[Initial Reaction] The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat Ep 1

Also known as Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko and in shorthand HanNeko.

Episode 1: The Pervert and the Stony Cat

This anime is super pretty. Variegated shadows always pull me in. Like a shiny Deviantart spotlight, I couldn't stop staring at their hair.

Anyway,  the main character is a huge perv. In the first few seconds it is established that he pretty much only joined the track club in order to do squats in front of the swimming pool window and stare at girls. How this wasn't super suspicious, I can only guess. But, they attempt to reward him for his diligence to track and of course, he's not going to tell the truth about being a super lecher, so he accepts.

All this pretending not to be a creep has left him a void of emotions and he wants to be more expressive in order to get a girlfriend. Walking home, he expresses this to his friend, who immediately hands him a box of porn and tells him of the magical wish granting powers of the stone cat on the hill. His friend took an offering of his pervy body pillow and came back a changed man lacking perversions. His friend can now go Mother Theresa the world without impure thoughts for the natives.

And so he makes his way up the hill with his own body pillow, Barbra. As he's about to make his wish, a girl suddenly appears and they run around the hill and scream and then talk about their feelings. She feels as though she is too transparent and would love to be able to bottle up some of her feelings in order to appear more mature. And so they decide to make their cat wish together.

Nothing could possibly go wrong, right?

Wrong.

The stone cat takes their offerings and gives them what they wished for. The thing is, the stone cat takes what they no long want and gives it to someone else who could use it.

And so perv boy no longer has a mask to hide behind. At school the next day he makes a fool of himself, berating the attractive transfer student by calling her flat chested and totally perving it up at his track captain.

Dubbed 'Hentai Prince' by the entire school, he has some feelings in a room by himself. Until the girl from the hill shows up and complains about how she cannot make any expressions at all.  They go back tot he hill to ask the cat for their personality traits back, but the cat is silent and, dare I say, stoney?

So, after lengthy discussion on the significant plot points and the cat's magic, they discover that the new girl's collar necklace looks a lot like that belt the cat took as an offering. She needed his facade in order to deal with all of the passes made at her. Perv boy vows to get it back, subjugating himself and embarrassing everyone in the process.

He doesn't have it yet.

And so the episode ends.

I wasn't blown away, but it still might surprise me.