I’ll start off by saying that I really should have watched this series years ago. I initially thought it’s premise was a completely different thing than it originally was. I began to watch this series on the recommendation/review from Anime Pulse. Most/Some of you may know of them, as they are a vastly popular anime podcast that has been around for a little over four years now.

If you haven’t already seen this series by the time you’ve read this review, you need to see it right now. Whether by reading the manga or watching the anime, you need to discover this wonderful series. You also need to start watching/reading more anime and manga. The show itself has a bit of action as well as vast character development and a good dose of humor and romance.

Throughout the show, you see the main protagonist shift his love interest from one girl to another, which you rarely see in shows these days.

The premise is a family line of art thieves; the Niwa family, steal artifacts and works of art to seal the dangerous magic within them. There is a special DNA of a phantom thief, given to the males of the family line. This phantom thief is known as Dark Mousy. The antagonist is a family of artists; the Hikari family. In their bloodline is a jackass named Krad, Dark’s antithesis, if you will.

I’m not going to spoil the origin of these two characters, as that is a major part of the plot for the show. However, the protagonist Daisuke Niwa turns fourteen and suddenly has the perk of transforming into Dark, the phantom thief. There is a way for him to stay normal, and that is to find a “Holy Maiden” that will love him. To be blunt, he has to find a girlfriend in order to “return back to normal.”

The first girl he loves is a girl named Risa Harada, who is one half of a pair of identical twins. The other girl is named Riku. Risa is the bubbly, whiny type, whereas Riku is a bit of a tomboy and more mature of the two. During the course of the show, Risa falls in love with “Dark-san,” and Daisuke takes a while to realize his own feelings.

This is what I was talking about when I said the main protagonist would shift his love interest from one girl to another.

I would talk more about the plot and what goes on in the show, but I’m going to save you from that, because I really want you to see it for yourself. I like some of the music in the show, and the Opening is really nice, I suppose. It’s not one of my favorites, but it fits. I can’t tell you what the Ending is, as I never watch the Endings of anime. I stop the show as soon as it’s over. I don’t watch the previews either. The only anime I’ve ever watched the Ending for is Inuyasha and K-On!

Given how the anime ends, even though the manga is much longer, it ends at a nice place and gives a good closure, as opposed to most open-ended anime series that blatantly say “Keep reading the manga!”

I’m going to give this show a: Download Now