A look at Shinichiro Kimura's track record reveals:
Anime | Seen | Bad end | SW-like |
---|---|---|---|
Apprenticeship at Dai-Guard under Seiji Mizushima |
R: 3 | no | no |
Sugar | a bit | no? | no |
Mahoraba | R: 4.5 | no | no |
Cosplay Complex | almost all | n/a | meh |
Hand Maid May | no | no? | not really? |
Venus vs Virus | no | yes | no |
Maburaho | no | unk | meh |
Tsuyokiss | no | unk | unk |
Popotan | no | no? | yes |
Juuden-chan | in part | no | yes |
Impressive, and promising.
I never heard of Tsuyokiss and the blurb at ANN seems suspicious (no male characters). However, I heard about Popotan, as SDB wrote about it:
The anime pretty much amputated the original story and built an entirely new one using most of the original characters, but omitted the one which was the player avatar. And though there's no seduction going on, there is a non-trivial lolicon factor to the graphics, enough so that I don't recommend the series.
Which is a shame, because the new story they came up with is surprisingly good. If only they had resisted the urge to incororporate all the explicit lolicon pandering, it could have rated up just below HMM on this scale. As it is, it's another example like DE/MC of a story seriously marred by excessive and gratuitous fan service.
May be worth checking out.
UPDATE: Steven rated Hand Maid May a lot higher than Popotan, but HMM is in "forever wait" mode in Netflix. The site is even honest about it and offers to "Save".
UPDATE: The tabled above may be considered a proof that the director is not a guarantee of quality, suitability, or enjoyment by anyone in particular. Just look at the ensuing discussion of HMM vs. Popotan, or the bat and urine controversies. Nonetheless, directior is a guidepost.