520http://i.ur.com/1t3tmFM.png As far as ecchi anime go Iketeru Futari was pretty darn bad. Im not even sure where to begin. Lets go with the description found on Wikipedia and work our way from there shall we? 16year old Keisuke Saji loves to fantasize about young beautiful women. He hopes to land the object of his affection Koizumi Akira. However Koizumi hates Saji as well as all men to the point of assault. While most guys take Koizumis cold shoulder as a hint Saji pursues headon without having rejection faze him. The description of some horndog harassing an asexual/lesbian girl didnt give me much confidence in the show going in. The actual show is paradoxically better yet worse than this description would lead you to believe. In good news at least from what I could gather Koizumi doesnt actually hate men. This isnt a story of the right guy mounting a war of attrition in an attempt to change a violent girls sexuality. Instead Koizumi proves so confusing that I still dont have a read on her and Sajis so unlikable that Koizumi striking him was 100 justified. Episodes of Iketeru are six minutes long. As stated before the show is ecchi shamelessly so. Practically every other episode begins with a sexual fantasy there are detailed pantyshots galore and plenty of bare breasts. If you like fanservice then boy...youre probably better off somewhere else. The anime also tries to have a bonafide story and at only six minutes an episode you can see where the problem lies. Given how much of the runtime comprises of Saji being a lecher and dumb jokes attempts to be serious are laughable and jarring. The anime focuses on Koizumi Rei Ayames slightly more emotive dimensionally displaced twin sister. Her only notable traits are that shes diminutive in size mysterious and cagey. Why is she mysterious? Who knows? Who cares? The anime didnt give me any answers so I just rolled my eyes whenever her mysteriousness was brought up. It doesnt help that said mysteriousness is stated never shown. 520http://pm1.narvii.com/5664/c3e1b8b267a524510f1ee3e94dc0b005e69a097a00.jpg While Koizumi is boring Saji is downright insufferable. He can barely function because if hes not groping someone or staring at their panties hes having a sexual fantasy that he conflates with reality. The anime tried to push a romance but its unbelievable thanks to the fact that Saji will get his rocks off to any woman. There are a few other recurring characters but they might as well be cardboard boxes. Theres a love triangle with Sajis childhood friend that ultimately goes nowhere in case you wanted your time to be even more wasted. Character relations dont make any sense. In the first episode Koizumi has a fun night with Saji. Okay fine. The problem is that the next day and for the rest of the series she goes on hating him. If the anime was going to have Koizumi dislike Saji it should have did away with their date at the beginning of the series. Koizumis feeling toward Saji flip flop so often that I was just left confused. The anime also tries to be comedic but none of the jokes landed for me. The comedy amounts to Saji screaming which I found obnoxious Koizumi and other women beating the living crap out of Saji which was justified but not funny and Saji making goofy faces which still werent goofy enough to garner a laugh. 520https://nekoanime.com/wpcontent/uploads/2018/10/IketeruFutari08.jpg Despite sexappeal being this shows biggest strength its not even that good. The celshaded art automatically places this as an older anime but the nostalgia stops there because the art is pretty average and at times just plain bad. The character designs arent too striking which is practically a cardinal sin when making erotic animation. The only thing that would help is accented features and for the most part proportions are fairly plain in Iketeru Futari. Sure there are times when the show is sexy but those moments are few and far between. The last episode is a perfect example of the shows faults. Its a dramatic episode but we dont really know why the characters make the decisions that they do. It ultimately ends with character relationships back to square one with nothing resolved. I guess I prefer that than the show trying to pretend it had dignity all this time. Iketeru Futari is a comedy thats not funny a romance thats anything but romantic and an ecchi thats seldom sexy. It flounders in nearly every aspect. To add insult to injury its just plain gross. The short runtime doesnt make it more enjoyable it makes it more bearable. 5/10 F+