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| 3. Qian Wan
The opening song is great. From just the OP, one can tell that
this series is primarily aimed for the younger anime fans. The idea of Pita
Ten is interesting. Being a cutesy anime it is, you have every ingredient
of one, such as highly exaggerated voices and expressions, a horde of women acting
for little boys, and senseless wackiness. You have Misha, an intern angel and
Shia,the intern demon (both very cute) and when you put them under one roof neighbored
by a peaceful and practical little boy, one can imagine the fun and absurdity
that will follow. Unfortunately, it will soon become old, as every episode the
story follows almost the same formula. The story does try to get serious in the
end but it failed to produce a sense of closure expected from a big 26 episoder
like this one. The artwork is OK, it will pass for fans who are into very rosy
and shoujo type illustrations. The series is funny at times, but it all comes
down to the audience (for a hard-to-please comedy lover like me it failed), and
each character does have his/her moments (evil black cute kitty fires projectiles
at Misha's angel protégé -_-#). If you can handle something extremely
over-the-board cuteness and nonsense, go for it. |
| 2. h8er13
This is one of the more cutesy anime that I've seen, so I guess
many people will avoid this like the plague. It's the stereotypical cute elementary
school kids that has one smart and popular kid, one average kid, one cute girl,
one really rich kid, and etc. Each character loves and hates each other, except
for Kotaro, the main character, who is somewhat indifferent to everyone. My favorite
characters were Shia and Nya chan, a demon apprentice and demon, respectively.
They have by far the cutest chemistry and actions in the whole series, but not
"cute" as in "annoying cute." This brings me to why I didn't
like this series too much...Misha, the angel in this series is very very cute,
but she is the annoying type of cute. Also, many of the episodes were just fillers
and did not make me appreciate this series anymore. I suppose if Digi Charat
was your type of anime, this would be another wonderful piece to your anime collection. |
| 1. Tempy
From the pen of Koge Donbo (character designer for DiGi
Charat, Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar) comes the story of an apprentice angel
named Misha arriving on earth to become a full fledged angel. She sets herself
to take care of Kotaro who has lost his mother at an early age. Misha is not very
bright and very clingy, but she has a good heart, and she's very cute (her trademarks
being her -su suffixes, her "tee hee hee" laugh, and her bunny hairpieces
who mirror her moods). Coincidentally an apprentice demon named Shia also appears
on earth, and somehow ends up living with Misha. Shia is the most soft-spoken
and kind demon you'll ever encounter, much to the agony of her guide, the black
cat Nyaa. Rounding off the main cast of characters are Kotaro's best friends,
the smart and popular Ten-chan, and cute-but-quick-to-anger Koboshi. Lacking
a real main story, most of the show is about Misha causing trouble, the group
having fun, and lots of childish jealousy and fighting. You see, Misha likes Kotaro,
Ten-chan likes Shia, Koboshi likes Kotaro, Dai likes Misha, Kaoru likes Ten-chan,
Sasha likes Ten-chan, Dai hates Shia, Nyaa hates Sasha, Sasha hates Nyaa, etc.
The show is very cute, charming and funny, but sometimes it really does get repetitive
with tiresome obsessions and jealousies. The show hits a low when Dai-chan and
his sister Kaoru appear. They're loud, annoying, and arrogant. Meant to be funny,
they get on the nerves and the episodes begin to become really painful and aggravating
to watch. Eventually the Mitarai siblings are toned down and the show moves on.
Luckily the ending is wonderful when it finally throws in some more serious elements,
elevating it from the cute but shallow show it was. There are some similarities
between Pita-Ten and Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar, but though Pita-Ten
manages to out-cute Sugar, Sugar wins by having more conflicts and
drama to aid in actual character development, and features better art and especially
music. Still, Pita-Ten manages to be very fun to watch, but have the remote
at hand to skip those Mitarai moments. |
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