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[Score: 75% = maximum "Rent-"] The strong side of the series was the quirky side characters, and here in the Animated Commentary we get them without having to watch Kirino bitching around and punishing Kyousuke for nothing in particular over and over again. As such, this DVD omake is funnier than the anime itself. And again, Manami and Kuroneko are the most interesting characters here. Of course these 16 commentary episodes require the audience to know the series, and therefore are only meant for the fans of this series. But you get a lot of stuff here, such as additional insight into how the main characters felt at certain stages of the story, or Kirino interviewing her own seiyuu via the TV set and asking her what kind of character she is, or two Ayases from different times of the story discussing their different opinion of Kyousuke. This is "fan service" in the original meaning of this term. Some of the commentaries even contain comments of other characters on previous commentary episodes... The chibi characters versions are explicitly two-dimensional, so when Kirino slaps Kyousuke you see the boy's two-dimensional flat shape rotate around his vertical axis and such. Lots of shiny effects and explosions add to the mix - the visual standards are high as always for this anime. But with no additional story to tell, the focus is on entertaining dialogs. Last updated Thursday, November 24 2011. Created Wednesday, September 14 2011. | ||||||||
