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Hello Everyone, this is my first review ever and what a better way to start, than from lowest rated anime in my completed list (at least for now).

Oh dear Shinmai Maou no Testament. How much guilty pleasure I had watching your first season and how I suffered during the second one. But to begin with something positive.

Graphics and music

I have to say that both graphics and music are pretty good and they are an overall improvement from the first season. I don't want to write about them much more, since they didn't blew my mind, but they haven't worsen the experience. What did, however, ... worsen the experience was the story.

Story

I watched Testament some time ago, so I don't remember what happened in every single episode, but I remember I liked none of them. Basara is once again fighting demons to protect his step sisters and increasing his power by sexuall interactions with them. Compared to first season the story focuses much more on fighting and it tries to be much more serious. There is almost no comedy and everything tries to be dark. And "tries" is a very essential word here since this is a textbook example of a show about saving the world with an op dude surrounded by a bunch of girls. Speaking of those boy and girls.

Characters

To me, this is absolutely the worst thing about this entire season.
The main protagonist, Basara, turned from your avarage ecchi harem protagonist, with a slight losing self control twist, to always serious edgelord, that gives some solid predator vibes, when it comes to those spicy scenes. Connected with Basara is his father, which doesn't really play much of a role here, but he acts as a Basara's mentor. And when it comes to men, there is also Yahiro, which I don't even remember being in this season.
The women, however, come in much more shapes and sizes, at least if we talk about their appearence. Their characters, sadly, are so, so boring and it's honestly very hard to distinguish them based solely on what their saying. They are all very devoted to serving Basara and are always screaming with compassion when something is happening to him. And you might thing it's positive, but i swear, it is unbearable. Since fighting the villains is present during for like half of all the episodes. It is quite infurieting when 3 or 4 women are so worried that Bassara got hit once and they suddenly surround him and sigh all together, but let's try to say something about every single one of them individually.
The main girl of the series is Mio Naruse, which is your most basic of all the basic redhead tsundere girls there is, that with time becomes much more of that "dere" part.
Then, there's Maria Naruse. Small, naughty succubus, which honestly made me laugh a few times during the first season, but there was change into that always sighing girl I mentioned above.
Next is Yuki Nonaka, which is a generic schoolfriend of the main three characters, that develops a huge crush on the main guy instantly and tries to get him no matter what. Similarly to Maria she was also changed into that moaning Basara's girl.
There is also Yuki's sister, who is such a deep and well devepoled character, that I can't think of a single scene with her, that was not an erotic one.
Second to last is Zest, which, I think, was mainly introduced to satisfy the tanned, white hair chicks enjoyers, since her character after one episode from when she was introduced is basicly the same as Mio's, Maria's or Yuki's.
And last but not least there's the only pretty alright female character and that's Chisato Hasegawa, the school nurse. Not only was she the best waifu in the entire series, (THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION) she wasn't changed from when she was introduced, which here is somehow the best thing you can get.
I might have skipped some of the less important characters, but those are the main ones and almost all of them suck or are so generic that you can't really say anything positive about any of them.

The ecchi parts

Even though I haven't made any segway into that part, I think it is imporant that I make a seperate paragraph for that.
In all honesty, the spicy scenes here are pretty bad. Except for the one and only scene with the school nurse in like episode 2, I didn't get excited during the entirety of the show. Which is quite an achievement, since Testament and especially this season, is borderline hentai. My main problem was that everything was turning too much into Basara dominating and satisfying 4 girls at the same time and gradually losing his mind while doing so. It almost looked like rape with concent, which sounds weird and is even weirder when you watch. But I think if you are into man being a predator you might like the ecchi moments.

Conclusion

To sum up, Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst is a waste of time, with generic story, bad spicy scenes, even worse characters and truly a dissapointment after a pretty okay first season, which was almost like a parody of the genre. Had they stayed in that parody feel, the show would have been much better, but now, that I think about it, the parody aspect might have been unfortunately just a happy accident.