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- alias: Sakura Tsuushin
- seen: 1-4 of 12
- type: OAV
- grade: flawed
- Other elements of this title:
- This title may offend the sensitive.
- genre: erotica
- made: unknown
- Review created: Too long ago, revision desperately needed.
- mod: none
This anime lends support to the concept that once you do, ummm, lets call it `adult anime' it is very difficult to go back. The plot is certainly familiar enough, with a naieve male student focused on a seemingly unattainable woman, while his cousin loves him deeply but can't express it to him. On the other hand since his cousin pretends to be a call girl and strips in his hotel room as a `joke', and answers the door to the apartment they will be sharing in an apron (just an apron) you have to wonder how dense Touma really is. At the close of episode 4 he realises this, and also thinks it might be good practice for the real target. Yech (or is it ecch?). This has clean and crisp animation (although showing computer artifacts, so not a big budget production), some good voices and a passable script, but the unsympathetic characters combined with the unsubtle sexual focus and some titillation makes you wish you weren't sharing such a dingy, charmless story.
There is a positive review at EX online who see it as being popular with the romance crowd. However them people at THEM, normally a good barometer, are less impressed describing the characters as "childish and unsympathetic" which would seem a requirement for a romance anime.
Words by Andrew Shelton, Web by Ticti, Last Compile: Wed Aug 5 12:39:24 WST 2009