Hachibe Maeda is a guy with very,
very particular tastes in women, who has yet to find a girl with all his ideal attributes: big, crystal blue eyes; perky breasts "like bullet trains"; a husky, womanly voice; lean, streamlined legs; etc.
The good news is, he's been accepted at a prestigious high school in Tokyo, and he's sure he'll find his ideal girl in the big city.
The bad news is, when he gets there, he finds the boy's dormitory has been burned down, and he can't afford an apartment.
The good news is, he's offered a place to stay... in the girls' dorm... with four beautiful women, each of whom has one of the attributes he's looking for in a girl (fiery redhead Sakurako and her eyes, shy and bespectacled Yukari and her breasts, twenty-something teacher Tsubame and her legs, and sarcastic ninja-girl Kirino and her voice).
The bad news, he almost immediately gets off on the wrong foot with them, and now they all think he's crazy, a pervert, or both. Okay, so he
is, but that's beside the point...
Thus begins this endearingly warped and
ecchi take on harem comedies and every fetish you can possibly imagine, from the creator of
Midori No Hibi. As Maeda quests (with limited success) to win over the girls, he finds himself learning more about them (and himself) as he learns to appreciate them for more than their parts.
This series provides examples of:
- Anything That Moves (Maeda will go after any female, and the occasional male, that has at least one of his "ideal parts")
- Berserk Button (mess with the girls in Maeda's harem at your own risk)
- Captain Ersatz (not exactly, but two characters are clearly inspired from Evangelion: Sensei Tsubame has purple hair, drinks heavily, and is a car nut/crazy driver...Misato. Sakurako has orange hair with red ribbons, blue eyes, and a fiery temper...Asuka Langley Sohryu.)
- This troper finds that this manga is very similar to Love Hina in terms of characters. Sakurako = Naru, Yukari = Shinobu, Hachibei = Keitaro.
- Chivalrous Pervert (Maeda)
- Christmas Cake (Tsubame)
- Crash Into Hello
- Distracted By The Sexy (Maeda's biggest weakness)
- Fanservice (and lots of it! And almost always spoofed)
- Four Temperament Ensemble
- Handsome Lech (Maeda)
- Harem Nanny (Tsubame)
- Hot Shounen Mom (Tenmaku's mom shows where the eyes came from, and Hachibe's certainly qualifies)
- Little Miss Snarker (Kirino)
- Love Freak (Haiji)
- Meganekko (Yukari)
- Moe (alternately spoofed and embraced)
- Ninja (Kirino)
- Ojou (Ayame)
- Rich Bitch (Ayame)
- Sadist Teacher (Sajima, the guy who came to stop Hachibe and his parts fetish)
- Serious Business
- Shout Out (From Platoon and Land Of The Dead to Initial D and Sally The Witch... and those are just for starters.)
- Status Quo Is God (Averted somewhat; the girls eventually warm up to Maeda, but given that he never seems to learn his lesson, it's a very slow "two steps foward, one step back" process)
- Stupid Sexy Flanders (Haiji)
- Tsundere (Sakurako and, to a lesser extent, Kirino)
- What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome (The aforementioned Fanservice spoofing)
- The Unwanted Harem (subverted: Maeda definitely wants these girls, if only because each has one of the parts he's looking for)
- Could even be inverted. As noted above, it's Maeda who wants the girls, it's the girls who don't want him. Until recently. And only in some cases. And then there's Ayame, who's just nuts.
- Yaoi Fangirl (Yukari)
