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Amnesia is the title and central element of this show. A girl with no memories must and is the only one who can see and hear a self-proclaimed spirit from another world named Orion. He explains that he’s trapped in her soul, displacing her memories temporarily, and promises his aid in helping her remember all that she’s lost including her name. Orion posits that interacting with people she might have been acquainted with could help bring her memories back, and it seems that four particular handsome young men trigger fragments of her memories. Based on an otome game (in its base form, an interactive novel where the player must help the heroine end up with one of the male love interests) of the same name, the show’s main audience are reverse harem fans of all shapes and sizes, boasting at least four possible handsome young men to pair with our amnesiac beauty.
Speaking as a guy who’s cleared several eroge (where the player controls the lead guy’s actions to end up with one or possibly more females, including sexual situations), I’m willing to bet the game that this anime is based on is one of those that you need to clear all the initially available partners’ routes before the rest of the content unlocks. The anime makes this especially clear, as there’s a recurring character that appears to be helpful toward the heroine, yet there’s something off about him – must be the slasher smile that appears on his face from time to time when he looks at her.
This isn’t the first reverse harem show I’ve seen. I have fond memories of Ouran High School Host Club, and was entertained with La Historia Della Arcana Famiglia. Ouran had a cross-dressing girl surrounded by 6 male members of the eponymous Host Club, while Arcana Famiglia has a friendly neighborhood Mafia princess having to choose from at least 5 of her “family members.” My experiences so far with watching reverse harem anime has been positive, and I do hope Amnesia keeps the trend.
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