Synopsis
Kotarou has enough problems. Since his mother died and his father is away at work most of the time, he has to be grown up even though he is still just trying to get through elementary school. Fortunately, he has good friends like Ten-chan, the cool guy in school, and Koboshi, the cat-eared girl with a secret crush on him.
But things get more complicated when Misha moves into the apartment next door. Like any good angel, she wants only to be helpful but has a hard time succeeding. Of course Shia, the cute and quiet demon girl who soon moves in with Misha, is very good at being helpful and very bad at being an evil demon, so maybe things will work out okay.
Impressions
If there’s one thing Broccoli learned from the unexpected success of their DiGi Charat commercials, it’s that Kawaii Rules the World. There is no such thing as too cute. So they turn again to the sugar-filled pen of Koge Donbo and give us Misha the angel with her bunny-shaped hair ornaments. They give us a middle school age Puchiko in the form of the soft-spoken and helpful demon girl Shia. And then, even though both characters are intensely cute individually and five-alarm-cute combined, they dress them up in animal pajamas! Will this madness never end?
Now, I don’t have many rules or guidelines when it comes to chosing what anime to watch, but number one, my Prime Directive, my raison d’anime—ICHIBAN!—is this: no show is more worth my time than one with a girl who, for no apparent or concievable reason, wears cat ears on her head.
Pita Ten is obviously a polarizing anime. You will love it or you will run screaming with blood gushing from your eyes.
Random Thoughts
No, I still haven’t finished.
Neko Factor
Nyaa the evil cat, Koboshi-chan's inexplicatble cat ears, and animal pajamas: that's entertainment.
- 2003-12-11 19:06 -