You might expect some crazy powerful superpower or intense battle with super villain in this anime, but in Inou Battle, it turns out to be different than other supernatural anime series. You can say this anime is not about defeat some villain or watching boss fight, instead showing us a daily life group of students who has superpowers and try to act like normal person. Despite having the story tells us different perspective about having superpower; the character development also playing a big role as the story progress through in each episode.
Unlike Gatchaman who has a power and responsibility to protect people, Andou and his friends need to hide their power since the powers itself are destructive means more burden than responsibility since they need to get through daily life within and out school. What I like about Inou Battle is not something like seeing some amazing superpower, but to be understand the name or aliases given by Andou since he is chuunibyo and having great sense of naming each of superpowers are one of his forte.
Although our main protagonist does not resemble some other strong characters that we usually see in other generic MC, his other strong points really do show some worthy aspect which saves his friends when they meet some adversaries. Also, the interactions between each character are also one of my favorites in this series. It has some sort of SNAFU-vibe, and some of the scene does portray in real life relationship which you can say, it gives impact that might give you some thinking like episode 7.
In my opinion, Studio Trigger did a decent job for quality of animation. It’s not too extravagant but they keep it in low profile although I do expecting some high quality animation since the theme was supernatural. The OST didn’t have much impact in this series although I kind a like the OP and ED.
Verdict:
Inou Battle is a good anime that has some good genre that you might want to watch. I didn’t expecting it become this good since it not in my main list in Fall 2014, but I’m glad that I have finished it. Also the other strong points are the VA of the series itself. They do have really a great job in portraying in each characters especially Hayami Saori, I can assure you, that’s not your everyday VA doing an amazing job immersing the character itself since you need a lot of experience to become like that. Other than that, you just enjoy some comedy and romantic scene the rest of the series.
