Ookamimimi =D

I’ve managed to finsh another anime that’s been sitting on my computer for over a year! Spice and Wolf (I prefer to call it Ookami to Koushinryou, which translates to Wolf and Spice but meh) was actually pretty good. The storyline and animation were only above average at best, but what made this anime good was the ookamimimi (lol so many mi’s) and tsundere goodness. And of course everybody knows that mimi + tsundere = WIN. Of course we know that the happiness you get from a tsundere is shown by the graph below. I forgot whose blog I found this graph on but thanks anyway. Add on the mimi and “happiness of you” function can increase by up to ten times the original!

|3sinx|! That's amazing!

Apart from the tsun-tsun-mimi-dere girl there were several other things that appealed to me about this show. The first is that the main character’s seiyuu was Fukuyama Jun! Although he didn’t have use his Lelouch voice, that probably would have been inappropriate for the show, though it would definitely have made the show more epic. The storyline didn’t really stand out to me at all. It seemed to be just following the everyday life of a merchant (basically buying something somewhere then going somewhere else and selling it at a higher price) who coincidentally meets a tsundere-mimikko who can transform into a wolf, who helps him with his business. Though the plot wasn’t anything exciting, character development was good (when the tsun-tsun girl becomes dere-dere) which is what really matters I guess.

One thing I didn’t like abou the show was something quite minor – the insertion of an anime only character. I don’t really like anime that isn’t faithful to the manga (or light novel in this case) because they always seem to screw something up. Chloe’s story was acceptable but I didn’t like the way she was drawn. She looked like she just came out of Princess Resurrection (Kaibutsu Oujo) – which I found quite boring – because they were done by same animator. The other characters didn’t really remind me of that show so it didn’t bother me too much.

Too much tsundere made me consider reading the light novel at baka-tsuki (english translation) because I’m too lazy to read large chunks of japanese text, which is why I still haven’t made much progress on my eroge backlog of at least 80+ visual novels T_T. However, wikipedia says there is second season of the anime which I’ll probably watch for more tsundere-mimikko goodness. Although I like tsundere I must say I dislike Kugimiya Rie/Shana/Louise (though I do kind of like her Nena voice) and I probably couldn’t take another season of Shana or Zero no Tsukaima. Apparently in the second season they are changing animation studios from from Imagin (they did some anime in Eureka Seven, Moonlight Lady and Mushishi all of which I quite liked) to Brain’s Base (they did Night Wizard which bored me so much). Brain’s Base is also currently doing a joint production of Akikan which has much animation fail but I guess I’ll have to watch the show first before judging it.

Usamimi + Sukumizu - Another very enticing combination!