Brief Description:
http://myanimelist.net/anime/303/Ah!_My_Goddess:_Chichaitte_Koto_wa_Benri_da_ne
Ah! Mini Goddess (1998) as the title is informally known, is a collection of 48 5-minute episodes, featuring the goddesses from the popular series Ah! My Goddess in chibi form, having fun with their friend Gan the rat while Keiichi is away at school. Based on a 4-panel comic you can expect them to be more comedy sketches (in which Gan is the butt of the joke, more often than not) than a real, ongoing plot.
This series has no bad content whatsoever and is recommended to all ages, and previous involvement with the parent series is not required at all.
Previously licensed by Geneon Entertainment in 2003, but has discontinued release.
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What is it? Adventures of the Mini Goddessess is a spin-off of popular early 90s OVA Ah! My goddess, or more exactly, an animated adaptation of the 4-koma spin-off of the AMG manga. For those who don't know the franchise, here's a link to the CAA review of it.
Funny and lighthearted, each 5-minute episode is a small sketch featuring Belldandy, Skuld and Urd, the three "goddesses" living with ordinary college student Keiichi Morisato and the adventures they have while he's away studying and they reduce themselves in size in an attempt to stave off boredom. Joining them is Gan, a common house rat who they befriend, but who accidentally ends becoming the victim of their well-intended but ultimately disastrous magic powers. (In the case of Urd and Skuld, not always "accidentally", nor "well-intended.") In spite of the inherent zaniness of the premise, a good number of the episodes could be more properly described as slice-of-life than as plain comedy.
What should I expect? Slapstick humour, lightheartedness and tons of cuteness. It is best served as "snack watching": Watch one or two episodes here and there in between episodes of other series.
What should I NOT expect? An ongoing plot (though some episodes are connected or reference past episodes,) depth, or production values.
Anything I should be wary about? As you can see above, the series gets 1 in all the contents warnings, except for a meager 2 in "Theological Themes". This is because the series main characters are said to be "goddesses" (In fact they bear romaji-zed versions of some nordic deities' names.) However, the term is rather misleading and in reality, they are simply another race of humanoids with magical powers (and advanced technology) that is tasked with helping humans reach their potential. They are organized in complex hierarchies atop of which may or may not sit an actual "God", but this matter is not very elaborated in the franchise and is not even mentiioned in this particular series.
SCORING (The score above represents my subjective liking of the series, I'll attempt to be more objective in this section)
Base score: 6.0/10.0
Add 0.5 if:
-You've seen and liked some of the parent titles of this franchise. Note, however, that this title may perfectly be enjoyed without any previous knowledge of the original story.
Add 1.0 if:
You are looking for lighthearted, easy laughs.
Add up to 2.0:
In the measure you like cuteness.
Subtract 0.5 if:
-You've seen and disliked any of the parent titles of this franchise. As stipulated above, this spin-off is sufficiently separated from the parent story not to be totally dismissible if you didn't like it.
Subtract 2.0 if:
-You expect depth and intellectual stimulation from your anime.
-You place weight on production values and/or you dislike early 90s' typical character design.
-Slice-of-life bores you to tears.
Subtract 5.0 if:
You loathe cuteness. Or rats.
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