Tokimeki Memorial Ep01

The story of Tokimeki Memorial is actually a sequel to an original OVA which is based off of a game. This is the story of Riku Aoba who transfers into a new school. The school as told by the chairwomen celebrates “freedom” and that is something he will soon figure out. When Aoba goes into his homeroom class he is surprised that all the students are wearing animal ears and horns, and they all welcome him a little too happily. Just like the students the teachers are odd as well. The chemistry teacher likes doing experiments on his students, the lit teacher is practically dying infront of them but still continues on with his lecture, and the music teacher looks to be a drag queen. Yet through all this craziness Aoba finds a radiant beauty in the school known as Sayuri Amamiya.

Throughout the anime we keep seeing Aoba getting chased by students in a pair of pink cat ears, but that will be explained shortly. At lunchtime Aoba is eating near an animal pen and happens to see inside a not toohappy little chicken whom he sharees his lunch with. Then two of his classmates: Itta “Icchi” Suzuki and Yuusuke Kayama introduce themselves to him. Yuusuke asks Aoba if he likes any of the girls. Apparently he has data on all of them and Aoba tells them he likes Amamiya. They explain to him how she has become the light of the school and also how no one has her email address. Then Aoba is approached by the student council who give him a pair of cat ears and tell him it’s very important that he wear them. He tells him that because of them everyone will know who he is and welcome him. The student council actually send around text messages to all the males in the school telling them that whoever catches the pink ears will get Amamiya’s email. After remembering that he over heard Amamiya say she was going to the library Aoba takes off in there and helps out a girl until he is spotted by the students he want to catch his ears.  

When he finally believes he has eascaped all of the students one of his classmates, a really touch looking guy, finds him. Aoba thinks he is going to get pounded but is saved by the little chicken that he gave bread to earlier. The chicken basically pulls some moves on the guy knocking him the the ground. Of’course after he takes off everyone believes that Aoba actually beat up the guy. As Aoba is now exhausted from running around he plops himself under a tree where Amamiya also happens to be. Then the student council approaches them and tells Aoba that he “won” and for Amamiya to give him her email address for winning. Amamiya replies that she doesn’t need to because she had nothing to do with the student councils game and takes off. All the male students then chase after the student council president because they think he made her angry, while Aoba wonders whether or not he can survive this school.

Next Episode:
Some girl named Tsukasa believes she has met her destined man. Is it Aoba?

Impression:
At first after just getting done with Ouran High School Host Club it was difficult for me to watch an anime with the main male lead in that be the main male lead in this (as well as Death Note). I also didn’t know what to expect from this. I do like the crackiness of the whole episode and yet I would expect to see more expressions from Aoba. The animation is not really good but not bad either. Maybe if I had a better raw of this I could tell because the one I was watching was quite blurry. I think i’ll really have to give it another episode before I can determine much about it. I’d really like to know more about Amamiya as it seems right now she can be sweet but is really an princess type. Why do guys have to fall for someone like that then?