Koe de Oshigoto! - extreme embarassment

Have you ever played an eroge? No? You don't know what eroge is? Eroge is an abbreviation of Erotic Game, and you probably know by now, that the goal in the game is to hook up with girls...
Koe de Oshigoto! The Animation is about voice acting these games. Yeah, original theme for an anime, isn't it?

Koe de Oshigoto! The Animation

At first I thought it will be some kind of "hard-ecchi" with typical fan-service, story which presents nothing new and the whole anime will be just a copy of "Ecchi template" that 90% of ecchi anime uses. But I was wrong. Without a doubt, it is original, new, fresh, something that you haven't seen anywhere... Until now!


The story is about 16 years old Aoyagi Kanna. She's just ordinary high school girl, that is, until her older sister Yayoi offers her a job at her company, which makes eroge. Yayoi wants Kanna to become eroge seiyuu (seiyuu = voice actress). Kanna immediately refuses, but when she learns from her mother about Yayoi saving money for her studies, she decides to try her best as an eroge seiyuu and help Yayoi out. As she is just a young girl without experience with eroge, not to mention experience with boys, it will be difficult beginnings. Just imagine how embarassed can "pure" girl at this age get, when she has to say perverted stuff in front of people she knows...

I was suprised how much I enjoyed watching it. It's not like I enjoyed it because it is ecchi and there are lots of perverted phrases. I would say the main reason was that the whole idea is original. It's like unrailed train among trains on ecchi railway...

This OVA series has 2 episodes so far, and it is not complete yet. More episodes will be released, though I don't know when (yet).



STORY:                   8/10
CHARACTERS:        9/10
ANIMATION:            9/10
OVERALL:               9/10

Usagi Drop - pure cuteness

Forget about fights, super-powers, panty-shots, big breasts and robots. Usagi Drop is real-life drama about rising a child, and addapting to a new life-style. Even though it doesn't seem to be a typical  theme for anime series, you'll find it interesting and funny. As I watched first episodes, I couldn't resist it's cuteness and  beautiful animation.

Kaga Rin

The story begins, when Daikichi's (man in his 30's) grandfather dies at the age of  79 years. At this time, no one in his family had the slightest idea about old man's secret. He had a daughter, 6 years old Rin. The family is schocked and embarassed about him having a child at such age, and no one knows what to do with this situation. Daikichi is disgusted by the thought of giving Rin away to adoption, or worse - to an orphanage. So he decides to take care of her himself. As he is single, and has no idea how to rise a kid, the difficult journey lies before him. Buying clothes, looking for a kindergarden and then school, not to mention difficult conversations between two generations.  Daikichi  is nor father or brother, and tries his best to get along with Rin. He even talk to his superiors to degrade him from a manager to a lower post, with fixed working hours, so he have time to take care of his new daughter. As time passes, they get along pretty well, and Daikichi decides to contact her mother...

Daikichi and Rin

The animation itself is really beutifull, and character desing is cute, and will be like a magnet to your eyes.

Even thought it's drama, there's plenty of funny scenes, which will make you smile. The theme of Usagi Drop is not quite the "my teritory", because it's 100% reality based story, but after just two episodes, I realized that it's pretty good. The series has 11 episodes, and finished this week. I would recommend it to older watchers, who can understand the diffiulty of this situation.

Now let's get to the rankings:

STORY:                    8/10
CHARACTERS:         9/10
ANIMATION:           10/10
OVERALL:               9/10