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Old 2011-10-07, 13:44   Link #32
Undertaker
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In that caes, you might want to drop MM! as the main character in that anime is worthless about 80% of the time. [in a very humorous way though] However, the dynamic of the couple is similar to Zero no Tsukaima in that the girl is a S type tsundere with the guy receiving the abuse. Though in MM! case, the guy actually loves the treatment he's got due to him being an hardcore M.

Baka to Test to Shokanju also have a "worthless" main character. The main character is portrait as a good-hearted idiot, but he tend to pull off in critical situation. I still highly recommend this series because the execution of this series is perfect. IMO, it's one of the very best romance comedy with "worthless" main character. and you should still enjoy it a lot.

In addition to the two series you mentioned, I'll still recommend Ladies v.s. Butler as it is probably closest to Mayoi Chiki in dynamics. Astarotte no Omocha can still be in the conversation as well.

The other title mentioned, Hidan no Aria, Dragon Crisis, ToAru series (Index and Railgun), and Infinite Strato. They are group together because they all have decent amount of action in it, but if you're ok with the amount of action in Shakugan no Shana, then those series won't be an issue and all of them features more character interactions than SnS did.

As for Amagami SS. It's a pure romance series. It is based on visual novel. Usually these type of anime either adapts as a harem anime or they adapt one single route, usually the perceived main female route, and add other character's non/light-romance stories into it to fill the series. Amaigami takes neither approach, instead, it condense stories of each female lead into a 4 episodes arc, with each arc taking place during the same time frame, all have good endings. So basically, each story occurs in a parallel reality that has no connection to each other other than premises of the setting is the same.

It's a very good series, but comedy element varies by girl and some arc you wish it has a few more episodes to them, especially the arc that you like, but it does not diminish that this series does the genre justice the way Kimikiss and Tokimeki Memorial Only Love (the TV series) did. I personally likes Haruka's arc[ep. 01-04] the best follows by Kaoru[ep. 05-08] and Ai[ep. 13-16]
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