Shinmai Maou no Testament

As a person who completely finished the LN, and is currently reading the manga, it may come as a surprise that I gave this a low score since the season 1 adaptation was pretty faithful. The reason I rated it so low is considering the other animes I've watched, it's not that this anime is absolutely garbage, it's just that when it's compared to other anime or even just other harem animes, it's subpar in storytelling and overall the weak characters don't help this show.

Story(2/10) - Typical and generic harem plot.

Art(5/10) - It really depends, the animation quality overall isn't bad, and of course animating ... both ecchi scenes and action scenes will be incredibly hard for studios. Overall, I think it's executed pretty well, of course, I can be nitpicky if I want to, but generally, the animation is quite smooth, especially the animation in the opening.

Sound(9/10) - Voice acting was on-par with most other harem shows, and for an ecchi show, this is way better than most of those out there. As for the music, I absolutely love Blade of Hope, the opening of this series. Thus I am giving this section a tremendously high score, I think for an ecchi harem anime this show fairs very well against its competitors.

Character(2/10) - You got your cool guy with brown or black hair, and of course, you also have your cast of low self-esteem yet overpowered girls. In there, you have a hot-headed tsundere with big boobies that always gets fondled by the male MC, a blue-haired girl who is great at using katanas, because no action anime doesn't have your classic katana that in reality, not many samurais bring around everywhere due to its size and weight. Then of course you also have your white-haired lo--uh girl with incredibly short height. Thus, with the great harem of MC, he is unbeatable.

Enjoyment(10/10) - Although it has an endless amount of issues, I can't stop but love this show for somewhat reason, there is just something about this show that is so bad that makes me want to watch this show.

Overall(3/10) -It's safe to say if you don't enjoy harem or ecchi shows, you won't like this. If you do enjoy those though, I think this show can satisfy your filthy wants while also providing you with cool action scenes.

well...what can be said? where do I start? I guess....

The animation was definitely not a priority when it came to figuing out the budget. I felt like I was watching a cheesy 90s Saturday morning cartoon (for those that are old enough to remember them.) Colors weren't too bad, backgrounds were ok, but man, the rest of it was just...sad. Probably the best animation came when there were tongues mashed against each other.

Sometimes scenes shift blindly. You'll go from being in one place and then you'll suddenly be in another, almost as if they were crunched for time restraints due to it running too long. ... There needed to be some sort of reason and definition without alienating the current segway. It really should could be added at the very end of previous shot by adding "let's go see X person," etc to smooth out the transiton.

I didn't go into this thinking that the amount of mature content was going to be overwhelming to the plot. Avoid this if hentai isn't your thing. I mean, I don't mind boobs and stuff, but this really pours it on.

Stereotypes are all on display here. Good looking protagonist with the trope of a "male protagonist with a shameful and broken past renews himself and proves to not be a bad guy, ultimately becoming the hero we know - no - deserve." Then there's there the "big boobed, male dependent female." There is one character that seems to have her head screwed on straight for most non-hentai themed storylines (Yuki), but falls into the stereotype of being part of a harem and totally jealous, though the way she handles that aspect is again stereotypical. She has to have him for her own and will do anything to make it happen! Despite that, she's my favorite character of the who she-bang because she's straightforward and resolut. She speak for herself and without reserve. She should be the one to win Basara's heart, though that's not how harem/hentai anime works (#TeamYuki.)

If you don't mind extreme lewdness, weak/predictable storylines and bad animation and have about 6 hours to kill, this is the show for you.

Imagine a mediocre chicken wing dipped in a high-scoville sauce.
That pretty much describes this anime.

Under the sheer amount of ecchi content that actually had to be TONED DOWN from the light novel (which encroaches further into straight-up hentai territory the further you go into it), lies a by-the-numbers fantasy series. And while even the anime makes High School DxD look like HeartCatch Pretty Cure in terms of raunchyness, the fact that Basara is related, in some way, to half of his harem makes it even more awkward.

The biggest flaw with this series is that the characters are just so generic. Basara's basically your typical ... light novel/harem/hentai protagonist, whose sole character motivation, it seems like, is to protect the girls. While Basara has more of a backbone than, say, Issei Hyodo, at least Issei was a much more interesting and unique character with cooler powers than "magic sword" and "The excuse for the sheer amount of softcore porno scenes in this series."

The same can be said for most of the main cast. While Mio shares more than a passing resemblance to Rias Gremory, she's not nearly as likeable or interesting as her, being just a typical fiery tsundere who wears out her "I'll kill you 100 times" catchphrase faster than you can say it, and Yuki is your typical childhood friend character/Rei Ayanami clone who spends the entire series making Mio jealous. However, I actually really liked Maria a lot. Her trickster personality was actually quite endearing and Kira Buckland really nailed her performance as her.

A couple of the side characters were actually some of the standouts in the series. The position of best girl easily goes to the school nurse Chisato, who strikes a nice balance between cool and flirty, not to mention catering to all the right fetishes, except for the one where she's, you guessed it, related to Basara. I also really liked Yahiro, who's a really good "best friend character" and has some really cool moments near the end of Season 1 and also has a great performance courtesy of Ray Chase.

Overall, Testament of Sister New Devil is a really mixed bag of some decent ideas and a pretty solid fantasy action series, but its extremely generic overall, and it doesn't tickle that certain spot as much as its content wants you to. If you enjoy shows like High School DxD and Date A Live, you can get some enjoyment out of this series, but otherwise there are much better alternatives that do what it tries to do better.

I watched this when it lauched, I was 13 at the time. So I'm watching it nowadays more for nostalgia and whatever. You see I wacthed a fuck ton of ecchi animes during the previous mentioned age.
So my take on this anime is that it should have been a hentai instead of an echhi anime or that it kinda mimic the Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi. What really bothers me in this anime was not the bad story or not so good animation. But the ecchi scenes are really frustrating to me. Like why did they went with gropping ... breasts when mimicking sex is beyond my comprehension. Why not animate a normal sex or atleast make appear that Basara is actually thrusting into someone. Seeing the girls going crazy 'cause of some boob gropes is very weird, I know that it can be explained 'cause of the master-servent pact and whatever. But even so, what kind of man wouldn't, in this context of needing to have sex to be stronger and being constantly teased every single day, not stick their dick into some pussy ??? It is a very strange dynamic.
Also Mio is a shit character and I hate her, she's the only with no personality besides screaming and beating other characters in the anime when she doesn't like something or gets jealous. Sad that she is the main girl in the anime, Yuki was a way better candidate that actually has a ok background and is not that annoying.
Besides that it's an OK watch.