Mayo Chiki Complete Collection

Let me first say I give no demerits to this show for the show itself. It's got its pros and its cons but in all it's a great and entertaining series. However, the translators in the past couple years have been very poor, sometimes to the point that I'd be tempted to call them incompetent. I recognize that translating things is difficult, but there are limits, and there should be someone to check the quality of the translation before giving a final approval. I could go through the show and list every problem I had, but for brevity I'll only list two large and early errors.Most errors in this and other works (by any company, not just Sentai) are brief instances that glare because they ruin a line. A great example is when Jiro is describing how he developed the tendency for his nose to bleed when a girl touches him. He said that he started to think his mother and sister would stop using him for wrestling practice if he started to bleed; this much was translated correctly. However, here someone completely missed the obvious tense difference. Jiro said that they tended to stop when he bled because the room would get dirty. Not wanting bloodstains makes sense. The translators changed the tense so that he said they stopped because the room IS dirty. This obviously isn't a big error, but the concept of a fighter stopping because they're in a dirty room doesn't make sense compared to stopping to avoid staining a clean room.One spot that I again admit was a little obscure but came together completely wrong was Jiro and Subaru's discussion of Jiro's first kiss. The use of possessive pronouns can be lacking in Japanese, resulting in conversations like this where Subaru's talking about the time she kissed him while Jiro's talking about the time Kanade kissed him; Jiro doesn't know Subaru's kissed him and Subaru doesn't know about Kanade kissing him. When Subaru asked if it was Kanade, she was asking if Kanade had told him, but he thought she was confirming that Kanade was his first kiss. Since pronouns weren't used, they didn't realize that they were talking about entirely different events. In the translation, both sides are translated like they're talking about the kiss with Kanade.There have been worse-translated series than this, I've even seen some with clear grammar and spelling errors that could have been caught by a basic spell-check program. Overall the translation could be worse, but it could be a lot better. I hope these people are a little more careful with any new projects they receive.

Let me first start by saying that I love Mayo Chiki as a show when it first aired and I still do now. The reason for the 2 stars is NOT because of the show which is a good to average ROMCOM, it has a great plot although a bit predictable. Overall its a fun story to watch every now and then.Now the reason I rated this product down is because of the delivery. Sentai who currently hold the license to Mayo Chiki released this product on 02 OCT 2012, a little over one year after the initial airing, now I'm glad that this show was licensed and made available in the US and i'm aware that not everything can be dubbed, I bought this product as a fan however my first complaint is that its only on DVD and has no dub. If you catch this item on sale its not to bad but if memory serves me this product was initially released for 40 dollars, that's an insane price when you consider that one you're not getting dual audio (a english and japanese dub) and its on DVD. This may not seem like much but when considering other options for example I was able to secure The World God Only Knows for 36 dollars on Blu ray with dual audio. Yes this product is significantly cheaper than its Japanese Counter part (the blu ray for 3 eps costs roughly 60 dollars) however when considering the average pricing for anime in America it is abnormally high for the content received.My 2nd problem with it is for a commercial product there are a large amount of grammatical errors in the subtitles, at one point I couldn't help but wonder if I had purchased a bootleg from Ebay. This is very disappointing as you would figure since there is no dub to arrange the subs would be of a better quality. They are in giant yellow letters and while they aren't too distracting they definitely don't scream high quality.My 3rd and final problem with the disk is the Audio. Above I mentioned that this dvd feels like a bootleg, well the audio from episodes 6, maybe earlier, and on sounded unbalanced, cheap, and muffled. For Dolby Digital Audio, even with surround sound headphones, the audio quality felt sub-par and sometime absolutely annoying.I really wanted to like this product as this isn't the first time Sentai has done this, ie Princess Resurrection which eventually got a dub. The show is one that I would love to revisit at any given time and I should note that there are some uncensored scenes that were zoomed in during the initial broadcast. However, Sentai has proven to me that I should wait for a blu ray release with a dub before buying anything from them, I really wanted to be able to support localization like this but when the overall quality is almost akin to a bootleg I can't help but feel disappointed.My final recommendation for this is to wait for another release in either blu ray or dvd with a Dub, this show is great and deserves every penny however this product does it no justice. If you absolutely must have it or know Japanese then its not too bad, the overall picture quality is pretty good and although the audio does sound cheap I personally believe buying to support a show is always the best way to go.

This is a cross of Girls Bravo and Maria+Holic with a bit of Okami-san tossed in. Our hero, Kinjiro Sakamachi, is one who is so afraid of girls the a single touch gives him major nosebleeds (but given that he has been used as a training dummy by his World champion fighting mother and his sister who is training to beat her even you would do anything to get them to stop). Not to mention that when you put his name in traditional form the word Chicken is revealed, but that changes when he accidentally walks in on the butler(Subaru Konoe) to the daughter of the headmaster in the restroom and discovers that he is actually - well let us say that "he" has a few different options than normal butlers. But when they learn on his phobia, they offer a deal, help them keep the secret so her butler can become a butler despite being a girl, and they will help him get over his gynophobia. Throw in his crazy fight club sister, a cat eared, glasses wearing, busty blonde, a girl that has ghosts pop up all over the place, and Konoe's father who is NOT at all pleased with the relationship bewteen the two of them, can he man up to not only keep a secret but maybe find out that girls are not so bad.edit: i finished the series recently (delayed due to going to gen con indy) and I have to say it was a great series. the charatcers are funny in their interactions and the story does keep the pace well and keeps up with the comedy, but tugs at the heart as well as you get drawn into the struggle Konoe and Jiiro have with each other. Ecchi level is low to mid - Kampfer would be the closest to it. And with the ending, the idea of a second season is not out of the question. I definate must have for those who likes an Ecchi psudeo-harem romantic comedy.