All right, so I have decided to review the anime "Unbreakable Machine Doll" which is basically a light novel adaptation by company Lerche, who directed one of my favorite anime, Danganronpa & Carnival Phantasm
STORY (8):
The story covers 3 chapters of the light novel. The first chapter involves Yaya & Raishin gets to know Charolette & Sigmund at Walpurgis Machineart Academy. The 2nd chapter involves the introduction of new characters like Loki and Frey. The 3rd chapter focuses on Charolette's sister, Henriette, and how their relationship as sisters develop.
Walpurgis Machineart Academy is a school whereby they train the puppeteers to control properly their automatons. In the 1st chapter, the school organizes a tournament to the top 100 students in the academy. Whoever wins the tournament, he or she will be crowned "Wiseman", known as the Great Puppeteer.
Every chapter has one main villain. Of course this is important in most action anime.
ART (7):
The art style was ok, although the colors are very bright.
SOUND (9):
I honestly loved the opening and the ending. The opening is "Annica" that is sung by Hitomi Harada. The ending goes Maware Maware. By the way, there are some voice actors from Baka & Test who voiced the main characters like for example Hiro Shimono voiced Raishin & Hiromi Harada voiced Yaya.
Hiro Shimono voiced Akihisa from Baka & Test while Hiromi Harada voiced Himeji from Baka & Test. I was pulled into the anime thanks to these voice actors.
CHARACTER (8):
So far, in every chapter, we learn about their backstory of each of the characters like Raishin, Yaya, Charolette, Frey, Loki & Henriette.
Raishin: He was incapable of combat but he can control his automaton, Yaya. He was ranked the 2nd lowest in the class due to the fact that he has the 2nd lowest grades in the exam. In fact, he has determination although sometimes he gets easily frustrated. He reminds me of Eren Jeager from Attack on Titans
Yaya: She is cheerful and energetic and she likes to tease Raishin. One time in the beginning of episode 1, she says "Yaya is cute, she is the cutest in the world", I was like so surprised that she tried to put a spell on Raishin. By the way, she is skilled in combat. Yayaboombastic
Charolette: She is a tsundere. She is very hard on Raishin when she thought that she is doing something perverted.
Loki: As you have seen in my first sentence, I have been inspired by Loki's statement in episode 5. Loki is smart, calm and composed.
Frey: She is quite shy but she is kind at heart.
Henriette: We only see her in chapter 3, she is also quite shy and gets easily timid. I would love to know more about the sister relationship development.
I really have no problem with the characters, but I would like to know more about them.
CONCLUSION (8):
So far, I enjoyed this anime despite some lack of information of some episodes. Especially, the last episode whereby the boss in the 3rd chapter disappears. There is basically an OVA which might cover the remaining chapters. I doubt that the OVA might cover the remaining 9 chapters of the light novel. But it would be wonderful to see how the story unfolds.
I just really hope there will be a season 2 so that this season will cover all the chapters up to 12.
I can understand that the producers did not know that there are 12 chapters of the light novel just before they created this anime. So I grade based on how worthwhile it is to watch the 1st 3 chapters that is adapted into an anime.
Overall, I enjoyed this anime. The voice acting was good and the characters are fun. So I give this anime an 8 out of 10.
So in conclusion, here is my wish to MAL.
"Merry X'mas & Happy New Year".
