[Kaoru Chujo]

I am expecting -- and hoping -- that Irino Miyu's character (the main male) will have some development toward being a stronger and more reliable person. Since that was the general movement of this first episode, I am fairly confident that will happen -- although too slowly for me, since I also find his abject wimpishmness fairly unbearable.

I used to hate it when Arai Satomi used this voice. But somehow I have gotten used to it, probably through so many weeks of Railgun (not that I actually finished that show, lol). Now I get the humor. I thought the narrator was one of the better aspects of this episode, especially since the characters were aware of her. Although maybe the timing wasn't perfect. They seemed to me to speak over little bits of each others' lines, or at least to rush in a bit too quickly.

I also thought the fanservice was good, from the swinging skirt and long legs to the bath scenes. Tasteful and effective.

All in all, this looks to me like another fairly high quality J.C. Staff comedy, with its own combination and reworking of memes. Originality is overrated, as long as a show can give us its own style and combination of memes, and do something with them.

It's been mentioned before, but I'll repeat that director Iwasaki Yoshiaki did Zero no Tsukaima, Hayate2, and Sky Girls; and writer Itou Michiko did scripts for Letter Bee and Railgun. And animation director/character designer Iizuka Haruko was character designer on Sisters of Wellber and Umi Monogatari, and animation director for episodes of Railgun. All makes perfect sense, doesn't it?