Zero no Tsukaima is the first anime that left me questioning whether I enjoyed the ride or not... In my opinion, I feel like the progression of the story and the way the characters are conflict in so many ways. It was overall slow and Louise, the main female character, despite having lovely development, lacked story. In most episodes, she was just there and used when needed, she had a few episodes where she was used for comedy relief, well she was mostly used for comedy relief. She did, however have romance plots, but even those lasted over two episodes before being pushed to the side by another female character that needed attention. We all know romantic series have always been a tricky, unforgiving genre; you make one mistake and the story slowly begins to crumble, I believe this is one of them.
Zero o Tsukaima was, is supposed to be a Romance/Fantasy/Sci-Fi anime and where it succeed I Fantasy and Sci-Fi, it failed in romance. Sure all the female characters had their crushes and such, but nothing really got to me. I believe I read somewhere, " Zero no Tsukaima should be an enjoyable action anime based in a majestically magical world, sadly it executes the premise horrendously, clinging to repetitive comedy and a subpar plot. The characters were written poorly; this is evidenced by their shallow nature and monotonous interaction, of which Saito and Louise are the worst offenders."
To make it as blunt as possible, this is one of the few that shouldn't be on the 'To watch' lists. It is an anime that should be watched whenever you're bored or something. I wouldn't necessary say, don't watch it, the Art is amazing, beautiful and the sound/music is just as beautiful. But the plot and growth. Blah.
