Xiling Jiyuan

Xyrin Empire is a series where Chen Jun, an ordinary university student who inherits the position of Xyrin Empire's Majesty visits alternate dimensions and fights against enemies while maintaining alliances with neighboring nations. His journey is one of adventure, comradery and style as he discovers a lingering sinister force known to the alternate dimensions as the Abyss - The force absorbs and infects the life signs of inhabitants within the dimensions and as the Emperor of Xyrin Empire, Chen Jun is compelled to stop them along with his trustworthy all-female team.

Story & Characters: 2/10
Xyrin Empire places more focus on the female characters rather than the ... story or main character, you can tell by how intricately designed to be implemented into the story as Chen Jun, the story's supposed main character travels on his aimless journey. Each of the female characters are significant enough to influence Chen Jun whether directly or indirectly as such Chen Jun becomes more of a spectator in his own show; Apart from his harem, the rest of the characters are so underdeveloped it feels like they're experiencing a famine. Characters like Sicaro, Childe, Vidis Emperor to name a few are used simply as a comic device to create small incisions between major scenes to break the tension of the story. The story itself ends on a lacklustre note with a poorly written antagonist who shows up every now and then and an even stronger antagonist who is hinted a few times in the show. Neither had any significant impact on the story until the end but even still felt like a convenient dispensible plot device and less like an actual villain.

Art & Sound: 4/10
The art in this series is more of the 2.5D style rather than genuine 3D CGI and it's not too bad quality. The fight scenes are obviously also in the 2.5D Cel animation style and carry some interesting visual effects. Beyond that however, there isn't much more appealing features to the art or animation.

Sound design is as expected for a modern series. The sound effects and music all work together to enhance the mood; I.E upbeat techno music is played during the fight scenes between Chen Jun's team and other enemies. Voice acting is fairly good quality for many of the characters too.

Overall & Enjoyment: 3/10
I'm not a personal harem lover myself but if that is your type of thing this series will suit you; Chen Jun takes care of his harem more than himself and becomes entangled with each member with different scenarios. Of course there isn't any actual romance so it's a lot worse in terms of enjoyment for me. I would have enjoyed a better designed villain rather than better designed harem characters like this series has opted for instead. Overall, it was a watch.