Nanako Kaitai Shinsho

This anime was...ok i guess. Not much to do but enjoy the fan-service of boob-flouncing apparent in every episode. Hardly any plot development, and the supposedly comedic scenes were absolutely shallow.

If you're looking for a series that has nothing but panty-shots, huge breasts, and air-headed girls - this is what you should watch.

Otherwise, it's best not to torture yourself.

This was an endurance test.....This anime is just bad.....Purely awful...

I'm fully aware of when this anime was made so there's not "present bias" in my review.

To get a nitpick out of the way.....Why is it called 'Amazing Nurse Nanako'?
She's not a nurse and she sure as hell isn't amazing….Nanako is a very incompetent maid that sucks at doing her job.

Nitpick over...

One thing I really hated was the sound.
... Both dubs are pretty bad, the English Dub obviously being the worst!
I had to watch each episode a day apart to recover from Nanako's repetitive and extremely annoying whining.
The Japanese dub isn't that bad, but with both dubs it seemed like the actor's voice didn't match well with the characters.

The art was okay, the CGI was gross to look at...the 2D animation was okay, it's not as bad as some titles from the time.

The Story.....it's all over the place and the fanservice comes out of nowhere....like when Nanako needed to lighten the load on the plane....

Not to mention the ending was.....it came out of absolutely no where like it was slapped on....

This anime is the product of two people in the anime industry who work on anime with polar opposite genres coming together to make a single show...

Stay away from this anime...….

As I was watching this oldie, a very basic question came to me. WHY IS NANAKO CALLED A NURSE??? I mean, sure, the setting is a hospital but Nanako NEVER TREATS A PATIENT. There aren’t even patients there; it’s just some front for experiments on genetics. In fact, the show is better called Amazing Maid Nanako, as she is mostly dressed as such. The rest of the time she is wearing some gymnastics or battle suit… or doesn’t wear anything.

Another thing is how the story itself has absolutely nothing to do with hospitals. It is closer to some scatterbrain ecchi comedy with sci-fi / thriller ... overtones. Which I guess makes it somewhat interesting. One moment we have this scientific explanation around DNA and the next Nanako is fooling around half-naked.

The story is only 6 episodes and the interest comes only at the fifth, where we learn of the true past of Nanako. But even then, all that don’t seem to matter much as the actual plot of the anime is completely nonessential. It is 90% random gags and slapstick with ecchi, before some spooky scientific dialogue pops up and some alien mutant thing appears to chase Nanako around. And she is no fighter either; she always needs the help of some guy to save her, and she ends up in her undies and on his lap all the time. So although there are scenes of horror and occult, they all go to waste because of the brainless ecchi comedy.

As far as characters go, none is interesting or that developed and practically it is only Nanako and the blondie scientist who get fleshed out when the flashback comes up. That gives you something to bother about, but doesn’t excuse how the rest of the story and the plot are barely trying to offer something good. And no, I don’t consider the ecchi aspect to count as good.

The production values are not good either as the animation is highly jerky and the music themes completely forgettable. Heck, most of the time there hardly appears to be BGM in general. Not only that, but Nanako ends up being a very irritating character. She is clumsy and naive, constantly cries, shouts, and runs around in her underwear and comes off as irritating instead of sympathetic or sexy. Plus, her boobies jiggle so silly, it even stops being erotic after awhile. She is better suited for some rape hentai or something. As for blondie hunk, he is just there to keep the plot going; we hardly get enough to care about him.

This is a weird short anime. It is not really enjoyable but the weird mix of ecchi with horror and mystery make it somewhat memorable. So is the fact that there was supposed to be a nurse somewhere in here…