May contain mild spoilers.
As simple and fanservicy as it is, Amazing Nurse Nanako aka Nanako's Anatomy Report (actual Japanese title) is a guilty pleasure of mine. I remember it being advertised in anime mags back in the day, coming out on DVD, so I decided to get it. I was also a fan of Hiroshi Negishi and Toshinari YAMASHITA's work.
The series is a 6 part OAV, whose main character is a ditzy klutz who acts as servant and assistant to Dr. Ogami, a grumpy yet talented scientist, inventor of robotic devices and such. In Nanako's spare time Ogami makes her work out non stop, trying to keep her in shape for some sort of secret experiment. He has other assistants to help out in his quest. Meanwhile Nanako gets herself in various situations where she's in peril and keeps losing her clothes.
So the story is rather flimsy and the secret experiment is later revealed and shows Nanako's background and history: she is the not the first Amazing Nurse Nanako, but I won't say anymore about that. But there really isn't a major goal besides Nanako, so we're left a bit dissatisfied at the end. I would say if they made the series longer and fleshed it out with a more in depth story, we might give some more patooties about this series.
The characterizations is also somewhat flimsy. Yes we learn more about Nanako herself in the past, but we only learn a bit about Ogami from a flashback. The other characters, we don't really know how they are connected with Ogami as well, and why the government is so interested in his work. But at least we see a hint of Ogami and Nanako's relationship very briefly. I do have a soft spot for Nanako, as I feel sorry for her a lot. But yes many people would say she's rather annoying and a crybaby, and they're right. But she has some sort of weird charm about her and of course she is cute.
Which brings us to the animation design. If you know Yamashita's work such as burn up w or divergence eve, The style is angular and crisp lines of characters. For the females, they're rather very slender in the middle and big above and below, especially above. The breast design of this series and DE has been described as "torpedoes," as they have a more of I guess elongated shape and comes to a "point" of course! And in real life I would say Nanako would be bruised and battered from being hit by her own body. So I guess what they lacked in story and characterization they make up for in fan service. Nanako loses her shorts, strips down to her underwear, is seen naked once briefly, and wears some weird sacrificial outfit complete with tasselled pasties in this series. Is there a point? Not really, but I mean come on, that's why it's call fan service. I should add that I like Nanako's maid ouftit so much I wanted to cosplay her, but never got around to it.
The theme song shown in the end credits is not the greatest or a classic, but is a soft jaunty tune to dance to while we watch Nanako work out, bounce around and lift weights in her bikini.
In the end this could have been better, so those of you not into the fan service and such, this is not your cup of tea. But it's good for folks who like jiggles and jokes in their anime, but no story to write home about. But as I write this and talk about Nanako, I'm tempted to watch it again....!