I’ll warn you right now, this will be pretty long for two reasons.
1. its a full review + lots of screens, especially cuz this show is too cute to explain only in text.
2. I’ve never really seen anything about this show anywhere for the most part.

So anyway, I kind of found this animu by accident, looking through MAL tags to find shows that i had forgotten to put onto my list (which was quite a few actually) that I had already watched/dropped or was interested in. I ended up looking at the page for this animu and it looked really cute. It came out back in 2005 so yeah its not new or something, but because it never got any sort of attention i never knew about it at the time.

The show itself is a very lighthearted and fun to watch show, and quite obviously aimed at a younger audience which means its really cute and easy to enjoy thanks to not taking itself too seriously The story is about ‘youkai’ or monsters, sometimes referred to in the show as ‘specified races’, living together with humans in a city called, LITTLE SISTER TOWN, fuck yeah imoutos everywhere. They get along perfectly fine for the most part, but there are plenty of people who dislike and even hate monsters. The situation is alike to the one seen in the first season of Da Capo II with bananamine and the class-rep’s hate for her but not nearly as HATE HATE HATE DIE DIE DIE as in there – not nearly as serious, seeing as this show isnt exactly serious business.

Petopeto-san is a very light hearted and extremely cute short series about a petopeto type youkai, and the male lead, as well as plenty of other youkai and humans – but the focus is mostly “Petoko” the nickname given to the petopeto girl in the class by the main dude, and her really pure heart – d’awwwwww. The characters are all loli (with a few obvious exceptions like parents and teachers) and are only in middle-school, which is probably the age-range this show was made for, lol.

Anyway, on with the review.

First the music, its actually really nice, all of it. The OP is my favorite and one of the better opening songs ive heard in awhile (not the best, with things like toshokan’s op and stuff to compete with in op songs ive been listening to recently), also NAI NAIIIIIIIIIIIIII! At first it sounds weird and then you get used to it and end up liking it. The music in the show is all really nice too and fitting of the mood of the show, including some instrumental versions of the OP.

The art is very nice too, in its own way, like say that of how Tokikake has AMAZING art but is actually very simple and not detailed – yet somehow really fucking awesome. In this case its not like THAT, but its the same type of ‘its not really detailed yet its really good anyway’ art especially for the type of show this is. The girls are all VERY cute, and the backgrounds and whatnot and everything all really fit well with the overall feeling of the show.

The story is a nice laid back show to watch as long as you’re in the mood to take it easy like a yukkuri. Its a slice of life with lots of moe and whatnot, and its nice, fun, and enjoyable to watch. The things in the show itself sometimes don’t make much sense or follow through with things – as in, Petoko’s whole getting stuck to people, and other living things, very easily if she touches them. It happens only really to push the “story” forward (help provide episode-plots) and otherwise she’s touched, held, and squeezed, a lot of people and very rarely ever gotten stuck. The show was in a sensible order, and was set up to be a continous storyline but with side stories taking precedence for 1-2 episodes a piece. The side ‘stories’ all circled usually ONE of the characters and Petoko, ranging from Sahara’s little sister trying to take over their yakuza family or the snobby rich girl who wants her dads cock (read: attention), among a lot of others. It’s a short series though so not much.

As for characters, they were all really great, from short-haired version Sahara and completely adorable cement wall girl, to chubby softball girl and Jeremy’s imouto.

My favorite character is Nuri, she is a youkai of the Nurikabe type, which is a concrete wall and a mythical monster thing in Japan I believe from seeing them mentioned in a few other animu when they talk about haunted houses and stuff. Anyway, she’s…well yeah, a concrete wall girl, but she looks like a normal VERY moe girl. She cant talk and instead the moonrunes for waht she wants to say show up on her head. Because of what she is, she can also go into walls and the floor, and back out of them, at will – she also has the ability to shrink into mini-nuri in order to keep from weighing too much. She is very very cute and is used in the summertime to keep cool by her classmates and has a moe little sister that looks like a more “real” version of a nurikabe.

My second favorite is, well, Nuri’s little sister, Konuri, everything is the same as with Nuri except she’s tiny and a moe little concrete wall slab instead of a human shape.

After those two, which are kind of a mix of one really, my favorite is the main character, Petoko. She’s really cute and that typical character that wants to make everyone happy and friends, and gets into everyones business to do it. Her squeeky walk is adorable as all hell, and her mother is somehow a huge slut but also dawwww at the same time, not to mention while always being partially transparent. Basically she’s a a sweet innocent little loli, so its moe.

Other than that I really like everyone, from the samurai zombie to Jeremy and his little sister. The only character I do NOT like at all is the main-dude’s little sister, she’s a little cunt plus she’s ugly. ಠ_ಠ  Speaking of Jeremy, his seiyuu did Kittan in GL. Normally I wouldnt care, but his voice in this show is so lulz, if i ever watch GL again ill never unhear him as Jeremy.

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Honestly, im surprised i never saw much about this show, its actually REALLY good for a nice, easy, fun to watch series and I’m really glad I managed to stumble on it by accident because it was a really enjoyable watch even if a bit childish at times…though I think that just made it even cuter.

Also wat, no vulgarities and crude things? Well yeah, its hard to work in shit like that when you’re talking about something like this.