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Well, I saw this anime for only one reason: Same author as Working!!, one of my top comedy animes, and let me say, I really liked it.

I´ll go over some things that I really enjoyed about this anime, without spoilering too much, so here I go:

1) To begin with let´s talk about the opening. Visuals were great, the song was spot-on with the visuals and the spoilers where minimun, that is not found on every opening, for example OP 12 of Bleach, with good song and visuals, but with all the spoilers you can get under 1:30. This three points make a great OP what ... it is: great, like for example Noragami or Tokyo Ghoul, anime wich I have not seen yet but almost did because of the Opening.

2) The characters in general. At the begining, after reading the summary, I was thinking the characters would be a lot more exagerated, and I was glad to see not so crazy characters that had actual development on the series. Something worth noticing about the characters is that they had a pretty balanced screen time, just like Working, wich is a big plus on my eyes

3) The relationships. Maybe this will be a little spoilery, so feel free to skip it. On the first couple of episodes I was foreseeing that Lucy would fall for Hasabe, but I was pleased to see that it was the other way around, and it actually made him develop as a character quite a bit. On the other hand, the ship between Chihaya and Ichimiya was quite wierd for me at the begining. I though "Well, if he´s got a Tsundere imouto, why whould he need a Kuudere girlfriend?". Little by little it grew on me, but it was still kinda wierd.

4) The plot, if you can call it that way. It was what I was specting, taking into acount that it´s similar to Working!!, so it was not a let down at all. I found it spot on.

I can only find a couple of things I disliked/didn´t liked that much about the anime overall. First the character of Tanaka. It´s not that I hated him or something, because his character was made hate-able on pourpose, but he was to similar to Yamada Kirio from... well, Working. The thing I didn´t like was that the bothering character was basically the same but grown up. The other thing I disliked was that the art reminded me was a little far from what I expected it to be, but it was good overall, so it´s more like a neutral thing.

TL;DR: This is an anime worth watching if you´re looking for a little bit of japanesse humour (not like ususal moedies) and you already saw Working!!. I´ll be waiting for a S2 :D

Oh, where do I begin.
I don´t know how I didn´t knew this anime existed before yesterday.

At first I thought this would be a strange rom-harem thing with historical in it, ant turned out to be more less that but more like a historiacal with rom/harem in it, but no so much harem taking into account that the MC made more less a desition.

There are some things that I found rather enjoyable from this series:

1)The characters. I think the MC was spot on: not too much of a pervert, not too overconfident or doubtfull, and not a simple plot device that spoiled the whole war ... thing telling the end all the time. Nobuna was a good heroine too, and the tsun traits makes her even better. All the generals, the other female leads or important characters where good too, but at some point there where too many lolis for me.
2) The plot. Even if this was a historical anime, kind of telling real facts and some people might find it boring I found it appealing, I´m interested on the actual history of that era right now. It had a lot of names, but the anime allowed me to remember all the important ones when I needed them.
3) It´s not finished. At the end they basically give a glipse at the next "boss" and thell you *I wish* "we´re making a second season, probably". I know many animes end up like this, with the posibility of a second season open just in case it turn out to be viable, but I really want this one to get a S2, just like 6-7 other animes out there that really deserve one.

Now some of the flaws/things that I would have liked but where not there. *A little spoiler tag because I´m going to say some specific stuff* The girl that gave points to every desition. At first I thouhgt that she had something to do with the fact that the MC is basically playing a game, but at the end of S1 nothing changed, and I got used to it, so I´m not intrigued.
Two things I want to point out is that, even though all the historical characters are sex inverted might be kinda offensive for some people, I found it entretaining, imagining how´s the real story with the right sexes was kinda fun. I found this part greatly executed, because the characters still had their strong will, most of it at least.
I was rather unaffected by the continous exposure to Nobuna´s bra, mainly because many ecchi animes made me invulnerable and because it felt in-character, the free spirit and carelessness of having the robe undone when people of her trust where there.

Overall an enjoyable anime, not the best but better that many of them.

This is an anime that I didn´t drop for three reasons:

1) I wanted to see if Aria and the MC would end up together. I always want to find an anime that ends with the main heroine and the MC as a couple, even better if the heroine is a tsundere, because it´s really hard to find a complete tsundere route.
2) It has an upcoming second season and I needed to see the first one to be on the same page. I´m not saying that this next season of Hidan no Aria will be good, the plot is not too complex at all, but I ... wanted to see how the producers make the story revolve around the same MC again even if the new plot-device character is only there dor Aria.
3) The kuudere or just kuu sniper girl. She had a lot of potencial, the classic too good for the MC to be with female character that does awesome stuff every scene she´s on.

I kinda liked the MC´s hysteria mode, how it triggered and everything, but with the progression of the series they made it less epic in comparison as the first chapter, wich was a let down.

Apart from this three points there´s nothing outstanding or even apealing for the show. I really desliked how try-hard it felt when they mentioned the whole *aria middle name* stuff and, oh lord, the *villian identity* part, the "Then you are *villian identity* right?" part, ugh, that killed the little hope I had with the villian, wich was predictable as truck since the chap 10 or so.
Another thing that I found wierd was the panty shot censorship, at least on the page I watched the anime. Maybe I´m use to panty shots so I´m no longer affected by them, and when I see obsious censorship I think "wow, for japan to censor anything? this must be some serious sheet", but I found the censorship a little out of place.

Over all not a great anime, but well, it could have been worse