STORY - "Battle royals are so cliche tho! I don't want to watch this shit!" Well Internetman how do you successfully counter a cliche and generic premise? You have two options, poke fun at the plot with satire or spend your entire budget to make it the best cliche you have ever seen. Akuma no Riddle tries to make the battle royal setting feel unique, but it took away the very element made so many people like death matches in the first place. Without the overwhelming suspense from shows such as Mirai Nikki, you lost what made us interested in the first place.
Furthermore, simply the idea of the ending sounds like it was coined while masturbating on the toilet somewhere in the Sahara Desert. It feels very last minute and leaves a lot of plot holes.
ART - What held this anime up was it's animation. It felt very aesthetically pleasing, which I don't usually see in Yuri. The character designs aren't anything to jerk it over, but they are not bad.
SOUND - The sound in this show is surprisingly well done. The opening theme song got me HYPE AS FUCK. Each different character had their own ending theme song which was cool. Again, nothing to jerk yourself over.
Character - I've said it plenty of times before, but fuck it I'll say it again. YOU CANT FUCKING TELL 12 PEOPLE'S BACKSTORY IN THIS SHORT OF A FUCKING SERIES. This had so much backfire, which resulted in a collective disinterest in the main heroine.
FINAL VERDICT - 6.2 There were a plethora of things holding this series back. If the characters were developed better and that ending didn't happen, it would've been a 8/10.
SEE YA LATER FUCKERS!!!
