Orenchi no Furo Jijou (オレん家のフロ事情) is a 13 episode slice of life comedy fantasy
series based on the 4koma of the same name by Itokichi. The series
originally aired in Japan in the Fall of 2014.
Tatsumi stumbles upon a dying merman one day and decides to bring it back to his house to nurse it back to health. The merman, Wakasa, gains his strength and decides to take up residence in Tatsumi's bathtub. The two decide that there isn't much of a problem with that and the story continues to show their odd couple type living arrangement.
This is an odd short series brimming with yaoi at every angle. It’s like it was designed to fuel the wild imaginations of furry fujoshi. It was sweet at times, utterly ridiculous at others and filled with nothing but shonen-ai stylized characters. Not much actually goes on accept for a series of sexually tense interactions between Tatsumi and the literal fish-out-of-water Wakasa. Over the course of the show a few of Wakasa's bishonen friends join the party, offering up even more fujoshi fantasies.
I'm not a fujoshi by any stretch of the mean but honestly this wasn't a waste of time. It wasn't a good use of time either, but the entire thing ran for about 40 minutes. I've wasted more time than that on worse things. But it really does have its niche, even if the shonen-ai trappings are all in the subtext. But in the end, it’s all about the loner high school student gathering a male harem of sea creatures to hang out with in his bathtub. Strange.
The series was simulcast on Crunchyroll and I highly doubt it will ever get beyond that. The manga, not surprising, is not available in English.
Tatsumi stumbles upon a dying merman one day and decides to bring it back to his house to nurse it back to health. The merman, Wakasa, gains his strength and decides to take up residence in Tatsumi's bathtub. The two decide that there isn't much of a problem with that and the story continues to show their odd couple type living arrangement.
This is an odd short series brimming with yaoi at every angle. It’s like it was designed to fuel the wild imaginations of furry fujoshi. It was sweet at times, utterly ridiculous at others and filled with nothing but shonen-ai stylized characters. Not much actually goes on accept for a series of sexually tense interactions between Tatsumi and the literal fish-out-of-water Wakasa. Over the course of the show a few of Wakasa's bishonen friends join the party, offering up even more fujoshi fantasies.
I'm not a fujoshi by any stretch of the mean but honestly this wasn't a waste of time. It wasn't a good use of time either, but the entire thing ran for about 40 minutes. I've wasted more time than that on worse things. But it really does have its niche, even if the shonen-ai trappings are all in the subtext. But in the end, it’s all about the loner high school student gathering a male harem of sea creatures to hang out with in his bathtub. Strange.
The series was simulcast on Crunchyroll and I highly doubt it will ever get beyond that. The manga, not surprising, is not available in English.
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