Tenshi na Konamaiki - Anime - AniDB (2024)

I stumbled over this series by randomly browsing the AniDB. It's a great series, well worth watching for anyone. It's one of my personal top ten favourites now. :)

Megumi is a attractive young woman who just started high school together with her best friend Miki. She is so beautiful and kind that boys are all over her and everone calls her an angel. But what is she really? Actually, she starts her first day of high school with crotch-kicking, beating up the strongest guy of her class because he pisses her off. She talks like a guy and doesn't act like a girl at all.

Six years before, Megumi-kun, a young boy, was playing outside with his friend Miki, a young girl. A man in a weird cloak came running by, being chased by three other brats. Megumi jumped in and fought off the brats, and the man gave him a magic book for a reward. When he opened the book, a clown came out, offering him a wish. Without hesistating, Megumi wishes to become the man of men. However, that clown was evil and turned Megumi into a girl instead. No one, except for Miki who witnessed the magic, remembers that Megumi was originally a boy, not even her parents. In her anger, Megumi tossed the book into a nearby river, and thereby lost her only means to get turned back into a boy.

Thus, Megumi has been forced to live as a girl for the past six years. And that's where the series starts... high school. How will she handle the boys that are interested in her?

The animation seems solid to me. There are two different styles, a 'realistic' mode where art is pretty and sharp and animation is fluid, and a 'comic' mode where people get circles for hands, triangles for mouths and edgy animation, and a few others which I can't put. The style often switches really fast according to the situation, so it's fun to watch once you're used to it. They didn't put quite as much effort in some filler scenes though, they look crappy compared to the rest of the series.

The music isn't something I'd put into my playlist, although there are some really nice tunes which support the flow of the story.

Much more outstanding are the voice actors. Especially the main character must've been extremely tough to act, Megumi has so many different moods. Sometimes she talks normally like a girl, sometimes like a boy, then like a girl who's really scared of something and then again like a guy who's about to beat up someone. I never get tired listening to her.

All other characters as well, there isn't a single voice that I don't like and the main characters are well distinguishable.

It's really hard to come up with a summary for this. It shows the life of a boy who was forced to live as a girl for the past 6 years, and her friend Miki, the only one who knows that fact.

On her first day in high school, her beauty leaves such an impression that a group of boys from her class all try to get a date with her. She, however, thinks of herself as a guy and thus doesn't ever want to be kissed by another. She's lost between gender... is she a boy or a girl, should she stop trying to find the book that could turn her back, and start going out with boys?

It's a romance comedy but not cheesy at all. It hit exactly my wavelength...

The main character with her boy/girl problems is clearly the most interesting. Her best friend Miki, however, is utterly worthless. While Megumi beats people up, Miki is shy, weak and fragile. I wish she was a little bit more wicked. Luckily enough, there are other interesting characters, mainly the boys who try to date Megumi. One of them is the deliquent she beat up on her first day of school, and he slowly changes into a really friendly guy. He actually goes through the whole town to everyone he had fights with and says "Sorry I beat you up". It's fun to watch this development. Over time, you get background stories for each character as well, making them seem more alive.

However, I must give a lot of minus points for characters. Many series come with such a custom type of character that I'm tired of seeing them. The most classical example is 'pervert old man'. Another example is 'super rich person', and of that kind, this series just has too many. Worst of all, the main character is one of them. Megumi lives in a huge mansion, one day her mother comes in her private helicopter and lands on the helipad in the back garden and you think: The hell?

It's both annoying and unnecessary to make these characters super-rich. It doesn't add anything to the story. There is a spoiled brat girl who has 20 or so subordinates who do everything she says. Oh dear god, this series doesn't need such characters, why have so many of them? They could've told the same story much better with average people.

Finally a series that has some points I can comment on in the 'value' section. Usually I never know what to write here, so here goes.

Besides being an extremely enjoyable watch, which alone is enough to give this a good value rating as well, this series earns a lot of points for giving each episode it's own intro and outro scene. The intro scene will prepare you for what will come in this episode, and the outro scene (which comes after the credits but before the next episode preview, so be sure that you don't miss it) usually rounds things up.

It's a great idea to do things this way, because it gives you more to think about every episode.

I really enjoy watching this show and can't wait for the next episodes to come out. I'll definitely rewatch it too, just for the fun of it. In my opinion, this series should be much more popular. There wasn't a single episode I completely disliked.

Update:
Now that the series is completely subbed, I must say that it drifts too far into the comedy direction to the end. Although I still enjoyed watching it, it felt more like I was watching one filler episode after the other. The series was definitely stronger in the beginning. The ending is abrupt, which kind of fits the comedy style of the last couple of episodes, but that does not make it a good ending.