I'm in awe that this is the first negative review of the series, considering how immensely creepy it is. Part of me wonders if people were really paying attention when watching it. I say this because when I was discussing the anime's creepiness on a forum, my opporent didn't believe me until I showed them a screenshot of the lolicon's weird sexual suggestion to a 10-year-old girl. They then agreed instantly.

Baffles me why the series is called "Engaged to the Unidentified" because the two figureheads of the title are almost immediately benched in favour of the lolicon's antics. Yay, (hope my sarcasm was present)

I dare YOU to look at these screenshots and try and tell me they weren't immensely creepy.link

She erotically strokes a little girl's back and sensually whispers in her ear, heavily implying she wants to show this cute, innocent little girl a "good time."

Apparently, this type of weird, awful humour landed well with the audience, or the writers assumed because they solely relied upon it. Here's another example of Benio making an advance on Mashiro, the 10-year-old girl link - (Why does she even want to lick jam off of a little girl's face anyway? They even added sparkles to Mashiro's cheek, as if Benio's attraction to her wasn't clear enough. Ugh)

A series having "comedy" slapped onto it is no excuse to go completely ape shit and start flinging crap on the wall, hoping anything sticks. Humour has to be done tastefully. In my opinion, humour is at its best when it has a point to tell, like Girlfriend, Girlfriend's parody of the harem genre. People think it's just a ridiculous series because the main guy has two girlfriends, but that's precisely the point. It's mocking the typical harem anime where the main guy ends up with no one. That's why Naoya has that basic cookie-cutter harem protagonist design. It's ironic and it's supposed to be.

A "Engaged to the Unidentified" is just an empty shell of a hollow series. It feels like the writers were smoking some hard-grade stuff writing it. Why else would they immediately shaft the two main leads in all but name to instead focus on the creepy, siscon/lolicon's antics? At times, Benio felt more like a straight up Incestuous paedophile. She even sniffed Mashiro's panties and aroused herself off them in one episode.

She's an absolutely creepy character that ends up becoming the star of the show. If you're confused as to why I haven't spoken about Hakuya and Kobeni yet, it's because they're literally background characters inside their own story. Heck, the promo picture for this anime doesn't even feature Hakuya at all, because despite being the main character in name, his presence is hardly felt.

He feels eerily similar to Koshigaya Suguru from the series, Non Non Biyori, like the writers were inspired by Suguru. If so, it's pretty dumb to base one of your main characters off of an irrelevant gag character who didn't even have a voice actor in Non Non Biyori. The whole joke about Suguru is that he was supposed to be "just there." He fulfils this role adequately enough because he's a side character. Hakuya, however, is a main character, and no main character should ever feel like they're "just there" inside their own story. Dunno why I'm still calling it his story, because we all know by now it's Benio's. This is Benio's show, so the writers should just go ahead and rename it "The Wild Antics of the Sis/Lolicon."

It would be a far more suitable title given what the series immediately evolves into. So much of the show's humour is built around Benio's little sister complex. It was supposed to be a romcom but the writers forgone the romance part of romcom and instead focused all of their energy into the com part.

What little progress was nearly made of Kobeni's and Hakuya's relationship is halted strongly by Benio.

Benio's presence vastly overshadows Kobeni's and Hakuya. Kobeni plays the straightwoman to her sister's wild antics and Hakuya just takes a backseat like a passenger.

Even the reveal that Hakuya and Mashiro are wolves is given little focus in the grand scheme of things.

I didn't even mention Kobeni's frustrating stockholm syndrome. She's so used to her sister's obnoxious, weirdo obsession of her that she doesn't even bat an eyelash when she wakes up to find Benio posing beside her, giving her a seductive smile, instead greeting her with a "Morning, Nee-sama." It's considerably creepy that Benio managed to train Kobeni to refer her as "Nee-sama" like she's royalty or something. Kobeni's stockholm syndrone is so bad that she even thinks Mashiro overracts to her sister's aggressive, pedophillic advances on her. Ugh. It's so incredibly frustrating. Benio can get away with being a degenerate pedo. If this was meant to be a karma houdini act where the villian never gets punished, it was immensely annoying.

The whole school worships the ground the degenerate, incestous pedo walks on. It's meant to be a joke of how Benio "lives a double life" but it completely and utterly fails because Benio acts EXACTLY the same at school as she does at home; as the complete degenerate weirdo chasing little girls.

Horrific anime. The only way I can rationalize the lack of negative reviews is that it likely works well as a "turn off your brain" kind of series. That or the people reviewing the series are innocent and are allowing the blatant sexual innuendos to fly over their heads. It could be that.

As for me, though. This series is an absolutely atrocious anime.

The best and only good part of the show was the gorgeous animation.

0/10