One of the shows from earlier in the decade that I suspect a lot of us have forgotten about is Noucome, aka My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering With My School Romantic Comedy. Sentai Filmworks rolled this bad boy out in both DVD and Blu-ray editions back then but it never made its way online for streaming, which means it could be lost to the ages unless you went through their catalog in a deep dive. The show is still available on Blu-ray and is currently streaming on HIDIVE where it’s in its original Japanese language with English subtitles as no dub was produced for it.
But man, they should go back and dub this.
The series is based on the light novels by Takeu Kasukabe and it was simulcast when it was aired during the fall 2013 anime season, though we only got the ten-episode run there was the OVA as well, which is included in this home video release, came out in May 2014.
Check out our review of this show.
Plot Concept: Due to a strange curse called Absolute Choice, Kanade Amakusa’s life has turned into a “choose your own adventure” game from Hell. Series of options that seem designed to cause him the maximum possible duress and/or public embarrassment randomly appear in front of him, and if he doesn’t choose one he suffers agonizing pain. Needless to say, his resulting bizarre behavior has already branded him as one of his school’s five worst social misfits, and things get even weirder when he chooses one of the strangest options yet: “have a beautiful girl fall from the sky.”
Not only does the adorable Chocolat drop on him like a bag of bricks, but she seems to have been sent to help remove the curse! Only, she can’t remember how because she has amnesia. But it has something to do with missions he has to perform, and if he fails to achieve the objective of any of them, he’ll be stuck with the curse for life!