A Couple of Cuckoos

Nagi always felt like the odd one in his family, being a diligent and ambitious learner while none of them are particularly studious. Anyway he loves them and therefore has little interest to get to know his biological parents. He gives into meeting them once, but little does he know what they have planned out for him...

"A Couple of Cookoos" constructs a hilarious setting to establish the harem plotline. The show tries to be funny, but fails to be outstandingly witty or hilarious. Its animation style is rather serious and not overly comical, which makes it hard for the show to find its place. It doesn't take itself particularly serious and therefore makes it hard to immerse or relate. It offers a certain share of fanservice while following the protagonist navigating the maze of weirdness his family, biological parents and his own feelings throw him into, but does not manage to connect to the viewer on an emotional level.

Eventually this show seems to be between the chairs. Its style does not really match with the kind of story it tries to tell, and thus fails to excel in either dimension of the romcom genre. It's still 'good' imho, but not more. Watch it if you're a fan of the genre, but leave it be if not since it is unlikely to get you hooked.

Plot is a 16-year-old second-year high school student who learns that he is not the biological child of the family that raised him. On the way to his first meeting with his biological family, he meets Erika Amano, a popular internet celebrity who is trying to escape from an arranged marriage. Later, and Erika discover that the hospital had accidentally switched the two after their births and their parents are now aiming to put them in an arranged marriage; so they, selfishly, do not have to say goodbye to the children they raised after missing out of their respective childhoods. To facilitate this, they are made to live in a house owned by Erika's family; hoping the two will fall in love before graduation, but will respect their wishes to abandon the idea if nothing comes of it.

Characters

Voiced A second-year student Academy, who is ranked second in his grade. He is the biological son of a hotel tycoon, but due to a mix-up after his birth is raised by a different family. He has a crush on his classmate Hiro and aims to confess to her once he beats her in the school rankings. Following a challenge which he won, he starts dating Hiro. However, he starts to develop feelings toward Erika after realizing he hurt her by choosing Hiro.

First, if I was handed a boy to take home instead of the GIRL I just gave birth to, I think I would notice.

Second, the whole main contrivance of this anime is, though not technically incestual, emotionally and psychologically, absolutely is.

Third, all the little sub-plots are unnecessarily complicated. They are meant for laughs -- people hiding the fact that they don't know each other or live together sort of thing -- but they come off as very amateurish.

Fourth, has ALL the same characters you have ever seen in anime.

As far as I can tell, the manga is still going. I thought I would finish this season and be done with it, but I guess not. I won't be back for season 2.

The plot of two people being switched at birth was amazing and I love how every character had their own development in their own unique way.

Personally, I think Nagi was thrown around a bit too much but other than that, it was great It wasn't like your typical harem which I was really getting bored of. I was actually thinking of quitting harem anime until I watched this.

Normally I would rate it 10/10 but I still feel it was missing something. I really hope they raise the bar in season 2 but I couldn't wait so I've already began to read the manga lol but all in all, it was masterpiece of an anime.

I don't even have the words, the anime is really good even if there are a lot of things that are not logical like the story of the baby being switched at birth and many others and the plot repeats itself and we advance very little in the anime I ended up reading the manga but after a few chapters it was better the only problem is the plot when an episode ended there was not really any excitement to see the next episode but it's normal it's not an action anime the episodes had emotion all I have to say is that I'll be there for season 2 I highly recommend it for romantic comedy fans so my final rating will be 7.