C3 CubexCursedxCurious – 1

C3 or CubexCursedxCurious looked like an interesting anime, not completely original in the sense of character dynamic but it seems to have its own unique charm. So far I feel like I was completely right.

Summary

In episode 1 of this series we’re introduced to Yachi Haruaki, a normal guy who keeps getting weird crap from his dad Honatsu. Well this time dad decided to ship a strange cube that is really a tsundere girl named “Fear.”

The typical reaction to a tsun tsun insult. Funny because she was just in cube form at the time.

Haruaki finds out the cube is in fact a person when he decides to go to bed while Fear decides to go into his kitchen for a midnight snack. Hearing crunching noises wakes him so he investigates in the kitchen to see what’s up. Then he sees a naked girl in his kitchen eating his rice crackers.

Find her eating your rice crackers, in the nude and during the middle of the night... what do?

Haruaki accepts this immediately, clothes Fear then gives her tea with her rice crackers. Fear being the tsundere character she is gives her a good smack or two for Haruaki asking some basic questions about who she is. Basically Fear is cursed and is reacts very badly to human sin. So Haruaki is apparently resistant to such curses which is why good ol’ Honatsu decided to make Fear his problem.

Having a girl that's the embodiment of sin that might threaten my way of life and has a horrible dark past? If she looks like this, worth it.

Since at this point it’s early morning Haruaki’s childhood friend Konoha comes over so they can go to school together. Konoha is basically a meganekko (glasses girl) who has big boobs! I know generic but who doesn’t love them?!

Fear and Konoha are introduced they instantly don’t like each other, Konoha is sexually threatened by Fear and Fear is just a tsundere character that is at this point all tsun tsun. So Konoha and Haruaki get going to school while Fear watches some TV. Eventually the show she was watching ends and she becomes lonely.

Haha, she's even tsun when alone!

Fear decides to go outside for some entertainment. While wondering around some nice people from the town decide to talk to Fear thinking that she’s lost. Of course Fear denies it only to realize that she actually might be. Well she runs after having a look of realization that she’s surrounded by people which may reference to a past not yet know.

So she goes back to Haruaki’s place then decides to clean up to kill her boredom. She does a terrible, terrible job…

Yeah if you seem someone dancing around with a vacuum in hand they're most likely not cleaning that or they're doing it very wrong.

So Fear totally messes up the place, Haruaki gets mad and yells at Fear then she starts pouting on her futon. Konoha being the good wife like character she is tells Haruaki he should apologize then tells him to just tell Fear the truth about how he feels toward what happened.

Haruaki being the good willed guy he is makes a sincere apology and she forgives him for yelling at her as he forgives her for messing everything in his living room up. They then start dinner, Fear asks Haruaki if he thinks she can undo her curse, Haruaki response of course then gives her some of the food he was making. She blushes looking satisfied.

Really showing your dere side on episode 1? Fear you have too little resistance, too little resistance I say!

Konoha in the end hears the whole thing and looks satisfied. Thus ending episode 1 of C3.

Thoughts

So what are my impressions so far? The characters have a generic feel to them, Konoha is your typical meganekko who acts like a good future wife to Haruaki. Haruaki is your typical normal nice that’s put in the middle of these two girls and I can bet there’s going to be another female character that could be a love interest thus starting off the harem. Finally there’s Fear whose your typical tsundere character that definitively has a dark past behind her.

Despite this I think there’s an interesting dynamic to C3. Fear’s past is something that I’m definitely looking forward to seeing as well as a full explanation on what it is the curse she has does to herself and others. I believe that the situations that’s been placed due to Fear’s situation will show some interesting sides to Konoha’s and Haruaki’s character.

Then there are questions that loom around in this anime. What is Honatsu (Haruaki’s dad) plan within this whole curse being eliminated? Why is Fear’s name Fear, is it because she is to be feared or simply because people fear her? How is it that Haruaki is resistant to all curses?

I suspect there’s going to be a couple of fights in this anime and we’re going to see sides of Fear that are unexpected and unnatural. Perhaps a little reminiscent of Lucy from Elfen Leid. There’s a lot of potential in C3 I really hope that what I think might happen will. I will be looking forward to what happens next and will surely write about it.