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Title (English) This Ugly and Beautiful World

Title (Japanese) Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai

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Fantasy Novel

Notes

Classification shonen

Synopsis Takemoto Takeru, an ordinary high schooler, and something of a slacker, sees a strange light in the sky. While doing a bike delivery for his part time job with his childhood friend Nishino Mari on pillion, he sees it at closer quarters and chases it. He observes in the forest a cute girl climbing out of a sparkling cocoon. Takeru instantly falls for her at first sight, but suddenly a mechanised monster appears at the same spot and attacks the girl.
One of the boys transforms and defeats the mechanised monster and rescues the girl, who is named Hikari, but the motorcycle is trashed.

Review This anime covers familiar ground, but, as one would expect of an anime in which Gainax is involved, it's well executed. The hero, smarting after being told off for slacking by the girls in the swim club, and getting slapped by his cute cousin for blundering in while she was changing, longs for an "ideal girlfriend" who is cute, quiet and in need of protection. Of course, she arrives from outer space in episode 1 (maybe such a creature doesn't exist anywhere else, fella), and we have the kinda familiar schoolboy-transforms-into-giant-robot-hero stuff as she gets rescued.
There is a fair amount of bare skin stuff in just the first episode - Hikari arrives naked and is clearly visible before being offered a coat, which she promptly unfastens at the front.
Looks watchable, if not particularly original.

Credits Series Director: Shouji Saeki
Character designers: Kazuhiro Takamura, Mei Suzuki (mecha), You Yoshinari

Episodes 13

Release

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 2004 April 2 -

Production Geneon Entertainment, Tokyo Broadcast System

Broadcaster BS-i

Animation Gainax; Shaft

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	This Ugly and Beautiful World
Title (Japanese)	Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes
Classification	shonen
Synopsis	Takemoto Takeru, an ordinary high schooler, and something of a slacker, sees a strange light in the sky. While doing a bike delivery for his part time job with his childhood friend Nishino Mari on pillion, he sees it at closer quarters and chases it. He observes in the forest a cute girl climbing out of a sparkling cocoon. Takeru instantly falls for her at first sight, but suddenly a mechanised monster appears at the same spot and attacks the girl. One of the boys transforms and defeats the mechanised monster and rescues the girl, who is named Hikari, but the motorcycle is trashed.
Review	This anime covers familiar ground, but, as one would expect of an anime in which Gainax is involved, it's well executed. The hero, smarting after being told off for slacking by the girls in the swim club, and getting slapped by his cute cousin for blundering in while she was changing, longs for an "ideal girlfriend" who is cute, quiet and in need of protection. Of course, she arrives from outer space in episode 1 (maybe such a creature doesn't exist anywhere else, fella), and we have the kinda familiar schoolboy-transforms-into-giant-robot-hero stuff as she gets rescued. There is a fair amount of bare skin stuff in just the first episode - Hikari arrives naked and is clearly visible before being offered a coat, which she promptly unfastens at the front. Looks watchable, if not particularly original.
Credits	Series Director: Shouji Saeki Character designers: Kazuhiro Takamura, Mei Suzuki (mecha), You Yoshinari
Episodes	13
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	2004 April 2 -
Production	Geneon Entertainment, Tokyo Broadcast System
Broadcaster	BS-i
Animation	Gainax; Shaft
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.