Maiku Kamishiro is a breath of animated fresh air.

The lead character in Please Twins isn't like your typical boy in romance anime. He doesn't gush and blush when he's around Miina Miyafuji and Karen Onodera, the two girls who have invaded his home. There are no fantasies of his unwelcome roommates. When he finds himself in a (predictable) sexually uncomfortable position, he's more frustrated than anything else.

It's because he wants them out of his house. Today. Now, if possible. But he won't get his wish until he finds out which one is his sister.

Maiku (Mike on the English dub) only has one thing that tells him anything about his past: a picture of him and a young girl, with a home in the background. One day that home appears in the background of a TV news report about a UFO sighting.

Maiku moves into the home, attends a nearby school, and works as a computer programmer out of the house. Two years after the news report, two girls (both with the same picture, and both claiming to be his sister) show up at his door. On the same day.

Huge coincidence or fate? Maybe it's giving too much credit to Please Twins to assume the latter, but that UFO thing is too unexplained to just accept the former. It's only four episodes in, and the only evidence of aliens is the strange, tiny talking doll who only makes a prolonged appearance in episode three.

Please Twins is a backwards hybrid of its predecessor, Please Teacher. In Please Teacher, a young boy discovers an alien, and finds out it's his new teacher. That was the premise from the start. In Please Twins, aliens are somehow involved, but we get few clues as to how.

Most of this first volume follows the home and school life of Maiku and the girls, and some interesting questions are raised.

Maiku is a hot commodity at school, as he rebuffs the advances of an openly gay kid, one of the teachers, and the class president. Why does he reject everyone's play to get him in bed?

At home, you'd figure Maiku would be the one to stress over having these attractive women around all the time, with no proof he's related to either of them. Instead, Miina and Karen are the ones affected by this uncertainty, dreaming of Maiku, wondering if they should get involved. Maiku just suffers their existence. He's not feigning indifference, he just is indifferent. At least for now.

The sexual underpinnings of Please Twins isn't as in-your-face as other romance anime. It's not completely hidden, but it doesn't slap you upside the head or make fun of itself either.

This first volume was extremely entertaining anime, and was unique among the romance offerings I've seen lately.

I'm just trying to guess when the aliens are going to make an appearance, if they aren't in front of us already.

Solid looking transfer, with only some minor shimmering of the image at a couple points. The characters are a little undefined at times, but it's a solid looking animation, with above average color usage and some very beautiful settings. The full screen presentation isn't disappointing, and there's no noticeable bleeding.

Japanese and English 2.0 options, with nothing special to report from either audio track. Really, both sounded fine, with good music, minor use of ambient noise, and solid, unremarkable dialogue.

The extras for Please Twins are about average, with "Image Vocals," a fancy name for music videos from the show, a very cool promo clip which summarized the first volume, an original Japanese TV commercial, and three Bandai previews (which was an interesting mix for a romance anime: Wolf's Rain, Stratos 4, and Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex). There are DVD credits as well, and a Please Twins postcard is thrown in to the DVD case.

This is easily the most fun I've had with a romance anime. Of course Please Twins was funny, but it was also unique, and surprised me. It's an easy Recommendation.