Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

Let me tell you a Story, a Story of a man that gets into a high school, just to find out that this school is ruled by "feminism". that school was once a female school. But then they decided to open it to male population. but guess what? the nation of "feminism" stroke down, and the whole school turned all their male students into females boys in order to make the girls feel "safe"

TL;DR: Overall Section

if by this point you don't spot any red flags dancing around your mind, then you should stop reading (btw, if you are going to get salty, avoid my profile ... and grow up, after all this is my opinion). but if you feel that the whole Idea is ridiculous then keep reading. be aware of spoilers

Story 2/10:

Story, story... What story? all we got is that Nomura got transferred into another school just to find out that the school is full on whimsical girls that for whatever reason have a problem against all men ("feminism"), and the school rules consist on turning boys into girls so they can get all along. (then what is the point of even including males into it?)

Nomura just wanted to chill on his new school, but apparently if he doesn't agree with the shitty rules that the school has, he is forced to a fight against the "5 swords" or any other girl that has something against men. the whole argument of this show is a convenient plot device that serves purpose as how idiotic the high school rules can be and how low the girls fall on this show. then, if our MC wants to chill he has to defeat all the 5 swords and get a "pass" to leave the school.

*spoiler section*

sometimes we get some of the past of Nomura, he constantly remembers one of his "friends" that he used to hang out with... sadly the pure essence of a Yandere awakened on that friend and decided to beat the fuck out of him... guess what happens next?

*End of spoiler section*

Art 5/10:

Your average budget for a generic setting, it was nice to see some attacks coming from some fights, as for fan service, it was a relieving distraction for the pain this show is

Sound 5/10:

I always wonder why good sounding OPs are to be found in generic anime, is a total waste, but it accomplishes as a relieving distraction. I don't find anything really outstanding, so overall is okay

Character 2/10:

Aside of how strong the feminism essence is on the girls, they are also a bunch of generic annoying girls. if you have seen this setting before, its almost obvious that every girl eventually will like the MC. well this time is more in a masochist way, they all start liking the MC after all of them received a beatdown (a really relieving beatdown I must say) so lets give them some points for showing us another way to get a Harem.

I don't really have a problem with anime girls overall, unless they are a bunch of useless airheads (Chitanda from Hyouka for example), but this show went too far making almost every girl annoying in a way. and I'm talking about that green haired girl that gets on my nerves each time that she appears, I don't know how people do like her, but I haven't seen someone that annoying. I actually wanted her to suffer a lot, (gladly she did, and it was extremely relieving) aside of the 99% of annoying girls, there is 1% that is quite acceptable, there goes Onigawara, and the Bear girl with the HIO HIO HIO laugh, but nothing more.

*Spoiler section

Oh yes, Give Nomura some credit for defending the male population, it was really relieving seeing how he succeeded against the girls beating them down one by one

*End of spoiler Section... actually it was obvious that he would most likely to succeed*


Enjoyment 5/10:

Enjoying this show is like watching a fight on the street between someone you don't know, against someone you dislike so much, the relieving factor of seeing how that someone you don't like get beat down so hard makes you feel extremely relieved. if it were because of how Nomura beats down each girl and saves male population of becoming female boys, I would have rated this higher than 8. Sadly the "blood bath" ending I wanted didn't happened. not even the final moment with Onigawara. Everything turned into a cliché and bullshit plot device around Amou that no one asked (Like hey, lets make a past for the MC but lets never touch it until the very end so we create a really convenient finale). well, at least I didn't ask for it, that should be more accurate if the ones reading this are burning their salt into really high temperature ready to burst against me...

Overall 3,8/10:

TL;DR: school transfer ends wrong, girls trying to punish a male because he is a male that won't become a female, he fights against school rules, saving all the males from becoming females, he creates a harem, and a plot convenience comes to claim him as her unrequited love from the past because jealousy

Spoiler free review

I welcome feedback on my reviews

Hello and welcome to Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy. We're a boarding school that helps delinquents such as yourself correct your ways and build a brighter future. Now our ways of rehabilitation are a bit different from your usual school. A group of 5 girls, known as the Supreme Five Swords, oversee everything that goes on here. All students are permitted to a baton to protect themselves from boys such as you, with the higher ranked students given more capable defensive measures. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the most important detail. You need to crossdress or we'll stab ... you.

Armed Girl's Machiavellism is about Fudou Nomura, the next kid on the chopping block for our weapon wielding students. Well, that was the plan, but he proved to be a little too much for them to handle. Soon, Nomura finds out he needs to acquire stamps from each of the Supreme Five Swords if he wants to have some freedom around his new stomping ground. So, he decides to go get them the best way he knows how. Brawling. The story seems interesting at first with its 1v1 showdowns, until it devolves into a simple harem creator. Defeat them, they respect you and usually fall in love with you. Throw in some mediocre comedy that can either have you slightly chuckling or groaning in disappointment, and it just doesn't give you much to like about it. With the word Machiavellism in the title, you expect perhaps a few mind games or betrayals to spice things up, but it doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the show. Just an expectation that ends up falling short.

The main focus of the show is obviously the action as Nomura faces off against opponent after opponent, but it doesn't really do it well. Either it's repetitive and predictable, with Nomura's Magic Bullet defeating them left and right, or it's mixed in with some annoying dialogue and pop-ups explaining the different styles of fighting techniques shown in the anime, ruining the flow of the scenes instead of being informative. The animation is also quite shoddy, lowering the quality of the already lacklustre fights. You do get a few action scenes that feel pretty decent, but it just fails to keep its consistency across the show.

The characters are interesting at first, I have to say that at least. Nomura is a pretty good main looking at his carefree personality and interactions with other characters, and the Supreme Five Swords and other recurring individuals have their own little quirks that make them quite likeable. The way some of them talk, bringing in other languages into their speech pattern, feels like an incredibly forced attempt at ethnicity, but it's tolerable most of the time. Some tragic backstories are also mentioned but not really explored, as if they were just trying to add some depth into their cast but decided to give up halfway. Then they start bringing up love and friendship. Again, how is this got anything to do with Machiavellism? It feels like the show had very little idea of where it wanted to take its characters, so they end up trying different things to try and figure things out.

Armed Girl's Machiavellism has potential, but like plenty other shows before it, it fails to do anything special with what it has. It was slightly entertaining at times, but the negatives outweighed the little positives this anime had. There are probably a lot of people that could derive some type of enjoyment out of this, but sadly I cannot recommend this show to anyone. You're better off finding something else to sink your hand- I mean teeth into.

So I decided to watch this show mainly because action oriented anime intrigue me, I watched all of it because I was determined to write an informed review of a show which I think sends a dangerous message and encourages unintelligent gender based stereotyping

**Some spoilers ahead**

Story 3

The story is set in an all-girls school which hs recently started taking in male students. In order to "protect" the girls from the boys, they are all allowed to carry weapons and there is a council of sorts which distributes punishments to boys who steps out of line or don't submit by feminising themselves. In comes the MC ... who refuses to bow down and is a saviour to "all men". Honestly this show is like the wet dream of anyone who frequently uses the terms "feminazi" or "SJW" or "whiteknighting".

Anyway my first crtiicism is why is it set in a school? It makes no sense, the characters never go to classes or anything, it just seems like a poor excuse to have teenagers get into awkward erotically charged situations. This could have been easily set in a world outside of a school where women are the dominating gender and it would have had the same effect. Actually that would have made more sense as it feels abit stupid that the council has some weird judicial authority over the other students. But that's never explained to any extent. The school is just a backdrop that could be any location.

My second criticism is that ultimately the show has a shallow core plot. We have basic motivations to propel the story but they wring hollow when there is such terrible world building because honestly what the anime does is set the stage and then it's the MC fighting one girl after the other.

My third criticism and subsequently what annoyed me the most are why are the girls on this show so fearful and hateful of the boys? It makes no sense for teenagers of that age. It is literally a way to make the girls seem irrational in their beliefs and ripe for "correction" and "submission" by the MC.

Art 5

The show is animated passibly enough. It won't wow you in any way or make you cringe at how terrible it is. And that extends to the art direction which for a show that prides itself on it's ridiculousness is disappointing. I mean the show isn't really stylised or anything so it stands out like for example "Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls", neither are the action sequences aimated with any panache like "High School DxD", nor are the character designs anything out of the ordinary aside from possibly the cross-dressing side character. I mean I guess for me the ultimate test would be, imagine you saw someone cosplaying as a main character in this show some months down the line after seeing this. Would you instantly recognise who they were? And my honest answer would be no because they all kind of look like any other derivative character.

Everything just feels so bland.

Sound 5

I usually skip the Opening and Ending but I went back and listened ot them for this review. They're both alright, catchy tunes but don't seem to stand out or I guess "fit" the show but since the show is so generic, I guess it's kinda appropriate.

The VA's's do a pretty good job considering the quality of the rest of the show, but there's only so much you can do with a paper thin script.

Character 3

Well the fact that even having seen all the episodes I only really knew the names of 2 characters off the top of my head should tell you how invested I am in them. But let's look at each of them in abit more detail

Firstly Nomora Fudou is our typical hgihchool MC for this type of show. He is cocky, powerful, carefree, noble and lewd... oh you say the last two contradict each other... well yeah they really do, see the thing is Nomura as a character doesn't make much sense. His motivation in the anime is something along the lines of gaining some freedom and the shows creators are content with that being that, it's the basic catalyst for him to challenge the girls to a fight but it does nothing to advance his character in any way or give him any depth. Going back to his nobility/lewdness contradiction, the personality conflict ususally plays out with his interactions with the girls, he will outright flirt with the or make creepy remarks but yet will act all noble and such when they reciporcate or offer themselves (ugh) to him. And it''s not presented in a way where he's playing with them, rather it's a genuine contradiction in his character making his intentions truly hard to follow.

It has to be said, being a harem show, all of the girls will to different extents gain some kind of feelings for the MC, he will 'break the ice' around their hearts so to speak. The problem comes where all that is truly required is that he beats them in a fight (aka tames them) which does nothing to make them truly intriguing and that's their collective main trait alongside being women who want to subjugate men. But they all have their secondary traits to distinguish them I guess:

Onigawara Rin - The first girl is the stereotypical tsundere character... you've seen them in a number of shows, nothing different. She has a little backstory but it's so transparent that it's just there to show why she is interested in Nomura.

Kikakujou Mary - arrogant, rich girl who is half french... again you've seen her hundreds of time and when they come to her focus episode you know where things are going.

Hanasaka Warabi - One of two loli characters. Probably the most interesting because of her replationship with her pet bear and is kinda bratty I guess, her moivations aren't made very clear except that she feels the first two didn't do their jobs properly, after she loses she's just kinda there. She is really just the child with the bear.

Tamaba Satori - Your first Yandere like character... erm psycho airhead, again nothing much to be said about her. She has some backstory regarding her sister but it's just there to emphasise how unhinged she is.

Tsukuyo Inaba - Your second loli character. They imply that shes really powerful throughout the whole show and then in the end she still plays a semi damsel in distres role.

Amou Kirukiru - Your second Yandere character. She's the main antagonist but she barely has a presence in the whole show and only really appears at the end. Typical psycho with only the basic of motivations all centered around Nomura.

There are some side characters but honestly they're just there, there's nothing worth writing about them.

So there you have it, basic character tropes with motivations purely centred around the MC..

Enjoyment 5

In spite of my criticisms, the show has it's moments. I don't mind the ecchi content and the type of humor that can come with it. Whilst alot of jokes fall flat, it had a few laugh out loud moments such as a hallway scene where Nomura has to hide behind the pet bear so not to be seen.

The fight scenes were passable but never truly exciting or engaging. I never felt a sense of danger for the MC because ultimately for a harem show about "correcting" women you knew he was going to come out on top so they fell flat. I think the best fight scene was likely the first one when you're still assessing the show and learning about the characters. When the second fight scene ends almost the same as the first than you realise the rest of them are likely to follow the same trend and thus they lose all their excitement

Overall 4 (Honestly I don't know how 4 can be "decent" and be between poor and mediocre)

Really what can I say? This show will likely please the viewers who see "feminism" as the ultimate evil and that women need putting in their place or something. But for everyone else they should avoid it. It does nothing to stand out from the crowd. The "Plot" is contrived, the characters are walking stereotypes,the animation is passable though not offensive, the fight scenes won't keep you at the edge of your seat, the jokes can be hit-or-miss depending on your sense of humour. This show tries to combine alot of elements of better anime and ultimately doesn't excel at any of them. Your time could be better spent watching something of a higher quality.

Last little tidbit... be wary of the shows message and really think critically about what it's saying. This show isn't a "hurrah" for male gender rights all it is doing is enforcing existing stereotypes for both sexes.

A boy named nomura enters into this school ruled by 'feminism".
All boys in the school are turned into girls(then what the hell is even the point of a boy enrolling into the school).
This guy nomura just went to a school and here he meets and fights the 5 swords or whatever and why is that? Well.....JUST BECAUSE OUR MC DOESN'T LIKE THE SCHOOL RULES.
Yep, that's it that is the plot.
The character design is ok
The fights are pretty much our typical mc struggling and fighting the so called 5 swords(Who obviously lose).
His so called yandere friend nearly kills him why well cause he hung out with ... some other student.
And guess what the "Friend" here is a girl(So very unexpected) And for some reasons of all the schools she could go to she would obviously land into the mc's school.
And obviously our mc surely kicks ass even though he couldn't do it before.
And did I mention that the mc has a harem in this? Wow so original

Hey folks, this will be a review for Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism. Before we get down to the nitty gritty, it is only fair to tell you that you are about to experience the GroveWarden school, secret technique: "Shitty review". You'll hopefully get this joke if you unfortunately decide to watch this travesty.

The story is fairly crappy. Or at least its told poorly. I am a sucker for bad story and terrible plot development, but this one was just silly. You get the story in batches, however the main plot revolves around a boy who joins what is now a CO-ED school. This school is ... populated by woman who are afraid of men and are armed and given the power to run the school. This part of the story goes on for most of the show. Our main character must fight for his freedom in this female ruled school.

Certain characters have flashbacks or outright tell you some parts of their story. However these moments are few and far between and by the end they add up to nothing. We know a tad bit more than we did in the first episode, but not enough to warrant them trying to elude to a some story as much as they did. This show also ends on a cliff hangar, which made my already thin tolerance for the show break. I cant imagine something this poorly done getting a second season, and I am not going to go out of my way to see how it ends.

The art and soundtrack were decent.

The characters were annoying? I have that as a question because though they were undoubtedly annoying, I also found a few moments charming in the cheesy way. Most of the show revolves around our main character who is this cool delinquent type. The other characters are made up of the "5 swords" of the academy, who are I guess the strongest girls in the school. At first they all hate the main character and with his few well chosen actions, words, and fists he manages to make most of them fall for him one after another. The girls were pretty standard, the busty European girl, a crazy-esque misunderstood girl, and a super loli. The only character I liked was Onigawara, Rin as her character was a bit new, though flat.

I didn't really enjoy this anime. It almost felt like it was a parody with how cheesy the dialogue, and pacing was. The anime drags its feet the entire show. Main character and female character are about to fight. Long winded explanations that could have been just shown are instead thrown at you. After that you watch the main character get his ass kicked for a minute to build up the suspense. Maybe this time he will lose or have trouble winning you supposed to think. Then the our MC OneTouchMan ends the fight says something cool and the girl is inexplicably interested in him and switches to his fan club. Rinse and repeat.

The last two episodes or so step up in intensity. We are finally introduced to the "final boss" the Empress. This is also a cheesy encounter which is unfinished.

By the end of this anime we know nothing about this world, its characters, or even why things are happening. I normally don't point out that anime is unrealistic, but this show is a bit crazy. For all we know these people are humans with no particular skills or reasons for having things like a trapped dormitory which Indiana Jones would have trouble escaping. Why the girls are allowed to carry weapons and inflict pain or serious injury on people whenever they wish. We also don't really know how the hierarchy of the 5 swords works, because the big boss is the first girl we see, yet they seem to get more and more powerful as the show goes on. Honestly I would have dropped it if I wasn't curious about the Empress, and of course the pleasure of shitting on it here. There are plenty more examples that I'm not posting here. However they all revolve around the same theme of a filler anime, in which things are poorly written and conceived.

TLDR: Anime is crap. Almost a parody of crappy school battle shounen. Not comedic, doesn't have a good story, or enjoyable characters. I wouldn't waste my time.

So I am on episode 7, and all I can say is if I had to pay to watch this, I would be asking for a refund and compensation for brain cells lost watching this. I may be generously giving it a 2, but so far has been repeated, a guy comes to girl school, and all girls hate him, so the girls in charge, with no real teaching authority do as they please even if they want to kill people. The guy even if he wins of course, holds no malicious feelings, which makes it more retarded.

The protagonist goes ... for the typical tropey clueless male who has no idea on how to talk to women, or who likes him, as is not a trope we have seen 1000000 times before. This just seems your usual crappy end harem/ecchi anime where people didn't want to think, and just copy a similar from previous animes.

The stupidest part is even if you come to a school and behave, you are still punished for past actions or rumors that the sort of shitty anime we have here. The fact is, if you're looking for a decent harem, this isn't it. If you're looking for great ecchi, again this isn't it, especially with the mediocre artwork. Hell if you're looking for a story, you lose again.

Across the board so far I give it 2 for the story, 5 for art, 5 for sound, 1 character, 1 for enjoyment, and 2 overall. It just sucks and am at the stage where thinking of hitting the button a few times to skim the episode to know the outcome, without the pain of having to watch the show

For ones who doesn’t like to read a walls of text: this show is and lacking in graphics and sound, have generic characters and story, with that said it is still manages to keep you at the screen, because ultimately it is trashy shounen-comedy, which is still amusing to watch.

Let’s start with the fact that this work doesn’t look promising from the synopsis, because the story of protagonist enrolling in a new school is well known for it’s wide usage in shows that prefer to slap your face with a “plot” instead of working on story or developing characters. And like that was not enough ... the show immediately slaps us with the second clishie (all girls school become co-ed) to justify the amount of “plotwearers” per centimeter, but, oh, the harem and echhi tags are nowhere to be seen! Was I misjudging it the whole time? Let’s move on and see.
And now we are moving on to the part where I can finally express all the mixed feelings that I got from this show.

Story – 3:
There is no much meaning chattering about almost nonexistent story in the show, which simply reusing shounen formula (character finds a rival, defeating him and befriending/getting him out of the MC way) to create a minimal sense of progression. And yeah, sure one can argue that closer to the end we will get ideological fight between old rivals, but that does no change the fact that all show might be described with one sentence without loss of information.
BUT there is a wide space for discussion it’s structural flaws and where it fails and succeed in it’s tries to achieve the goal of being an entertaining show: And first step in this is actually find out what the show tries to deliver to the audience, as you might’ve seen or guessed the comedy + shounen mix, does not necessarily need a deep and complex storyline to shine, so the trouble is obviously not in the shallowness of the story, but rather in a way it working with a tension and delivering… well trying to deliver atmosphere to the audience: from the very beginning the MC looks like a underdog, but manages to surpass any difficult situations he faces, and while this is a typical for the shounen genre to come with that type of fights this show in particular over exaggerating the fact that “good” character are underdogs by such a degree that instead of tension it builds us the comic atmosphere, which looks rather depressing from the viewers perspective. Which might be considered a good thing in a situation, when show by itself comes with a playful attitude it’s just enhances it. Unfortunately, when it actually tries to create a dark or tragic atmosphere it fails miserably due to that simple mistake, as a result most of the fight scenes looks dull and boring.

Graphics – 2:
This is the part is one of the most essential parts in a shounen series, because without a good graphical part it is literally impossible to create satisfying fight scenes. And this is the place where you going to slap yourself into the face a few times, because oh boy it feels like the author does not know anything about fighting or artistic ways of creating a fighting scenes. So what do we have here? The artstyle is pretty simple, the action scenes are quite slow and unartistic, big thanks to our beloved typical anime troubles such as “compulsive technique name showing (yep, not even screaming showing)” and total misrepresentation of the weapon damage, and don’t get me wrong, I’m not asking for ultrarealistic fights with structural damage after just a one sword hit, but this time around the anime represents weapons as something utterly useless, because the ultimate bladed weapon in this show is bare hands… I’ve seen a lot of weird things but in anime before, but this is just too much… And if you ask me why it got into graphics section? The reason is simple the problem is exactly in the way they draw the wounds.

Sound – 1:
Music is not only essential for almost all genres, but it is pretty much a defining feature of anime as a whole. Shounen genre in particular wants the flashy backgrounds for the fighting scenes, but instead of juicy epic soundtracks this show provides us with literally nothing, but disappointment. The OP an ED songs are the essence of the word generic, the BG is almost not existing.

Characters – 5:

Despite all characters of this show is suiting the whole theme of 100% clished, they provides enough for he show to fulfil it’s needs. Some of them are even getting some actual background info in the later parts of the show, which does not help the to evolve from onetrope effigies state, but at least gives the viewers some reasoning behind their actions earlier on.

Enjoyment – 6:

With all that said show still manages to look good due to the unpretentious needs of it’s genre mix and provides an interesting experience, when you are seeing that the show is terrible by the nature, but still continue to watch, because it’s manages to amuse you in a special ways, which is not available for the good shows (such as constant “can it become even worse?” question in a positive way).

With all that said I think that you have already got pretty accurate idea of what show will give you, so I feel that forcing my opinion onto you at the very end would be a bad idea.

Males who are feeling angry at and frustrated by women might like this show. I was in this mood when I watched it (normally I would have dropped it after a couple of episodes), but it left a nasty “taste” afterwards. An over-powered MC who subdues an all tsundere harem by beating the girls up (and they are depicted as deserving it) in order to “help” them.

Females, I would guess, are likely to hate this show. It features an extremely prejudiced view of feminism as being nothing but hatred of males. While there are feminists like this, in my ... experience at least they are a small minority.

Even within it’s own context, this series has serious flaws: no plot, poor characterization, no character development. Art, music are ordinary — actually by current standards, below average.

The most disappointing aspect of this series isn't that it's bland, it isn't the recycled cliches, it isn't the entirely recycled plot from literally any other light novel action harem.

No, the most disappointing thing, for me, is that this show could have been so much more.

If there's a single positive to this series, it's that it is fairly unique on a surface level. At least for light novel harems, having it set in a school without magic is actually quite rare, so much so that nothing else comes to mind.

But while there are no magic abilities, which in theory should open up a ... lot more creativity on the part of the author (which sounds strange now that I think about it, but it says a lot about the current state of anime), the author instead goes for the most traditional, by the book route of creating abilities.

The main character has a special item that lets him negate other people's attacks, yawn. It's the same thing that's been done over and over again.

My biggest problem with this series is just that, why have no magic even though you're using the same exact ability tropes as any other magical high school anime?

Everything from the character abilities, to the relationships, to the arc structure, to the character writing, to the sound design, to the shot composition, EVERYTHING feels extremely standard and boring, almost as if it's one of the many mass produced anime nowadays meant only to sell merchandise.

Even with all I've said, if you enjoy stupid battle high school harems either for the mindless fun, the T&A, the blushes, or whatever you fancy these kinds of shows for, it's everything you would enjoy in that type of show, and there's nothing wrong with enjoying some stupid fun.

There's certainly a crowd that enjoys these kinds of shows and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I would be lying if I said that I haven't enjoyed my fair share of these kinds of shows.

If you want a more full-bodied experience with a show similar to this, Chivalry of a Failed Knight one of the best in the genre.

---Spoilers Ahead---

While reading the episode comments for this anime, you'll notice a great many people referring to it as a feminist's dream or something similar.

This show, however, represents the opposite of feminism and any true feminist will be utterly disappointed by it. Initially, the girls all loathe and distrust men, true. They attack the man protagonist without cause and generally make his life miserable. But, this is representative of society's misconception for what feminism is all about. These girls start out as the "feminazi" stereotype, violent, hateful and overbearing. The MC is introduced as someone just wanting a fresh start who wants to put his ... past behind him and lead a peaceful existence. He's not allowed to do that though, due to the "feminists'" distrust and violent tendencies. They immediately begin attacking him and putting him in a position in which he has to defend himself. The man is made the victim.

Ultimately, through the awesome power of his male-ness, he defeats each female in turn. After each girl's defeat, the former "feminist's" actions are those of a woman who cannot overcome her adoration of her abusive spouse. Every girl who has fallen into the MC's harem only did so after being defeated by him and sexually intimidated by him (even if mistakenly so). Each girl was "put in her place" (so to speak) by a male and went from powerful, angry, dominant women to subservient, starry-eyed bubbleheads.

At the story's end, all of the females have been knocked down a peg by the main villain and need to be rescued by their knight in shining armor, a male. The main villain is, of course, a psychotic woman whose only motivation seems to be that if the male protagonist won't be hers, then he must die.

This is not feminism. This is a male fantasy of overcoming feminism.

Hoo boy, this is a weird show.
Let's keep this review short

Woah, what a ride. Started out pretty generic with it's "oops I kissed this girl, now she's in love with me but also a huge tsundere" and kind of kept pushing tropes until like, episode eight or nine when things start getting real crazy. Like, woah, I think I just watched someone die. What kind of school is this? Like, forget the whole dudes cross dressing, that chick just straight up murdered like five people (except not, because anime magic makes for happy ends)

If this show was more than one season, then maybe it ... could've fleshed out the tiny glimpses of interesting character development that we saw. It wasn't, and therefore didn't.

Overall, a guilty pleasure show that's definitely below average. Don't let that stop you from watching though, there's a fight scene with a naked chick and a couple good "oh snap" moments.

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

This show is a yet another disappointing dive into the panthalassa of light novel adaptations.
While not egregiously bad, there is not enough offered here to recommend it to anybody. It's simply too mediocre to enjoy for its goodness or badness.

There are plenty of waifus of varying archetypes here. Main character has his moments but at times comes across at trying too hard NOT to be cliche. Action is competent and comprehensible but pretty lame with some scenes being minor exceptions.

We haven't quite reached the bottom of the barrel of harem light novels here, which may be an even bigger turnoff to ... some. Even if you're looking for outright trashy entertainment you could do a lot better than this.

Pros:
Some good music
Some action

Cons:
Cardboard cutout characters
Generic story

Honestly, I think this could've been really good, but it so unimaginative and falls back to the same harem tropes that all of it becomes so painfully mediocre and beyond that I find most of the characters super flat, boring, and even annoying.

The story is super bland for what I watched so far and honestly it's developing in such a slow manner that I'm considering dropping it.

The art is mid, not bad, not good.

The sound is ok, the op's and ed's are nothing remarkable and honestly I don't have a want to hear them again. Beyond that some of the voice acting gets a bit ... lack luster at parts where it seems to me that they settled instead of revoicing a line every now and again.

It was rather boring at most times and honestly not worth even the six episodes I did watch. 3/10

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

Armed Girl's Machiavellism




I'm still not quite sure whether this should be a pure comedy, parody, or something else or whether this title actually wants to be taken seriously. Because of the plot and the approaches, I will probably assume his very absurd action-comedy.

And yes, it's by far the probably best 3/10 Anime I ever watched, compared to any other I would rate with 3/10. But in the end, it had nothing for a higher score.
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The story revolves around a school that switched from an all-girls school to a mixed school. And to protect the girls, they were allowed to use self-defense against boys. But the girls used their power and subjugated the boys at school, they would be withdrawn from them and henceforth let them live on as women in disguise.
Then the Protagonist appeared and everything changed. My cliche counter cant almost follow it.


Anyway, the anime goes like this. The protagonist fights one of the girls after the other, changes their minds, and finishes defeating the final boss. Except for the final boss, everything was actually quite boring, monotonous and the humor was also very limited. Maybe one laugh per episode and this is a bad statistic. And this actually only worked as long you turned your brain offline.



Story:

Basically, none exist. The protagonist has to fight his way through rows of bad schoolgirls to change her mind.

The only story relevant is the queen of the school. But it's not enough to really talk about it.

Animation / Pictures:

Episode 1 probably used up the whole budget. The title started with a very solid fight that could at least grab the attention of the audience. Apart from that, the animations were in the basement. They should have saved this for the last fight.

Characters:

The girls were mostly the collection of all Stereo Type personalities as you know them.

The only two interesting characters are the protagonist and the antagonist.

The protagonist is a very chilled character who hardly shows anything and has enormous self-control and a good poker face. It is not profound, but it is simply not off-putting. Does not come close to this 0815 Prota level.


Main antagonist didn't have too much screen time, but enough to rise above all other characters. He was a book-name sociopath with multiple personality disorders. His perspective of things and the world wasn't that wrong either. Compared to the whole work, she had at least some ambition.

Music:

The intro is almost below average like the outro. The Osts in the anime are still solid and average. Was probably the strongest area in the title.

Conclusion


Well, as a bizarre and questionable low mediocre comedy, it can definitely be recommended if you want to watch a "Wtf" title. Apart from that, it is below average in all areas, although more could have happened here with the right implementation.

Story 2
Art 5
Sound 4
Character 4
Enjoyment 4
Overall 3

well for starters i think the first 3 episode is great its enjoyable anfd stuff i just didnt like how the mc changed after those 3 episodes basically i admired his vision that he wanted freedom in school of feminism and the whole feminism concept of the story was the part i didnt like its just a dominos of annoying girls to another I dropped this midway because of the bad animation i probably shouldnt expect too much of it it was a waste of time for me imo the whole concept and the plot progression is just by far getting me irritated

story 2/10 ... pretty bad if i say so myself i feel if I watched it more it wouldnt get anywhere

art 5/10 its a average for me i dont think its bad i dont think its also perfect

id recommend to watch something more decent than this

spoilers below, tl;dr on top

tl;dr: don't watch unless you have a lot of free time and don't care about plot because you're just bored. its not good entertainment, it's more of a good distraction

review:
this anime is whatever. the concept is stupid but the story's not boring, the characters are interesting to some degree, and while the romance doesn't really go anywhere its still the more interesting aspect of the story. the jokes get a chuckle from me here and there but there are some misplaced jokes, shit could be going down or two people having a heart to heart and you have some dumb joke ... forced in. it was going to be a solid 5, 6 from me until the last 3 or 4 episodes.

after third of a quarter in we have the inevitable boss fight. we have the main bad guy, or girl in this case, amou. and everything about her is just so....fucking stupid. I want to start off by saying that the voice actor for amou sounds like she doesn't want even be there, her voice acting is so bland and monotone. this is seriously the first time I had a problem with a voice actor because it was just bad.
so what about her character? also bad. the anime established early on that she's a badass, even the five swords are afraid of her. we also know that she has a grudge against MC, never given a reason why, we get the occasional snippet of the past, where we see MC and Amou fighting sometime ago, so maybe MC humiliated her? that would make sense right? well the reason why amou hates MC is because:

HE MAKES FRIENDS WITH OTHER PEOPLE.

in this flashback, in MC's old school, apparently MC befriended amou first and amou was like "omigosh he's so handsome I think I'm in love" but next thing you know he makes friends with someone else and amou then beats the shit out of him (or her someone said it was a trap I dunno for sure) in front of MC, which then leads to a full out brawl involving 40 people.

back to the present, ms yandere goes on a rampage until she gets stopped by MC. I was expecting some sort of dragonball shit since they're both op as fuck but they just kinda punch each other out like a rocky Balboa fight, until she just gives up because...love I guess?(facepalm) and then she leaves the country, MC gets fake expelled, and the anime ends.

there's other shit that you can't just explain with "anime logic" but amou was the biggest problem for me.

such a shame would've been an average anime had it not been that dumb antagonist in the end, would not recommend to anyone who values good plot and story telling. its not good entertainment, more of a good distraction, something you can put in the background while you work on other stuff, look up and get a laugh or two before going back to your what you were doing. this anime is for people who like transformers. anyone who says this is a 10 is a fool don't listen to them the voice acting alone should knock down a point.

WARNING: There may be spoilers.

***

This show is insane, but not necessarily in the best way.

At face value, the idea of a teenage boy fighting against cute sword-wielding girls with his bare hands for the sake of his freedom sounds very exciting if not completely original to the anime harem scope. In practice, there are some problems I would like to address--especially with the world building and character relationships.

First of, with the way Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy conducts itself I can't help but wonder how it's able to stay open because its actions are way more messed up than how the show's characters described it. ... The school is literally run by a bunch of misandrist women who thinks that oppressing the male student population is ethical for the sake of womanhood. Case in point, they are bullies.

Then there's that stamp system where the male students aren't allowed to leave without the stamps of the student council. And the fact that no one outside seem to know this messed up school culture further implies that the school is putting these unethical, discriminating cases under the rug. At best, they should sued and closed down for their lack of consideration towards the students' wellbeing, not to mention their human rights.

What's worst is that the ending implies that this system never changed. It's as if the show thinks that Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy's toxic school culture is a good thing.

And then there's the story and characters, which are just bad. The female leads are unrealistically misandrist and incredibly irrational. The male lead is just there to become a woman's magnet. Their relationships are annoying at best, and at times abusive. For instance, the girls thought it was a good idea to physically abuse the MC with whips due to jumping to conclusions. Then the climax and ending seems rushed as they introduced another member of the student council last minute. Even if I turned my brain off, I still couldn't see the chemistry between the MC and his harem. Everything about it is just messed up.

The art and animation are okay, especially during the fight scenes. The OST is fine.

I wouldn't recommend Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism. It's really out of touch with reality and it's insane in a bad way.

To be honest, I was going to make this an 8/10 until the last two episodes. The plot is as leaky as the damn titanic. The characters are absolutely great. The art was actually not bad, and the sound was pretty ok. But what do we even watch anime for... the tiddies... WE watch anime for the plot. but in this, there is actually no plot. Literally none. No story. After everything was almost perfect, there was nothing to explain it. And they added in that weirdo character and made her slap everyone like what the hell, my eyes deceived me as much as berserk. ...

Overall, 3/10. Make an OVA or something to explain the storyline bro.