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Type:         Anime
Year:         1996
Distributor:  US Manga Corps
Feature:      3/5
DVD:          1/5

Teaser

Episode 1. Yoshida Chizuru is a typical popular high school girl -- nineteen, beautiful, looked up to, and very stuck up. Two things stand out. One, she is the main model in some commercial. Two, she has really large breasts. Professor Sushiaki wants her but his lingering ethics really hamper his attempts at wooing Yoshida. He does have one advantage -- he knows that Yoshida was in the commercial, which is against school rules. What will Yoshida do to keep her secret?

Episode 2. Azumi Yamida is the new girl who has moved in next door to Yoshida's rock star boyfriend. Yoshida ignores Azumi as beneath her station, but then she can't stop thinking about the new girl. The stuck up Yoshida comes to the realization that she might be in love with Azumi. But what will Azumi do if she finds out that her new best friend has amorous feelings for her?

Comments

I'm pretty sure these are the only two episodes ever made, which is a problem with anime -- there seems to be a lot of anime that is incomplete. Based on the two episodes I think the plot was going to be this weird love quadrangle with two grown men pursuing Yoshida while she pursues this other girl. It's a comedy with some sexual situations.
The art is fairly good. Yoshida is appropriately beautiful and Azumi is very young. It's interesting since it's made very clear that Yoshida is nineteen even though she's still in some sort of non-college school. Mostly it's because the age of consent in Japan is a lot younger than in the US. I just thought it's funny since there is nudity and sex and it would have been hard to import future episodes if Azumi got involved in the act.

DVD

In addition to the two episodes there is a five-minute promotional video featuring the two Japanese voice actresses that portray Yoshida and Azumi. American voice actors are used for the import, which I prefer to reading subtitles. The Japanese language track is also there for people who want to listen to the real thing.

Recommendations

Overall I liked the story. I like romance and unrequited love can be funny or sad, this time it's funny. There only being two episodes means that there wasn't enough material to establish things or end any plot lines and I'll never find out what happens to the characters. But I did like it and can recommend it, keeping in mind it does have adult elements.
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