Studio: Feel
Director: Yuuji Tokuno
Series composition: Naruhisa Arakawa
Source: Light novel
The Premise: A narcissistic teenager must entice one of his shut-in haters to return to school in order to maintain his high social standing.
Light novels about male high schoolers surrounded by their haremettes are a dime a dozen, and I don’t have a strong reason to suspect that Chiramune will be any different. To be clear, I do have a reason, just not a good one: from the synopses I’ve read, the title character is supposed to be more extroverted than your average protagonist in his position. That makes him different from the avalanche of Literally Me dudes in these types of stories (your 8-mans and Kiyo-pons and such), but it also opens the door for him to be worshiped rather than properly characterized. This will be a split cour adaptation, so the production company is confident it’ll be a success, but unless Chitose’s swarm of fangirls do their part to keep his ego in check, I doubt I’ll even make it through the first cour. The real reason I’ll be sampling Chiramune is to witness Yuuji Tokuno’s directorial debut, as he’s headed up some impressive episodes of other series in the past few years, Shin Samurai-den Yaiba’s action-packed sixth installment chief among them. The PV looks good, so hopefully it indicates an overall level of polish brought by Tokuno and his team.