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Synopsis

16 year old Shintaro Kurenai has a career as a dispute mediator, a job involving sorting out disagreements between people. Despite his age and soft attitude, he’s a man dedicated to his career and is trained in martial arts. One day his employer entrusts him with his biggest job yet, the protection of 7 year old Murasaki Kuhouin, a daughter who’s been rescued from the clutches of her rich and powerful family. Will the young and inexperienced Shintaro be able to protect Murasaki?

Review

Here’s a fantastic idea for the protection of a little girl with dangerous people searching for her. Get one of your weakest, youngest and most inexperienced employee’s on the job. Make sure he lives in a run down apartment which is easy to break into and make sure you have the piece of mind of knowing that you’re in safe hands with a single bodyguard on the other side of the road. Don’t even bother with silly ideas of disguising the little girl or changing her name. While on the job always remember that having a good time is a priority, even if that means casually taking the child you’re supposed to be protecting on a nice stroll outside in the complete open. Does that make sense to you?

Kure-nai doesn’t know what it wants to be. Sometimes it feels like a slice of life drama series, at other times it feels like a martial arts blockbuster and the colourful opening/ending sequences look like they’re made for a light hearted comedy. Kure-nai has no sense of direction or focus, a lot of episodes don’t have real purpose and one episode even features all the characters breaking into song.

Overall

When a show is driven by an appalling script with more holes than a golf course and a lack of direction, who really cares to pay attention to the rest of the content?