Kanokon

Oh god, When I first heard of this show, I thought that it would be different. Why did I even think it was going to be different? The characters are perverted, and act strangely odd.

The story goes way to fast, bringing up more questions then answers. All the story is becomes a love triangle with a short little kid in the middle of it. This is pretty much Hentai without the sex. It’s messed up and would be much better if they just used the sex in order to have a more interesting story line. AND THERE IS NO ENDING! It gives us a ‘read the manga’ ending that always pisses me off. If I wanted to read the manga, I would of done so already or read it instead of watching the anime.

Chizuru is a really interesting girl who is really hangs onto Kouta all the time. She is extremely pushy and keeps wanting him to go out with her. All this teasing really pushes him from her all the time. It also seems that all the time, she ends up trying to sleep with him. When she shows that she’s a fox, he actually for some reason doesn’t care much. Then we have the problem with him falling in love with her slightly. There is also the fact that he and her end up becoming one whenever they kiss and she wants to be with him. Nozomu doesn’t seem to have much personality in the beginning but and always seems to act like a love rival.

Characters rarely have any personality out of just a standard archy types with not much of a story behind how they act. The characters are all 2 Dimensional.

Now, the show actually got better as it went on, and around the 4th episode, it actually got a lot better artwork and the voices weren’t as stale. It feels like they got into the show more. Not only that but I believe it was the 5th episode where my favorite character was introduced. To bad he only stayed for one episode though. I really liked Saku Ezomori.

The music in the beginning is pretty standard as well as the animation. It pretty much has a loneliness walking style to it and showing the characters. And then somehow, the main character turning into a ‘fox boy’ for some strange reason. The animation is really butt ugly in many aspects for the background characters, making them lose much detail. The main characters may be detailed in a sense but the personality is really bland.

The voices… dear god the voices… They messed them all up. Chizuru is really high voiced and can probably hurt my ears. Kouta sounds like a little child, not like he would be in the same grade as all the other characters. The script is a bit choppy and again really doesn’t explain much. Sometimes the script is delivered without much feeling. Also some of the lip sinks are bad, they don’t work right.

There's not much of a story here. Guy meets girl (who is really a fox spirit), fox spirit tries to get in guy's pants, guy says "no" but doesn't seem to mean it. Repeat for twelve episodes. And for some reason they share some sort of bond which for some reason can detroy enemies when they show up. The thing that's supposed to hold the audience's attention is obviously not the storyline, it's the... can you even call it fanservice anymore once it crosses that line?

The end of the show felt totally unresolved. I won't actually say what happened at the end and spoil it for you, but it was unsatisfying to me. 2 stars out of 5 because it could have been worse.

This anime has terrible pacing. After episode one, there was literally no where to go. After a few episodes things became very repetitive. Sex scenes(A lot of them)->interruption->problem occurs->Solution-> Repeat steps 1-4. And thus you have Kanokon.

The protagonist, Kota is pursued relentlessly from the start by Chizuru who immediately says she loves Kota who she just met that day. It was also revealed she is a 400 year old fox spirit of sorts. Any normal person would have hightailed it out of there like a bat out of Hell. The irony is, the main character, Kota, is the meekest person that anyone could ever encounter. Now maybe it's because she's laying down the guilt trips pretty hard and crying her eyes out; Kota does actually try to comfort her in which he succeeds with a few words and little effort. After which, Chizuru immediately jumps all over Kota and begins undressing him in attempt to have intercourse with him. Now, this all might sound like a good premise for a one-night stand but in actuality, it was the premise of a badly written romance.

The bond they apparently share is also cleared up in episode one. By fusing bodies and based on the size of the flame they can make, represents the bond they share. The flame they can make upon just meeting is about the size of a large DBZ spirit bomb or giant rasengan from Naruto. Maybe the writers are trying to convey the idea they loved each other at first sight, who knows.

Later on we see another "wolf" spirit, similar to Chizuru. She's also appears to be crazy about Kota. Not nearly as much as mindless Chizuru, but the new wolf spirit that goes by the name of Nozomu is much more collect and speaks in a monotone voice. Nozomu does little to thicken the plot but she is an additonal medium for humor and a small conflict for Chizuru. We constantly see that Kota has the same effect on Fox and Wolf spirits as Justin Bieber has on preadolescent and preteen girls.


There's a sequence in this show that tends to repeat itself alot. I mentioned it earlier, steps 1-4. After so many sex scenes, a complication arises; now repeating these steps doesn't seem too bad unless whatever complication that's around is always thwarted by Kota and Chizuru fusing to create a giant fireball. A running theme in the show, when in doubt, "Hadoken!"

What exactly bothers me about this show? For one, fact that the main characters are very static and never really change. Lesser characters like Tayura, Chizuru's brother and Akane, the girl Tayura has a bit of a crush on. These two lesser characters would have been a much better couple to center the spotlight on as their relationship makes significant changes while with Kota and Chizuru it's always the same old story: "Let's make love, Kota." "I don't really want to." "Okay then, maybe next episode" That paraphrased conversation about sums up their entire romance.

If you're looking for a good anime with an actual and solid plot, deep characters, and any messages or morals then this show is definitely not for you. If you're mostly looking for humor centered around sexual tension and anything related and don't care at all about a storyline then you might get something out of this show.

I am not exaggerating about the story and plot, you could literally watch episodes 1-11 in any order and watch episode 12 and probably follow it for the most part.

Second to Dragon Ball GT, this is the worst anime I have ever seen.

I thought that this was such a cute Anime, one of my favorites . sexy too xD YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I don't know what is going on with crunchy-roll, it seems like they have a double standard where they will put up the uncut version of Steel angel Kurumi, but when they put this up it's a very badly done hacked up version of the show. They don't even try to censor it, they just hack it up like it's some piece of meat. If you can put up Steel angel Kurumi uncut then you can put this one up as well.