The Most Joyful Unhappiness!
A little corner of BHFS devoted to Omishi Magical Theater: Risky/Safety.
Risky/Safety is, officially, the cutest anime on the planet. Omishi Rei, the woman who draws the BH manga, is to force behind R/S... If you've ever seen Omishi's Positive Girls artbook, Safety's "evolved form" is the girl with the double-peaked hat in-between Tira and Chocolate.
Risky/Safety is a kooky, shoujo-style story about a rather depressive eight grader, Katsuragi Moe, who finds herself suddenly host to a "schizophrenic chibi-thing." Said schizophrenic chibi-thing is an apprentice angel and an apprentice shinigami (god of death) all rolled into one. Depending on how much unhappiness there is in the general area, the chibi-thing is either Safety (the angel) or Risky (the shinigami).
The main problem - besides that a devil and an angel are sharing a body (jeez!) - is that Risky (who IS a chick) is set on taking Moe's soul, while Safety is trying to save her (mostly by fixing things up between Moe and her grade-school boyfriend). Both of them are bothering Moe in their attempts to be come a full-fledged devil and angel, respectively.
The style is so adorable... Occasionally, Tira looks like this in BH... It's crazily shoujo, so friggen adorable that I just twitch all the time. Not to mention that MoeˇÕs boyfriend is really freaking CUTE! (You get to see a grown-up version of him at one point... Narf! ... Gorgeous... ::Dies.::) Silver hair with peudo-mogiage and maroon eyes. There are also a couple of really hot, male side-characters. Although I have to say... Does Omishi have a thing for momiage? Like, there are more people with ear-tails on R/S than there are on Weiss Kreuz... Think Miaka-hair fest... Only better. (Wait, everything's better than Miaka.)
This series was released in Japan in 200 (it has not been picked up by any Amaerican company - all you can get it fansubs). You can tell that Omishi has been influenced by her work with Akahori. R/S is delightfully fantastical, with an obvious supernatural vein. Its humour is ticklingly cute, a little quirky, and, at times, a bit reminiscent of AkahoriˇÕs rather pervy jokes. (The main problem of one of the episodes is that Yuya-kun, Moe's boyfriend, accidentally gets a pantie-peek.)
R/S is oddly short, about ten or fifteen minutes per episode (I haven't counted), and it apparently aired as part of the 'omnibus' presentation Anime Comples II. I'm not sure what the deal with this is. The only thing I could come up with was that it's something like the Kero-chan show at the end of Card Captor Sakura where it's short... Sort of like omake or something... Except... Not...
In any case, I am absolutely addicted to this show. It's so cute, and put into great little bite-sized morsels... I adore this style, as I've said, and I love both Risky and Safety, as well as being... You know what, I like everyone on this show... As much as I may pretend, in my pseudo-goth way, to be repulsed by SafetyˇÕs extreme cuteism, I can't dislike her. Hell, I ever like Lani, the freakish pomeranian dog who follows Safety around everywhere. (All I have to say is: Love Arrow in the ass. Life is shit.)
I intend to put together some links to the meagre collection of R/S sites there are out there. But I'm gonna do that some time when it's not late at night and I donˇÕt have a paper to write. Anyway...
Yoroshiku, Baby (desuno)!
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