Hello,
Let's go with another review of a rather interesting eroge/anime series produced by the same series that created Fortune Arterial (August) and that got the same hack/slash adaptation that ruined much of the fun.
Let's start with a synopsis :
The Earth and the Moon's Sphere Kingdom have long had a poor relationship due to a devastating war years earlier, but Sphere Kingdom Princess Feena Fam Earthlight seeks to make steps towards changing that by doing a homestay on Earth at the home of the Earth President's secretary, in order to learn more about life on Earth. This is not the first time that Feena and the secretary's teenage "brother" Tatsuya have met, though, and the connection of the past contributes toward love in the present. Their love could paint a new future for Earth-Moon relations, but the resulting complications also threaten to tear everything - even the fragile international peace - apart.
The moon and the earth are linked by a single contact point, "Mitsuru ga Sakichau Ouren Rakuniushi" where Tatsuya lives under the supervision of the Sphere Kingdom (Moon Kingdom)'s Princess Feena Fam Earthlight who is coming to stay at his home.
The plot is quite interesting for an erogè (as always for August) and the story flows almost naturally in the original work, especially if you pick the Feena's route...
...and then we have the anime. I just want to know who's the scriptwriter to slap him three times in a row.
The plot start off similiar to the original series, then deviate in some random funny (but for the wrong reason) happenings, like the Indiana Jones father, the aliens that stop the war after talking with Indiana Jones, all that stuff with the new anime-only character...
...and the incredible spherical cabbage! That was hilarious in its own way, but unfortunately they fixed it up for the dvd release.
Anyway, this series had a lot of potential to be a nice romantic comedy, but ended up as an half-assed of the same putting in peoples a lot of prejudice toward the original work as well. (that is a masterpiece instead)
The characters are many and not enough time to develop is given in the anime adaptation (the original work being an erogè they're not bound by time constraint so it's very detailed), so you'll find a lot impersonal toward them.
To be honest I can't remember some of the characters name on the fly and that's bad.
My favourite character in this series is Wreathlit Noel, thought she doesn't get a lot of screen time in the anime. Her misterious double personality is one of the thing that moved me to continue reading the original work.
I liked also her sister Cynthia, but unfortunately that's only a character from the fandisk of this series (Moonlight Cradle) so she got no appearence in this adaptation.
Nice point also for Mai Asagiri, it's one of the few imouto characters that I actually like a lot with her classic behaviour and cuteness.
Most annoying character by far is...wait there is no annoying character in the main characters cast unfortunately. There are plenty of them in the enemy department in the anime adaptation thought. :P
The graphical quality is pretty much good, with a girls style very much similiar to the one in Fortune Arterial so it's a win situation for me. The animation...well, as I said there have been catastrophic errors like the one with the cabbage, but generally it isn't a bad experience at all.
The sound quality is like almost all August works, a marvel. I liked a lot of the voice in both anime and erogè, the best is likely Oto Agumi's voice in the erogè of Mai Asagiri!!!
Concluding this is a nice series with solid plot and good backstory that got unfortunately ruined by the incomplete anime adaptation. If you like romantic comedy with a little bit of drama, go and take a look first at the visual novel and then the lower quality anime!
See you soon,
feal87