This last week I finished a fun little anime called Nyan Koi! Which is mostly about a guy with bad luck and more girls than he knows chasing after him even though he only has eyes for one girl. Add in some Yakuza and cats and you have the making of a fun little short anime series that kept me entertained and actually looking forward to another season if they do make it, since this first season was left wide open.
Nyan Koi! is a harem rom-com that focuses on the very bad luck life of Junpei who lives with his mom, sister and pet cat even though he suffers horribly from allergies to the cat. He is madly in love with Kaede even though she seems to oblivious to this fact. She also happens to really love animals. Junpei's childhood friend is also there to keep him in line and ends up wanting to be with Junpei but doesn't want to hurt her friend Kaede's feeling either. Her name is Kanako and she also keeps another suiter of Junpei in line. The very Tomboyish Nagi who is the track star and the daughter as it turns out of the local Yakuza family. There is also the twin-tail twins who are daughters of the local Buddhist Monk who go around and do their magic spell stuff and the yuonger one much to the dismay of the older one stalks Junpei. Last but not least in the harem is the older college mail carrier who takes a liking to Junpei.
There is also a ton of cats that like to bug poor Junpei as well. Junpei's trouble starts when he accidentally knocks over the cat deity of the local Buddhist Shrine and breaks it. The twins find out about it and tell him what he needs to do to lift the curse. Of course this means poor Junpei allergic to cats can now communicate with them and has to help them out so that he can lift the curse and not turn into a cat himself. Most of the time he tries to keep it from his friends and this causes all sorts of comedy moments through out the series. Actually there is a really good amount of comedy in the series.
Fanservice is lite, there is a NICE swimsuit episode and bathing scenes here and there but the majority of it is in only those parts. There's nothing to OMG THIS IS AWESOME! stuff going on it's a tried and true plot with a slightly different take on things. I'll say that it is definitely fun to watch if you don't have an overload already of the same type of series. Nothing gets resolved in the end of course and there may or may not be another season, which I'll be looking forward to anyways. Will it get picked up for the US? More than likely not since it doesn't really offer anything new or exciting or follows the same type of stuff that is being licensed at the moment.
You can check out the trailer for the series here.
