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Wow. Colors.
The animated jungle plants of the opening are a hint of the weirdness to come.
Hale (or Hare, the manga romanizes his name both ways), is your average boy, living in the jungle with his mother (Ueda), picking bananas and playing videogames. His mother is a bit irresponsible --- it often seems that Hale is the adult in the family.
Ueda sends Hale out to pick bananas. While out, he encounters a huge, ominous shadow. He hears a gulp, then everything is a blank. Awakening later on the path, he runs home in a panic to Ueda.
Later that evening, after a village meeting, Ueda brings home a cute pink-haired girl named Guu. Hale is immediately smitten by Guu's charm and pleasant apperance, and is happy to have a new sister like Guu.
The next morning, Guu is a little different. Her place in Hale and Ueda's household assured, she drops her kawaii mask and reveals herself as sullen and cynical, and maybe a little cruel (when Hale's pet bird nestles in her palm, she swallows it).
But there's more.
Guu, you see, is no mere sullen little girl. Guu is a force of nature: a trickster god like Loki or Coyote. Later, Guu swallows Hale, and he learns that inside her is a surreal world of tangerine skies and lemonade seas.
And we're only halfway through the first episode. Before the series is over, we'll travel to New York and back, and meet a bizarre array of odd characters.
Guu is the anti-Belldandy. She moves into a lonely boy's life and changes it completely.
The title is a pun on Japanese weathercaster speak (thus our translation, above). By the director of Excel Saga.
