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_SHORT POINTS:

+Somewhat interesting, but mostly only at the beginning

- Repeatable plot
- Heavily unlogical supernatural staff
- Generic characters
- Characters make questionable actions
- Somewhat abrupt ending ("go watch the movie" i guess)
- Not really about bunny girls (not necessary a bad thing - but that title and poster look like a weird lie)
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_LONG REVIEW: (minor, non-direct spoilers may be present, nothing important)
I like good dramas and romance. Also deep, touching, emotional shows. Those only have effect if their intimate essence feels realistic. In this show, almost everything feels fake and hollow, it only tryes to lure with its shell.

First few episodes were interesting: kinda good main hero, interesting girl and her big problem. Everything starts falling apart after this first big problem was solved.

_STORY_ and world setting: 3

Main flaw of this anime is its very weak plot. Show uses Supernatural things in order to shape all directions of the plot, and this seems to be quite dumb. Why? It feels like magic is responsible for most of the stuff happening. Like some kind of god sends curses and punishement on some characters, and than just uplifts them when those characters do something "rightful", what god expects them to do. That's how story feels through the entire anime

In their core, supernatural things here are just heavy versions of psychological traumas. Those happen constantly to a girls around the main hero, this happens a bit to main hero himself and... seems like noone else is affected, or ever was (there are small "rumors" in the internet about this, that's all).
Of course adults or doctors don't believe in any supernatural staff. Show itself calls this "puberty syndrome" and if you think into it at least a little - this spooky things that happen to main cast should be happening EVERYWHERE - as there are a lot of teenagers with emotional problems around. This makes show extremely unrealistic, when talking about world setting - as everything only happens around main hero, like he is the chosen one.

Characters, however, always try to explain those supernatural phenomena with realistic logic and science terminology (here goes Schrödinger's cat, again). Most of the time, this feels unnecesary and cringe (this staff can't be really explained like that, better to not even try)

Basic scheme for plot in this anime:
1) Supernatural staff happens to a character
2) It appears this character has some sort of psychological problem.
3) Main hero helps with fixing those psychological problems
4) After some sort of catharsis - supernatural staff dissapears.
This makes it so that Supernatural things only exist to make more cheap drama. Psychological problems are the main point of this show - and they are weirdly adressed as a result.

Another big reason on whats wrong with the plot:
Supernatural dramas take a large chunk of this show's suspense. As most of them feel fake - there is not much more left in this show without them

Also, characters sometimes do useless\dumb actions. Or do nothing when they clearly should.

The icing on the cake is how supernatural drama forcefully moves plot in planned direction. First girl ended up speaking with main hero just because of his magical uniqueness, and her psychological problem ended up having positive outcome just because of supernatural staff happening in a good way

IN SHORT: plot feels forced, characters do what they must and supernatural phenomena corrects all the bumps on the way.

_ART_: 7
Art was nice, but nothing special.

_SOUND_: 6
I mostly didn't noticed music, but somehow disliked both opening and ending tracks. This is a rare case when i clearly dislike opening...

_CHARACTERS_: 4
Characters there aren't too bad, but they also aren't good. They are boring(
At start of the show i liked most, but with each episode i started to dislike them more and more.

1) Main hero - Sakuta - at the end of the day, he feels like typical perfect character. Compared to shonens where such characters usually are superstrong, Sakuta is only a bit more simple: he is unemotional on the outside (which makes him cool and masculine), but is very good (rushes to help everyone), and, apparently, very smart. He often walks without shirt near girls. The more show went on - the more perfect he became. I know some people like such characters, but for me he turned out to be boring and robotic, and none of his perverted jokes helped this(

2) Main girl - Mai - i'm not really sure what to think about her. She constantly appears on the screen, but outside of arcs where she was the main problem - she wasn't really all that useful. You constantly expect her to burst with anger because of Sakuta running who knows where - but it never happens. She ends up being just supportive and chearing girl, without actually looking like one. Weird.
I must note that Senjougahara from Bakemonogatari has practically same energy as this Mai - but feels much more convincing and better executed.

3) Smart girl - Futaba. She is the one who helps main hero with brainy staff and she is the one who tries to find logical explanation of whats happening. She has nice calm temper and... i guess that's all i can say about her. She never really does something on her own (outside of "her" arc). A walking wikipedia character

Rest of the characters are even more bland and generic. I have hard time remembering anything nice or interesting about them, outside of their "puberty syndrome".

_ENJOYMENT_: 5
I somewhat enjoyed it. Supernatural things lead to some suspence after all, even if they are stupid. Start can be rated higher, but I quickly got tired later

_OVERALL_: 4 or 5

Show with cheap dramas, based on unlogical supernatural phenomena. Generic characters, whose personality can completely be described with few words. Looping plot, which basically repeats its scheme every 2-3 episodes. All this quickly bores you later or, as there are no real surprises anymore.
Also may note abrupt ending - final dramas wan't properly finished and few questions, which dragged along almost entire show - left unanswered. (but there is a sequel film, so there is hope)

Apparently, show must trigger me hard to force to write such a big review like this. I hope it wouldn't hurt eyes of english-native readers, if there would be any)

Oh, i forgot one self-questioning thing: how this anime ended up being so high in ratings? This is something i don't understand at all. Even if you ignore all the logic - it is still kinda boring and repeatable. Hmm.
Last suggestion: Bakemonogatari is pretty much the same stuff but better. Yes, it's not perfect too, it has a lot of fanservice, and i didn't like how empty that world feels, but compared to this it is much, MUCH better

Surprisingly great, so great that i will go ahead and put it in my small 10 section

Pluses
+ Great main duo of characters - Risa and Otani. They are energeric, they are funny, they are serious, they are ALIVE. Few of the best chars i know.
+ Nicely executed idea of high girl\small guy
+ Interesting, easy-going humor approach. At first episode i was afraid of so many grimaсes and... ehm... face distortions happening around, but soon got used to and it felt actually emotional\funny (note: after first few episodes there's not so much grimacing happening)
+ In general: funny, easy-going, good romantic show.

Minuses:
- Show is a bit longer ... than it should, in terms that it doesn't have all that great story and it feels a bit of repetative later. It compensates this with in-moment situations and humor, so i don't really complain
- A liiitle bit girlish, especially later on. (is that a minus?)

Nuance:
+- Humor is really hit or miss there (with its core approach). I enjoyed it, but i can imagine how more serious people could hate it - leading to them giving 5 or less score.

I never watched chibi animes before. Expected it to be somewhat dumb but funny, but apparently, expectations weren't low enough.

Minuses:
- This show is VERY dumb and it feels like a mockery of original
- Where original Assasination Classroom was funny - this show mostly was just retarded
- Where original Assasination Classroom was dramatic or epic - this show tried to convert that into positive\comedic moments and that appeared to be as horrible mess
- Characters in original all had more or less depth, i liked that show trait. Here they are mostly turned into "crowd", and only some stand out a bit - mostly repeating same stupid ... jokes. For example, an erotic-loving guy who constantly comments about boobs or want to undress girls, or Kayano (green haired girl) - constantly regretting that her boobs are small, etc
- Too much fanservice and erotic humor. And it wasn't funny (so it is a clear minus to me)
- There is some shadow of a story going on here, but it is just a mess (they took some noticeable story points of original show, twisted those, compacted them into 12-ep small show and made it like that
- Nice music, completely ripped of from original and placed however they wanted around the show. It made atmosphere confusing (sometimes giving out-of-place dark tones to this "light" show)

Pluses:
+ Some jokes actually were fun (those were kinda rare as for a comedic anime)
+ ...i guess opening and ending were nice. Is that a plus?

All in all, it felt this was like "an artist challenge" - show, where animators tried to create something without a script and just thrown in all the jokes they could create at the moment. Joke about small boobs 10th time in 2-3 episode window? Goes in. Nagisa turning into girl by force every other episode? Goes in. Screaming fanservice guy overshadowing even main characters of the show? Easy!

Maybe if you like chibi anime with a lot of dumb fanservice jokes it will work for you, for me it mostly didn't

One of the best specials i've seen (i didn't see much, though). The other one would be Steins;Gate one.
It is "kinda prequel, kinda not"

It's interesting, it's fun, it's compact. It also has good music, like an original show. Yes, it doesn't add much to the series, but then, how many specials do?

It's actually not that bad to watch on its own, without series, because of how story is served

I absolutely recommend this concentrated fun package. It won't take a lot of your time anyway. Also, you can use it as the show ad to agitate friends! If that is even possible

...I don't know what ... else to type without spoilers about non-serious 10-minute show, but this site forces me to write a longer review, so be it, i am making it longer, just to make system happy and everyone reading this too, so long, just wow...

Pluses:

+ Interesting, fresh setting
+ Nice, diverce characters. While main hero is in focus, most of others receive development too and don't feel useless
+ Non-standart artstyle. 3D! It has minuses, such as having low-fps, and somewhat empty backgrounds. But characters look great, many action scenes too and it feels so unique, i will put it at 9 just for that
+ Weird, non-predictable, intriguing story
+ Interesting to watch
+ I feel like it's the best shounen anime i saw

Minuses:
...
- I disliked development of the Phos (MH) near the end. Without spoilers, she "lost her spark". Also, her power level changed kinda drastically without much justification. I can suspect that this is "not her final form" and she will develop more, but here comes the next minus
- Ending is abrupt, with little hope for next seasons in the future... sad. Almost every question left without the answer. Maybe, i will try reading manga for the first time
- Story drastically changes its flow at times, switching main themes, which feels weird\rushed. Again, probably they just couldn't place everything in the anime
- Low-fps and empty backgrounds can trigger some people hard. I quickly got used to it and almost didn't notice that.

In general:

Unique anime in artstyle, in setting, in story. Pretty interesting to watch. Plot is nice (not super smart tho), but has abrupt ending and leaves many things open for future story, which probably will never come in a form of anime...

As said by many, film gives more questuins and almost to no answers.
It is the single most confusing anime I watched yet. Watching this film after series, I almost didn't undestand anything. New confusing world, some new characters, that act like they always were here...

Keeping it short:
- Confusing story, which twisted almost everything you knew from the series
- Weak characters (Homura is the only one semi-developed, and i didn't like her at all)
- Outstanding art
- Great orchestral music
- Ending clarified things a little, then made them even weirder.

Film is pleasing to watch and its atmosphere is darkly attracting, but both characters and story weren't actually ... good

I may compare it to some twisted abstractive drawing you may see in art-museums. Attractively complicated, as some may see it, but somehow I usually see emptiness

There gonna be spoilers! Though, you will know most those things from episode one, so that doesn't matter much...

I came to this show from Kaguya's recommendations.

Expected it to be funny, easy-going show, without many dropped cliffhangers, which i would watch and enjoy slowly (it never happens, but nevertheless, i hoped). And romantic, maybe a bit

Instead... Well, i am jumping on a hate train. I probably won't say much that other people hadn't said. So, short theses:

- Supersmart mature girl
- Ultrastupid childish guy
... - That's while they both are ~12 years old
- Girl constantly makes fun of a guy, bullies him, sometimes in pretty hard ways
- Girl clearly sees and predicts guy's every move! (no hope for him = everything is predictable = boring)
- Guy makes revenge efforts again and again, but always fails (miserable to watch)
- Guy constantly sweats, blushes and can't speak normally. He always has a bunch of different emotions, every single one of which shows on his face
- There are also 3 sidekick girl characters, which sometimes take the screen time. They are pretty useless and boring
- Story stays in place, pace is slow and isn't fun in pretty any way
- Most of the problems and dramas are so actually tiny... The guy could easily ingore most of them, but he dives in because of his stupidness and keeps failing. And he never learns!
- There is some threads, like there is something romantic between those two... but because of everything higher, i can't digest this "romance" and it feels just cringe

Why would this genius girl do this to such mentally retarded guy? Why does he even has her interest? Why would she influence him to fail the test in that episode 5, goddamit??? Is she really a sadist?

"Cringe" is definitely a proper word to describe this anime. Not on the outside - on the inside

Will place this at 3 because art was somewhat nice (not for main hero). And, I guess, to make lower score, it could trigger me harder, right?
Anyway, this is the first show I drop (at episode 5, btw). And this is my lowest rated anime (at the moment of writing this)

It flashes way too much to understand anything. There is no plot. I was curious, why this is so high in rankings and... pokemon nostalgia, they say?

The only thing that deserves high score there is art. Technically, it's pretty nice done. If you're into art, then you will like this video.

Sound is ok, but nothing outstanding there

I like AMV videos in general, collected a fair bunch of them, but this one, while being official, is not on the bright side. Again: it flashes too much, and it shows nothing particulary interesting. People faces, that dash around for like 0.5 second, aren't very appealing (i mean, ... i even know some of them, but what is so cool aboout it?

All in all, it has zero sense, and it's impossible for me to enjoy art when it constantly flashes. But art itself is beautiful, so its probably worth 2 minutes of your life

(and if you are a pokefan, then it is a must watch, this is pretty obvious)

Pretty weird show. Sometimes was nice and sometimes was pretty dumb. (Ahead are some pretty minor spoilers)

I liked it first part, where:
1) Main story wasn't really present and characters were loafing around, doing different staff.
2) Characters felt actually diverse and nice
3) There was a lot of jokes here and there
4) If somewhere i felt "magical atmosphere" (like in Harry Potter) - it was in some episodes of the first half.
First part is 8 out of 10

Second part is "story" part. It wasn't funny, but i can't say it's seriousness is justified. Miss Ursula, who kinda had the biggest lever to turn the things around - ... was constantly doing weird things i couldn't understand and that triggered me so much...
Also, many characters weakened or started to feel out of place. Sucy and Lotte almost vanished (a big shame for that!), Diana softened, old teachers became even more useless then ever. I hoped Andrew will has his impact... he didn't
Second part is 5-6 out of 10

IN GENERAL

STORY: 5
Story-linked events for the most part felt ill-logical and weak. There was a lot of pathos here and there, which i couldn't justify. Series felt nice when main storyline wasn't interfering

CHARACTERS: 8
probably 9 at start, but 7 near end (8 on average)
I liked them. Akko, Sucy, Lotte, Diana, Amanda, Ursula, Chariot, Constanze, Andrew - pretty all of them felt interesting. Aspecially first trio. It's later on, where almost everyone started to blend into grey mass, losing their qualities, which made me upset(
May note that i disliked the fact, that academy teachers were worthless. They like, had no authority, no power, couldn't deal with problems... They constantly punished some students while honouring Diana - that's describes most of teachers doings. Not cool (aspecially if comparing it to Harry Potter, where were so many interesting teachers)

ART: 8
There was really great animations, occasionally. Characters were cute\expressing
Pretty often though, i noticed that camera was zooming in on peoples faces. Also, many moments felt blurred\non-detailed. Anyway, i consider art ok.

SOUND: ?
i actually didnt noticed sounds, except for openings and few "epic" moments. Dunno what to say, tho

ATMOSPHERE: 6?
While setting and general idea feel great - this show doesn't reach Hogwarts vibes and that is sad. World, magic, akademia guidance, general plot - many of those things worked destructively on the show's atmosphere.
In other words: i expected it to be "magically charming" and was somewhat disappointed, aspecially at second part

ENJOYMENT: 7
First part was promising and interesting. Somewhere after episode 14 (where Croix appeared) i started to facepalm more and more.
My enjoyment was at 8-9 at first half and dropped to 5-7 at second

OVERALL: 7
Nice show which has many flaws. I'd like it to be better, Akko is an interesing main hero

My small review for this very nice suspence anime

STORY 8\10

Anime is slow in pacing - a lot of dialogues, not so much action. Heroes were searching answers for many questiong and trying to find the way out of their situation - almost whole anime was about that.
It does feel like story could be deeper-more broad. It also feels like the ending is weird and leaves open many questions (tho they say there will be second season). That being said, I still consider it nice

ART 9\10

I'm not that perfection-hungry with art, and for me art was really great. A plus\minus point is that characters faces were ... somewhat weird - but it actually makes it more distinguished. Also, kinda nice lighting

SOUND 10\10

Normally in anime, sound isn't very noticable (for me, at least). But here, i directly noticed at least 3 great orchestral tracks. Music sure did good job on the atmosphere of the show. I am definitely going to search OST somewhere later...

CHARACTER 9\10

I must point out, this mostly goes to main characters + villains. They were good. Though "Mom" felt a bit underdeveloped (probably because of the adaptation).
Generally speaking, show has 5 very good, developed characters, 2 somewhat less good and then gray mass - mostly children without qualities. That been said, those 7 were carrying the show pretty good altogether.

ENJOYMENT (or "the only score that matters") 9\10

I liked it.
Show wasn't very long, characters were good-motivated and likable, setting felt fresh and it was curious to see good story happening in such a place with such characters. I wish that this anime was more detailed...
...which probably could be said about my review too. Nah, that will do it