Story and Characters:
The story starts as Tachibana (actually a girl) mistakenly accuses a guy of seducing his, I mean her, friend. As compensation he has her join his airsoft team. Other than the strange fact that Tachibana never cares to correct people as to her gender, everything starts out okay. But this later becomes an unnecessarily large conflict when it's state the team MC join doesn't take girls.
Unfortunately the show becomes less about airsoft and more about the ridiculous drama and conflict between MC's team, Toy Gun Gun, and another team Hoshishiro. The airsoft battles are okay, but you'd expect more in the way of strategy. The show draws little actual interest towards airsoft, which is surprising given that it's the main reason most people would pick up the show
Everyone takes their games seriously. Way too seriously actually. It's stated in episode 1. No training or skill is shown and it actually makes the viewers take it less seriously. As You'll find that the characters are simply a fujo's wet dream, with a neet homo manga writer, a guy who works at a host club, a sadist, and finally a boy who's not really a boy who ties it all together.
The strangest thing is Tachibana's sense of "justice". It's never really explained where this comes from though he mentions it frequently, and it's outright thrown out the window and turns into simply being her self-admitted selfishness later on. So it's just his own little meaningless character trait. The characters aren't good, and neither is the story.
Art:
Brain's Base put a lot into this and you can tell. Unfortunately for them it doesn't look like they'll get much out of it as preorder sales are abysmal. It would be more appropriate if they threw their money at making season 2s for their actual successes, even if they may not sell as well a the first, rather than throwing all their money into such a poor story.
Overall: 3/10
I actually enjoyed this series for around the first 6 episodes. It was a bit silly but it was fun to watch. But towards the latter half too much dumbly written drama and poorly attempted characterization came into play and it was hardly about the airsoft. I just wanted it to end.
It wish I would've been able to end the season saying this is a show I didn't regret watching because it seemed that way when I started. It proved that you can't pander to multiple crowds at different ends of the spectrum and get positive recognition.
Hopefully I never again have to write a review in which I spend more time correcting "his/he" to "her/she" again. If you want a show about actual airsoft, this isn't it.
