English Dub Review: Mother of the Goddess Dormitory (Uncensored): “Koushi Becomes a Dorm Mother/ The Problem with Mineru and Frey”

Overview: Homeless and without a penny to his name, 12 year old Koushi (Brittany Karbowski), gets recruited by Mineru Wachi (Carli Mosier), for a job as a dorm mother of six very different college women and must navigate all the explicit excitement that comes from the various shenanigans he finds himself in. 

Our Take: If the one problem with your childhood was your 12 year old self couldn’t get themselves into enough lewd situations, then this might be right up your alley.

Now right off the bat, I was unsure about how comfortable I would be with this series moving as a whole. After all, the entire premise is legitimately about how an adolescent boy, Koushi, becomes a dorm mother for college girls, getting into risqué situations and hijinks with them. Oh how Japan loves their underage groping. Granted, it’s all done in good fun and never meant to be taken seriously. But truthfully, I have to say it didn’t become an issue. All the indecent misunderstandings from the cliché tripping and disoriented groping are pretty tame by most series standards, for this episode at least. Even without the conveniently placed white steam covering ladies lovely nipples, it never does anything incredibly egregious or even that arousing and is always pretty playful. But to reiterate, this is just the first episode! Therefore it could just be the tip of the iceberg. 

In regards to the story, it goes about how one would expect. Koushi cares about them and wins them over with his overwhelming kind and gratuitous heart in how he’s willing to give up his job for Atena’s peace of mind and of course that nails him the job. 

One aspect I didn’t expect of him, even though ironically enough it’s in the freaking title of all things, is to emulate a mother in how he scolds the girls. I honestly assumed he would just be a mother in name alone and basically just be a maid throughout while providing moral support. So there’s a nice twist there which may not have been surprising to anyone else but me funnily enough. If this series can have Koushi build meaningful relationships with each of the girls with an occasional slip of the nip here and there (among other things), it’ll be a fun time in my book. For now, it just seems to play strictly by the book with no especially defining aspects as of yet. But at the same, it’s a relatively easy watch that you can turn your brain off to and enjoy for a few moments. Let’s just hope there’s more to it beyond that.