As a gesture of good faith, her parents allow them to live on the same property, with her acting as the landlady and her caretaker as the owner. Poor Kaoru has been reduced to playing the part of a tenant.
Of course, they don't know about all the other women who will be moving in with them...
How will Aoi and Kaoru explore their love with so many distractions? Will Aoi be able to cope with the number of love rivals?
Story & Characters
Long ago I've watched Love Hina. I liked it very much. When I've heard about Ai Yori Aoshi I thought it will
be a cheap LH-ripoff, but after watching it I ended up liking this series more than Love Hina...
As for the story... I dont know.
It's not bad or anything, but I felt like the story is not THAT interesting.
Quite fun though, but the 'fillers' were the best part, fortunately they were good.
So the main plot is starts with a guy living all alone in an apartment, and because he's living there all alone,
and he is only a high school student, he isn't living a very joyful life, he isn't eating properly, either.
But there is a girl who liked him ever since they were little children...her name is Aoi. (literally 'blue'
and it fits her just perfectly). Back then they used to play quite often, and they were having fun. One day the girl
decides that she will go to Tokyo to look for his beloved Kaoru, who has suddenly disappeared from Aoi's sight many
years ago.
When she got to the station, she gets in a small accident, and a guy helps him out. She says that she's looking for
one of his friends home...and accidentally the guy she is looking for happens to be Kaoru, the same guy, she has just
right met.
Aoi decided to be his wife, but her family doesn't seem to like that idea...what will happen to them? If you watch
it, you might see... ^^
When the real plot comes in, it's kinda interesting, so it reall is ok, just a little too small amount of story, we
get.
To write some things about the characters (which I think is important) here I go:
Every character was so well-made ^^
Kaoru: He is fortunately a decent guy. I mean he isn't unlucky/perverted/whimp, and I liked that.
Aoi: Cute, shy, beautiful; perfect for a lead female :) I liked her very much.
Tina: One of my favourite characters. Being as energetic as she is she always brought a funny/energetic atmosphere.
Taeko: A maid, a bit clumsy,but likeable.
Mayu: She was in my opinion a nice character, and a good 'rival' for Tina ^^
Miyabi: Always wants to act cool, but she's kind. I liked her very much.
Chika-rin:My absolute favourite ^^ I dont understand why some says she is annoying, and think she only has good
'points' in her personality. And she was really cute, in my opinion she was the most 'hot' character
with her cuteness. XD
Rating: 7
Art
The animation is nice, its good to look at.
Nothing really special, but it's simply good.
As for the character-design, I think it was fabolous.
Everyone is nicely done here, From the little but hot Chika to the extremely curvy Taeko. :)
The animation was clear and fluid. I haven't noticed any sudden changes in the style of the animation, or thing
like that; fortunately.
Rating: 8
Sound
Sound
The sounds are great, too. I like the Seiyuus, and I think Aoi's and Kaoru's were the best, but Tina and Chika
did a really good job too...
Every actors matched the characters (i'm talking about the japanese) perfectly.
And the Opening song (Towa no Hana) is heart-warming, beautiful. Just the perfect fit for the genre.
The BGM music is fair enough, but not that great...
The problem is I think there were too few of them.
But maybe it's just me...so I can't decrease the rating because of this that much.
Rating: 9
Presentation
So I enjoyed every part of it; it does worth the time, believe me! ^^
If you like hare-anime, you're going to enjoy it, but if you don't...well give this a try, because it's a
bit more serious, than most of them.
Throughout the filler episodes we will get very much humor.
It's the best watched together with your friends!
One good point is it's rewatchability. I've already seen it 3 times.
Rating: 9
Final Verdict
8.1667 (good)
Reviewed by novalisk, Jan 31, 2006
