“Juice-can-collector accidentally drinks girl, becomes caretaker of steel Akikan in bizarre can-material battle experiment.”
Akikan!
アキカン!
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Synopsis
Juice-can-collector accidentally drinks girl, becomes caretaker of steel Akikan in bizarre can-material battle experiment.
Hobbies are often a great way of meeting new people, but how could Kakeru Daichi, who collects rare juice cans, have ever suspected that he'd meet a fascinating new girl when he attempted to DRINK her? Naming her Melon, because she's got great melon... soda, Kakeru quickly learns that she's an Akikan—a beautiful girl who's also a special can created to fight other Akikans in a strange experiment to determine what kind of container is better: steel or aluminum! Will becoming involved in this ridiculously twisted research project gone amuck complicate Kakeru's life incredibly? Of course it will, but because Melon's steel body needs carbon dioxide to breathe, he's now stuck with her since she's too CO2 dependent! And when his wealthy, attractive, best childhood friend Najimi gets HER own aluminum Akikan, the trouble really begins! (Source: Sentai Filmworks)
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Community consensus
Derived from 38 sampled reviews
What 38 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.46 · split reception
5.1 pts
Recommenders 8.1 · others 3.0
↑ 3.61
Running avg · Feb 2009 → Jul 2024
- 8 “In this fantasy comedy, Daichi Kakeru is the high school student hero. He's sixteen, a virgin, collects limited edition juice and soda cans as a hobby and has a dream of being able to find the...”
- 10 “Come here for the fantasies, not for a revolutionizing experience. Akikan is an anime where each soda can is a guardian to the one who drinks it. This anime is very generic but it does serve its...”
- 10 “This anime delivers some of the funniest, most random humor I've seen, driven by ridiculously over-the-top character behavior and delightfully absurd "3 + Blue = Chair" logic that left me muttering...”
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- Format 12 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 36m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2009 – Mar 2009 Winter 2009
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-3960 catalog
Produced by
- Half H.P Studio Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor