Genres: comedy, supernatural Themes: Chinese zodiac Objectionable content: Mild Plot Summary: Mild-mannered student Takeru manages to rent a house suspiciously cheap. The catch is a hole in one corner of the living room, which turns out to open into the realm of the gods. That leads to various divine spirits eventually showing up and taking residence in his place. Most of them are Eto-Shin, divine spirits which take the animal girl forms of the animals from the Chinese zodiac. The first and most troublesome of the lot, the Cat spirit Nya-tan, is an Eto-Musume, a lower-ranked spirit who can compete for the right to raise herself to Eto-Shin status. And that is exactly what Nya-tan aims to do. Too bad she has amnesia and the Rat Eto-Shin, Chu-tan, is out to get her. Vintage: 2015-04-09 Opening Theme: “Retry Rendezvous” by Rie Murakawa Ending Theme: “blue moment” by Soruraru BOB (from ANN)
So, the cat and the rat make up, and all are friends again, thanks to a human boy with copious amounts of Sol/Lull. Nya-tan and Chu-tan fight once again, as friends, for the seal. Takeru is able to name all of the zodiac spirits and answers the question the “Manager” asks. Based on that answer, the zodiac spirits are spared from being destroyed.
It seems that Nya-tan won Chu-tan’s seal, but the others agree that the “victory was a bit up in the air”. However, Chu-tan refuses to surrender it, saying that she wants to fulfill her duty as a zodiac spirit and make amends for Mo-tan’s death. But there is a surprise there too – Mo-tan is alive!
So, after all that, the cat does not get to join the zodiac. But she does go back to her old life of wandering and “nipping things in the bud” with a tiny Mo-tan as her traveling companion. This turned out to be a pretty good anime and I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Ranger that’s why I didn’t watch it streaming, I knew it would end up priced for the uber collector.
What is sad is that Pony Canyon has stated, thru there official representative, that they are do not intend to ever provide a standard edition of any of their releases.
Basically they do not regard the average North American Anime consumer as a customer.
Heck even Aniplex is learning, although still a bit Pricey, I can justify buying some of their Regular / Special Editions, If I like the show enough. The Domestic Special Edition of the 1st half of Fate / Stay Night UBW is cheaper per episode then what Pony Canyon is offering for Etotama and that’s saying something…
I mean look at NIS, I got all of My little Monster for about $20.00 less and the Character / Episode Books in NIS Special Releases are worth it and I still paid Less for the whole series than a Pony Canyon release for just 4 episodes.
Exactly, NISA puts out beautiful quality sets and prices them at a level that is workable. I’ve bought Wagnaria 1 & 2 and been very happy. Aniplex has shown signs of coming around, their Standard Editions are getting into a rational Per Episode cost range as long as they stay will full season / cour releases.
Customers who pre-order this item by November 30th will also receive a special illustration card set!
Contains episodes 5-8 plus a special ending theme song CD, a deluxe booklet, double-sided cover illustrated by Koike Satoshi, and 2 collectible wall pin-up pictures illustrated by original character designer Akio Watanabe.
Special Features: Promotion video, TV Commercial Collections.
Spoken Languages: Japanese, English subtitles, Spanish subtitles.
