No matter how you look at it Ame has a couple of screws loose. Juu has never met her before, but all of a sudden she comes up to him spouting some story of being united in their past lives. Her antics are unreasonable, but she’s endearing in her one-sided devotion to Juuzawa. Throughout the episodes, she is seen helping him from behind the scenes in many ways.

There’s only a handful of characters present in this short OVA series but they leave a serious impact. They’re highly believable for the most part in the ways they behave. Even the antagonists have their own reasons and methods, making them feel less like some mystery villains and more like actual human beings that are just doing what comes naturally to them. The show does a good job at establishing motivations upfront, which makes the brevity tolerable in a show like this.

There are only two main mysteries in this short series, but they feel more fleshed out than you would find in another stand-alone series. The extra runtime definitely helps with the show’s depth at 42 minutes, and it allows for some character expansion on Juuzawa and Ame. The way they solve them is very unconventional, with Juu taking the brunt of the work on himself while Ame supports him from the shadows. It’s enjoyable seeing how events play out in this series as opposed to the more conventional setups.

The creator of this series Katayama Kentarou is easily one of the most underrated authors in all of Japan in our opinion. Between Denpa-teki na Kanojo and his other series Kure-nai, he creates very engrossing worlds with fully fleshed out characters that just never get fully realized. Denpa-teki is one that should have been a fully adapted series, and at 2 episodes it hurts that it ends so short. However, it is very well crafted and it feels like it would be just as big of a crime to miss it than anything else.