Halfway Point: Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru!

Mmm fanservice. Studio Gokumi (produced Koe de Oshigoto!, A Channel, Saki Achiga-hen episode of Side-A, and this season's Oda Nobuna no Yabou) is pretty damn good with pulling the production values out from their asses with these things.

Anyways, let's see what NakaImo has to offer!

Apparently, a free phone

Another series with a manga adaptation by cuteg. Fortunately, Studio Gokumi has decided to take the route of fanservice and copied the graphic artstyle, with a pretty good effect. The proportions are nice, the eyes could be slightly better, but in general, there's really little to complain about. Also, the girls were cute by design so that's fine.

The OP (Choose me Darling by StylipS) is nothing to sneeze at, but it's not amazing either. I found the Princess Lover! imitation during the OP animation (where the girls all dance with the main character, Shougo) pretty hilarious. The ED (Heavenly Lover by Ishihara Kaori, Sakura Ayane, Taketatsu Ayana, Oogame Asuka, Hidaka Rina) is the standard hyper stuff. I couldn't care less.

Now let's get onto the mystery of the missing imouto.

Guess which one is which

So there's a guy called Mikadono Shougo, right. And he ends up being the head of a bigass richie rich company because his father died. The only reason he's really going to school instead of doing something cooler like being on a boat is to - you guessed it - find somebody to H-scene it up with. However, during his childhood friends he apparently had a blood-related sister, but he conveniently forgot because a nice car came and gave him a big scar across his forehead. Unfortunately for him, his sister is also at this school, and it's up to his mystery-solving powers to not commit blatant incest - before it's too late.

So it's just like Princess Lover! but with imoutos and a mystery. Cute. I don't really like how the flashbacks that help with the mystery are entirely too vague, though. Either there's going to be another couple of random girls that will be added every other episode, or the story makes it so that the viewers are forced along a path without being able to see ahead if they're smart, which is not very rewarding. There are some things that you can figure out on your own, such as the beginning incidents with the main girl (Tsuruma Konoe), but other than that I don't like too much how they leave it intentionally blank.

Books will be written about him. Children all over the world will know his name. He will be famous - a legend - known as The Boy Who Got Run Over By A Car And Lost The Memories Of His Sister. 

The fanservice is good though. Girls are bold without being too overly perverted and aggressive, which is a plus. It's slightly less than the level of 'harem-ness' that Infinite Stratos had, which can be taken as either a good or bad sign. However, you won't be too disappointed by the antics of the main heroines of this series. Other than that, not much to say. If you like making random connections during a mystery to sort of clue out what might be happening next in addition to rampant fanservice, this series is for you.

Recommendation: One of the major fanservice series of the season. Take that how you will.

In retrospect this should probably be NSFW, but fuck it. cuteg's art is too good to censor.