Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi

Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi:

    Ookami Ryouko is a spunky and, by some accounts, rather manly high school girl. She is tall, speaks in a traditionally masculine way and is very proficient in fighting. Ookami-san's best friend is the small and high-pitched voiced Akai Ringo. Incidentally, the two are rather flat-chested, a fact the Narrator (voiced by Arai "Kuroko" Satomi of Railgun fame) is all too eager to point out.

    Ookami and Ringo are members of the Otogi Bank, a club in Otogi High School that assists students with their problems in return for their assistance on a different problem at a later date; thus the Otogi Bank is effectively a loan institute for problems where you can take out a loan for a solved problem but you have to repay it sooner or later.

    The Otogi Bank is able to solve any problem and will go to any lengths to do so, often leading the members to danger or mayhem. Since all of the members of the club are female, a male one is needed for the more dangerous assignments. Thus, the scopophobic (the fear of being looked at) Morino Ryoushi is inducted as a member, right after he confesses his love for Ookami...
    The series parodies many famous fairy tales, either with puns relating to names or fairy tale themes being used in creative and funny ways. The two main heroines' names are a play on words relating to the story of Little Red Riding Hood; Akai means red and Ookami means wolf. The title of the anime is a pun for the full title of Snow White and translates to Wolf and the Seven Companions; additionally, Ringo means apple and Ryouko means hero, making their names double puns. Other fairy tale parodies include Cinderella and The Ant and the Grasshopper.

(I know, long, right?)

General Info:

Episodes; 12.

Language; Japanese with English subs.

Review:

    I always like the animes with the strong heroine, do you not? I think the thing I most enjoyed about this anime was the whole Little Red Riding hood spin off, where Little Red and the Wolf are actually good friends. I watched this anime quite a while ago, so I can't exactly remember all the little details, but I remember thinking that the ending lead to a second season - which there is not.

   I remember that the ending was very unsatisfactory, which for me is by far the most important thing. If you have a fantastic day, but then something shitty happens at the end, you remember it for it's shitty-ness, not all the wonderful stuff during the day. Not to say that this anime had a super shitty ending or anything, this was just an analogy for my disappointment in an aggrandized scale.

    As for the actual plot line, I enjoy how it unfolded and how Ookami came to rely on Morino more and more, and it was mainly that relationship that lead me to believe that there was a second season.

    Probably my favourite thing about this anime is Narrator. Normally, this would be extremely annoying as it is in some animes, but this totally added the whole comedy aspect to it. Loved this, especially with pointing out how flat chested the girls are and such. It makes me smile thinking about it.

    In the picture - because I could not find one displaying the title - is Ookami (left) and Ringo (right). You can tell how they accented the whole Red Riding Hood by making Ringo a red-head with her little red cape thing, and Ookami sort of fierce and feral looking.
   This anime is mostly comedy and romance, along with the puns and a tiny dash of action.

Must Watch Episodes:

    Again I must apologize, gomen gomen,  but I did watch this anime quite a while ago, and did not have this in mind at the time. With the more recently watched animes I will include this. If I don't have any in this section, you will get rambling such as this.

Rating:

    I would give it 3.5 out of 5 stars, * * *  ½*, because of inconclusive the ending was. If there were a second season, or more closure to the series, it would have got 4 stars.