with a similar series that involved gender swapping—Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½. In a review on THEM Anime Reviews, the Stig Høgset wrote that the anime can be "aggravating to watch at times," but can still raise smiles, as the characters make the show believable, calling the show "down to earth and pleasant to look at, if nothing else," reinforced by a detailed art style and "generally great animation quality." The conclusion of the anime was positively reviewed by Erica Friedman, who is the president of Yuricon, an anime convention geared towards fans of yuri anime and manga, and ALC Publishing, a publishing house dedicated to yuri. Friedman described the anime's conclusion as "so normal - so much like a thing that might have actually happened in real life...that it kind of just went under the radar." Carl Kimlinger of Anime News Network said that unlike Kannazuki no Miko, the series does not "emotionally overwhelm its audience" but is a "gently emotional romantic comedy" instead, with the secret of "Hazumu's sex-change" told to the entire world, and said that the juggling of different viewpoints from the character makes you "sympathize strongly with each one." Kimlinger also praised the "effortlessly evocative visuals and...understated score," said that the series has an eye for the "dramatic potential of its gender-switching premise," called the backgrounds are "softly evocative," and praised the series as a "gentle romantic comedy" while calling the humor in the series forced and "intrusive." The three DVD volumes released by Media Blasters were reviewed by Anime News Network. In the review of the first DVD, the reviewer commented, that the series "skillfully juggled" the character's different viewpoints, drawing in viewers with "soft, effortlessly evocative visuals," relying on facial expressions which subtly shifted in order to communicate the emotional states of the characters. For the second DVD volume, Theron Martin said that the artistic style and colors used, it contributes to "the look and feel of the original story," with the anime duplicate many scenes from the original manga and it does everything to stay true to "the original writing." Finally, for the third volume, Carl Kimlinger wrote that the writers made an ill-advised attempt to remove he "bitter" from "bittersweet" by tacking on plot developments which are unconvincing in the OVA, but that it ultimately has a "deeply satisfying conclusion." The three DVD volumes released by Media Blasters were also reviewed by