My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy

My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy is a 10 episode ecchi harem romance satire.  The anime is based on a series of light novels by the same name, also known as Nokome, and aired in Japan in the fall of 2013.

    My Mental Choices… deals with reject high school student Kanade Amakusa who has been plagued for the past year with a unique problem.  Randomly he will be presented with a set of things to chose, all internally located.  He must decide what item from the list he will immediately do or suffer excruciating pain.  The choices usually involve him subjecting his self to extremely embarrassing situations.  This random and bizarre behavior has made him one of the most abhorred members of the student body.  In one episode he ends up choosing a girl falling from the sky, enter Chocolat.  Chocolat is a messenger from some god who has been sent to assist Kanade with succeeding in a serious of missions he begins receiving.  Upon successful completion of all of the missions he will be free of his Absolute Choice curse.

    This is a bizarre and somewhat annoying series.  I kept trying to look at it as a slight on fan service and harem titles.  In some ways it is, in other ways it is not.  The character designs are atypical of eroge and fan service anime.  There are plenty of gratuitous panty, cleavage, and other fan service shots and segments.  This was pretty annoying, but the wit and oddity of the show somewhat countered them.  The humor reminded me of Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge and Toki Meki Memorial ~ Only Love.  The animation is sub-par for today’s standards and the voice acting is over the top.  The story really does not conclude with the 10 episode arc but a number of questions are stealthily revealed in the last two.  It makes sense that there isn’t a conclusion as the series is still being created.  Who knows, perhaps in the future there will be another installment of the anime.  If there is I will probably watch it, but I have no intention of reading the novels of the manga, this title just adds to the pile of less than enthusiastic series in 2013.

    The series is available in North America on Crunchyroll and an 11^th episode is slated to be released with the next volume of the light novel in 2014.