Hello everyone,
Today we'll talk about the first three episodes of a new anime series of this winter season 2011/2012 that I finally managed to get time to watch named Inu X Boku SS featuring the most cute protagonist of the last years.
Yes, I was really blown away as soon as I started the first episode with Ririchiyo's cuteness and beauty and the simple thought that this series is going to be 52 episodes long makes me happy inside! I just cant get enough of her! [EDIT] it was a false information from Wikipedia/AniDB. It's only 12 episodes long it seems from the new info I got...but at the same time the japanese websites report it as "no info available on number of episodes". We'll see in the future I suppose...:P[/EDIT]
Between the other positive things I noticed in this series we have the plot who seems to be revolving around Ririchiyo's bad personality and past till this point, but it will probably feature a lot of Ayakashi related battles/information in the future.
These first three episodes were all focused around introducing the main cast of the story (all of them are really charming and interesting) and completing the contract between Ririchiyo (a powerful half-Oni) and Soushi (an half-fox).
I really liked how they directed these three episodes alternating between drama and comedy without giving too much importance to either of them. This is paradise for me, especially as I don't like extremely drama focuses stories.
There is no main/recurring powerful enemy in the storyline till this point, but I'm expecting some Ayakashi to be introduced soon enough in the following episodes in order to give our protagonist's bodyguard some kind of problems. (It would be too much simple if he was always undefeated)
This is the Ririchiyo Shirakiin we all like! Her bossy attitude on the exterior combined with the depression soon after is one of the main comical features of this anime series and something I really like a lot...
It was also very nice to see that Ririchiyo learned well the lesson from her predecessor Erio of Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko. She is always half naked, but I'm not going to complain at all! Really, I'm honest here!
I'm also quite liking Karuta with her scary Ayakashi mode! I'm hoping she will get additional screentime in the future, and maybe a dedicated episode as well in order to explore better her backstory. (They should not have any kind of problem of timing having well 52 episodes!)
Between the many seiyuu working on this project my favourite is Rina Hidaka (the same voice of Last Order from To Aru Majutsu no Index) that is doing an incredibly nice job in portraying Ririchiyo's dual personality.
Next episode will introduce two new Ayakashi that will be living inside the same resort and will probably be an "enemy" of some sort to face for our Ririchiyo in order to grow up to be more honest to herself.
By the way, the new Secret Service guy that will be introduced looks really creepy to be honest, just his face alone makes me doubt they are on our heroes side.
Concluding, I'm extremely happy of the progression of Inu X Boku SS and I'm going to watch this series in the future as well. (I plan to buy the manga too in the next shipment at the end of February)
I also plan to continue the coverage of this series, but I'm not sure it will be regular every week.
See you soon,
feal87