My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering With My School Romantic Comedy: Complete Collection

Virgin hero Kanade is the sole male in the "Reject Five"—the least popular, un-dateable quintet in high school. Worse, Kanade has started hearing voices and seeing game-show-like graphics demanding that he choose between undesirable options, which usually lead to public humiliation. The voice rings his cell phone and declares itself to be none other than God (assuming that God behaves and looks like a young-ish phone prankster). Kanade is informed that he has a "curse" called Absolute Choice, the remedy for which lies in a series of truth-or-dare style challenges dictated by the deity—most involving his female classmates (and a sexy, angel-like girl called Chocolat, who suddenly moves in with Kanade)—that usually result in the hapless teen looking like a "perv" before classroom peers. After a rollicking opening, the gimmick tends to wear thin, repetitiously serving up harem-comedy situations, twerking, boob gropes, and panty gags. "This is turning into a bad joke," Kanade aptly complains at one point. The plot (thin at best) wraps up in 10 episodes, with a superfluous 11th installment finding the gang transposed into the universe of a popular video game. Based on comics, this 2013 series is presented in separate DVD and Blu-ray editions in Japanese with English subtitles, rated TV-14. A disappointing anime entry, this is optional, at best. (C. Cassady)