Teenager, pervert, shadows and boredom mortal Akira is an ordinary teenager who does not think about his life or anything else. He often skips classes, gets involved in various fights and does not care what will happen in the future. One day, he and a couple of his friends find themselves at school at night, where they are attacked by some strange monsters, and everything would have ended badly for the company if a tall guy in a hat appeared before Akira, who called himself Shirogane, and offered him help. All Akira had to do was become “Sin”, for which Shirogane kisses him and declares that from now on he is his shadow, and now Akira will have to expel from our world the monsters (“Kikuchi”) that someone has let here from the world of darkness.
At first glance, an amusing craft in fact turns out to be a terribly boring and completely uninteresting thing, stretched over twenty-four episodes. This creation is based on the manga of the same name and, I must admit, it is somewhat more interesting than the film adaptation, which, however, does not particularly brighten up the negative impression of this “masterpiece” as a whole. In principle, if someone wants to get acquainted with it, to save your time, you can only look at the first and last series - it is there that everything you need to know about the shadows, Akira, Shirogane and other basic concepts of the "Monochrome factor"; the remaining twenty-two series are nothing more than a repetition of one by one with an admixture of obscure characters who subsequently do not play any role at all.
So, Akira here (like most Japanese schoolchildren) is an independent guy, not afraid of either the gateway hooligans, with whom he can easily go into battle alone, or monsters that destroy everything in their path. This (and quite unoriginal) character was voiced by Ono Daisuke, who is trying to squeeze something out of his frankly annoying “ward”, but it so happened that Akira did not really cause any sympathy - perhaps because he is simply banal. Two "friends" Akira (although the guy does not consider them such) - Kengo Asamura and Aya Suzuno - a couple of the same standard characters: the girl we have the headman - she is smart and excellent; Kengo is Akira’s “six”, trying to imitate him, however, with an eternally unsuccessful result.
A separate theme here is Shirogane - a pervert created specifically for the female half of animeshniks (typical bisenen), whose sweet image personally began to infuriate me since the second series. If at first it seemed that the eternal molestation of Shirogane to Akira will look comedic, then in the end it turned out that all this action is suitable only for minors who are not at all interested in what is happening on the screen. Well, in fact, the anime is created for them, as especially on the plot will not have to think - just worth watching hysterical Akira and his loving "partner" Shirogane. However, it is definitely difficult to say anything: after all, many episodes in the series are clearly "not childish" - yes, at least the one where, for example, the girl decided to become a guy is enough - and in general, such questions are given too much time.
If you show the same events from series to series, pursuing a strictly defined scheme that does not change absolutely, this can strain even the most patient viewer. Yes, in the course of the plot, some characters appear, but this is only for one episode, and then they safely disappear, so there is a pond of episodic characters here. It would have had an impact on the lives of the main characters, but no! The monster invades someone who is in close proximity to Akira and his friends, then Shirogane says that the unfortunate has fallen under the influence of darkness, and it is not that an exciting battle begins, in which the monster dies, and the victim begins to shed tears. And so, twenty-two times in a row. The main villains - ridiculous Nanaya and "don't-understand-why-she-that" Lulu - two more characters, not particularly affecting the plot, stepping on rake exactly as much as in the anime series, capable of leading the top "The stupidest villains in the world."
In general, it's funny. There is nothing in this series that could appeal to fans of epic fights or intricate storylines (yes, there is intrigue here, but for me it was not a big mystery), and even the drawing for some reason I did not like (however, the correction is the drawing in the anime; everything is fine in the manga). Short, bad.
4 out of 10
...expected more.