CLIX: "MM!"

Okay, I'm at a loss here. You remember like many posts back, I literally degraded Colorful in post XII (12)? Turns out there's another anime of the sort, though this doesn't resort to perverted vignettes. No, in a sense, the anime MM! is beyond perverted than that.

For what I can gather, Taro Sado is a masochist (yeah, didn't expect this coming so soon, did ya?) Tagging alongside his male buddy Tatsukichi Hayama, he attends high school as normal when something interesting happens. For the first time, he actually falls in love with a girl... well someone cross-dressed as a girl. However, to properly confess to "her", he must find a way to be cured of his masochism. To this end, he is told to go, by his friend, to the Second Volunteering Club for help. He meets the self-proclaimed God, Mio Isurugi and the distant Arashiko Yuno. From there the hilarity (or catastrophe, pending on how you see things) ensues...

Let me just say that as an anime blogger, if I had seen this title back when I started, this would have made me quit anime. That said, compared to other perverted anime and hentai, I have to say that an animation dealing with a masochist is a first for me. MM! is a short one, lasting only 12 episodes, and it was made in studio AT-X, licensed by Sentai Filmworks for US, but it is subbed only. This title was made just last year, finished before 2011, yet the manga, which has been active since 2008, is still ongoing. As far as anime type, it seems to be your typical romantic comedy and harem, plus ecchi, so fanservice is probably here-and-there in the anime. Though saying this now would mean nothing, but this one isn't meant for young viewers to see, unless you like comical situations involving Taro's fetish, among other things. To add, this title references other anime as well, some of which are dead giveaways.

I almost wanted to drag this down grade-wise as far as I did Colorful, but the air about it feels different from the other that I can't bring myself to do it. Even so, it's a title that didn't entertain me very much. I'm guessing a 5.9 of 10 should settle for MM!