Opening songs
OP 1 - Fantastic Future (Yukari Tamura)
Ending songs
ED 1 - Baby Sweet Berry Love (Yui Ogura)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Episodes: 12
This seemed like all the rage when it first came out, and all you well informed otakus will already know the story of "The "Hentai" Prince and Stony Cat.", just because of that title alone. Many will be mistaken, so I'll just clear this up, this is your everyday regular high school romance harem anime, the "Hentai" is just a tag added to the title. The word itself is even quoted, so there's really not much to be too excited or pissed off over. In all honesty, it doesn't seem like anything to special at first glance, but sticking to it will net you some pretty likable characters, though its nothing too amazing, emotional or touching at the end of it all. That doesn't mean its bad, the plot is decent, and gets pretty good towards the end, but it ends in one of those ways where you'll find yourself saying , "Not this shit again".
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| Well, the girls here are more to the "Moe" side. |
As with most anime that have harem themes and generally moe-ish character designs, "Henneko" opening and ending theme sound pretty generic, so those of you who've watched many similar types of anime will know what to expect. "Fantastic Future" by Yukari Tamura is a pretty energetic and somewhat catchy song, which needless to say, goes with the anime's theme, what it has to offer, and what's going on for the opening animation. Unfortunately, I don't really dig it, same goes for the ending theme, "Baby Sweet Berry Love" by Yui Ogura. It's one of the cutesiest songs I have ever heard, which I usually cannot enjoy. You all should know this already.
Rating: 7.5/10
So you all know how this goes already. "Henneko" is another one of those harems, with a guy getting into an unfortunate situations with some girls, and then he is somehow stuck to them like glue. While somewhat similar to each other, all of these harems have different plots and stories (though some of them have uninteresting plots), and surprisingly enough, "Henneko" has a pretty good plot, albeit it takes awhile to ramp up. It starts off fairly slow and uninteresting, but give it about the halfway point, and you'll be interested to see how things will go. And while there aren't too many characters, most of them are easily likable, and its hard to not like such an energetic and honest main character (not like most other ones where they just beat around the bush).
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| Ah, classic problems for a harem protagonist. |
Yokodera is another one of your regular high school boys with no particular super powers, but he has one trait that sets him apart from everyone else. He is a renown pervert in his school, and everyone knows it. He joins the track and field team just to peak at girls all today, and he won't miss any chance to ogle at any decent looking girl he passes by. One day, his good friend talks about changing himself, and mentioning a cat god that can grant the wishes of any individual, with a twist. The cat god will take what you do not need, and give it to someone else. Yokodera meets a girl called Tsukiko during his visit to the cat god, and they both spoke to each other for awhile, realizing that they came for the same thing. Yokodera wants to lose his facade so he can be more upfront, while Tsukiko wants to get rid of unwanted emotions. Things however go out of hand when Yokodera starts to loose all shame to become the school's biggest pervert and Tsukiko becomes expressionless.
That's all for this review. I'm sure for those looking for a harem with a good story, "Henneko" fits the bill, though I do feel that these regular slapstick high school romance/harem animes without specials twists can get pretty generic. You'll be able to see the plot twists coming from a mile away. Anyway, "Henneko" wasn't all the hype that it lived up to for me, but it was good.
Peace.
