Koihime†Musou

Okay, this is a review of the entire anime series. The other one was inaccurate.

Story - 1/10

Story doesn't make any sense at all. First, it should of started in the Yellow Turban Rebellion so we can atleast have a brief introduction of the characters. Second, I absolutely HATE, and yes, REALLY HATE, the settings of the story. I want to see Sun Jian (Sonken Bundai) in this, yet Sonsaku has to rule already. The HELL? The story should of started from there, and atleast, to Hu Lao Gate. It should of ended where Dong Zhuo turned out to have escaped, and Fan Chou was killed ... instead. Kazuto should also appear in this anime somehow. The next part should be atleast Cao Cao (Sousou) invading Yuan Shao (Enshou) @ Guan Du.

Art - 10/10

Although this anime lacks a good story, I love the artwork the creators did. Though, they could of done better.

Sound - 9/10.

I LOVE THE OP! Flower of Bravery is probably the best song I ever heard! I added it to my iPod.

Character - 2/10

WHAT DO I HAVE TO SAY HERE?!?!?!?! EHEM, I DO NOT LIKE GAN NING (KANNEI) AS A COMMANDER!!! WHAT THE HELL? WHY DID YOU MADE GAN NING A SUPERIOR TO HER SUPURIOR LU MENG (RYOMOU)?!??! ARE YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY EFFING RETARDED? JEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh sorry, for my rage. I got so ANGRY when I saw a few of the characters OOC... UGH, I hate that! Although I like Cao Cao and Wen Chou (Bunshuu), WHY THE HELL IS YUAN SHAO (EN SHOU) ENEMIES WITH CAO CAO!?!?!? Shouldn't they be childhood effing FRIENDS???!?! UGH, then that ugly PIG, Lu Xun (Rikuson)... I WAS EXPECTING TO SEE LU XUN A SEXY ASS SMOKEY HAIRED, LAVA TRIMMED, HOT SUITED PYROMANIAC, BUT WHAT DO I SEE? SOME FAT ASS WOMAN WITH BIG ASS BOOBS!!! WHAT THE HELL!?!?!??!?!

Okay, I'm DONE reviewing the characters, LETS CONTINUE BEFORE I SPITE MORE RAGE AT THE LACK OF EFFING CHA- OH NOW THAT BRINGED ME TO THAT!!!!

Where the HELL is Guan Ping? Guan Suo? Guan Xing? CAO PI!?!?! I wanted to see MORE CHARACTERS, but do I? NO! I only see THE ORIGINAL ONES!!

BAKADA!!!

Enjoyment - 8/10

Although most of the other parts were crap (COUGHCHARACTERSCOUGH), I really enjoyed watching it. The comedy made me continuously laughing and some parts were extremely funny due to this. Ahh, I love how Ecchi animes make a smile come to my face :)

So? Overall Score?

I would give it a 10/10, but if they had imporved the characters and story, I'd rate it higher. So I rate it 3 for that particular reason. Although, the enjoyment is wonderful to watch, so if you want to watch the anime to find Cao Cao having some nice hot fun with her wife, Lady Bian, Cao Ren fingering her panties, Gan Ning getting slapped HARD in the back by Lu Meng? ... Don't watch it.

Comedy? DO WATCH. It's FUNNY!

For Anime loving sakes? Watch it.

I decided to pick up Koihime Musou since I enjoy fantasy adventure series, and it looked like it might also fit in with the part of me that enjoys ecchi comedies as well. But it was definitely not what I was looking for.

After watching the first 5 episodes, I found myself trying to find other things to do on my lunch breaks, and I only watched the next 5 out of what felt like an obligation to get though what I was hoping to be a lull in the series.

Characters:
I think one of the drawing factors of the anime was the variety of characters, each ... of whom seemed to have their own type of weapon of specialty. I was hoping for an equally varied group of personalities, but I felt like they all had a lot of the same basic characteristics: a sense of justice, no blood family left, desire to be great, jealousy, trying to compensate for insecurity. I suppose the set of characteristics can make the characters quite real, but I'd like a little more in the mix. Also, aside from Kan'u there is almost no deep development of the characters based on events that transpired before the present.

Story:
The story really disappointed me. Everyone's on a mission to rid the world of all bandits, yet it seems all they do is scare away or run off a group of bandits from a city, and then leave it. Leaving the inhabitants of the city to now fend for themselves again with further enraged bandits. Furthermore, the characters seem to have almost no interest in joining together for their common goal. Someone will inevitably leave or abandon the group for whatever reason they feel. After a little while, the story begins to feel repetitive. Stumble across people in need. Help them solve their problem. Drive away the evil. Repeat.

Drama:
With a cast of all female main characters, I was hoping for a bit more drama to the series. I feel like there was more drama between characters in KissXSis (which, I by no means consider to have a deep story). It can be argued that there are never guys present, so that sort of sexual or relational drama would naturally be absent, but there certainly seems to be an attempt at drama through the insinuations of various lesbian relationships. Even so, all these relationships seem to be either very one-sided, or so consensual that there's no tension in the relationship at all. The times that any kind of relationship is alluded to, it is made to be a joke, either on behalf of, or at the expense or an uninterested, or unknowing character. None of the main characters seem to express any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, be it purely physical, long-term or just to bide the time.

Overall I feel like the show:
* lacked the continuous action to really be an action series
* lacked a solid story or goal to be a decent adventure
* failed to provide reasonable drama or relationships between characters.

just not my cup of tea.

Koihime Musou relies on the same principles as Fate Stay Nite (not sticking to their erotic game roots) and Ikki Tousen (taking China's "3 Kingdom Romance" era and replacing everybody with cute girls and panty shots). I saw this series and the OVA that came after it; and stopped watching ever since.

I personally don't know what's up with the Japanese animu industry and their inability to stick to their roots or follow the original material word by word. It's probably no different than what the Western entertainment industry does all the time; making "much needed changes" from the original in order to be more politically ... correct and make more money. (I heard the news about Hunger Games, but I'm not mad because this is 20## and not 19##.)

It would probably help keep the show from becoming yet more "otaku-pandering garbage" if it featured the reliable male lead in the spotlight (like that guy from the eroge). Or if it was just no-holds-barred, full-blown adult anime.

But you know... If the above paragraph was the case, I wouldn't give it such a horrible overall rating. So yeah.

Overall I was very disappointed at Koihime Musou

The plot wasn't very interesting because it didn't have one/ show that it had one. This was my number 1 expectation because I'm a big fan of koei games. The jokes were good but it didn't quite catch the attention of the viewers.

The artwork was fine but it was hidden by the bad quality. It was a little hard to understand what was going on and to read the subs.

Character Development needed work.

If I were to relate it to another anime I'd say it's kind of like Pokemon Kanto. The characters just travel all around the country for ... adventure in preparation for the next gym battle, except that this show doesn't have "gym battles" (main plot).