Review of Kiss x Sis (TV)

Kiss x Sis is, in short, is a typical slice of life anime but with some perverted and romantic scenes, and the whole added incestuous taboo thing. The main character grew up with two step sisters, who have always been in love with him until current day, where Keita is in his final year of middle school. Since his step sisters are a grade above him, they do everything they can to help Keita study for his entrance exams, so they can go to the same high school next year. This along with the increased romantic tension is pretty much the gist of the plot.Story (6) - I'm giving the story a 6 because at the end of the day, it's not much more than what you would expect just from the description, however, I could totally see the story turning around and bringing the entire series to be a complete piece of shit, so at least they didn't totally fuck this one up. Most of the story is the two step-sisters, Ako and Riko, trying to please their brother Keita, as you would expect from this harem-type scenario. Then, once in a while we get to a scene where one of the sisters starts coming onto him. Keita will then get super uncomfortable, since he knows making out with one of his step sisters is wrong, blah blah blah, the sister will be aggressive, and then right before it actually gets interesting, the other sister will walk in, be jealous, and interrupt the scene. Every time. I understand that this is an ecchi, not a hentai, but every scene ending in the same way gets frustrating. However, I will admit the romantic development in this series is strong, as Keita will be more and more affectionate towards his sisters by the end of the series.

Art (5) - Nothing spectacular, or anything that really blew me away. The facial expressions are kind of lame, it was really just your typical rull of the mill animation for a show that probably didn't have a huge budget. There were a few parts I liked, like then Riko puts chocolate lipstick on herself, but once again, not much that was super stellar.

Sound (6) - I actually took note of the sound being pretty good quality as far as the voices went. However, there's not much to base it off of when this is a romantic school-life show, I mean, what sound effects are you supposed to have? Wind chimes?

Character (4) - I'm mainly giving this a 4 for the extremely weak supporting characters. They tried hard to throw in some side characters to give it story a different dynamic, but ultimately the supporting characters were annoying as hell and didn't contribute to much. It was just so average: the moe girl in the main characters' class that he has awkward encounters with, some random underclassmen that calls him senpai, the main character's friends who come and go once in a while that aren't really a part of the story, and so on. There were no characters besides the main three that didn't seem like filler. In addition, the step sisters Riko and Ako have hardly any personality or memorable characteristics. They're really just there to submit to / make out with Keita, the only character that got sufficient development.

Enjoyment (6) - Although the story and characters weren't anything special, let's be real, the scenes were pretty hot. However if this was not an ecchi, and was just some generic romance story, I wouldn't have watched it in the first place. I would be bored out of my mind. If you're looking for a good romance to watch, this probably isn't it. But as someone who doesn't like romance series, I wasn't entirely bored with most of it which is somewhat impressive in itself.

Overall (6) - I think a 6 is pretty generous, since the story, characters, and art were all kind of lame, however at the end of the day it's probably better and more interesting than your typical school-life/romance/SoL type thing. Probably due almost entirely to the ecchi aspect, but whatever.

So if you want a story based around a sexual fantasy, you probably came to the right place. As far as ecchi/harm/romance goes, this is pretty good in comparison. If you're looking for a series with some decent development and romance, I'd probably go elsewhere. But in general it was a pretty fun series, had a few funny moments, and might be worth watching just because it's so different than your typical show. The choice is yours