Masou Gakuen HxH

Category: Ecchi
Rank: Tier 1


Premise: "Suspension Bridge Effect" It's the rapid heartbeat and arousal when in state of danger. Named after it's discovery of friends and/or people of the opposite sex tended to get married right after experiencing a tall bridge crossing. When in danger your biological alarm kicks in as a form of a reality check, All living beings are meant to procreate. The phenomenon released chemicals inducing individuals to fall in love and a need to have intercourse after a hyper sense of arousal on a very aware state.

On Masou Gakuen HxH Episode 01. Hida, Kizuna and Chidorigafuchi are under attack by an alien ... mecha force; the heroine in question on a almost near death situation with an already state of danger both Kizuna and Chidori blush and simultaneously suffered from rapid and increasing heartbeats. All this while Kizuna touches Aine on a erotic manner arousing her and driving her to climax. After the "Heart x Hybrid" takes place the heroine is seen pressing her hand against her chest when Kizuna was talking to both Himekawa Hayuru and Yurishia Farandole on a flirty manner or at least is seen in such manner by Chidorigafuchi Aines eyes.

The name of the phenomenon "Heart x Hybrid" which is later explained by the commander of "Amaterasu" Hida Reiri, Amaterasu being the name of the Japanese force against other world invaders, Reiri says that "HxH" is not be outright lewd and/or actions but a state of synchronization between Body and Soul.The Heart Hybrid Phenomenon is later expanded upon on Episode 02 when Yurishia Farandole achieves this when Kizuna merely places his hand over her left breast, reinforcing that a psychological x danger requirements are a necessity rather then outright lewdness for power up as many can easily misunderstand. This means endorphin s are creating the love state whilst the human body becomes aroused with lust. This directly results on the power up of the "Heart x Hybrid Armor" and / or "Magitech Armor" as it is referenced later on the show. A weapon which is the only weapon for humanity.

Twist: Although "Heart x Hybrid" grants enhanced abilities powered by the synchronization of Love and Lust. It uses spiritual energy as well as fuel, The state and power of "Magitech Armor" it's directly correlated to "HxH Points" who directly affects power output of the armor and ability to protect it's user.

If the Heart x Hybrid points were to reach Zero it would result in immediate death for whomever uses the armor. A fact that only the commander and/or sister or Kizuna "Hida Reiri" and Kizuna our MC knows. this becomes his coping mechanism as he seems to operate under the thought that lewd things and/or Heart Hybrid + Climax Hybrid are nothing more than maintenance and he does it with the outlook of protecting his comrades lives. he becomes vigilant making sure none of his team members Heart Hybrid Points reach the Danger zone which is 15% or Below.

Heart Hybrid participants experience the power up because they all have gone through body modification, They've injected invading alien Mecha core that seems to respond to a combination of Love and Lust. Normal women don't get a power up because they can't since they haven't been modified themselves.

Ecchi Builder: Kizuna must come up with unique ideas to accelerate healing on Heart Hybrid participants by doing lewd actions. This lewd factor absorbs the rest of the genres on a satisfactory way on which the lewdness facilitate battle engaging, Character development towards one another as well as opening up about their individual experience as human experiments growing up in order to fight other world invasion and halt humanity progress towards extinction.

Plot Overview: 15yrs + ago humanity was attacked by another world and was humiliated into submission. Even though the enemies left most of humanity was killed and weren't seen again until 6 months prior to the present of this story. Humanity has been kicked out of their respective countries and have no other choice but to live on "mega floats". Artificial countries floating about on the ocean. most nations and their inhabitants have been killed off and those whom wander the ocean goal is to take back their respective countries.

The surviving countries all have specialized teams that can fend off the other world advanced technology. a team of people wearing the "Magitech Armor" and/or "Heart x Hybrid Gear". aside from the goal of taking back their respective lands, teams of each respective nations such as "USA, Japan, Russia, China etc" must seal inter-dimensional gates that serve as portal from this world to the next as well as to reclaim their land under enemy control.

Animation: Throughout the years we've seen experimentation of the anime industry to use 3D animation to reduce cost, Keep animated consistency, Facilitate mass producing of more anime and possibly keep more money for better pay while trying to keep the "Japanese animation history" of authenticity. They're tried from fully 3D all the way varying 2D textures on 3D models. Some kinda succeed and some end up like "Berserk". Most anime studios have reached the conclusion to keep 2D characters while just 3D environments. One of the first projects to do this was the anime "Tokyo Ravens" or earlier one like "To Love-Ru" season one when displaying alien creatures and some inventions but as someone who has seen "Kizumonogatari" movie, Shaft has mastered it.

On Masou Gakuen HxH there are 3D modeling but somehow Studio IMS has given a whole new breed on a 2D Fusion with 3D. The result are noticeable on the characters as they seem multi dimensional without feeling boxy like standard 3D. The art feel more fluid and more solid as per substance on the artwork. The enemies keep a higher amount of 3D but it isn't a issue since the main point of the series lies on Erotism. With that I think it was a good call.

It isn't perfect all the time since Production IMS had their hands full the entire season handling "Active Raid" simultaneously. however the episodes that did managed to get through the animation it is superb.

Sound: It puts hentai voice acting to shame, The voice actors /actress do a very good job at the erotic scenes.

Characters: Ecchi / Harem are pretty standard, It's flooded with Tsunderes and some Kuderes. Minus the Yanderes. The writer Kuji has been paying attention to successful ecchi on the industry and has grabbed the best from past / current ecchis.

Himekawa Hayuru: it's a nitpick out of To Love Ru, Since her personality is 88% Kotegawa Yui "The One Yelling Shameless All the time" but twisted on a more assertive fashion and a little less tsundere. Her personality it's well thought out though as it becomes evident why "Shameless" things bother her and ultimately what bothers her is slacking off.

She is very much obsessed with morality and being proper. Himekawa also harbors the need to be competent due to her once arrogant demeanor got many Japanese citizens killed while she was on escort duty to transfer them to the Japanese mega float.

Currently her sense of duty is near an obsession that she is trying to get over with. she is fully aware that Ataraxia is a military school of sorts and to her relationships equals lewd things which ultimately means slacking off. her pursuit to keep people or rather students in check from doing anything it's a damage control of hers trying to keep her fellow class mates from having to experience what she saw when escorting Japanese citizens to the mega float.


Chidorigafuchi Aine: An orphan who lost everything and doesn't know how much she lost. She is cold on the outside and always seems to portray a seemingly god complex to sustain her ego and maintain her constitution afloat of being the best so that she may be useful to the cause.

Her personality is explained through her dark past and how she developed that personality. As an amnesiac orphan who sees her worth strictly correlated to her fighting capabilities. She will do anything to obtain power to maintain her world view of being worth something for capabilities only, instead of her persona. She would offer up her body if need be.

If I had to give you a blend of characters to accurately tell you about her, I would say she has a 46% Senjougahara Hitagi on regards to attitude and self worth. This also is shown on her aesthetic relationship with the MC Kizuna Hida. Then I could add a 34% Xenovia Quarta on regards to thirst of fighting and desire for power and improvement as well as some aspects to sexual matters. The remainder 20% it's up to you guys, Though personally I think is Asia Argento. Which isn't all there is since later on she becomes a different persona upon reaching a mutated state that her silver hair becomes PINK that just gives off and astounding air of confidence.

Yurishia Farandole: This character can only give you one flashback, That is the black haired beauty Akeno from High School DxD. The is a sadist and a tease all the same but on a much open form for interaction. she comes from a wealthy family of America.

An American on the Japanese "Amaterasu" team, former leader of the american "Masters" team. though she posses traits of a sadist she mostly gives off an older sister if not motherly vibe. she has the trait of being very protective of those she cares about and/or those on her team as made evident on episode 2 and sent Kizuna away trying to beat the danger herself and confirmed later on when her conflict with the current head of the "Masters" Scarlet Fairchild was revealed. Yurishia will not hesitate to lie to her peer to get them out of harms way. even if it means getting herself in deeper danger while trying to resolve what she deems great threats herself.

She often stresses herself being protective and like many on a position of being a care giver she deeply wishes that someone would take care of her as well. this is what opens up and new section and allows for her to become the "receiver" or "masochist" since she is into BDSM and / or S&M. as she can get into either role but harbors desire to be the one receiving the punishment since it allows her to escape all the burdens she places on herself.

Hida Kizuna : He is the troyan horse of this kind of anime and this anime in particular. At a glance it would deceive you to think he is yet another generic main character who is as dense as condensed milk and as thick as an oak tree.

[Note: I can guarantee that if his design were different and he posses another hair color many would go gaga over him.]

As they say, Looks can be deceiving and this is the case for Hida Kizuna. Masamune Kuji really gave this a thought and gave us an MC with abandonment issues. As a child he was deliberately orphaned by his mother once he proved useless to her on regards to human experimentation and saw her son would prove little as a utility and wasted no time in discarding him as a ragged cloth. since he would no longer present any form of advancement for her experiments and weapon development.

This aspect would prove useful so that he would always seek improvement and a sense of duty to protect his peers. As prude as he is, he disregards it under the shadow of being discarded once again and he feels bound to be useful and often will be angry when told to do nothing. This quality unifies our MC with our heroines who at first went after him lusting for power. this bond with different forms of troublesome pasts that would come crucial on Heart x Hybrids which are literally Love and Lust. All born from self preservation and desire to survive. creating and ever evolving bond between our cast and deepening trust among themselves.

To reiterate the "power" he was lusted after or depending on the countries respective team is lusted after currently. it is because "Heart x Hybrid Points" takes up weeks in going back to normal and time isn't a thing anyone of this world can spare.

Eros his "Magitech Armor" is capable to refill anyone armor restoring in one go their fighting capabilities and capacity being god sent to the teams that wish to triumph and survive. Eros is also capable of mutating any magitech armor increasing power output and granting higher tier weaponry. the weaponry in question can be absorbed by eros granting him any variable weapon he "Climax Hybrid" with which would be the mutated state of the magitech armor after surpassing the limiters of recovering regarding "Heart x Hybrid Points". many disregarding what lewd actions and sentimental proximity needed for it to happen. However understandable why Chidorigafuchi Aine and/or other women from other "Heart x Hybrid" teams want to meet Kizuna and/or stay on his good graces. Kizuna represents an unprecedented advantage for humanity and certainly a trump card that can make any team who has him more resilient in battle and power in comparison to those who wait maybe even months to get back to normal once their "Heart x Hybrid Points" are spent.

Hida Reiri is his moral compass and support so that his inner demons don't take over and to remain relevant and useful as his sister fulfilled his mothers role. fulfilled a role that was abandoned after he was discarded by his mother shortly after vanishing altogether.

"A persons value isn't decided by their abilities but on how they live" -Hida Kizuna

A quote that Kizuna always says to himself and that he has found useful to say to many other people to comfort them as his sister has comforted him and gave him hope and his feeling of being useless and ultimately possibly discarded once he becomes useless once again.

If I had to give this character a blend to give you an analogy of who he is or where he stands. I would say he has a 26% Yuki Rito on a degree of pureness and prudeness, Followed by a 54% Basara (Shinmai Maou no Testament) on a sense of duty and desire to protect people or at least help out. The rest is unknown but the direction he is taking is that of Akatsuki Ousawa (Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero). He grows more confident as time transpires and less disturbed by lewdness as time goes on. Needless to say he can get the job done where many MC would have frozen in time.

Overall 9.60: Masou Gakuen HxH creates atmosphere for a good lewdness factor absorbing and not getting on the way of the other genres native to the Tier 2 Ecchi. Such as Date A Live, Infinite Stratos, Hundred, Rakudai Kishi no Calvary and Gakusen Toshi no Asterisk. The characters on Masou Gakuen HxH are designed to chemically open to one another and when it comes to designs. Kuji made the right decision getting the legendary "Hisasi" the Doujin artist do his/her characters.

Masou Gakuen HxH though giving the feeling of cramped, It's well set up since the very beginning. all characters are well knit into each other and each episode can reinforce past episode and/or set up the next on a satisfactory way.

I decided to put my overall in the beginning since people aren't going to read the whole review. So just a summary would keep your attention long enough for me to get my points through.

(7/10: MAL Standards "Good") Overall: Masou Gakuen HxH isn't as bad as people say it is. It's enjoyable with the right mindset and if you don't decide to hate it for what it is. Give it a try. Know that it's going to be a harem ecchi and know what you're going to get. You'll leave feeling satisfied. You may not be happy, you may ... crave more, but you'll leave getting what you wanted. A Harem Ecchi anime.

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Apart from everyone overreacting, this anime is rather mediocre in everything except enjoyment. I'll say this here and now, in my personal opinion, this is a fun show to watch. A guilty pleasure. It's enjoyable. Try it out for yourself. Watch it with an open mind and enjoy it for what it is.

I like to start by saying that: This is indeed a harem-ecchi show with loads of fan service. I personally do not care about that, but some other reviewers seem to and react accordingly.

The art is rather plain compared to the gorgeous Hisasi art of the VN, but it's good. Although, when I say good, I mean "Anime Standard".

The story, towards the end, is redeemable. They're setting up a season 2. It's interesting enough to keep you invested on a week to week basis, but it's nothing special. It is worth watching though. The premise is interesting once you get towards the 2nd half, things really turn up.

The soundtrack is boring. Enough said. It's forgettable and you'll hear the same battle theme over and over again.

Characters are anime stereotypes and archetypes. We have the tsundere, the onee-sama and...well...I don't know what Chidorigafugchi (or whatever her name is) is. I suppose that makes it a good thing since she's part deredere and part tsundere and a few other things. You'll know who is who. They don't seem to grow (as usual) with the exception of Chidori who changes as the series progresses from being less cold hearted to something more...loveable.

Enjoyment is very subjective. I FUCKING loved it. But that's my own shit opinion. If you go into this only knowing that it's going to be harem ecchi and that there's going to be a lot of it, then you're pretty much set for a good time. It won't be "10/10" best anime of the year material, but it's going to be fun enough.

I personally enjoyed it partially because of the harem ecchi but mostly because of how the characters interact with each other. It may be predictable to you, but it's always fun to see it every season. The story itself might have been dull to some, but I found it to be rather enjoyable for what it is. It isn't DEEP, but it's interesting enough to keep you invested for 12 episodes. Those 12 episodes aren't all too bad either. Mostly 5/10s and 6/10s. The amount of boobage is hilarious and is almost a meta genre in on itself.

Masou Gakuen HxH still there season 2???!!! Because i like

This one is very simple to review... if you like a good anime with nice characters, history and all that stuff, just stay away from this one. If you are searching for an ecchi tier 1 this is your show, you are going to have more boobs than you can handle, yuri, masturbation (not even joking!) But, as anime is just really bad.

The characters are really simple, boring, no developpement and 0 charisma, in the end they are droping like eh man! we have a good story behind all this crap! just keep waiting and enjoy ... the fanservice...

If you are a true anime fan, stay away of this. If you are an ecchi fan you are going to love it for sure.

Truly a masterpiece. Gets the blood pumping. Shows tons of good character and personality trait. All the characters have a really deep backstory and it grows. I like to think of them as my second family. As I am typing this I just order the body pillow, for scientific research. I can't recommend this anime enough, the only slight downside I can think of is that the art style changes very slightly. The later episodes have absolutely astounding art, incredibly detailed and intricate. When it comes to entertainment, one of the easiest things to get wrong is the concept of the female. Part of the ... reason for this is because our scientific understanding of "girls" is still in its infancy, and this means that the writers for shows like Doctor Who, Quantum Leap, even Star Trek, must apply their imagination and creativity in order to resolve some of the inherent paradoxes that will occur whenever a narrative decides to hop, skip or jump.

Ill first state that if your not of excessive ecchi or a borderline hentai anime also with fetishes as well like fingerbanging and other stuff aswell please just dont watch otherwise ill get too it

Story: so the story starts out with Kizuna who has a heart hybrid and when he gets too the school and meets Aine, Hayuru and Yurishia so for them too power up more he has too do a heart hybrid with them meaning doing sexual stuff like rubbing the good old vag and rubbing there tits while doing stuff that i stated about so they can defeat enemies i honestly dont ... even remember there name honestly just man this anime had SO MUCH sexual stuff

Art: art was very good detailing the nipples and everything else out aswell

Sound: sound was very good had some good beats in some episodes of the anime

Chracter: now i wont go too much into this as i enjoyed all the characters

Enjoyment: now this is hard because i am a lewd person but MAN this anime has SO MUCH ECCHI its unbelievable how much is in this comedy was good and action was very good

Overall: im giving this a 7 the anime did end a cliffhanger so that why another season is coming out but the ecchi is like WAY too much which im giving it a 7 for

this was my first anime that i watched on subbed. the plot is perfect and the story is good too this makes this worth a watch you must have heard about anime know as "Infinite stratos" if you liked that anime trust me you will love this. i was addicted to this anime just by watching the fist episode it got my attention and i finished the series just in one day. there is nothing to dislike in this anime
however,
the way it ended is really something else. on last episode a girl just comes out of nowhere and claims to be Chidorigafuchi's sister ... and then it says
to be continued....

you cant just leave fans hanging like that and this gives us the hope for season 2
i say give this anime a try you will love this.

tl;dr: Lacking in a number of areas but decently pretty successful at what it seems it set out to do. 

This show is pretty straightforward in what it is and whether it's your thing or not, it is what it is, take it or leave it. And in terms of that I think it did a reasonably solid job. In terms of the story, the first half was pretty slow, by which I mean not in terms of the adaptation being slow, but rather while the adaptation did have events happening at a reasonable the events themselves moved things forward very slowly. It also seemed to ... dwell on the awkwardness of everything more than necessary. It definitely picks up during the second half though and also gets over its awkwardness making it more enjoyable. The ending especially seems to be getting quite interesting, but it then rushes an ending that while at the grand scale you would expect from a finale, doesn’t quite feel like a complete ending with how close to the end the climax is, and how it leads right into a cliffhanger that’ll never get an animated continuation. In terms of characters’ the biggest problem is the protagonist, in that he’s pretty lame and useless throughout. He has flashes of greater competence, so it’s not like he’s completely useless really, but rather that plot rarely lets him do anything of value beyond boosting others. His personality is also pretty flat and overtly dramatic at times. The heroines were pretty solid though, in that though they have pretty basic character arcs, they felt solid enough for how far the show ran. The action was decent, but also pretty random. Though the sheer randomness was pretty awesome at times. The comedy was also pretty solid. 

The animation was incredibly mixed, but for the most part it felt like the parts that really mattered were animated pretty well, while the parts that weren’t that important dropped down to quite terrible with various levels in between. The art and character designs were great though. The CG was just good enough not to be a major issue but I wouldn’t call it good exactly. The soundtrack was surprisingly good. The OP was decent and the minor version differences in visuals were interesting. The ED was pretty good and very fitting. 

Robot suits with super powers? Guy able to power up girls by having sexual relations with them and turning them into complete degenerate perverts?

It's like it's 2011 again.

Okay, so while the show does have it's ups and downs, I'm trying to make this review into something that doesnt spoil too much for people who havent actually seen the show.

Masou Gakuen HxH is basically a mixture of Infinite Stratos, HighSchool DxD and Shinmai Maou No Testament. While picking up stuff from other series to further elaborate their ideas is good and is actually the highest praise an artist could give to one another, failing to keep ... said stuff in a form that allows the show to be enjoyable is something that this series really headbutted itself quite often.

Story: While it takes a while for the story to really get going, it is in no way bad. After the last episode I immediately checked for season 2, manga version and even English translated novels, but with no avail. The series had this "please buy the original work" and "if you want more read the novel" look all over it straight from episode 1. Again, not bad, but if you're gonna do that, the ending has to be good enough to catch the viewers interest.

Art/Animation: I had no problems with the art. While it did lack some certain much needed frames in critical moments, the animation picked up the slack and vice versa. The characters, if nothing else, were very beautiful and had very individualistic features. Some might even call them stereotypical designs, but why change something that has proven to work?
One mention I will make though: The special effects frames were really, I mean REALLY BAD at one point in the series which made me replay it a couple times, but they were so well animated that I decided to let it slide.

Sound: Nothing special that stood out, maybe could have done a bit more variety on the combat sounds.

Characters: I said that the characters were, if nothing else, beautiful. That's it, they were exactly that. No memorable backstories, no secret sides, no deeper understandings or hidden feelings. The only character that had even a little bit of an interesting build is Aine, but other than that...mildly dissapointing. Top layer personalities were fine, but they just left me with this feeling of wanting to see more, but "more" never came.

Still, overall it was entertaining but the execution could have been done better. Some rebuild to the story, a better world build in the beginning and giving the characters more time and space to develop would have done wonders to this series. If there ever will be a 2nd season, I will check it out, but I'm not holding my hopes up seeing the ratings.

If you're worried about spoilers, ease up, you won't find any here.

Story: 6/10 - The story was where I felt was weak point of the show, robot aliens that come from another dimension want to takeover the earth blah blah blah, humans make artificial islands to live on blah blah blah- you know where I'm going with this.

Art & Sound: 9/10 -(I'm putting these two together because I gave them the same rating and it saves time)- The art and sound (in my opinion) are good, the CG was great for the most part, the action sequences and fight choreography were also well done, the ... characters and there armor designs were also pleasant. The vocals and music composition could be heard clearly even with my cheap lousy headphones.

Characters: 6/10 - The characters themselves were... odd? I guess? There was not a lot of development for most of them and most didn't have enough of an impression to be memorable. Most of them were just generic and bland (okay you have PTSD about a past mistake, wow its not like I've seen that anywhere before). To be honest I only remember Aine, Kizuna and Sylvia only because they had the most growth, and Sylvia was the comedic relief.

Overall: 8/10 - All in all the show was very good, despite all my criticism, I really liked it. Most say it was terrible and gave it a low rating, I see where they're coming from, they have refined tastes and that can get in the way of fun aspects. This is an anime that is made for the enjoyment of action and sexual appeal and you can also get a genuine laugh more often then not, it has little concern for a deep story line (Although a little character development would be appreciated... Just saying) and *clears throat* "creative" designs. If you enjoy it, props to you if you don't, props to you. You have your opinion and I have mine.

That's all for this review, thank you for reading :)

First of all this eechi anime is borderline hentai. So I am going to break down this review as follows:

1:STORY-The plot was not that great.Basically the Mc is surrounded by a bunch of hot chicks.
They have a power or a device which can be recharged when they do erotic stuff
With Mc.Then these chicks fight robots or monsters from different dimensions ...
When their energy is fully recovered and save the people.

2.EECHI:As I said this a borderline hentai so 10/10 for fanservice.

3:ART:Art is good.Especially when the harem gets intimate with the Mc.

4:CHARECTERS:Since this a harem the charecters have different backgrounds and the story reveals them one by one.

OVERALL I like this anime because it's got romance eechi comedy and a fair story.
I hope u find this review helpful thank you.