The story is about a boy who finds out that his grandfathers will requests him to go to an all girls school. He can't go as a boy, so his childhood friend helps him learn how to be a girl and dress like a girl. Throughout the anime, he makes new friends and deals with the varrious issues of being a boy undercover in an all girls school. The reason his grandfather wanted him to go to this school was to be closer to his mothers memory. His mother had attended the school and been the Elder ( a student who elected and performs duties, mainly being a good role model for young ladies). According to the plot on this site, it's implied that this is supposed to be the focus of the show, but it's not. It's more like a chapter or a small side story than the main focus. The main focus tends to be more on him being the Elder and keeping his gender a secret from all but a select few.
I give the story a six because it's not very strong, however it was still good enough to keep watching and to be entertaining. There really isn't an end goal that the characters are trying to reach throughtout the entire series. There isn't one main focus that is always present. In some ways, it's almost episodic. It also doesn't invoke stong emotions in my opinion. It's not a comedy, it's not a drama or tradgedy, it's not a horror or thriller, it's not very strong in any area. It has some comedy thrown in throughout, but the focus isn't to make you laugh the entire series. There are some touching moments but it's just light, same with any drama. It doesn't go really deep. What I'm trying to say is that it is somewhat bland. It's not very exciting much of the time. On the other hand, it has some interesting concepts, some moments that will make you laugh, and even a few deep moments. The story plays with the idea of strong friendships, confidence, differences between genders, rivalry, and so on.
As far as the boy pretending to be a girl goes, it was alright, though it could have been played with a lot more. Sometimes I forgot he was a boy. While the disguise was supposed to fool people, there were a lot of things that just didn't quite add up. Now I'm a girl and I don't necessarily know as much about male anatomy and such as say a guy does. However, I have read comments about how the clothing shouldn't have worked so well, and I'm inclined to agree after seeing some of the bathing suits he tried on. I also have to wonder what those breasts were put on with because those things never moved or came off or anything. My point is, a lot of things were just a little too convinient.
The animation was fine. As I mentioned previously, there is the fact that he just looked a and sounded and acted just a little TOO feminine to the point where I had to wonder if he really wasn't a girl. I liked how they did destroy some boundries between gender in the show like how even the teacher was okay with the idea of this guy being the elegant lady role model when he wasn't even a lady. I liked how those who knew his true gender still supported him the way they did. However, the way he was created through voice and drawing wasn't very realistic. It was even slightly annoying.
I have no complaints about the sound. The music matched the moments and I liked the sound when the ghost was aroung. Speaking of the ghost, I could go on about the inconsistencys with the ghost and how certain things were too convinient, but I won't. It's pretty much standard that a ghost in a show won't make sense or be consistent, and their abilities will change depending what is most convinient for the story. Therefore, I see no reason to go on a rant about it now.
As far as characters go, they weren't bad. On the other hand, they weren't very developed. Unfortunately, shorter animes tend to have less developed characters among other issues. I don't bother with expecting much from an anime under 20 episodes. Overall though, the characters weren't bad. The childhood friend and the student president had their little rival not to mention they both liked the boy. I have a feeling that if the anime had continued, they would have explored that issue even more. The characters didn't have much in the way of back ground story. On the other hand, the major characters all had distinguishing personalities.
This wouldn't make my top ten, it probably wouldn't even make my top thirty, but I do still reccomend it. It's light and simple with just enough spice to make it interesting.
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