Review of Kiss x Sis (TV)

You can view this show in one of two ways: as the author intended, and reading way too much into it. As the author intended, Kiss x Sis is shit on all levels. The only meaningful conflict is, "Has X tried to have sex with the protagonist yet?" (I won't name the protagonist because I forgot his name and frankly I don't care to look) Even the MC's agency is taken away as in the beginning he tries to NOT FUCK HIS SISTERS (like a normal person) but every person, insect, and fiber of the universe tries to tell him otherwise till he gives in andplays Tapioca Hockey. The art is pretty good because this is as close to hentai as you can possibly get without showing on-screen penetration. Every other aspect of the show is equal in merit to invisible art.

By reading too deeply, a very different picture appears. Kiss x Sis is actually an allegory for the modern man in a postmodern age. The protagonist has a firmly held belief: "It is wrong to fuck your underage sisters, even if they are 'not related by blood.'" His belief is then assaulted from all sides by authority figures, his peers, his sisters themselves, and what amounts to the god of his world (the author). Facing this moral execution, and with no respite or support from people who share his belief, he slowly loses sight of his conscience and embraces the depraved. The belief could be religion, a personal creed, an idea about art, or anything else which holds one thing to be of higher value than another. The relativistic world grinds it to dust under its sheer weight. Our plight is not to forge our own meaning from the void, but rather to hold onto meaning so that we do not fall into the void in the first place.

Too bad I know the author wasn't that clever.