Keita Suminoe is a fifteen year old middle school student who only wants one thing To pass his finals and make it into the same high school as his older twin sisters Ako and Riko. But he has two obstacles standing in his way. The first is that hes far more athletic than scholarly which makes studying and taking tests difficult for him to manage. And the second is that both of his sisters are madly in love with him providing him with endless distractions as he tries to do the simplest things like eat sleep and of course study. And its not just them either One of his teachers a fellow student that he accidentally groped and a short lolilike girl from his school are all starving for a taste of his knob. What can poor Keita do when these women have so much love to give to him and he only has about six inches to give to them? KissXSis was allegedly animated by a small time company called Feel. Why do I say allegedly? Because it looks nowhere near as good as one of their other anime So I Cant Play H whose incredible production values was its primary redeeming factor. In fact the difference in quality between these shows that were made only two years apart is so vast that I almost want to call BS on wikipedia for telling it to me. I guess its possible that feel didnt feel the need to put as much money into this project as theyd later wind up pouring into H and if thats the case I suppose I understand. Put lightly this isnt their opus. Thats not to say the animation is awful though. Its not great but Ive seen plenty of shows that looked a lot worse than this. The artwork is crisp and clean and a few of the character designs are inspired although most of them look generic and the weird little shiny marks on the girls skin can get pretty distracting. The bare bones budget is actually managed fairly well. There are several moments when the moneysaving animation techniques are blatantly obvious but for the most part the series sticks to slow limited movements that suit it best saving its money for the few Um cough action scenes that need it more. What bothered me was more WHAT they were animating than how they were animating it I guess. The music isnt bad either just generic and forgettable. So Im going to go into new territory here. Over my years of reviews Ive made a habit out of talking about the animation of any given series as well as the company that produced them but never before have I talked about the TV station that they aired on. Since this show doesnt have an English dub for me to discuss and I dont really feel up to discussing the sub Im going to go ahead and tell you all about a Japanese TV station called ATX or Anime Theater X. ATX is a Japanese premium channel In other words a payperview station that by the very nature of those words is allowed to show most of their programs uncensored kind of like HBO. Theyve aired many TVMA titles since they were established in 2000 including Elfen Lied Mahoromatic Highschool of the Dead Dance in the Vampire Bund and the Japanese dub of My Little Pony Friendship is MagicWrap your head around that one. Being a payperview station they have the right to show their programming with nudity excessive violence groping and all that fun adultsonly stuff to its mainly adult crowd should they choose to do so with streaming sites like Funimation.com and Crunchyroll.com opting to air censored versions anyway. This turned out to be the perfect place for KissXSis to air as its filled to the brim with adult imagery. Not only is there underwear shots and bare bottoms galore this show goes all out with french kissing lines of drool falling afterwards as a result of said kissing frequent groping girls peeingfrom many different angles the outline of the main characters erect penis through his clothes as his sisters very explicitly fondle it And yet in the very rare moments of actual nudity the girls in the series were given nondescript Barbie doll bodies. Considering just how little of a fuck this series gives in regards to its content thats a hilariously bizarre omission to make. Because yeah as far as this show is willing to go nipples are the line they dont want to cross. Its especially strange when you take into account that their brother Keita very clearly has nipples in the scene when Ako and Riko are teaming up to lick them. I guess it makes sense that since hes not blood related to them he wouldnt share the same physical deformity that they have. At least thats the explanation that Im sticking with. My first attempt to watch this show was back in the fall of 2012. Id heard some stuff about it from both sides of the fence so I felt some morbid curiosity as to just how bad it could really be. I wound up quitting after two episodes already calling it the worst anime Id ever seen. To be clear its not the incest that turned me off Im not as offended by that topic as a lot of people are. But in order to make the topic of incest appeal to a broader audience than just the people who want to jerk off to it And thus to make me tolerate it you HAVE to play the societal stigma card to make the material relatable. The related couple has to face judgement from the people around them. I mentioned as much in my review of Oreimo and I even used what little Id seen of KissXSis as a reference tool. What had me running away from KissXSis as fast as I possibly could was ultimately the way its world was reacting to our three blood crossed lovers. At school the entire male student body was obsessed with Ako and Riko to the point that they would ostracize and bully Keita for living with them and form an unruly mob to chase the two girls whenever they wandered onto the schools campus. The only character who showed any repulsion to the idea was some big boobed glasses girl who you could immediately tell was just going to fall in love with Keita effectively turning what could have been moral outrage into jealousy. As I would later learn from the appearance of his teacher thats exactly what the writers were going for. Keep in mind at no point in the story are we given any insight into why such bland looking characters would be sexually deified to such extreme levels. And to make matters worse their parents werent just okay with this debauchery between their children They were encouraging it. Right at the end of episode 1 they start hounding Keita to excavate the gold mine of forbidden pussy that lived a few rooms down from him. They also drop the bomb on us that Keita and his sisters arent really related by blood Keita is his son and the twins are the moms daughters so theyre actually just step siblings and the anime constantly shoves the fact that theyre not blood relatives down our throats to remind us that whats going on between them is perfectly Aok. Which as Ive mentioned in the past its not. Children who grow up from a young age together as siblings and go through puberty in closed together become sexually desensitized to each other and I swear Im not making that up. Whether or not theyre actually related by blood is a nonissue thats just how it works. Its legally okay but only the sleaziest perverts ever call upon legal loopholes to excuse their tastes. After confirming with the second episode that this show was not going to get any better I decided Id had enough and stayed away from it for a year and a half. That was until my long awaited two week vacation from work when I let my two best friends each pick an anime for me to watch in my free time and one of them challenged me to finish the series once and for all. The only reason Im not going to punch him in the face is because he said I didnt have to watch the OVAs. Upon my second attempt to watch KissXSis Ive noticed that not only does the series never get any better but it takes every possible opportunity to get worse. And Im not just talking about the depraved sexual content which any viewer will either be able to take or leave. There is nothing in this series thats even remotely suggestive of any kind of storytelling. The only plot is whether or not Keita will wind up sleeping with one of his sisters but hes so willing to fool around with either one of them at the slightest provocation that it winds up not really mattering whether they cross the line or not. The only conflict is over which sister he winds up with but he never really shows any preference and will happily switch between them as though they were Coke and Pepsi. Theres no story either as the entire series is just an endless string of moments between Keita and his sisters with no stakes no surprises no revelations just interaction after interaction competition after competition. It cant get old though because unless you were on the edge of your seat waiting for something graphic to happen it was never interesting in the first place. Its portrayal of women is insanely ignorant and misogynistic but Well Its hard to be mad at it about that because at no point does it ever seem to concern itself with what women are really like. Granted I ranted and raved about that when I originally ragequit the series but upon a fresh look and a surprisingly boring viewing experience that was occasionally interrupted by random bouts of Youve gotta be fucking kidding me I think Ive finally nailed what this anime is and why it feels like a nonentity to me at this point as well as why I cant bring myself to be angry over how brainsmashingly reprehensible the content is. KissXSis is at its core a sexless hentai. Now Ive seen several anime that I could throw that same label at before but this is the first one Ive ever seen that was actually aired on TV. There is nothing more pointless than a safeforTV porno. You can not realistically expect a porno to have realistic female characters because its a porno. Its a jerkoff fantasy. The only real reason someone could possibly watch this all the way through is to jerk off to itwatching it for reviewing purposes is not a real reason Im insane and a horrible person so dont do what I did. Everything that happens in this show is just buildup to sex scenes that never happen leaving it only palatable for the most desperate viewers who are looking for a good incest romp and somehow dont realize that there are actual hentai out there. The only other type of audience I can imagine this series having would be people who either A: Have siblings they wish they could screw or B: Wish they had siblings they could screw and in either case theyre droolingly eager to find some sort of escapist selfinsert jerkoff fantasy where they have a pair of willing and able sisters that arent technically related to them in a world where only the jealous haters have anything negative to say about it. That would be the life wouldnt it? Only no it wouldnt. Grow up and stop kidding yourselves. KissXSis has never been released stateside and no selfrespecting legal streaming service would ever touch it with a sixty foot pole. Its available on illegal streaming sites and while Id normally never recommend such a tactic I honestly dont care one way or another whether or not this title makes any money. You can also find the Malaysian bootlegs on Ebay for dirt cheap as its only about thirteen dollars for the TV version of the series and around the same cost for the OVA series of equal length that came out a few years prior. If KissXSis had been released as an actual legitimate hentai title with at least the majority of its story arcs ending in sexual payoffs it would easily be one of the best titles in its genre No Im not exaggerating that. The characters are well developed and complex By hentai standards. The story is intelligent and well thought out By hentai standards. The animation and music are very well produced By hentai standards. With actual payoffs instead of blueball teasing the pacing would have been outstanding By hentai standards. But this series wasnt released straight to DVD in the adults only section of your local DVD store. It was released on TV in a much harsher and stricter medium. As a legitimate TV anime this show is just flat out pathetic tasteless trash that only the most desperate and depraved audiences will find any sort of satisfaction with. Since I am not one of them I cant even give this show a zero without feeling like Im being too lenient with it. Thus I give KissXSis a 4/10. But you cant do that here so I guess its another 0/10.