Studio Bind, you guys adapt the most polarizing things, but boy, does this studio animate things well! From the studio who adapted Mushoku Tensei, one of the greatest isekai adaptations ever, to Onimai, a gender-bending, mind-boggling show, that somehow ended up being a very wholesome CGDCT anime. Without a doubt, this show will be uncomfortable to many, and even as wholesome as it is, the initial premise does sadly bring my enjoyment down a little. Did this show have to be so fanservice heavy at the beginning? However, I will admit that as the episodes went along, they did end up very wholesome and at points, even quite hilarious. I will say though that if a different studio did this show with lower quality animation, I would not have enjoyed it as much as I did. Studio Bind, you saved an anime! Be proud!

Mahiro Oyama is a self proclaimed “home security officer”, who has been a shut in for years, indulging in his erotic visual novels, games, and anything of the sort. His genius sister, Mihari, worried for his well-being, decides to create a medicine that would turn him into a girl, as part of her “rehabilitation plan” for her brother. This show sounds weird, I know, but I had to remind myself, this is anime we’re watching! Other shows get much weirder than this!

In her newfound body, Mahiro has to adapt to being a girl, and that involves many things that I won’t speak of here, but you can catch my drift I think. With that, comes complete over-sexualization and a lot of of fan service, and that put me off this show, at least at the beginning, with how uncomfortable it can be at times.

I do understand what this show is going for, and that is for the protagonist to go through changes to form better and more healthy views towards women, by putting him in one’s shoes. It makes for some funny jokes that land sometimes, but not all the time. I don’t exactly know why the gender-bender was really necessary to make this show work, but it is what it is I suppose. I guess Studio Bind just likes to have protagonists who are otakus who get reformed in some way, first with Rudeus from Mushoku Tensei, and now Mahiro.

After the first few episodes, the show turns into a CGDCT show with Mahiro going to school, and meeting new friends and creating fun friendships. There were a lot of fun and wholesome moments for sure to be seen, and the characters are quite fun to watch, as expected from a CGDCT show.

The animation is phenomenal, to put it lightly. Very well produced and fluid in its movements, and the OP visuals are a great example of this. This show needed the Studio Bind treatment, or else it would have flopped very hard in my opinion. The music is decent, especially the OP and ED, which embodies how insane this show is at times.

Overall, while this show’s exterior is very unfriendly and weird to the average anime viewer, there is a lot of wholesomeness and friendliness to be found here, but this show would have been much better if it didn’t have the questionable premise to begin with, though I’m not sure how that would have worked to fit the themes of the show around rehabilitation. It’s definitely way less of a degenerate show than I thought it was, and while I did have my doubts at the beginning, I slowly grew to enjoy this show for what it was anyway.