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This series poses a conumdrum. Everything about this anime is very good, but I hated it.

My reasons being the story. It's a very good story, but I felt that it detracted from the original visual novel, and I also felt that it should have focused solely on the Fate arc, and nothing else.

I feel that the Tsukehime adaptation suffered the same problem. Maybe it's just fate that anime versions shouldn't be made from TypeMoon games.

Let's get the obvious out of the way first:

OHMYGODTHEY'RENOTWEARINGPANTS!
OHMYGODTHEY'RECAT/BUNNY/WHATEVERGIRLS!
OHMYGODTHEY'REALSOMAGICALGIRLS!
OHMYGODIJUSTOTAKUGASM'D!

Yeah, this show is pretty much 100% fan service, but in a Love Hina/Negima kind of way, so it's not necessaraly a bad thing.

You'd think with all this devotion to fan service that the characterization and story would suffer a bit, and it does, but it's barely noticeable, and it boils down to nit-picking for one point off, and the pantsuu stealing episode for the other point off.
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The characters are a bit static at times, and development is sometimes hurried at an annoying/chaotic pace, but the DO get developed, and they're all great characters, so that's nice.

The story is fairly straightforeward, and kinda predictable. The ending is the sort that would piss you off if you didn't know that a second season was coming, which is arrogance on the creator's part. The first episode is also a bit dry, but still enjoyable enough to watch.

The art is nice, and the animation is solid. It's not the best I've seen, but it's still very good, and I find few bad things with it.

All in all, it's a good series, a bit too fan-servicey at times, but nothing that steals from the overall enjoyment.