Shinmai Maou no Testament

I loved this series from beginning till end of first season then it fell short in the second season. Mainly because of the way Maria was treated. I am just going to say it I am in love with Maria Naruse and she was my favorite character in the entire series however the series treated her badly. First of all she was the only female character that had little to no one on one relationship development time with Basara our main protagonist and barely any fan service scenes with him I counted them 5 in season 1 demoted to a disrespectful 2 in the second ... season, from which her scenes were short compared to the other fan service scenes and nowhere near as passionate as the other female characters. Basara seemed to never want to do anything with her when he was completely active with all other female characters. Not to mention the fact that her best fan service scene in season 1 was not using her characters actual moe model and was done not because Basara wanted to but without giving anything away because of some stupid reason to try and justify the plot. In the second season Maria was barely involved in anything and Basara paid even less attention to her that completely broke me and made me hate the series because as I said I love Maria. She was one the best developed characters in the series with a very unique personality that made shine and steal every scene she was in which is why I feel even more angry on her lack of fan service scenes. The series took fan service to far and I got sick of it after a while but I would have still loved it had Maria been the one involved. The second season also showed that Maria was the character that basara cared least about as he very rarely came to her aid which once again killed me inside. I love Maria and the series. If they make a season 3 my only request is that Maria and Basaras relationship blossoms and Basara shows me that he truly loves her just as much as the other girls especially when she is one of the longest reigning characters as she has been involved since the very first episode along with Mio. So please in season 3 my only desire is for double the Maria fan service and Basara and Maria loving each other more. With my rant aside I enjoyed the series but the fan service needed to be cut down (except Maria's) and the relationships need to be better developed (especially Maria's). I do hope there is a season 3 and I hope they take my opinion into account at the least (probably not gong to happen). Would I recommend this series. Well if you love fan service and harem, comedies then I highly recommend this if you don't then find something more your taste. My apologies that this is not really a helpful review I just needed to vent my frustrations towards a series that I have a major love hate relationship with. Thank you for taking the time to read this I appreciate it. HALA MARIA NARUSE THE GREATEST FEMALE ANIME CHARACTER OF ALL TIME (ALONG WITH KOTORI ITSUKA FROM DATE A LIVE)

This is a fine example of what's wrong with the vast majority of light novels. It's nowhere near as bad as other titles but the shoe horned cliches make it obvious this series lacks any substance. Basara Toujou meets his two new step sisters who turn out to be demons. Basara himself comes from a tribe of heroes but went Rouge after a freak accident and now heroes and demons alike have a vendetta against the family. With that premise, you'd expect something great but this show rather have otaku pandering than well written story .

The amount of easily ... avoidable cliches in here is just ridiculous. Mio is the basic red headed agressive tsundere who is prone to perverted misunderstandings. Maria is a loli character who is constantly sexualized. The fact that she's a succubus doesn't give the author an excuse for placing his perverted fetishes on a underage girl. Yuki is a better childhood friend. There's also the incestuous moments between Basara and his sisters. It's clear the demographic for Shinmai Maou no Testament is the depraved deadbeat otaku variety.

The excuse of a story is obviously an after though here. A few demons attack the basara family, they have a perverted moment, basara swears to protect them and repeat. Things do get interesting once the past of the hero tribe comes into play but it doesn't last long. The author clearly has no creativity and fails to properly expand on his own story. He's much more interested in pleasing the lowest common denominator.

One thing this show actually manages to do correctly is the music and character design. The soundtrack is composed by Yasuharu Takahashi who is responsible for a plethora of outstanding songs over the years The original character design Is done by ookuma nekosuke who despite his extreme amount of ecchi work, his art is still great. Its a shame their talents went to waste here.The last positive statement I have for this crap is that basara toujou has above average characterization for a light novel protagonist.

There was nothing "ecchi" about this show. It was all completely censored, even the kissing and gore was censored LOL. It wasn't funny at all, the plot was completely random, and why are there all these heroes and not more demons? LOL. The show describes itself as "Demon Girls" and "Ecchi" yet there is practically no demon girls and the ecchi.. LOL well that is non existant unless you consider fog/clouds covering the ENTIRE SCREEN Ecchi. You literally can't even see a kiss, or a tiny scrape with a bit of blood cuz of censorship LOL.

How are you going to make an Ecchi genre'd ... anime and not let anyone see the Ecchi? LOL.

I feel bad for anyone that gets tricked into watching this terrible show, because everyone here gave it a 7. Yall some good trolls and thats why I gave it an 8/10.

Ive seen some reviews comparing this to Highschool DXD, which isn't the worst possible comparison, but, even though I wouldn't consider Highschool DXD to be anything special, it's still a whole heck of a lot better than this is. Sure, they're both fantasy/action stories involving demons, and ecchi elements, but Highschool DXD is waaaay more tame than this. I genuinely had to check to make sure that this didn't have "hentai" as one of the tags after one of the early ecchi scenes. The levels of nudity, groping/fondling are extreme to say the very least on the matter. The major issue with this is that ... the extreme differences make you feel like you're watching something pornographic one second, and a battle shonen the next second, without any attempt to blend the two together. Highschool DXD does a significantly better job, by not being as extreme with the ecchi elements, and transitioning from those scenes to other scenes in a much more natural manner, where's Shinmai Maou literally just jumps from one to the next without a care in the world.

Story: 2, I knew this was gonna be a dumpster fire within the first 30 seconds of the first episode, but who knew it was going to get this bad. Everything in the story is orchestrated in the most BS manner to get as many women living in the MC's house with him, and to top that off, we also get the classic "I need to go overseas for work" BS from the parental figure that we always see in these kinds of shows. Additionally the MC refers to the two initial girls as his sisters (even though they aren't actually related) just to satisfy those of you with incest fetishes, but I digress. The only times the story isn't predictable is when it's making random asspulls for the sake of getting women naked/fondled.

Art: 5, You'd think a series that is focused on trying to give you an erection would have better art, but whatever. The fights are boring as can be, with all of the budget going into making the ecchi scenes up-to hentai art standards, which is not a compliment. At the very least, the quality of the art stays pretty consistent, though that isn't much of a compliment either when the quality is this low.

Sound: 2, I think this is the lowest I may have ever given sound, but the OP and ED are garbage; I ended up skipping both in every episode because they were unbearable. The VA's were subpar at best, every girl sounds like a damn squeaky toy.

Character: 2, There is absolutely no character development to speak of, and no one in the show has an ounce of personality. MC is the worst for being so inconsistent in his behavior; one second he's groping nude girls, about to have his way with them, the next he's acting like some incel.

Enjoyment: 3, I only completed this because I had nothing else to watch, so as background noise its okay, I guess.

Overall: 3, Was originally planning to give this a 5 overall, but writing this review really made me reflect on the true level of garbage I had just wasted my time on. They really should've dropped the fantasy elements and just made a hentai. I don't understand what the author's mentality was other than "well sex sells, so lets pump this fantasy/action series full of as much sex without getting it labeled a hentai that way it hits a wider audience". I wasn't expecting there to not be ecchi elements, but I have never seen this level of ecchi, and I won't be surprised/disappointed if I never see these levels of ecchi again. Ultimately, if you want an action/fantasy series there's better shit than this, and if you're looking to beat your meat, well there's still better shit than this, so I wouldn't waste your time on this.

Story : 6/10 - The story is pretty much like an average fantasy-magic-demon anime.

Art : 7/10 - Action scenes are average. Bonus points for bounciness.

Sound : 7/10 - The moaning sounds will never get out of your head. The music is not so bad.

Character : 2/10 - Oh boy oh boy these female characters. Female characters are denser than the core of a black hole and are weirdly attracted to the main character without any good reason (excluding magic of course). The main character is an overprotective big brother and the only sane person in the household. They never have intimate moments to ... improve character developement; instead, they all go full retard harem mode.

Enjoyement 5/10 - Most of this anime is fanservice but being someone who doesn't really care about that (that's a lie), this anime wasn't really entertaining without the epic sides of fight scenes.

Overall 4/10 - I didn't account for art and sound in my overall score because it isn't really something I look for in an anime. However, my overall score is low because of the awful character development.

The main plot had a lot of potential but they completely ruined it by putting in too much fanservice and not enough character developement. Most female characters are annoying as hell but they compensated this error with a badass and "haremous" main character.
If you are looking for a hentai-like anime with a lot of breasts (a lot like high school dxd but less entertaining) then this is a good anime for you. But you will be disappointed if you are looking for a fantasy action anime with some romance.

tl;dr: A combination of good ecchi and good plot focused around a solid set of characters.

This is very much anime that isn't for everyone because, like DxD for example, it is centered around the concept of having a solid plot but also lots of ecchi. To differentiate from DxD, it isn't as persistently ecchi, but rather when it is it goes much farther than DxD. But regardless, it is a critical element of the anime, so if that puts you off you simply will not enjoy this anime.

In terms of the story there isn't really much of an overarching plot yet, rather the various arcs ... are focused more around world building and introducing the characters, with the first two arcs being decent enough but the last getting much more intense and being quite awesome with an amazing payoff for the finale. There are a number of characters that are quite interesting. The protagonist is pretty awesome, in that he's a hero, and as usual believes in the virtues of justice, family, etc. but at the same time he seems to very much have his stuff together, and won't object to getting his hands dirty when necessary. In terms of the heroines Maria felt the most interesting, in that she has a personality that automatically causes a never ending string of hilarious events, but she also gets a decent amount of depth in the last arc of this season in terms of how she deals with difficult situations. Mio was also interesting in that she's a tsundere but not at all, which is kind of fun, and also interesting in that she has a lot to deal with. Yuki got a good amount of development, and her character is pretty interesting with her being so singly minded, but she hasn't really grown on me yet. There were also a number of interesting side characters introduced as well that are likely to become more important in the future. In terms of world building, there's a lot but it's pretty basic so far, so breadth instead of depth, with some basic background on the demons and hero clans, but it carries the story well enough. An area I especially felt it needed more focused world building though was regarding powers and combat, because though these sequences were cool there wasn't much explanation to them mechanically so there wasn't much depth to them.

The art and animation are really good. The character designs are mostly excellent as well. The OP was decent enough and the ED was quite good. The soundtrack was more intense and better than I expected.

If you're a seasoned anime watcher, and you read the synopsis, maybe did the 3-episode rule, YOU KNOW HOW THIS IS GOING TO BE.
Unless you actually like non-unique trash ecchi shows, then don't even bother with this! I'm not saying all ecchi anime is bad, I'm just saying a lot of it is all the same garbage re-skinned with different neon-hair colored anime girls and plain protags.

So, to sum this up,
Overpowered MC gets ditched by dad, left with two stepsisters that do not know what going too far is with siblings. They try to juke him, he jukes them, randomly says to protect them, ... and now he's protecting them.

Extras may include: (especially if you watch the uncensored version)

-MC pulling salvation out of his ass
-Pretty much incest
-Lots of switching between saving the imoutos and imouto bath time
-Rituals that if done wrong give you neck tatoos that make you horny
-nipple sucking
-Dense MC
-thirsty childhood friend
-MC is perfect and apparently has no human personality flaws
-MORE nipple sucking! (one part even with maple syrup :D)

You see right there, what a package!

Honestly, this is the most borderline hentai anime I have ever watched, MC trying to create a stronger "bond" with his step-sister and also "slave" technically.

You know this anime trash, when the only reason you watch it, is because your bro would give you a crispy $5.

But anyway, enough ranting, (well maybe a little bit more)
Opening, ok, not memorable though.
I actually liked the art style, but some of the animation was lazy (especially in some fight scenes)
I actually did find the MC attractive, till I saw his steadily growing and competitive harem along with his Mary Sue personality. Though I did want to know more about him and childhood friend's backstory.

Didn't get much of course tho :P

I won't lie, the last couple of episodes had me actually interested and "into it" but still, the anime leaves you unsatisfied, as we find out Naruse Mio AKA No-Life-No-Bra Maple tits and Naruse Maria AKA ProcreateWithYouInACorner loli are still being sought after.

And OTP Nonaka Yuki AKA KuudereChildhoodfriendWithThatBootyTho and MC never sailed, OBVIOUSLY.

Overall, not really anything special. You really, really, don't need to watch this.

Story: so the story is that basara's dad got basara 2 new sisters in Mio and Maria but what happens at night that they aren't just ordinary girls that Mio is the demon lords daughter and that Maria is a succubus but what they didn't expect from Basara is the he used to be apart of the hero clan until something happened with it (watch the anime to find out) basically now he has to protect Mio and also Maria at the same time aswell.

Art: art is very good the parts with the action and yes the nipples were very good for this anime.

Sound: the ... OP and ED were meh at best i personally wont download them but the voice actors were definitely really good.

Character: Basara is the main guy of the anime and well he is pretty shy when it comes to the pervy parts but in action he is a total bad ass. Mio one of the main girls she is the demon lords daughter and honestly she can be a perv and also not she is pretty sweet and what not. Maria is another main girl of the anime and the succubus of the anime and she basically like Mio in a sense but she is like hella pervy in the anime and even recording the lewd thing happening. Yuki is the last main girl form the anime and is also basara long time friend she is pretty sweet she really doeskin show that much emotion most of the time unless really in battle but still she does.

Enjoyment: now with this anime yes i did like it that comedy when it was there was good and the action was easily really good for sure. My gripe with this anime is that the comedy really for me at times just wasnt there really like at all my really only gripe with the anime.

Overall: ill be giving this a 7 for sure the comedy was good at times and sometimes wasn't there but was good the action was easily the spotlight for the anime yes im actually say that or maybe the harem and nipples no idea actually lol

Here's what you need to know about this show: there are a lot of Ecchi anime out there today. they generally fall into one of two categories.

1. Ecchi that have a decent plot and or character development and use the ecchi as a hook or gimmick to get more views.

2. Ecchi that use the ecchi part as a suppliment to replace a good plot and character development.

This anime is the second category. a more in depth review would be pointless as the show is basically a really bad hentai. Thats all.

The characters are horribly horribly bland and generic, mio is basically a boring ... version of Lala/Rara from To love-ru. in fact the show is basically a bland more unoriginal version of To love-Ru. Do yourself a favor and skip

1) They do not judge good or bad.

What this show does really well is show a spectrum of good and bad from the get go and not making it very apparent, most of these characters show their own morality. For many other shows it feels like "good" or "bad" is just painted on them.

You could've made this about anything really, heroes and demons was something that didn't matter to the story, you could replace it with any sort of faction that didn't have a clear divide between good or bad.

They didn't really talk about the heroes or demons much but I don't think that's a ... bad thing, but I guess there are a few people who like their story to be filled and have every gap be ironed out, but I kinda like that they left out all the history crap. And I don't think it would've been at all important.
It just leads to bad intros like we're kinda used to where there's a character that suddenly without any prompt starts a monologue of 20 minutes filling you in with what happened in the past.

2) A less naive dominance dynamic.

This anime also features a more realistic subtle dominance relationship between the characters, which is something others shows are very brunt with.

A good example of that is the relationship between Basara and Takigawa, there's no conversion of good or bad but just mutual benefit, actually almost all of the characters are permitted to have their own choices even when there is a master slave dynamic.

The relationships with the women are more subtle in the way that it's not that they have to obey, I mean there's still the usual protagonist's aversion to perversion but the master is actually the one who is more a slave to his slaves having to protect them from all their problems. I'm not sure if many harem anime do that, but I've seen many where it's just: "now I can make you do my bidding, but I'm scared of being a bad guy so I won't"
Here it's like: "I'll free you from your worries, fix your problems, just build a trusting relationship where you let me act perverted."
I don't know but it seems more realistic that way.

There was a joke about chocolate that I hurt my cheeks with by smirking. There are some nice details in the conversation dynamic. The sexual aspect of the story kinda hints at a mature writer who had some experience in the field, (at least compared to other anime of this genre) but you may disagree.

Another nice "realistic" touch was the timing in the "fanservice" scenes, while they were quite hard to watch, I kinda like how it speaks to the imagination, and I guess that was more of the point behind them. It gave you ample time and a good idea for you to imagine the rest with.

3) Smart characters.

It cringes me in a lot of anime that obvious links aren't made and it makes the characters seem dumber than they should be, I was impressed at least two times where they were able to put links together that I didn't notice myself but would've made perfect sense.

4) The "mistakes".

They do the above right but then at other moments in the story it feels forced like the scene isn't built up enough for them to go a certain direction, I think that's in line with other reviews saying it's "all over the place" but I'm not sure because that's not a very detailed opinion.

Other stuff that they did bad (IMO) was the brother sister thing, I don't think it was necessary in this story, and it feels more as catering to a wider audience.
Simply saying "you're part of our family now" would've sufficed, especially when they have an orphan backstory going for a lot of the characters.

Also Mio's character.. I don't know.. she was annoying, there's like no good thing about her, she's kinda useless really, it's not very clear why from a human standpoint why anyone would want to protect her, but I guess love is blind and she's got those boobies and her hidden power as a motivation to keep her around. She made me emotional with her cries for help but I didn't like her, as is clear with these words.

5) the ending.

The ending scene was very powerful.
I mean It just felt like a guy who was comfortable with his more darker side in that scene and it took me by surprise to see that in the father since at the start he acts normal and more like a typical good guy. But it all fits since he's earned some sort of god status. It's nice that they convey it like that.

The same with Basara becoming more of a sadist, they are showing a wider more mature spectrum of good and bad as explained at the start of this review, it provides something unique and that's why I would recommend it.

now go watch it, you ウィーブ

If you want a TL;DR, here: This is a low-quality hentai anime.

If you want a genuine, fleshed out review of this, then here goes (why do I put myself through this?).

Story: 1/10 : Um.... Demon Princess Mio’s life is under threat, and because reasons, a member of another clan which is considered their worst enemy takes her on as an adopted daughter. But wait! He has a son! Also, this dad is given the moniker ‘War God’ for being super broken or something, and guess what! So is his son! Also for some reason there is a servant to Mio named something I can’t remember, ... who also happens to be a Succubus because of course she is! Why they’re his adopted daughters is unclear but don’t worry about it! There are lots of boobies! And isn’t that all that matters? I’m pretty sure this was the pitch the writer gave to the anime studio who produced this, and the studio exec asked, well, will there be more? And he’s like, yeah! We’ll put a childhood friend in there too! Done! Apart from that, the plot is simple. Mio has to get the demon throne (become the demon queen) and this guy’s son, despite being a member of the clan dedicated to hunting demons is like, “yeah sure. I’ll help.” I genuinely could not bring myself to care about the story because I have seen better plots in actual Hentai. But there have been hentai with worse ‘plot’ if you know what I mean.

Art: 2/10: apart from the sex scenes, nothing was good. Even those scenes were mainly static, so the animators just used some cuts to silhouettes and background voices to avoid doing anything. The fight scenes were bland and uninteresting and there was no variety in the colour palette.

Sound: 5/10: you might think this is high, but I genuinely don’t remember anything about the OP or ED, and I’m pretty sure I don’t remember the voice acting either. So to be fair I just gave it a middle ground rating.

Character: 1/10: MC- <Insert OP protagonist who has a harem here>(eg. Kirito)
Main girl - <Insert traditional big-boobed tsundere here>
Succubus servant - I don’t actually remember
Childhood friend -literally just a childhood friend.
There might have been more characters, but they’re all irrelevant because they haven’t had sex with our MC yet.

Enjoyment: 3/10 : I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say I enjoyed this. I enjoyed this in the same way I enjoy a Hentai anime. If you don’t count the turn your brain off watch, then no. There’s nothing to enjoy. There are no stakes in the fights, and even when the story tries to introduce some we all know MC-kun will win because Kirito cannot lose.

Overall : 1/10 : Watch it whenever you feel like watching a Hentai.

Talking about a harem anime, i think this is as close as it gets. It's basically hentai with "normal" plot. Not actual sex but in every episode, erotica is all over the place. Which isn't bad, but at times was completely unnecessary.

Storywise it was very intriguing and kept me interested till the end which proves we're talking about a good anime.

The characters were a bit mess, mainly because they never bothered to show their past. They kept mentioning it and showed important scenes from the past but they never told us exactly what happened, why or how it affected the characters.
Basara is a ... good MC, with good and bad moments that makes him the master and the rest of the girls his servants who he must help them release their sexual tension in order to become stronger (just go with it...). Mio is the main girl, but i think her role could have been way more important and not ust the hot redhead with big boobs heroine. Wasted potential here for sure. The other girls are just different enough to tell them apart but generic in terms of personality.

Overall, this is a show with many flaws that i enjoyed.

The anime is fine but I don't feel like it's very hentai. The characters are quite cliché, I feel like I am missing that moment where the protagonist says no one all to my waifus and break everything. It seems that in the second part we are going to see that, so far the protagonist is half fucking but hey is echi until then he needs to have relationships with some of the series but he has good scenes. Admittedly, if you are looking for something with a good plot, this is not for you. But if you are looking for something echi with good ... boobs everywhere it is for you. Although I recommend more highscool DxD before this. I was very disappointed, the protagonist expected more from him.


En español:
El anime esta bien pero no se siento que es muy hentai. Los personajes son bastantes cliché, siento que le falto ese momento donde el protagonista dice nadie toda a mis waifus y romper todo. Parece que en la segunda parte vamos a ver eso, hasta ahora medio puto el protagonista pero bueno es echi hasta ahí le falta tener relaciones con alguna de la serie pero tiene buenas escenas. Hay que admitirlo si buscas algo con una buena trama esto no es para vos. Pero si buscas algo echi con buenas tetas por todos lados es para vos. Aunque recomiendo mas highscool DxD Antes que esto. Me decepciono mucho el protagonista esperaba mas de el.

ok how to best describe this anime
When watching it censored it sucks , there is a story there which has potential , the action is pretty much just ok and that's saying it kindly
The fighting scenes are rather doll having Basara swing his sword and things magically happen without any techniques or skills learned along the way
The other characters use magic attacks but same story they swing their claws around or use the same spell and somehow fights end up won..
So for the fighting scenes i would skip this but that's not what this anime is about it's rather about the humor/sexual/harme that we all ... love to watch anime like this

The sexual tinted scenes are great unless you watch it censored then it sucks and annoye you to see 70% of an episode see stickers or white lines covering stuff up

Character are great , music , drawings all good (tho you see it's an ageing anime )
In the great line of things i enjoy this anime cus it's entertaining and the humor makes up for the minus points i just summoned up

This anime is shockingly close to Highschool DxD than any other ecchi harem anime, and I've seen more than I should have. Because of this, I had to take my time to evaluate this, among other things.

The story is rather simplistic, but its contents help push it forward. The use of Demons and Heros really reminds me of Highschool DxD, with both their aspects and relationships with one another. They both also use lewd situations to progress, which is fun. I believe that there is much more that can be done with this, and I hope to see more be explored in the future if ... possible. Besides this, this anime is very humorous and entertaining, which is good in an ecchi anime like these.

The characters are all fine, but a bit underdeveloped which is unfortunate. Despite this, they are still lovable, and you are bound to find one you like. Sometimes, the characters really feel straight out of Highschool DxD, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Oh also, Mio and Zest are best girls no doubt.

The animation is pretty average and is what you'd expect from an anime that aired in 2015. The art is sometimes a bit odd-looking but is usually passable. This anime is pretty censored which is to be expected, but the good parts are still good nonetheless (if you know what I mean).

Overall, a surprisingly good anime. I went in thinking it wouldn't compare to Highschool DxD, but I was shocked to be proven wrong. I really enjoyed this anime more than I thought I would, which was a pleasant surprise. If you liked Highschool DxD, give this one a try!

Pros:

-The idea behind this anime is great.
-There is room for character development as there is a second season.

Cons:
-Half a step away from a hentai.
-The current characters are half-baked/unrealistic for their age.

I would love this anime to bits if the MC didn't have to sexualize his 'little sisters' I know they are not blood-related, but if you're going with the sentiment of his feelings either make this a little more comical (A bashful MC? Less 'I know how to relieve you without trying' more I'm a young teenagger who gets to touch boobs nosebleeds) to ease off the sexual or just full on dub this one ... a hentai as you're going to be muting your sound a lot to get through this without hearing underage girls moaning.
I would have dropped this early on if the plot wasn't so engaging. It could be just as engaging without all the big brother borderline brother scenes.

As many people are writing, this one give off a really highscool dxd vibe but it has some heavy spices mixed in.

The animation is really good, smooth and beautiful, tho I'm not a person who have watched a lot of these ecchi kind of animes but it was fun nonetheless.

The sound production was really good tho some parts were a bit strange. I understand that not every single animation studio have the best setups when it comes to voiceacting but im just saying. Just to simplify it sounds like they are a bit away from the microphone if that makes sense.
Other then that it's a ... solid anime

I usually never watch ecchi anime but this one was really good with the romantic stuff and actually had a meaning in it. Well done on the whole production team on this one

Shinmai Maou no Testament is a series directed perfectly for the Highschool DxD crowd. with reasonably likeable characters and meh music.

Story - 4
I enjoyed it, but it is close to a carbon copy of Highschool DxD. Aside from the idea that the main male character already has his power. I enjoyed the final scenes and it leaves on a mildly satisfying ending.

Art - 5
It's ok. the fight scene's are kind of lazy, but the harem scene's pick up the problems.

Sound - 6
The OP and ED are good, not amazing. it's yet again a carbon copy of
... Highschool DxD.

Character - 6
I enjoyed the characters, the male protagonist was kind of plain. the interactions between the male protagonist and villains are enjoyable. the main female characters are good, with a tsundere, kuudere and succubus harem the character interactions are quite fun.

Overall - 5
It's exactly what you expect, I wouldn't recommend it entirely, but if you enjoy Highschool DxD it's definitely worth a watch.

This might simultaneously be one of the worst and best attempts at harem ever.

At one point, instead of the usual featureless self-insert, our chick magnet is actually believable as a chick magnet; one can very much see why everything on two legs around him wants to get into the pants of this handsome, smart, suave, strong, reliable, battle-hardened action hero that would literally travel through hell and back for one of his chicks.

On the other hand the harem is ramped up here, and made even less believable than usual — this dude is seriously having sex with all of them in the same room [reluctantly ... of course, as any true harem protagonist]; there is a ridiculous plot device that basically requires him to touch their erogenous zones periodically to alleviate some curse, and all of them are just standing and watching as he reluctantly does them one by one, waiting there turn — the sex scenes basically show all nudity but genitals; indeed the opening sequence is full of nudity with Barby-doll-anatomy.

Apart from that, the plot is actually not bad at all and unlike most harem series it has some interesting male characters, some of which border on flirting with the protagonist but not quite; the action sequences are fairly good and the protagonist looks pretty cool wielding a sword with his parent somehow looking even cooler.

The romance between Basara and Mio is also not that bad; Mio is your typical tundere at first who is quickly won over by Basara's awesome-at-everything, especially being your adopted onii-tyan — to make it even more delicious Mio only refers to him with "onii-tyan" during the sex scenes.

Which brings us back to this clusterfuck harem full of sex scenes; it just distracts so much from what is actually worthwhile about the series; it could have been a good plot-driven romance–action, were it not for the harem and the sex scenes constantly distracting from that; I don't even think the sex scenes are that good; they're super standard sex scenes that don't really have that Masahiro Itosugi je-ne-sais-quoi to them which actually makes them not detract from the plot, probably because he makes characters talk and say interesting things during sex, and the sex is also just far better.

And the harem really detracts from the main Basara–Mio romance; Mio is the one whom everyone is rooting for; the others are just side-interests at best; none of them really have the compelling backstory that Mio has; exemplified the most in one scene where your shipping balls get bluer than the face of an oxygen-deprived smurf when Basara and Mio share a moment and then the rest of the harem just walzes in to ruin the moment and fuck with you.

Maria as "part of the harem" can stay; he's just a troll succubus that would fuck anyone anyway and he's mostly just funny and adding to the fire and watching, but the rest is so obnoxious.

If the rest of the harem were just characters rather than getting in the way of the main romance, if the sex scenes were better or just not there, this could have been fairly good.

It's been about a year since I watched this show, but I remember it very clearly. It was the most... intriguing echii series I have ever seen in my entire life.

I've grown up watching a lot of harem echii shows and I'm pretty accustomed to the amount of fanservice that they provide, but Shinmai Maou no Testament is a different beast all together. I remember the scene where they use maple syrup and... I was actually disturbed by it. It's the first echii show where I felt like I was watching some actually messed up stuff, and that made me very uncomfortable. That's only ... about half of the fanservice though, so it wasn't absolutely bad.

Plot wise it's about a dude who's a hero protecting his adopted sister (who also happens to be the demon lord, who knew?) from other heroes, demons, and whatever else happens to be coming out today. Basically, It's like Highschool DxD, but the fanservice is much more... extreme, if I'm going to be honest.

The protagonist is pretty generic and bland, to the point where I don't remember his name, so I'm just gonna call him Kirito because well... what's the difference. His main role is to break the show's villains over his knee due to plot convenience, and touch his sister in various... ways. He gets all the ladies (because this is a harem show), and he's got them traditionally good protagonist morals.

His sister, the demon lord, is a tsundere red-head who usually gets kidnapped. She's the protagonist's servant due to stuff involving a succubus, and is the main fanservice character for the entire show. She's also generic, so let's just call her Asuna.

Look, if you haven't figured it out already, this show is painfully generic. The only thing that sticks out is the over the top fanservice... but, why did I give it a 5 and not something lower? Well, for one thing, it looks nice. The aesthetics aren't too special, but they were relatively nice. But also, I just plain enjoyed the action. I know it's not the main calling card of the show, but when the action pops up, it is pretty fun to see.

So there you have it folks, Shinmai Maou no Testament. It's a generic show, with a little bit of action to spice things up, but a lot of disturbing fanservice to bring it way down.