Renaissance Josei

So stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there’s a story about a teenage boy.  He’s not particular good at social graces, lives alone for entirely contrived reasons, and generally doesn’t have a high opinion of himself.  Then one day he unexpectedly does a good deed; maybe he saves a child or stops a criminal.  The nature of the deed doesn’t really matter as the end result is that he ends up dead, only to be reincarnated in some wacky form which puts him into contact with at least half a dozen pretty girls who all fit within any number of otaku-friendly stereotypes.  Naturally, this is all based on a series of light novels by no one you’ve heard of in particular. What I’m trying to say is that  Dog and Scissors  is not a very original show.  Indeed, the only thing that would make it more predictable would be to send the protagonist to a fantasy world that may or may not be a literal video game.  Nonetheless , it does have a few qualitie...