Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

If I had to describe studio Silverlink in one word, that word would be ''mediocre''. They're perhaps the most "okay" studio working in the industry today and none of their shows I would consider being all that good, with the exception of a couple maybe, but, even then, those exceptions are still nothing all too remarkable. They always make shows that sound good on paper, and, when read, sound like they could be good shows, but they usually lack the creative talents and efforts to carry this through and their shows always just end up feeling either downright terrible or just "meh" for lack ... of a better term. Nowhere is this more evident than with their latest title, Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism, which, with a narrative and idea this silly, could have made for a good rule of cool show if it had more energy put into its animation, but it feels, like most of their work, that they wanted to create something really cool and cinematic looking, but didn't have the necessary talent or creative force to do so. Despite being a relatively fun show none the less, the anime needed much more charisma in order to carry itself along for the entire duration and the shows just falls short of reaching that rule-of-cool aesthetic and vibe it was so clearly aiming for. In that regard, the show feels very much like a previous Silverlink show, Chivalry of a Failed Knight, which, despite being vastly greater than most other light novel adaptations and is all around a decent show, also falls just short from being good due the studio's general lack of creativity in visuals, while, at the same time, having a decent script with decent characters, something that Busou also carries on as well. Either way, let's dive into this insane, nutty show!

Busou's narrative as a whole is one that is incredibly linear and straightforward. The show will not surprise you with any grand plot twists nor does it bring anything new to the table either, and it doesn't really have much direction. What I mean by that is that the characters don't really have anything in the way of a 'goal' or a motivation in the narrative, other than the main character wanting to collect five stamps from a group of five girls, all of whom carry swords. Oh, did I forget to mention that? Yes, for some reason, the school has allowed each one of the girls to carry a weapon due to the once all girl's school, becoming co-ed, allowing boys to join and, out of fear, request to carry said weapons as a means of protecting themselves. These weapons range anywhere from a sword to a whip to even a giant, damn bear! This aspect of the show is incredibly stupid, but the show as a whole is so tongue in cheek and takes itself so lightly that this aspect feels like a part of the world that is presented to us and doesn't feel all too jarring or even strange. Since the show doesn't take itself so seriously and more so laughs at its ridiculous setup, I can excuse this obvious dumb stuff. Due to each one of the girl's weapons, and general scary nature, the boys who do attend this school are put to humiliation and are forced to wear girl's clothing as a way to blend in with the school. Enter our main character, a cocky, bad-ass asshole, by the name of Nomura, who goes against the demands of the girl's at the school, and the rest of the show sees him fight against five girls, who are called the Five Swords, a group who are the strongest, and most skilled with the sword, who go around correcting problematic students and the such. And that's about it for an overall plot, but the show carries this narrative with such a silly over the top atmosphere and tone, that I find it a lot of fun to watch the battles carry out and the characters feel dynamic and interesting enough in personality to carry the weight of the show.

The anime is incredibly dumb and stupid in a lot of ways, from sumo wrestling a giant bear to the plethora of various battles and fights, but, at the same time, the show also feels self-aware enough to know that the entire thing is incredibly dumb, and fully embraces all of it. Whenever the characters are in battle, bold white text will appear on the screen showcasing the name of their attacks, akin to something like Kill la Kill, with plenty of close-up shots of the characters reacting to certain events while they gasp. Both of these elements help to sell the show's rule of cool vibe it is aiming for and helps to make it fun and fairly entertaining for me personally. However, there are some moments in the show that I feel are a little too stupid for its own good. One such example is when the main character is attempting to hide behind a bear, a pet of one of the members of the Five Swords, which also happens to be female, as he accidentally touches her breasts. Instead of being funny, which is what I believe the writer was attempting, it just comes across as being strange, jarring and uncomfortable to watch as well. Another example that may put some people off is when he fights one of the girls naked in the bathing areas. It can be distracting, and some may even consider tasteless, but I found the fight fun enough to carry the scene, and the nakedness of the girl is part of her tactic for winning the fight and adds on a little bit of characterisation for her character. Some other criticisms about the show may stem from the amount of blood and edge the show does try and convey, especially near the end, and I can understand why. It can seem kind of jarring to go from simply hi-jinks to a complete bloodbath as shown in episode ten, but, on the flip side, at the very least it provides some narrative stakes for the final fight and makes the villain out to be much more menacing and threatening too. The use of blood never really came across to me as being forced since it at least made sense in the context of the battles since all of the characters were using razor sharp blades. Another troupe that I wasn't too fond of, is that two of the girls fall in love with our main character and end up acting catty and bitchy to each other as they fight over him. I've always disliked this in anime since it reduces the female characters as nothing more than petty women, but here it didn't feel as bad as what I have seen before, and for the most part, there is an actual reason why these girls have fallen for this guy, as opposed to them simply wanting the main guy's dick just because the plot demands them to. This doesn't make this element any better, just a little bit more bearable in the long run.

I was honestly surprised at how much I enjoyed the show and found myself actually excited and immersed during the action scenes, especially during the final fight. The series is so over the top and so dumb that I believe it does work from an entertainment standpoint alone, and while I wouldn't consider the entire narrative and characters to be terrible, it certainly needed a lot more work to make the show good.

Each one of the characters has a stupid obvious gimmick whether that be in design or personality, but, at the very least, many of the characters at least have some depth, no matter how little granted, to make them feel a little more like actual people than bland archetypes. The main lead, Mamoru is essentially a better version of Glenn from Akashic Records, in that he is far more consistent and does the whole bad-ass cocky bastard rather well. I genuinely liked this character, and his back-story, unlike Glenn didn't feel as if it were included just for the sake of evoking cheap emotion from the audience, despite how generic and by the numbers this back-story actually is and how little of it we actually get to learn. A character like this holds up well for a silly narrative since he simply a lot of fun to watch and complements the silly nature of the show, although I wouldn't call his character good by any stretch. He fills his purpose fairly well, has some decent comedic moments and is a fine character. Rin's character has a massive hatred of men and wears a death god mask over half of her face since her mother called her ugly when she was a child and made her wear a mask over her face at all times when she went out with her. This back-story is quite dumb and rather, again, silly, but at the very least it provides an explanation into why this character acts the way that she does and the purpose behind her mask, rather than it remain a silly gimmick like those presented in Hand Shakers for example. Mary was a lot more generic than these two previously mentioned since we barely learn anything about her past and just assumes the "girl with big boobs" role while also carrying around a dictionary since she is Le François. She can be pretty annoying due to her attitude and general stuck-up-edness (that's not a word, I know) but otherwise, she is pretty forgettable. One of my favourite characters in the show is Satori, not only for how well her voice actress conveys her messed up mentality and rather sadistic sword fighting but because there was a decently executed plot twist in episode nine. It's not something to blow your mind, but I felt it was a decent twist none the less, and I did enjoy every scene she was in. While she doesn't necessarily see much development (as does the rest of the cast) she still gets some decent characterisation. The other two members of the Five Swords, Warabi and Tsukyo, were also likeable, and Tsukyou especially manages to pull off the strong swordsman character rather effectively, and that's one thing I can praise the show for. The main character, while very strong, still isn't able to blow through all of the girls with ease and finds himself cornered more often than not, having to think up some clever way to win. While this isn't on the same level of tactical fights I've seen in some other shows, it at the very least, creates some narrative tension and stakes and makes the girl characters feel more like fighters than in your typical light novel series where the girls are all presented as being weak without the help of the boring male self-insert character. The final villain was decently executed and I felt a genuine sent of excitement seeing the main character and her fight in the final episodes, with a decently explored back-story explaining their rivalry and the reason why it spawned in the first place giving more weight to the scene. The character interactions were fine but often the dialogue feels very simple and trite, with two characters just yelling how great they are, and sometimes the comedy between certain characters could fall flat on its face.

The animation consistency was fairly good with a lot of character movement and attacks but the art consistency took a large hit as a result of this. It's good enough in conveying the action on screen and some moments can look downright great, but overall it's just fine. I liked the character designs themselves and the general colour design too, and the opening is catchy as hell! While in terms of visuals, it's just a bunch of random fights, each one flows into each other fairly well. The music is fine and does its job but is ultimately rather forgettable once you've finished watching the show; nothing all too remarkable aside from the opening and ending tracks. Overall, I believe this anime did achieve what it set out to do to a certain extent. While it is an overall decent show, I would be lying if I said that I didn't have fun watching this show and I would recommend this anime for anyone looking for a dumb, easy ride, although I doubt this show will be remembered in a few months.

Let me tell you all a story.. " once there was a delinquent boy.. who got expelled from school and had to join a new school which was being dominated by girls and they all wanted to straighten him up but ended up falling for him... THE END". Ever heard of something like this.. ya i know . So this pretty much sums up the entire anime and almost very other harem anime nowadays.This show here is nothing but a sorry excuse of a harem anime with almost no originality and is full of shitty cliches that would make no sense. You would rather ... wonder about why are the children even allowed use swords and whips in school .

Armed Girl's Machiavellism is anime based on the manga of same name and is made by LINDElFILMS. Now the studio is known for making some great harem like Yamada kun and the seven withes but TBH even i am not sure why they would make such anime anime now. The story follows Fudo Nomura, strong delinquent who was expelled from his school for engaging in a fight where he defeated almost 40 people, and now he studies at Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy which is ruled by a group of girls called 'Supreme 5 Swords" whose mission is to correct out all the boys after the school became co-ed.He is really skilled when it comes to fighting and has a lot of knowledge about various martial art styles. He even has his own orignal technique called " Magic Bullet" through which he can defeat almost anyone with just a single touch. All the members of supreme swords wanted to defeat Nomura but instead ended up defeated and for some reason they all fell for him (don't ask me why).

Now , the protagonist might be the only character who is somewhat bearable in the entire show. Almost every girl presents a pretty bad impression and their is personalities are also unbearable at some points. Rin, who is the leader of the group, fought against Nomura and somehow accidentally ended up kissing him and later on developing a crush on him. Their interaction in the beginning seemed promising but later on she turned out to be violent girl with a tsundere personality. And introducing girls like tamaba, warabi and tsukuyo just shows how they threw up almost all the generic character tropes in the show without any proper sense.

Another major character in the show is the Empress also known as Amo. At start of the series she was shown to be the strongest delinquent in the school who even the supreme swords couldn't handle . She had a extremely violent bitch like personality who would kill anyone for almost no reason. But later it was revealed that she was in love with nomura and was a yandere personality and would kill anyone who would come between them... even Nomura .

Now i would praise the anime for doing a good job when it came to martial arts. They did well in explaining the techniques and arts used in show and the fights seemed to make some sense. But hey! an anime where even a bear does martial arts.. now that might be something you Have to see.

Now after watching the entire series the only question which came in my mind was.. Just why. Why even create such a thing ? watching this made me feel that the creators were not even sure where they were going with this thing. They just threw up almost everything that came in their mind with worrying about it making even a bit of sense. There is no memorable character or dialogue whatsoever and most of the characters are almost unbearable to watch. The setting is also nothing special, just a simple High school where for some reason everything including swords, whips, bears , blades are totally allowed but a boy wanting to enjoy his freedom is not.

Now THB there's nothing much to say about the art . It might as well be the only good thing in the anime. The character design is also pretty generic with nothing to praise or complain about. The sound track is also pretty good, The op Builds up some hype for a good fast paced hardcore action anime.... which unfortunately this show is not. The battle music is nothing good or original either but fits there anyways.

Now in the end... this show is nothing good . Its not exactly really bad either and you might even find it decent if you are a fan of such kind of shows but I can't bring myself to like this show. There is no originality or even a good plot. The characters are just generic and boring , and their interactions also felt somewhat cheesy and the jokes don't do much either. So I would not really recommend this show to everyone, but you can still watch it to find if it really is all that bad as I said it is. And ya... why are the swords allowed in the school?

As much as I've wanted to finally see a guy hits a girl, showing em what gender equality is all about, this anime wasn't really all that satisfying or really all that entertaining tbh. The setting in itself seem to be the most ideal setting for any feminist to wish for, where the school is fully dominated by women with rights to possessed a weapon and physically use it to assault others or cut them without any consequences being done to them (like em police, government, the principal should do something about it); you could also add in the assimilation of femininity, by making all ... men turn gay with make up, since this school that was once an all girl school, and most female student saw men as vile, vicious, or a rapey beast. Aside from showing all the female student's ignorance of men, the pretentious gays in this show look very disturbing, especially that fucking big head dude. And I just dont see any reason to make these kind of disturbing character other than wanting people to shy away from the series.

All that aside, this is just your typical cliche anime, with many of the anime tropes and setting, filled with women and a legit badass MC; where he gets a harem out of it by dominating them in a fight. Usually it's the other way around where the harem starts before the fight, but this anime go through that process of acquiring em ladies through beating them, where the MC usually show no or very little sexual interest, or having shown any signs hinting of a romance between his harem partners. Talking about the character, some girls in the show, especially the blonde hair one and the croissant hair looking girl, does give u that cringy-ness being added on to the show. I mean their fucking character imitating or speaking in a very horrible accent of a foreign language and try to pretend one is weebish and cringed just like I said. Plus, the blonde hair girl is just your typical big boob, with a tsundere like personality that usually blurt out stuff that imply that she's actually a very slutty on the inside (well the big boob already kinda give that point across to its viewers). That's not to say that the show is consisted of disturbing and cringy characters, there are some pretty cool ghastly girl who gives off a macabre vibes, cute and adorable lolis, and so on.

There's not much to the story really aside from a very few flashback screen of our MC's past, or of other character in the show that belong to the member of the five sword, aka, the student council of the school? or just a group of respected girls who control the fucking school I guess. In addition to that, the story progression of this anime is pretty slow, and almost makes you wanted to skip to the part where action and stuff finally gets to happen in the anime. This ofc is not that much of an ordeal, but it just gets boring u know? Excluding all the cute interaction scene, some ecchi that some of u may liked (I definitely dont, I cant handle the tease u know? I would rather watch a hentai), panties shot, awesomely animated fight scene, and so on. But hey, the cliche of people from the five sword people talking when one of their members, or them and a group of their henchmen fighting against the MC, that's actually pretty annoying.

In conclusion, it's a fun show, it may get boring at times but nevertheless, it's not that bad if you wanna see a different kinda harem story involving men hitting girls, and later have them go after the MC's D at their very own discretion.

STORY: 3/10
CHARACTER: 4/10
ART: 4/10
SOUND: 7/10
ENJOYMENT: 8/10
OVERALL: 6/10

The concept of turning delinquent’s boys into girls in order to be accepted in this school isn’t easy to swallow and it’s unclear how this alarming act of extreme violence is acknowledged by everyone under the name of ‘Peace’. The world building is retarded and extreme to the point where the school finds everything sexually wrong! To think this kind of mentality is drilled into all the students is scary, for who knows what the hell would happen once they spread out in society! The MC gets tortured just because he was in a picture with another naked girl?? ... Where did the girl’s punishment go?? Just cause she’s from the 5 Swords group, she is to be forgiven?? The fact that teenagers are carrying weapons (the 5 main girls are acquitted with real swords!) to physically beat men is not an acceptable premise nor the fact that those 5 main girls are dosed off on hormones and resort to actually killing each other for very stupid reasons! Do remember this show has no Comedy tag so I took it seriously and I didn’t enjoy a lot because the show couldn’t defend these ridiculous claims! So, I just switched off my brain and started watching this anime simply as a ‘Popcorn Flick’ and you know what? I started to have fun, was laughing at the well-timed jokes and all the craziness along with it! I realized you must accept this weird idea to enjoy the anime which worked like a charm! Despite the show’s promise at the beginning, it can’t seem to capitalize on it due to the lack in depth with its story and characters. And the Harem is simply shoved down our throats as every girl falls for the MC, I bought the first girl and was kinda okay with the second one, but the rest were just shoehorned! And they fall for him after he beats them in combat which is also achieved in a corny manner! So where does this anime work then? The answer is Comedy and I’m very surprised as to why this anime has no ‘Comedy’ tag. The jokes and their setups were bold in its execution, a little creative, a tad bit repetitive but they were timely performed. Sadly, the final arc was lazily told, choppy edited and stupidly rushed which leaves a bad taste in your mouth when all is said and done!

Nomura (MC) comes off both cool and badass but he’s bland with very senseless and questionable motives that sometimes make him unlikable, no a better word is unrelatable. The work done on his facial expressions were lousy which didn’t help his case either but he’s not your generic clueless MC. Nomura is a hot-headed guy who just wants some peace and will do anything to get his freedom! Aside from him, all the characters are One-Note who have only 1 object on their minds! All the girls start as strong Feminist, but the main female characters slowly change after spending time with the MC. I am not gonna go into details because we have many girls here, but they all generally have some bad trait to them as well as a unique sword fighting style. They are cute sure, but they are also very stupid which makes them annoying, especially Satori and that French (or Spanish) wannabe girl with the wig and that maddening LAUGH!!! Empress is the only character that exhibits potential, but they even spoil her in the end by giving her no depth at all.

The art is pretty much your average Harem anime style with choppy editing and I had a big problem with the character designs. The girls were well-defined, both in their looks, expressions and attires while Nomura had mediocre overall work done on him! Also, the Voice Actor for Nomura had an annoying voice to him which was a poor choice since the girls came off better in this department as well. The fight styles are a 50-50 to me! On one hand, they were more credible in the sense of being accomplished with pace and rhythm. No one was shouting their Special moves or style out loud, but they rather appeared as text at the bottom. But then the sword play displayed didn’t always look unique, sometimes it felt like they were just swinging around! The OP is nice, and while the soundtrack is nothing beguiling, I totally dig the ED due to its catchy tune.

Yet despite all the fighting styles of the girls, Nomura beat them all with either his Special move or come up with some convenient technique which made the show predictable and boring. You would think the rest of the girls could have come up with some way to avoid his Special move but nothing of that sort is even mentioned! And the armour plot here is ludicrous to the point where a character would be get all slashed up and lose lots of blood but the very next day they are completely fine! The one arc which showed capacity was the past of the MC so they saved that till the end to create a finale for the show which sucked because they turned this into a bullshit cliched arc that was rushed and totally ruined the character, Empress for me! The final fight was decent, but the big payoff didn’t work because you aren’t invested in the feelings of the characters nor the story for it to work! How can you when you are given half episode of flashbacks as storytelling! The Comedy seriously saves this anime from a disaster as it kept you entertained for the whole 12 episodes. I am only giving this anime a high rating just cause the Comedy caught me off-guard because the rest is just meh.

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism is a very simple, fast show. Unsurprisingly, I don't have much to say about it.

The premise of a school overtaken by armed girls allows for a lot of crazy things to take place. There's a masculine guy fighting girls, each one with a different weapon and fighting style, there's a girl who has a bear, who he also fights in a sumo match, there's tons of fanservice that is implemented in a way that actually isn't just for the sake of itself, as it attempts to create some comedic situations and even characterize some with the sheer idea that they like to ... walk around or fight without any clothes. I would say that the reason it works, is because of the main character himself.

Homura is just a guy who wants to go to a normal school, and be a free, cool dude, but isn't allowed to. In order to be free he has to get stamps from all the higher ups in the girls' ranks. Because the school is a correcting facility, he immediately is forced to uphold the law that says all boys will be turned into good citizens by turning them into transvestites (don't ask, I don't know what exactly is that supposed to help with as well. My best shot would be that it makes them lose all of their bravado and make them behave). He refuses, gets in a fight, falls on the girl he was fighting and accidently kisses her.
Cue the cliche kissing music.
Soon after all the other members of the "Supreme Five Swords" take interest in him and he has to beat them up and get them to act normally so they can give him the stamp. Slowly but surely they all warm up to him, he warms up to them and some drama starts occurring. Homura works well, because there's a lot of other viewpoints showcased bit by bit, he has a cheeky personality and his own, distinct fighting style, not to mention that he is ripped. All of this makes him a good, recognizable MC, doesn't feel like a self-insert at no point. He's characterized well enough. While his presentation feels fairly natural, with the characters Homura fights after the second half of the show, it can feel forced and rushed. The entire deal with the Empress in the last three episodes could symbolize that perfectly. It works, it's explained, but it has absolutely no impact as it feels like just another rushed characterization.
If I were to talk about the girls and how they behave, I would take away most of the fun from this show. They don't exactly have deep personalities, though some have their reasons, so telling you what they are would get rid of most of the content. The most entertaining part about this show is by far meeting new girls and finding out about their fighting styles, their personalities and their reasons for getting interested in Homura. Once again, those aren't anything deep, but with so many cool, well designed characters, you do have this itch that tells you that you want to know more about them. Besides, you wouldn't need anyone's explanation to know what they're all about, this show doesn't hide it. It's always been very straightforward with their personalities.

The visuals are fine, but because it is Silver Link after all, they only look okay because the things that are shown need little animation. There aren't many shots where characters actually fight, rather there are ones where they attack, cut into a different camera angle, another attack, another cut, the other person attacks, another camera cut. You can see how this can leave some less than impressive results. That's not to say that there aren't any impressive-looking moments, it's just that the it's really inconsistent. The art style itself is okay, the school is designed properly and there are different places for each fight, the character designs are great and can tell you a lot about their character just by looking at them, just as an example Rin wears half of a devil mask. Isn't that immediately intriguing? The fact that those sort of things get explained as you go is also a huge plus. Another thing that really caught my eye are the clothes and school uniforms. This show has a great sense of fashion, there's a lot of nicely fitting outfits with matching colors. I have to praise them for that.
The director seems to have had some ideas as to how to present certain moments, there's surely a good amount of thought put into them, especially the mostly well scripted fight scenes, but there are periods of time where everything looks more generic than even it's art style. Not to mention some needlessly cheesy scenes, like the rose petals flying through the air as Homura and his last opponent get up close. It's not this kind of series, it never was, it doesn't fit. The directors tried quite a bit, but it wasn't quite enough.

The sound is... well... it sure does exist and it sure does its job, but were I say more about anything other than the pretty good and fitting opening and the ending, I would have some hard time. The sounds of metal as it hits Homura and the instances where he uses his Magic Bullet are the only ones that stuck to me, despite there being much more. The silliest one would have to be the bear's voice actress who tries so hard to be mad and loud, but actually sounds frail and weak in each roar. That's not a positive by the way, it's almost pathetic. The soundtrack definitely improves all the scenes to some degree, but the musical directing isn't anything great here, just like the visual directing.

This is about everything that you need to know about Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism without going into spoilers. If you want to watch it, you should. It's a solid battle series with a good, yet simple cast, gets better the more of them are introduced. It's easy to binge, looks pretty enough and has a lot of cool and dumb moments that should stick with you for a while. It has some solid comedic timing and knows how to script its fights and some casual scenes. Unfortunately this is about all it does and it had some weaker points here and there in terms of its writing, it always swirled around the mediocre to good range, however if you feel like spending some quality time with some quality armed waifus, you should give it a shot.

As always, this is purely my opinion, I recommend you to develop your own.

So this is my second review so I'm not sure what I should write about ,but I'll keep it simple

Story 4/10 : The story made no sense at all , jumping from a character to another without a real plot but it was good enough to keep watching

Art 7/10 : The animation was good (just that , you tought I was going to write more ? sike)

Soun 7/10 : e

Character 5/10

... Enjoyment 8/10: Even though it had a bad story and boring characters it was still very enjoyable

Overall yes

Edit: So it turn out i need to make it longer so imma just write something down here idk , today I ate a large pizza with a 1.25L bottle of Cola and watched 6 episodes of Dororo , it was very good imma keep watching :D

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism (Bloody long ass name, gonna call it Busou for convenient reviewing) is an anime trying to combine and revolutionize the shounen action genre along with harem romance but fails miserably. However, it does manage to do a few stuffs right, even though trivial. The theme may seem catchy and innovative at first, but once dwelling into the show it eventually exposes itself as a self-repetitive formula that grows predictable really quickly.

Story (5/10)
The story starts off fairly cliche; A male character is thrusted forcibly into an all-girls high school... pretty sure I've seen this plot trope somewhere. (/s) Anyways, instead of starting off ... as a beta male indulging in the unrequited, unexplainable and unreasonable love from all the female cast out of nowhere (Basically all the old school harem genres), the MC, Nomura Fudou, is forced to take on the girls in an action-packed swordfight... only that the male MC uses "guns". Not sure how is that fair, but whatever. Even though the story did well differentiating from oldschool repetitive harems, viewers will soon realise the fact that it does in fact offer little to no difference to the newer magical school harem genres (Looking at you Rakudai and Akashic records etc), which is basically having the unbelievably badass main character beat the girls into submission. Are all the female cast masochists or something? Not to mention the formula is used several times, first on the mask girl, then the british trope girl, then a bear riding girl, then Satori (Sorry, shes the only girl I remember in this series) then the auto-counter girl. Everything repeats, not to mention the characters seemingly set up to die always ended up not dying in the end. Oh the suspense, but guess character death shouldn't be expected or else this anime will probably venture into a different genre altogether.

In short, unique setting, trashbag repetitive execution that disappoints and fails to use the setting into its full potential.

Characters (3/10)
Firstly we have Nomura, the badass main MC. Oh well, at least this is not some Yuuki Rito so at least hes plenty bearable, but the fact that he never even falters a single bit or breaks down shows little to no character development and character depth whatsoever. Then we have the mask girl, which I reckon to be of the generic tsundere trope present in almost every single anime in the recent years. No idea why she wears a mask all day since her actual face looks much better, but I guess its just a lazy effort to make the character more special? Of course we also have the british blonde, almost mistook it for the Cecilia something from Infinite Stratos since they're exactly alike and the creators literally made no effort to differentiate anyway. The bear riding girl is slightly more bearable since she does not show obvious feelings against Nomura and is plenty more badass than the first two female cast, but forgettable nonetheless. (Also what the hell is that fashion sense?) Then we have Satori who has at least decent depth as the reasons why she became "emotionless" and her past are at least explored and touched upon, not to mention she doesn't fit existing anime tropes. After that we have the twintail middle-school girl who is somehow in high-school (Hey its anime, logic doesn't apply here) and then we have the auto-counter girl who obsess with Nomura over a reason normal humans should not find as a reason to obsess over with, but guess hyperbole is the only way to go when the writers cannot think of a decent reason for her to go over the male MC.

Also, they introduced lots of side characters, but apart from the ugly ladyboy no one is even close to rememberable because they are fucking irrelevant anyway.

Art (7/10)
The fighting scenes doesn't really flop in animation, and the art are generally okay compared to recent animes so not much of an issue there. The detail in the twintail girl's eyes are nice to see at least.

Sound (5/10)
The opening theme is quite catchy, I've always find myself listening to the first part of the OP but right after the dedededededede sound finishes I skip to the main show anyway. ED is forgettable. I've not noticed any outstanding OSTs as well, but nothing unbearable.

Enjoyment (6/10)
Despite being a repetitive formula, the show still manages to bring me some enjoyment. Once you shut your brain off, ignore the details and the obvious predictions that this and that are going to happen (And it definitely does), at least the fighting scenes are quite enjoyable and the suspense brought to the brink of death of some characters kept me slightly on edge (BUT THEY DIDN'T DIE IN THE END WHAT A SURPRISE. COME ON.)

Overall (5/10)
In short, if you are expecting quality or innovative material / plot, look away. However if you are looking for something random and ridiculous to fill your time this can be an okay choice, considering its much more bearable compared to dirty copypasta harems like Hundred and the likes, but generally you shouldn't come in bearing expectations for anything spectacular.

So guys... how should I explain this? Do you remember when you were a kid and you had to eat those veggies your mom cooked for you? Well I do and I seriously always hated it but the meal always came with veggies and some meat. You see, i would always take a bite from the meat and then from the veggies. The veggies tasted like fcking crap compared to the meat. And it would go on like this, every single meal.
And the same thing is happening to this anime here. I mean honestly this isnt anything good, mediocre at best. But the thing ... is, when you always watch good anime, like anime with the score of 8 or higher, then at some point you dont realize how awesome it is. You gotta watch the anime thats a bit "shittier" after the good ones or else you (or maybe just I) wont be able to enjoy the good ones. And i took a long time to realize that. To realize that the veggies made the meat taste so awesome. And to realize that the veggies tasted like shit because they were made by my mom.

Story - 5

-little spoilers (only the first few episodes)-

It isnt anything special. A dude comes to a school that has recently become coed after being a girls only school for a long time. And the girls were terrorized from the guy so they began to wield weapons. The dude is a typical guy who seems weak af at the start but then has some hidden tricks and skills and starts beating the girls who wield those weapons. They then fall in love with him and stuff like that, so generic.... but not really bad because its a safe plot i guess...

Art - 8

Art is probably where they can score the most. Characters are looking good and the background and scenes as well. The anime earned itself a praise here *hurray*

Character - 5

Like i said, the guy seems weak but then has hidden skills. So nothing special about the dude. The girls (black hair and blondie) who fall in love with him are basically the same character but with different appearances. Both highly tsundere, both in love with MC... The only difference may be their fighting styles.

Enjoyment - 7

I actually quite enjoyed the fights. The MC has his special hand to hand combat skills whilst fighting against swords. Here perhaps we have something original.

Overall - 6

They go with a plot and character which were already used in many other animes. The result is that the anime isnt particularly bad but isnt anything special. As an anime you watch whilst eating your meal or something i can probably recommand it. But if you are looking for deep plot or something mind breaking, this definitely is the wrong thing for you.

P.S. pls dont hate me for my opinion >.<

This anime is so weird but so average that there might honestly be something for watching it.

Story: 2/10

The premise is that an all girl school now allows boys but the girls are scared so they asked to be allowed weapons for self defence. The school has the 5 swords which are 5 of the best girl fighters and the empress. These 5 swords force boys to act feminine or leave the school.
Our protagonist Nomura is a new transfer student and he is like "No way freedom for all" and then for some reason he has to fight all of the 5 swords.

The story is ... dumb, really dumb. It honestly makes no sense why he is even fighting the 5 swords but each arc is based on fighting one of the fight swords. Every time he wins the 5 sword member joins his side for some reason...

Except near the end where they are just rushing to try and end the series so the last member just joins him without any logical sense.

Art: 5/10
It's okay but nothing special. The fight animation isn't that special either and neither is the art style. But it ain't terrible.

Sound: 5/10
The OST does it's job but it ain't memorable whatsoever. The sound effects are decent as well.

Characters: 3/10
The characters feel different from one another. However, the characters just side with the MC after being beaten and some fall for him for no logical reason. The side characters also support him because???
The only potentially interesting character was Amou the Empress who only properly does something at the end but it was rushed so it just gets resolved in a poor fight. The abilities don't make too much sense either like auto counter but it's a shounen so whatever.

Enjoyment: 5/10
It was okay and that is really it

This was an interesting take on the genre. Fairly standard combat scenes. Fairly standard characters. Nothing really special about the show to make it stand out.

The story is fairly basic.. guy has to fight 5 girls who after winning become thirsty for him then has to fight the big baddie who was thirsty the whole time. so he can get a pass to leave the school for reasons. that may sound a bit over simplistic but it is the throughline for the show.. not an entirely compelling story but not the worst I've seen.

The characters of the show are fairly standard they some characters ... pretend to be from other cultures but fail.. two i think..I assume the "french" girl was supposed to be putting on an act. The MC was fairly solid not as pushover as some but still fell into the normal accident happens wamen walk in and freak out cliche. There was one that was different though she had the feel of Luck from Black clover..

The sound in it was fairly good. proper timing and decent picks. The art was solid too no noticeable drops in quality and the fights flowed well.

Overall I would recommend watching this show though don't expect a masterpiece it is a good time burner though if you have some to spare.

An ecchi harem anime, where girls were wielding swords, and the guy had…invisible gun on his hands?!?! Sigh. It’s really absurd but it works.

The story went full circle at the very end, but it lacked impact. The suppose climax scenes didn’t give off enough thrill to make me appreciate it. At least I find the pacing good. The art and animation is on par with other animes, nothing new. The characters were meh. Even the main character was boring. There’s a bit of character development on some of the cast, but it didn’t save the anime.

I did enjoy watching the all to common anime tropes ... happening in the series. I also like the fact that they elaborate and explain every sword technique that was happening on screen. As viewers, we are after all not familiar with those information. I do want to know more about the Tamaba twins. Their situation wasn’t fleshed out much.

I think this anime will appeal to the fans of the said manga and to the fans who like ecchi and harem animes. If you don’t belong in both of the mentioned groups, well, its your choice if you want to watch this or not.

At first when i saw this anime, I thought this gonna be some hardcore stuff really. The first episodes where good, but as you enter into the story more you realise that it's an anime that ships hentai to maintain the audience, and using some "deja vu" accident situations, to create in the end a harem for the main character like many other anime that pursue the same scheme to build their universe.
Overall this anime doesn't deserve much attention, but if i'd say if something is good in it, i'd probably say that the art and combat animations are ... good and entertaining.

It had some good moments but was below average in some animations and story elements. However, I kept coming back for the interesting premise and how the characters interacted with each other.

Most poorly drawn scenes are seen at the beginning of the series and the errors show less often. The series also wraps things up too quickly, like they were pressed for time so they crammed the rest of the story into the last two episodes.

Art: 6
The art is fine, besides the errors I discussed. I was hoping for the animation to be more fluid, but it stayed in the realm of possible motion ... for the most part.

Sound: 6
Nothing to complain about

Character: 8
It has the basic harem characters, but also some other ones that are interesting, but not totally amazing.

Enjoyment: 7
I liked it, for the most part despite its many flaws.

Overall: 6

Average school action comedy with a few interesting characters in the mic. There wasn't a lot of character development and things tend to just happen. You can see where vast character development could happen but this show is only a 12 episode anime with no aspirations of being better than what it is.

The most interesting character to me was Satori Tamaba. She is the WTF character of this show. I wish we could get an OVA with her as the lead. Hers backstory was probably the best in this show. I liked the cast of the characters in general, however, nothing truly stood out.

This show is about a boy who goes to a school cause he got into one little fight. At this school are girls who rule over the male students. Our male MC doesn't conform and has to fight. That's the story.

I'm not sure what the show was going for but if it was mediocrity, nailed it.

Story:3. There wasn't a story beyond the synopses. If you've seen one battle harem you've seen this one and it's the bottom of the barrel.

Art:5. Meh.

Sound:5. It has audio. Nothing exciting.

Characters:2. They are as shallow as you can get. I felt like 2, maybe 3, ... of the characters were MEANT to have depth but the crew meant to dig the hole never showed.

Enjoyment:4. It was a decent way to kill some time while waiting for something better to release.

Overall:5. Look, if you want a high school battle show with an aloof MC that has to fight the strongest 4-5 students in the school then go watch Beelzebub. That show has literally everything this one was missing PLUS a demon baby. Trust me.

This anime is the definition of "meh". It's just another "seen one, seen them all" harem anime. It's the exact same plot as always: Rebellious, highly skilled male enters a world of hostile females and conquers their hearts one by one until the climax comes and is the usual, cop-out finish. This one however, tended to have more logic holes than most. For example: (Spoilers):

The goal of Nomura was to get all the stamps of all the 5 swords girls. But, the point of this was never explained and once he got them, he used them for a ... reason that he didn't even know he would need it for until the final 5 minutes of the episode. So, what was his actual purpose in attaining them? Not explained.

The relationship between Nomura and Amou is based off of a 10 minute interaction. You go the whole anime thinking there was something deeper between the two and their history, but it was literally a handshake, a brushed off tour and some little pink haired trap getting punched.

And of course, there was the nonsensical "joke" the Headmistress decided to play at the end, all to build up tension in an anti-climatic, cliched anime.

The plus side of the anime is that Nomura was kind of cool for an MC. Cocksure, rebellious, not a "nose-bleeder" in the face of sexuality, but not pervy, either. The rest of the cast however, was your cut and dry harem. The rigid rule-keeper, the western influenced character, the really out there one, the quiet one, and the arrogant one. About the only mild difference here was Amou the Yandere final boss. But, the connection was so weak with her and Nomura, it just kind of fell flat.

The action was interesting, but not anything particularly amazing. I hate animes that talk about "killing" in a setting where you already know no one is going to actually die. It's just stupid. That took away from some of the action, as I spent more time thinking like: "Yeah, sure they're dead.".

It wasn't a total borefest, obviously, because I watched it all. It has some moments of humor in there and watching Nomura is interesting. But, overall, this was a completely mediocre harem anime and you don't really need to waste your time watching it.

Story: 5
Art: 5
Sound: 5
Character: 7
Enjoyment: 6
Overall: 5

This is an anime that seems like it's based off a visual novel,
And that visual novel would be very fun to play, but it's not, and sadly because the lack of world building or actual consequences, render this anime extremely paper thin.


That being said, it doesn't take itself too seriously and manages to keep itself going at a steady clip with virtually no filler, which is more than I can say for most single season 13 episode anime. It was an enjoyable watch, with a consistent story. While that story wasn't very good, I can at least appreciate that they didn't try to make ... it bigger than it was, this started as a guy taking on 5 chicks with swords and varying social statuses, and ended with that same plot.

6/10 an enjoyable watch but forgettable.

If I had to describe this series with one word it would be "workmanlike" if you pushed me to two words the second would be "nonsensical." Ultimately the series is what it is, a by the numbers slightly ecchi action series. It's a typical genre piece that does little to expand or flaunt the genres confines. If you enjoy those kind of shows then you'll get a comfortable three or four hours of entertainment out of this. If you don't then I wouldn't bother watching it. The show knows what is is and it achieves its aims, which is perhaps laudable even if the final ... product is not.

I suppose the one thing that rankles is that the setting is complete nonsense. It seems to be set in the school just so they could use the visual trappings. The theme is pasted on at best. You could effortlessly transport this to any other setting and not a lot would be changed or lost. Even if you swallow "the big lie" after a few episodes you can feel your suspension of disbelief straining under the weight of murder, eyes being sliced (I am un chien andalusia) and various other acts that come largely out of left field. The show has an odd tonal dissonance that can be offputting at times.

All the same, at its worst its mediocre, there's plenty of room for criticism so its a little sad that some reviewers feel the need to fabricate failings for a show that has so many you could harp on e.g. complaining that the antagonist was an old friend of the protagonist when it is explicitly clear this isnt the case.

Anyhow, at the risk of repeating myself, if you're a fan of the genre and you want something to burn some time then give this a watch. If not, then move on. Ultimately it serves its purpose, and likely its creators intent, as entertainment.

Absolutely nothing worth watching about that show. I loved it.

And because I am forced to write more, I shall tell you why I started watching it in the first place:
It was the swords. I like swords, I like girls. The anime combined both and made it a central point. It basically bribed me.

Really, MAL? Fine, I list pros and cons.

Pros:
- Surprisingly few ecchi scenes for a harem comedy
- Some of the jokes actually worked
... - Some of the characters were almost interesting

Cons:
- It's a formulaic comedy harem show. This time the girls have swords and want to "correct" the protagonist. If you are of the Gigguk variety anime fan, you can have a good time with it.