Nyaaa~n Koi

Nyan Koi. The anime with the twins in the open­ing. The anime with a really great harem. The anime with really nice humour. The anime with the cats too. Who doesn’t watch it misses a lot, I insist.

So many meta-posts lately! After ask­ing you, dear read­ers, for cri­tique, and learn­ing how approx­im­ately I have to write about anime to be inter­est­ing, I under­stood that I just have no time to write like that too often. My post-thrice-a-week sched­ule is also in danger, because school doesn’t allow me to con­cen­trate on writ­ing. Hence I searched for sal­va­tion in art. While a pic­ture says a thou­sand words, I gladly don’t have to write them down.

So here I am again with some­thing dir­ectly anime-related. I must add that I’m very afraid to do it worse than when telling about Kimi ni Todoke, so I simply will not tar­get writ­ing sim­ilar to back then. Be what it will.

So, without fur­ther what-abouts I present the ker­nel of this post: Nyan Koi is a pretty god­damnedly good anime. Not because of the cats. If you’d ask me, I’d say the cats in this show are rather plain. They not only are half-assedly drawn and anim­ated (noth­ing spec­tac­u­lar at least), their role in the story is also rather just for the setting.

While, tak­ing for example Shamisen from the Mel­an­choly of Haruhi Suzu­miya, he was look­ing like a real cat, mov­ing like a real cat, and act­ing like a real cat, any cat from Nyan Koi is less-detailed and shows prac­tic­ally no cat-specific emo­tions or moves.

So if not because of the cats like people are yelling around, then why? In my opin­ion it’s the per­fect schlemazel prot­ag­on­ist and the com­edy based on him and his harem. Yes, I’d like to praise the harem too — it’s the best col­lec­tion of female char­ac­ters and the best state of their rela­tions to each other, comed­ic­ally seen.

I know there are people who don’t watch Nyan Koi because of whatever reas­ons they present, and I tell them to revise their decision. As example, I can call Meflo­raine who didn’t like the begin­ning of the show and dropped it, but after my recom­mend­a­tion picked it back up and liked it. Remem­ber, I’m caring about enter­tain­ing you. This show makes me laugh more than half its screen time.

Fur­ther reading

• Meflo­raine intro­duces some fine art and her first impres­sions on Nyan Koi
• The other one star of the sea­son Kimi ni Todoke
• Shamisen, just for com­par­sion (warn­ing: lulz post)