Ranked #4627

Busou Shinki

Busuo Shinki doesn’t have a lot to offer. It’s a twelve episode about dolls that fight each other. It sounds pretty good, isn’t it?
-Story(9/10)-
Shinki are 15 centimeter tall partners created to serve humans. They are endowed with intelligence and emotions, and they serve the one they call master. Humans can equip their Shinki with whatever armor or weaponry they please, and command them to fight. Some fight for honor, others to prove their strength and some simply strive for victory. These girls who do battle using their weapons given to them by their masters are called “Busou Shinki”.
The idea of dolls being used for battle is something very exciting to me. But, the thing is in story mainly is slice of life, and only a few battles.
There is nothing special about the story. It’s just about four dolls owned by one guy living in an apartment. When their master is in school or his job, the dolls are doing household things or meet some other Shinki. Each episode involves some form of activity the girls are doing like cleaning the house, meeting other dolls, taking care of their master.
Some people will say it just sucks no fight scenes! Yes, you are right, mostly slice of life.
-Animation(9/10)-
The animation is pretty good. The girls are pretty generic but they have a nice look to them. I love the joints added to their body and the way their body curves. Even the side characters have a lovely look to them and I really appreciate the fact that the girls are all nicely designed. I also love it when the girls transform. The design of their armor is really nice.
Fight scenes are pretty good, the camera work is fantastic. A lot of the fight scenes in the anime are pretty flashy and it adds a lot of intrigue in the anime. The way the camera moves is also pretty amazing, it helps to feel battle.
-Soundtrack(5/10)-Average background effects and the whole soundtrack.
-Characters(5/10)- Mostly Shinki are the same, I won’t describe this topic.
-Enjoyment(7/10)- Pretty good slice of life, but only a few battles :.
-Overall Score(5/10)-It had flashy fight scenes, pretty good slice of life, but no story and only a few battle scenes. read more

So reading the tags of this anime (action, sci-fi) you may think (like i did): "Cool! Custom cute robots fighting!"; well that was true, but not the only truth. Most of the anime will lack a TRUE background plot and the fighting scenes are not...really the top...
Let me explain in the deep:

Plot - 5 (i am being good here)
Basically it's a slice of life anime without a defined plot. After the first episode you could see the ep 6, then the 2 and you will notice NOTHING. The only exception to this are some minor arcs of two episodes but that's all; you can see the last two episodes after the first one and all will looks just fine. Not a single evolution of events in the whole anime, boring.

Characters - 5
Standards characters: a blond and a blue airheads, the tsundere and the heroine. The master is a totally bland character so they are just "mediocre"

Enjoyment - 4 (that's my personal opinion)
I hate it. The first episode was promising with Ann (the heroine) almost defeating in a fight one of the champion of the tournament but that's all: no tournament, no serious battle. A lot of girls fighting to be pat by their master, looks like an harem -_-'

Overall - 5
Are you ok with a casual plot? Are you ok with characters without any kind of "soul"? Well if you are give a shot. If you are looking for some real action with cool characters click back or close your browser and run away from here.

Keywords: NO LASERS AND UBER CANNONS!

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