Battle Girl High School

Battle Girl High School is as generic as it can get with girls fighting for humanity but is a good chill watch.

The story of the series is fine as its been seen many times but that just makes it slightly disappointing when it doesn't really do anything different with the setting apart from one factor later on in the story but they never develop it further. The series mainly focuses on character development through slice of life segments between the cast. Its more of a cute girls do cute things like Love Live than a battle action such as Madoka Magica.

I personally think a ... great example to compare this anime to is Yuki Yuna is a Hero as both are set in similar premises around protecting a town with a tree in it. If you watch both series you can also see what's holding Battle Girl High School back.

The BIGGEST glaring flaw with this series that really held it back for me was there's just WAAAAY too many characters. Seriously there's 19 main characters in total. My personal favourite was Miki and being the main character I hoped to see a lot of her. Sadly I was denied. The fact that there's so many characters they have to have screen time for all of them which makes 2/3 of the series just an episode that focuses on a particular three meaning your favourite character, if not one of the major ones will most likely only get one episode of actual importance. I personally think Love Live is a good example of the max amount of main characters a series can hold without being a big cluster. Also since there's so many characters reaction scenes are a pain since they need to show everyone's reaction to something and it takes a while and is ultimately pointless. Well the cast is basically a huge collection of types we always see in anime so you'll guaranteed to at least find one you like.

Another major disappointment for me and the reason I watched the series to begin with was character interactions and relationships. I'm a huge fan of female best friends being the main focus like in Yuki Yuna is a Hero with Yuna and Togo and Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight with Karen and Hikari so I went into the series expecting a good amount of screen time to focus on the relationship between Miki and Misaki as it was hinted at the beginning of the series. They do have some time to have them together but again it comes back to the problem of too many characters in one series that's only 12 episodes.

However don't get me wrong it is a good series if you're not wanting a major story or character development and just want a relaxing anime to sit down to.

The character designs are nice especially some of the later costumes and there are many well known voice actors present that at least help try and distinguish characters apart. My personal favourite voice actor Yuki Aoi also being In it along with Hayami Saori.

The main enemy of the Hoshino class the Irousu are also very generic alien enemies you see in many series like Darling in the FranXX. They're never really explored which makes sense since they need so much screen time to develop their humongous cast. There is a plot twist later on with the villain but is very predictable from the start of the series so don't expect great villain either.

The power of friendship is also very prevalent throughout the series so if you're not a fan of that then this series isn't for you.

This review ended a bit on the negative side but overall Battle Girl High School is a good generic magical girl anime that's a good watch as long as you're not expecting much from it. If the series had less characters I really think it would have been much better as it doesn't give room for much to happen.

7/10 would only recommend if you're looking for a chill anime to not think too much about.

Well...at least it's better than Schoolgirl Strikers...barely.

So, LA doesn't need to tell you that these kind of mobile game adaptation with a huge roster of cute girls is somewhat hit or miss for LA, from Ange Vierge to Schoolgirl Strikers. Where does Battle Girl High School anime adaptation lie?...well before that...

LA has actually played the mobile game for a time HOWEVER LA will try not be bias with LA's experience in playing the game with this anime adaptation.

So Battle Girl High School's plot is the typical stuff we see in these kind of anime adaptations of mobile games especially when it has a huge roster ... of cute girls in the mix, as in monster killings and slice of life moment intertwined with typical cute girl doing cute things tropes. In terms of plot format, the early episodes of the anime was a good sign for LA, from emphasizing the battles of defeating the monsters called Irous as well as the teamwork many of the students of Hoshimori had while defeating them. The best addition to this would be Misaki voiced by Rie Takahashi causing a divide in the class of Hoshimori to her stoic and uncaring nature towards her new classmates. Later on however, the anime goes into slice of life filler territory before bringing the plot back up with Misaki as the emphasis. What LA thought about the quick change in plot will be a bit later...

However where LA thinks Battle Girl High School exceeds or at very the least tries is in the character department. With 19 characters including Misaki int this mix, you'd think that this would be impossible and yes it is, however Battle Girl High School at the very least tries to give these characters stable personalities with some characters getting more of the limelight than the others. From Nozomi Amano voiced by Nao Touyama being the fashionista of the class, Yuri Himukai voiced by Sumire Uesaka being a stickler for justice and her being the head of the student morals committee to Kokomi Asahina voiced by Hitomi Harada being the shrinking violet. But probably the characters who have the most screentime and bit more development to their personalities were Renge Serizawa voiced by Yoshino Nanjo being the perverse yuri fan and this comes up during one of the slice of life filler episodes, Sadone voiced by Aoi Yuuki who has an inferiority complex and thinks she's useless due to Misaki and the idol duo of Kanon Kougami voiced by Kaede Hondo and Shiho Kunieda voiced by Shino Shimoji having their own episode with a concert. But the major character who pretty much gets character development in this anime would easily go to Misaki the mysterious transfer student. Why?...because her personality changes while she's with the Hoshimori class from the being the stoic loner to caring about her classmates by the end of it and it's hinted multiple times in the anime that something is up with her which actually ties into the final arc of the anime, if anything LA thinks that MISAKI is the main character of this anime not Miki Hoshitsuki voiced by Aya Suzaki who's supposedly the default leader of the class. Besides Misaki being LA's favourite character due to plot and being the most developed member of Hoshimori, in terms of the Hoshimori students in general, LA playing the game LA actually liked Renge at first but the anime changed that by giving that title to Nozomi Amano voiced by Nao Touyama because Nao Touyama shut up and Urara Hasumi voiced by Maaya Uchida because of her ecstatic nature and love of idols in the anime.

So what did LA actually think about the quick change of pace the anime had taken from being a rather playful yet serious early episodes to being outright slice of life filler episodes?...well yeah they were slice of life filler episodes mainly comprising of concerts, Freaky Friday flips and summer holiday episodes but where LA still sees merit in these episodes are trying to bring out the personalities of the 18 students of Hoshimori while subtly giving hints to Misaki at the same time with the occasional Irous fights inbetween. It definitely gets better once Misaki gets into focus and the final arc that tackles the "final boss" of this anime and brings Misaki's development full circle.

In terms of animation done by Silver Link is ok at best, the animation dips at times this includes the fighting but LA can see at the very least they tried to animate it competently. Character designs are ok as well though it falls under the "same face" syndrome though to be fair the mobile game had this to. The only characters LA only remembered after finishing this anime were Renge, Urara, Misaki and Miki if that is anything to go by. The animation does dip into derpy territory at times and it does seep into the fight scenes as well but nonetheless the animation done by Silver Link is ok at best but nothing to rage or praise.

In terms of voice acting, the voice cast is decent and LA didn't really have any annoyances besides Kokomi Asahina's voice actor Hitomi Harada (but that's just LA as LA just doesn't like shy extremely soft toned characters), but Misaki's voice actor Rie Takahashi probably got top billing for LA, right next to Renge's voice actor Yoshino Nanjo for her perverse vocals and Urara's voice actor Maaya Uchida for nearly sounding like Ranko Kanzaki, also LA knows this isn't credited but LA is soo sure that the major villain of this anime is voiced by Shizuka Ito, if so she really hams up her regal villain vocals for this role!.

So uhh remember the start of this review?...*ahem* "Well...at least it's better than Schoolgirl Strikers...barely." Yeah LA believes Battle Girl High School is marginally better than Schoolgirl Strikers and LA just wants to talk about how at the very least Battle Girl High School tries where Schoolgirl Strikers didn't. For one, characters in Battle Girl High School are developed better to the point of LA "remembering" some of these characters, not all, but some. In Schoolgirl Strikers, LA couldn't remember ANY of the characters in the anime not even the MAIN GROUP of characters. Where LA thinks why LA remembers some of the characters in Battle Girl High School more than Schoolgirl Strikers is that Battle Girl High School during it's slice of life filler episodes actually emphasized the personality of some of the characters and put them in "zany or weird situations", where in Schoolgirl Strikers the characters personalities is put in the background and the "zany or weird situations" in the foreground making their characters even more of a blank slate. Second is that Battle Girl High School's character roster is slightly smaller than Schoolgirl Strikers 20+ characters and even though LA said that Battle Girl High School suffers from "same face syndrome" at the very least the characters have enough diversity in their designs for LA to know that they are different characters, due to how Schoolgirl Strikers characters have soo many characters they blend in together at times (and some of the many characters also have similar personalities making differentiating them even more difficult). Third is that Battle Girl High School at the very least have the sense of urgency in their monster fights in order to protect their school as well as their comrades when they get in trouble by the Irous and brings emphasis to "invading monsters" where LA sees Schoolgirl Strikers urgency in defeating their monsters as something like have a 1 minute battle with monsters then let's have tea for the rest of the episode and even at that LA thought they gave up in the urgency of defeating monsters not even by the halfway point of their anime. Finally is that Battle Girl High School brings in a subtle mysterious plotline in the form of Misaki throughout the entire anime and her being the focus by the final arc was put in great emphasis developing her character in the process...something similar is done with Schoolgirl Strikers with Tsubame Miyama however her mysteriousness isn't brought up until the final 2 episodes of their anime and it's just as rushed and hardly develops her due to how quickly and rushed they put her in. Battle Girl High School still however makes some of the same mistakes Schoolgirl Strikers did (bulk of the anime being filler, the majority of cute girls not emphasized enough and the finale) but at the very least Battle Girl High School tried to do better than fluff around unlike Schoolgirl Strikers.

The final arc of Battle Girl High School brings in all the subtle hints to Misaki shown throughout the anime to conclude Misaki's development as a character and although the final battle of this anime pretty much results in "friendship power for the win", LA can actually gets behind this one sure it's an eleventh hour out of nowhere powerup but it does wring in the entire friendship scthick Miki had throughout the anime and again emphasized Misaki's growth as a character opening up to her friends to defeat the villain of the series.

Battle Girl High School isn't by any means a great or even good anime adaptation of a mobile game, LA likes Ange Vierge more for trying something different whereas Schoolgirl Strikers to LA didn't even try. However Battle Girl High School "tries" at the very least, it has similar trappings to the now tired mobile game anime adaptations with cute girls formula but if anything it tries especially with it's characters with Misaki essentially saving the anime BARELY.

Will LA ever go back to playing Battle Girl High School?, no, but even then this adaptation is still acceptable for LA to barely like it because it tried to make the entire mobile game anime adaptations with cute girls give a more sincere enhancement to it's genre with this kind of adaptation.

well this was generic and worth less you should ignore the description as it does not explain what more of the show is about and really gives the wrong idea about the show

story 4
well if by story you mean only 4 episodes will have anything much to do with the description then i would say there is not much of one at all the those four episodes were much more interesting then the other 8 episodes which had maybe 5 minutes of action if im being kind the rest of that time was basically cute girls do things

art 6
really there isn't ... anything worth mentioning about the art it is about average for what you see in modern anime

sound 6
the sound is a bit more note worthy then the art there is music outside of the ending and beginning themes but other then that nothing else really worth noting

characters 2
every single character are completely bland and really none a single one has anything really all that interesting really this is were the show really suffers as it really just feels like the studio did not care at all and were only doing this for a pay check and i feel the characters reflect that perfectly as they are just generic cute girls

overall 4
really unless you feel you get something from even watching lazy anime that feels it was made purely because the studio wanted a paycheck i would say this anime offers very little of worth specially considering so little of it is anyway close to the description