Introduction
Takumi Tsuzuki is a high school student who attends the Umenomori Private Academy, free of charge, alongside Fumino Serizawa, a childhood friend of his who always says the opposite of what she feels. He spends most of his time at school fending off Chise Umenomori, the granddaughter of the board chairman and a pampered princess, who is constantly roping him into her eccentric hobbies. After school, he goes to work at the "Stray Cats" confectionery, a cake shop run by his adoptive older sister, Otome Tsuzuki, until it's time to go to bed. This is the average routine in the day and the life of Takumi.
Mayoi Neko Overrun follows another seemingly average day in the life of Takumi. With his sister away from the shop, having gone to save someone else in need of help, Fumino takes it upon herself to wake him up so that he won't be late for their usual walk to school together, giving him a glimpse of her blue and white striped panties in the process. What a nice way to start the day.
When Otome returns home, she brings with her a girl named Nozomi Kiriya, whose hair and mannerisms resemble that of a large cat. It turns out that she is a runaway that Otome can't help but take in. Takumi's ordinary days are transformed into splendid chaos as he tries to unravel who this mysterious beauty is and what she's running away from...
Audience reviews
13 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Upset_Nimbus
The maids are helpful but you really can't predict what's coming next. Mayoi Neko is overrun with fanservice with a bit of wholesome and comedy sprinkled in. Now I do like my fair share of the lewd but this is really Mayoi Neko Overrun's star asset. The story? Well, it's an understatement to say it decided to take a ride in a Delorian going 89 miles per hour with an Abra in the back seat. The first two episodes were great I will give credit where it's due but after that Chise hard carries this anime as all of its wacky antics are caused by her free-flowing funds. If you are an avid pantsu hunter looking for some fine picks and a fan of some poorly drawn but simplistically adorable cats Mayoi Neko Overrun is full of the former but you will definitely see the latter!
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Mayoi Neko Overrun is basically 12 anime in 1 anime. It has a different episode director, animation director and key animation every episode. How does it matters?
It actually doesn't matter. If you are one of those who hate "generic" otaku anime, PLEASE DON'T WATCH THIS ANIME. It has everything you don't want to have in it, like tsundere, dense MC, harem, fan-services. If you get bothered by the major premise, there is no way you can enjoy the minor staff.
But if you are one of those who actually appreciate and enjoy school harem anime, Mayoi Neko Overrun! will definitely be a refreshing and rare watching experience for you, since there are 12 different styles of presentation. You don't see anime do this that often, especially in the harem category. Hope that you can match up with the "D…
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Takumi is just your average nice guy who has two beautiful girls fighting for his affection; one is his childhood friend who has a short temper and the others a spoiled rich girl. Things get crazier though when a mysterious third girl who acts just like a cat enters the fray and wacky adventures ensue. Yeah, so basically it's just like any other ecchi comedy.
Story 4/10
Every episode has our characters going on a different adventure whether it's going to the hot springs or going to the beach. However, the biggest problem I have with this anime is the lack of comedy; what makes other ecchi/harem anime so great is how funny the characters are, but these characters just aren't that funny. For example, an episode where the characters go to the beach has a lot of potential, but instead they j…
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Story
It's not a great story, you will not have a complex story on this one so if you care about story on a comedy anime then this is not for you. The story revolves on a mysterious girl that acts like a cat or it might really be a catgirl they don't really explain why she is like that and she meets this guy Takumi who was an orphan and convince her to live with him and her ''sister'' who adopted him and basically is about their daily life and comedy.
Art & Animation
The art style is very good, I liked how well animated this was and it was consistent every episode, the characters design were very good.
Sound
The sound was very good in every aspect, voice acting, i loved the OP, i never skipped the OP.
Character
I liked every character but they could have developed the catgirl, I liked…
Read at the sourceTemere
It wouldn't quite claim being a comedy gold, but it is up there. The humor in this anime is certainly that only a tsundre harem can provide. It's has both unique aspects and jokes that you see so much its almost expected. But it still does not fail to make you laugh.
The story is simple and humor filled. Only until toward the end does it get a bit on the feels side. still keeping a serious plot, it just manages to weaved well placed humor at the right times to make it all funny but not so funny that it's ridiculous. If you liked the story line and humor of Baka to Test, then you will enjoy this
Art styles is what you'd expect from standard. Simple, not too overboard with object skins and cell shading with an addition of light shades, tones and gradients where required. It is almost a tex…
Read at the sourceRatton21
Being one of my first reviews i hope this helps,
This show focuses on comedy and not enough development of the characters. I would really have liked to seen takumi form some sort of secret affection for at least one of the girls. This being said it still was quite funny and is a good show to watch
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If Mayoi Neko Overrun! was an anime meant solely for humour, it might have recieved a higher rating, as there are times when it really excels in that area, thanks to its inventiveness of situations and some clever use of character animation. However MNO is catagorically meant to be an anime based on romance as well, which means at some point the humour has to back off a little to allow the romantic part of the story to progress.
To be fair MNO does open up in reassuring fashion, conveying all the romantic gestures you'd expect from a romance-based anime, and it almost succeeds in pulling some emotional heartstrings while stirring some deep curiosity in the personalities of the key characters. However, beyond episode 3, the promising plot disintegrates, and eventually to the point where it…
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Mayoi Neko Overrun- Just like a Benz car, great at first, and then 2 months in it's the biggest mistake you've ever made.
Just like anyone else, I read the reviews for this anime and of course everyone says it's horrible. But of course, just like everyone, I couldn't resist the great introduction, and the cute pictures and characters so I watched it.
Actually at first I it was pretty good, the story with the main character being an orphan etc. etc. and at that moment I was like WTF if everyone talking about? this anime is great! great art and story!
WARNING- DON"T BE DECEIVED this anime is a disaster after like episode 3, it just seems like filler. There is no story to it, it's not even funny anymore, and all the characters are so very repetitive. From this point on, the ONLY THING that…
Read at the sourceMugen900
From what I've read from other reviews, I'd probably agree with them in certain ways when they say that this anime doesn't make any heads or tails in it, you might think it's a usual harem type of genre but it kind goes from one point to the next, you really can't figure out as to whom the male character connects with. But still, it is decent enough to be watched because what it lacks in plot makes up with couple of good slap-stick comedy, As for the art of this anime, I find it very good because it kinda look like a typical manga that has come alive, never mind if there are some differences between the two. The characters, well, I'm focusing on the schools uniform for girls. I like the way that it matches with the female characters especially when it's Fumino who's wearing it, her long bl…
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The anime is centered around "Tsuzuki Takumi", and the main characters are introduced during the first three episodes (Takumi is the only male main character).
Serizawa Fumino (Takumi's Childhood friend), Kiriya Nozomi (a "stray cat-girl"), and Unemori Chise are the main characters, which are introduced in the first two episodes. All three commonly have contradicting opinions and actions, and Unemori Chise gets in quarrels with Fumino quite often. It becomes apparent that the 3 of them fall for Takumi by the end of the first season, for the kindness and way he is (Season 2 is guaranteed, based on Manga to Anime comparisons).
The dialogue is very humorous, and the situations that Takumi is put in because of the three females makes you chuckle, regardless of how well you can suppress it.…
Read at the sourceAuroraFlame
I have very mixed feelings about Mayoi Neko Overrun. It's quite something to say that a series is both generic yet still one of the more... unique harems to come out in a while. This all stems from the fact that the scriptwriter, director and key artist changed every single episode for the twelve week duration of the series. The result is that studio AIC squanders what little potential the series already had and gives the directors free reign to do one-shot episode experiments. What would have been a mostly cliche but still above average harem turns into possibly "the" trainwreck of the year.
Starting off with the positive: The most interesting part of this series was that despite a formulaic harem setting, the show had a motif; a constantly echoed theme that ties all of the characters an…
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In short this show is a disaster. Well, the first three episodes were sweet and I actually enjoyed them. At that time Mayoi Neko Overrun! seemed like a typical harem with a good character development. I was even thinking that Overrun is worthy of eight points, no kidding. But then the randomness came.
Y’know, randomness is not really equal to bad quality. Take a look at Galaxy Angel — that show is so damn random but it’s hilarious. It has good humorous episodes and equally good dramatic episodes in stock. But sadly I’m not here to speak about Galaxy Angel, I have Overrun to review. Thus after three episodes of enjoyable story I got some stupid fanservice stuff, overblown instant drama, surrealistic comedy wannabe and so on… What the hell was going here? Did this show get flu or something?…
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'Mayoi Neko (Stray Cats) Overrun!' is a harem comedy mainly about one guy and three girls in a cake shop called "Stray Cats". The owner of the shop is a tennen ("natural boke", someone who has zero common sense) woman who likes to find stray cats and sometimes kids, and provide them shelter in the shop. Our protagonist Tsuzuki Takumi is one of those human stray cats, and the story begins with the arrival of the second human stray cat, Kiriya Nozomi.
STORY: 6/10
Pretty common setting with plenty of parodies.
As far as I can tell, only first and last three episodes were the main story with Kiriya Nozomi as central focus, despite all the episode titles were about her.
Just as with the animation, there was a different director for each episode. It seems like they were given the freedom to d…
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