Review of Kiss x Sis (TV)
First things first, I initially didn't know whether to watch the OVAs first or this series. Now that I've seen both, I'd recommend watching the first 3 episodes of the OVA before starting this series. The OVAs don't affect the story much but the first 3 episodes do take some toll in the series. Episode 4 of the OVA does happen after episode 7 of this series but it doesn't affect any part of the series. Everything else in the OVAs is just random stories that happen after this series is finished. But I hope this helps those who are just starting the series. This maybe difficult to write about. More just putting my thoughts into words. I enjoyed this anime, I thought the comedy was hilarious and the characters are great. The relationship between the characters didn't even bother.
The anime revolves around Keita and his older twin sisters, Ako and Riko. At the start of the anime you find that Ako and Riko are in love with Keita and they both want him to do "naughty" things with them. And you also see that Keita wants both of them as well. BUT, you also find out that Keita and the twins aren't blood related and that they are step siblings. So the incest angle gets thrown out the window. I normally have a huge problem with incest angles but when they aren't blood related, I'm totally fine with it.
Now that given said, you also find out that they've been siblings since they were in Kindergarten, and there's no problem there, but they still grew up together as siblings and you've always seen them as sisters. Now again, they aren't blood related so if they want to be together, there's no problem there. But if it was me, I know I wouldn't be able to do that, I'd only ever see them as sisters and nothing more. Though, Keita initially only sees them as sisters and nothing more, he does warm up to the thought of being with one of them (or both). So there's just an argument of you never know what would happen. But all in all, I don't mind the incest because as far as I'm concerned, there isn't any.
This series is rather dirty though. There's a lot of debauchery throughout the series and it mainly comes from the twins. I don't want to give anything away but they do kiss him a lot and play with his body parts, A LOT. It is rather ecchi in regards to what the characters do but you don't see anything other than ass, everything else you see is covered. But it is very sexual and very dirty. I'm 50/50 with the sexual nature of this series, half the time it made me cringe and the other half made me laugh.
I thought the characters were magnificent, they were well developed and fresh and none were too similar, even the twins who wanted the same thing had their own personalities that were enjoyable to watch. There's of course a lot of stereotypical characters and themes but that shouldn't make you enjoy the series any less.
The story itself is fine, it mainly revolves around Keita as he studies and tries to get into the same high school and his sisters. Along the way, his sisters help him as much as they can, in good ways and bad ways *wink, wink*. There's hardly a story at all, each episode is just about what the twinsdo to try and woo their brother.
Likes:
-I liked the characters, I thought they were entertaining and caring
-Mikuni, that poor girl goes through so much and it's just hard to watch
-The art was great, the highlights in each characters skin was what I really enjoyed. The complexion of their skin was really good and their body for the most part seemed very realistic.
Dislikes:
-Their parents are totally cool with their adolescent children potentially doing it all the time. The dad constantly reminds Keita that he isn't related by blood to his sisters and encourages him to get it on with them. The entire family is completely against Keita in his attempts to keep things platonic and everyone wants Keita to be with his sisters. It's ridiculous
-SPOILER!!!
Now I don't watch lewd anime like this to watch the characters have sex and do all their provocative stuff but when the whole series builds up to characters doing it and don't deliver is really frustrates me and lets me down. They spent the whole series making it seem like they were going to do it at some point and then they don't and that really bothered me.