The Blog of No Sign: Kannagi (かんなぎ) 01

Kannagi (かんなぎ) is definitely the biggest surprise this fall season as nobody expects it to be that great (It's kind of like Minami-ke みなみけ last year). Before Kannagi, I've only watched one A-1 Pictures's anime which is Persona -trinity soul- (ペルソナ〜トリニティ・ソウル〜). Though the artwork of Persona was great throughout the season, I've had a hard time to understand it and it's been a miracle for me to finish all 26 episodes. Anyway, Kannagi makes me feel like a production by Kyoto Animation. Maybe it's because the director of the anime is Yutaka Yamamoto, (山本寛) who is most famous for "the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱)."

A little prologue in the beginning: The lead male and female protagonists met before when the male protagonist's still a boy.

The OP: iDOLM@STER?

This intertitle scene is so "Haruhi..."

I only start to get the meaning of the op in the fourth episode after all the characters are introduced.

This is like the third time I've seen Haruka Tomatsu (戸松遥) in the lead roles this year. Man, she must be popular now!

So the male protagonist, Jin Mikuriya (御厨仁), crafts a wooden statue at home for an art project, and suddenly it grows in size and turns into a girl (Monkey King!?)

The girl, Nagi (ナギ), claims that she's a deity of a sacred tree but later finds out the tree is being cut down...

Well, I don't think Jin's anything to do with your tree...

Crying after learning the truth... Poor Nagi><

Nagi's mission is to cleanse the impurities of the world but her power weakens after the tree is cut down.

Wow, I've thought Jin just saves your life!?

Anyway, Jin just takes her home and allows her to stay.

It's the moment Jin realizes he's never been alone with a girl at home...

To break this moment of silence and embarrassment, Jin turns on the TV to view the wrong show. Luckily, Nagi doesn't see it but instead watch a cartoon about magical girls.