Please Twins
Possibly incestuous love. A palm-sized alien that gets nosebleeds at the sight of panties. Mock lesbianism to test a guy to see if he’s gay. Multiple swimsuit and beach episodes. A voyeuristic student council president. Please Twins sounds terrible, but it’s actually quite good, if you can get past the overwhelmingly strange premise and the oddities that follow.
Mike is a high school student who lives by himself and writes computer programs for money. One day, Mina shows up at his doorstep, proclaiming that she just happens to be his sister. Unfortunately, Karen shows up just a bit later with virtually the same proclamation. All of them have a photograph of two young children, a boy and a girl, playing in a pool in the nude in front of the house that Mike currently rents. Mike deduces that the girl in the photograph must be his twin sister, the boy must be him, and one of the two young women that just appeared at his home is not actually related to him at all. All of them were abandoned to orphanages at a young age and have no memories that would help them unravel the situation. Not willing to risk throwing family out on the street, Mike decides to let both Mina and Karen live with him.
All of this would have been good enough fodder for a great and interesting anime series, but Twins goes ahead and throws a few more curveballs. Mike is hit on by an ostensibly gay guy he shares a desk with at school. The student council vice president also seems to be after him, and soon, the potential “twins” both desire Mike, which creates some very awkward “they might be relatives” moments for him.
Incredibly, the series manages to end with a surprisingly complete resolution that leaves the characters all more or less happy. It’s even more incredible that this was done without any sort of extreme deus ex machina, which would have hardly been out of place in a series with space aliens.
The romantic drama of Please Twins never becomes too heavy – a good hearty dose of humor and a strong laugh are usually never more than a few minutes away. So if you’re looking for a “serious comedy”, give Please Twins a try.
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