Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

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.

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.

Sometimes dumb fun comes in very strange places....

LA didn't expect Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism to be just dumb fun all things considered as LA originally HATED this show from the start, from the utterly cliched beginning of the main protagonist by the name of Fudou Nomura voiced by Tasuku Hatanaka who happens to be a god damn badass being sent to a school ruled by the Five Swords bringing in the entire Tenjou Tenge or Ikkitousen route.

It wasn't until Mary Kikakujou arc finished where LA started to realize that you kinda had to remove any seriousness from this anime otherwise you would just dislike this show ... just because of the absurdity and clicheness of it all and really it wasn't until Warabi Hanasaka's arc where LA just started to embrace it all and yes...Warabi voiced by Rina Hidaka was LA's favourite character from this series just from her formality to Tasuku after her arc ends and she doesn't fall into the entire misunderstandings scthick that these kind of anime pull, plus...she has a god damn grizzly bear as her transport AND bodyguard so yeah. Rin Onigawara as a character is that of the typical tsundere...more tsun than dere but her dere is passionately dere and "worth it" however Rin is essentially your Yukina to your Kojou from Strike the Blood and this sticks. Mary however is what happens if Sayaka and Yukina were actually proper rivals and hate each other to Kojou and that's really her scthick along with her spouting French words here and there. Satori Tamaba voiced by Nozomi Nishida is your unsympathetic yandere type character and really is your shameless fanservice character though she is more clever than Warabi is many ways. Second to last is Tsukuyo Inaba voiced by Natsumi Hioka and even though her arc ties into Kirukiru Amou voiced by Eriko Matsui, she just has a really simple plotline following her, namely wanting a friend and seeing Tasuku as a friend. Finally is the aforementioned Kirukiru in which Tasuku prior knew about her and is essentially the final boss of this anime and Kirukiru's motivation does make sense though her have nothing but fighting in her mind and being kinda a jerk as well as her motivation changing into a romantic type instead of a battle heavy one kinda came out of left field.

From all this what got LA to change from hating this anime to seeing as dumb fun?...well from the detailed martial arts techniques to the absurdity of scenario and fights mashing together with the harem elements just made all this turn into just dumb fun, sure LA can just turn off LA's brain for this and sees nothing but dumb fun, but turning on LA's brain can get the dumb fun from how absurd the scenario is as well as the fighting techniques into the mix....but how LA says about this anime is completely up to the audience, it's just how LA sees this anime.

The animation done by Silver Link and Connect kinda helps as it does have some fluid animation at times especially the martial art battles and LA really liked the character designs overall though as they really pop at you from all the differing and *ahem* exotic designs of the Five Swords.

As for voice acting?.....Yuuki Takeda as Rin and Sayaka Kitahara as Mary were LA's favoruite voice actors in this anime, Eriko Matsui was good in the more villainous vocals but not enough for LA to favour Yuuki and Sayaka more.

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism for LA is LA's dumb fun show for Spring 2017...not near guilty pleasure anime as Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism's flaws are still prevalent and glaringly obvious (LA's initial hate for this anime) and probably even worse for those who has "seen something like this before", nonetheless...Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism is dumb fun nothing more nothing less.

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.

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.

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

---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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What to say without sounding like all the others...?
Misunderstood MC that gets a harem by the end. <-- That sounds about right!

When you are first thrust into this anime, it seems like it'll be another OP MC Transfer student with all the other students being subpar. However, this anime achieved a school of OP female MC's that wield swords, batons, and whips and castrate (yes, you heard me right) the male transfer students. The story can put you off just a bit, but that doesn't mean you should give up watching the series (which I almost did... twice). In the end, this anime was more ... enjoyable than I thought it would be.
The anime has a lot of fanservice. Upskirts, Gals fighting the MC in the nude, and the female MC's falling for the main. At times it can feel almost like a hentai rather than an anime, but it never really progresses into that (well, not until ep 6 anyways).
We get to learn the backstory of the characters, and it leads to more romantic situations. Granted, they do push the envelope a bit (ep 6 again. Beware of the bear. That's all I'll say, just be prepared).
Overall, I rather enjoyed this anime. Most of it is the MC convincing the female MC's that he isn't a bastard, getting all geared up for the end fight.
Would I recommend to anyone bored of the typical OP MC transfer student stories? Yes, I would.
Will I be watching again? Possibly. All depends on my mood.
Do I need to find another anime to enjoy? Yes. Although, I am "Watching" 110 and have 120 in my plan to watch. So, I think iI'mall good for a while!
-JNutt22

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.

Like many, surely, i read the description of this show and expected an awful anime series, that can only be watched to mock it afterward. While that assessment was not entirely false, i cannot deny that i got a lot of genuine enjoyment out of Busou.

If you've seen Tenjou Tenge, this is basically a soft parody of that. It's unclear to me whether that is its intention, or if they were actually trying to be cool. But i suppose intent is irrelevant, and i will only consider the things i felt while watching. Structurally, the show alternates between two ... modes, the serious battles and the tropy, goofy slice of life. In that sense it is reminiscent of Full Metal Panic, though the "serious" is much less serious. During the fights you'll have freeze-frames with "epic" calligraphic move names being printed on the screen. It's impossible to take seriously, and the silliness of some of these brought on many a laughter. The SOL elements are usually cliche after cliche, but every now and then they'll drop a genuine-hilarity-bomb on you, so you have to stay on your toes.

But what really makes this show enjoyable is the protagonist. For once we are not forced to witness "pure" maidens all mysteriously falling for the most boring hetare piece of shit. No, here, you get to self-insert as the alpha who literally beats the girls into submission, while not really giving a fuck. I find it a very satisfying way to bring the "dere" out of these heroines. I can also just imagine some fat feminist dyke watching this and getting upset over how problematic it is, and it only makes my metaphorical patriarchal boner harder. The girls themselves are usually pretty lovable, though not very original. One of them is a bear, by the way, and yes, the bear gets lewd.

In a way, i would have loved to see a 25 episode series out of this, so i can enjoy more of these characters, and so the plot could evolve beyond "conquer each girl one by one and tack on some faux-drama for the finale". Alas, the rational in me can see that there is nothing there. The "backstories" are stupid as hell, the context doesn't exist, there is no adult character, no reason for anything to happen. It's just an empty shell of a show designed to deliver some quick and effective entertainment; it does not have the depth or coolness of Tenjou Tenge. Knowing that, the creators should have gone ham with the parody elements (and fan service!) and thrown away the serious entirely, but it is what it is.

Overall, a harmless, entertaining anime with good visuals and comedic elements. Recommended viewing for all misogynists.

"I came to this school so I can do what I wanted to do...".

At first, I've came into my mind that this series is very interesting to watch. I was right, though it just lacks on setting/place wherein the characters interact or fight on.

Yes, there are pretentious scenes in the whole series, especially when Nomura, the MC, is teasing the girls. But it just sucks that his "Spirit Bullet" if I'm correct, every time he uses it, it's just the same as what in previous episodes actually is being shown. Repeating the same position and the animation of his technique makes it actually suck more. ... Although, his technique is Overpowered, it would be better if the angle and animation of his technique would change every time he uses it, doesn't it?

Anyways, aside his technique, the animation of the series is good, the ecchi level is good (minimization to the point wherein they censor parts using a ray of light of that alien woman naked in the bath with Nomura also being naked).

Martial arts is good, but it would be better if they added supernatural or super powers in the series, not just martial arts. Otakus and weebs like anime series with magic or stuff like it if I'm not mistaken, it's more attracting if the author have had added magic in the series. Yet, it takes place on a modernized world not isekai.


EVERYTHING ASIDE!

I like this series, why?
It's not because of the character animations and the setting of the series.
I've found this interesting wherein it takes me to the point that 'You should definitely watch this, it's worth a shot'.
I took that shot and found the series enjoyable to watch. Although there are parts that the viewer of the series may be bored, especially at fighting scenes, it's worth a try.

I didn't care about the animation or whatever might it be, I focused on the plot.
Focusing on the plot of the series is making the viewer understand the situation of the series is on to.

=)

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

If you're into physically violent crazy waifus, then you're in for a treat because this anime has a wide variety of them to offer, ranging from tsunderes to himederes to yanderes to kuuderes. Well, even if you're not into that sort of thing, as long as you're not ticked off by a little bit of unreasonable violence and you have some free time to watch a fun show, I still do recommend watching this anime. While Armed Girl's Machiavellianism is admittedly not anything new or creative, I will say that it has definitely been a fun ride watching this show. The MC is surprisingly reasonable ... and likeable, traits which I have come to appreciate more and more the more I watch harem romcoms. The girls, while seemingly bland and generic at first glance, quickly grew on me and they always delivered whenever it was their time to shine. The fight scenes as well are surprisingly engaging and have quite the depth to them, with the characters having their own school of martial arts and styles that are intricately explained and clashed against one another. If nothing else, I really do have to applaud the show for having executed so well what it sought out to do. I do have to say though that it's a bit of a shame that the show never really became something special or if it even tried to, which is fine if what you're looking for is really just to have fun and a good time. Armed Girl's Machiavellianism has been a pleasant surprise and I'm just really glad I decided to watch it on a whim. I had no expectations coming into the show and I feel happy that I ended up enjoying my time here.

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.