Taketo Akutagawa is a high schooler who's also a genius erotic writer, and whose work is serialized in the newspaper. He goes to Inspiration Academy, a school where only people with a unique talent are allowed - subtley referred to as Geniuses by the school. A genius clarinet player, a genus mathmatician, a genius hacker and a genius idol, there are all sorts here - and just the sort of people that Taketo can use to fuel his fantasies. And fiction. But could love be on the horizon, too..? The second of this season's simulcasts to feature regular visits from the Bright Glare of "Buy the Blu-ray, Sucker", I can't help but think that R-15 should really be called R-18 - and while they're at it, just go the whole hog and make it a hentai series. They've certainly got the material to work with - in the opening scenes of the first episode, we're straight into talk of newly-aroused snakes plunging into young bush, wiht accompanying bright glare. Things soon calm down, though, and the series settles into something not a million miles away from The World God Only Knows, as Taketo's rare writing talent gets put to use helping the girls in his school overcome their problems. And if they feel the need to strip naked for him by way of thanks, so much the better (for him - all we get to see in this TV-edit version is the aforementioned glare). It's silly, it's gratuitous on the T&A front, but it's all done in thoroughly light-hearted and genuinely funny way, assuming your mind's in the gutter. Taketo fails to secure an interview for the dangerously-sexy editor of the school paper? Expect sudden male bondage. Nichijou's Professor seems to have suddenly grown up and joined the campus, from where she's launching all sorts of chaos on unspsecting students. And unfortunately for Taketo, the person he's most able to turn on is a male classmate. Score. THE GOOD: Doesn't take itself remotely seriously, has some good running gags attached to particular characters, and is a whole lot more fun than I was expecting it to be. THE BAD: Riding right on the edge of bad taste in places (although some would file that under 'good', I admit), and too many visits from the TV Edit Glare of Doom. Shallow as hell, but I don't care, and with the characters all being of reasonable age the fanservice doesn't creep me out either. Will be keeping this one, at least for now.
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