Note: this review will be very opinionated and may contain spoilers, you have been warned.
I actully don't hate this show but I do hate the whole premis, or rather not even that. The premis isn't so bad, how do I put this. I just hate the generic ecchi harem parts of it, which there is plently of. It actully took me a long time to get this show done (like 12 days) which is rare for me with such a short show. It never captured my interest really.
So what happens, well what do you think happens. Mister generic MC finds himself accidently in the girls bathhouse and right on top of a girl, of course she's a tsundare which means she is who he will end up with and she freaks out at him. Basically it turns out that Lux is a transfer student and his also a male when this is a girls only school. Oh the clichés, just recalling this is activity sucking the creative life force within me. Either way there is more going on as it turns out he is the final prince of the old empire which isn't around anymore since it got overtaken by the new empire. This world also just has the most creative names, obviously. either way Lux betrayed the old empire in order to help the new empire take over and while he is still considered a criminal he is mostly givin a lot of freedom as is his sister. His a very talented drag-rider as well, drag-rides being the mecha this shows uses. Anyway these creators called Abyses or something like that sometimes attack and Lux is bascially there as an extra layer of defence, also all the girls in his harem also have there own drag-rides and fight aswell. I'm not gonna get to into the plot becuase it's very inconsistent and works on a two episode basis most of the time.
So bascially the first epsiode of any givin two episode set starts out with Lux interacting with the next girl the show is going to cover. She has some issue and needs his help in some way and becuase his just the best guy in the world he decides to help. There's only one time his forced to help any of them out and he ends up going above and beyond what she asks so yer. Then by the end of the episode Lux has to fight someone or an enemy makes themselves known as the enemy and then the second episode is fighting this enemy and he wins and the girl loves him and then you get some sence where she goes on about how much she loves him.
The issue with this is that these girls become pretty useless fast, they have very little attention given to them outside of there two episode arc (minus the main girl Lisha) and even she gets the shaft in the other girls arcs, is just that in the few episodes where it doesn't have an arc going on, she gets the most focus. For instance after Lisha's arc we move on to Krulcifer and Lisha is seen once at the start and once at the end of this arc. At the start she's trying to capture Lux in order to make him follow a request but is never seen after Krulcifer ends up getting the request. Then she's there right at the end to scream "what are you two doing" when Lux and Krulcifer kiss two times in a row. I also hate how harem shows do this, these two were kissing and while Lux had the typical harem MC reaction he wasn't resisting, in the real world some girl isn't just going to slam in and yell at him and make it look like his doing something wrong, he is his own person and can do whatever he wants, if his not out right resisting her then he is consenting to it and so for her to react this way to there face is insane. She might be upset about it or angry at him but she doesn't own him, just becuase she's the main girl and tsun doesnt make it okay, it's stupid.
In fact all the characters are pretty stupid. Phi is the only one who I didn't think was super stupid, Lisha is just a dumb tsun and makes really stupid decisions. Krukcifer forces Lux to pretend to be her boyfriend and then when he does so tells him to stop becuase she is useless and then when he saves her she goes on to say that they are engaged even though the agreement is over. The third girl (can't remember her name) can't even tell that Luno is just Lux dressed as a girl even when he takes off his shirt! It's from the back but that still makes no sense, plus she pretends to be a man hater cause she doesn't know how to deal with them, fine. If she stops being a man hater that's fine but she still shouldn't be able to deal with men yet once her arc is over she outright starts hitting on Lux and even invites him to help her in a mission, not possible! Phi is the only girl I consider not to be stupid and she actully also has the most development and has the most realistic reason to like Lux, there child hood friends and from a young age Lux promised to protect her and they have both helped each other out a lot though there life and thus this makes a lot of sense. She is also the soul reason that Lux has trained so hard and is the way he is today, it's so stupid the the deeper and much more important girl isn't the main girl just becuase the tsun always has to win in these shows. The kinda last girl Yoruka is also dumb, she is hyped up for a while and is the final fight aginst Lux and she is taken down in one strike becuase she mentions her brother which causes her to show emotion and then Lux is able to see through her movements because of that even though she was just beating the crap out of him becuase she only attacked when he was unable to respond. Why would she suddenly attack when he can see even if he did mention her brother, she just spent ages talking about her brother while fighting why does he mentioning it change anything and then she betrays the old empire as well for no reason at all, she just does and then at the end is treated like a harem member. She was in the show for like 3 episodes and was a bad guy for most of it, but hey, we need more girls so that you can have a Waifu no matter what your into. There's even a Loli that's around for like 1 and a half episodes just so that all the Lolicons can have a character to buy merchindise of.
This show is bad.
I actully enjoyed most of the characters despite them being all a bunch of idiots and phi was absolutely done great which makes the avrage a little better, but just keep in mind that mostly everyone is super generic and dumb.
The presentation is the only thing besides Phi that is any good. The OP and ED are generic in the sense that there the same as a lot of other OPs and EDs of the same genre, but it's becuase it works and I still enjoyed it even if it wasn't anything new. The background music is also pretty good, it does what it needs to do but the music that sometimes plays during battles is amazing and I love it, really good a building up hype. The battles however are mostly a let down, most of them are slow and nothing much really happens, it's just a few moves used and then the protagonist has won with an ass pull, sweet. That is untill the final few episodes, the last two or so episodes suddenly start having really well done fights. The drag-rides move fast and chain there moves together well, everything flows together and it's acutlly like a real fight and doesn't feel really turn based and rugid. I like the last few episodes becuase of this, however it doesn't change the fact that the drag-rides are CG most of the time. The CG ranges from bareable to horrible and that's an issue. It's a shame that it's bareable sometimes cause that shows that when they put effort in it can look okay but then it goes to looking horrible in the same episode and I'm just wondering why some parts got more effort then others, it is better then if all of it was horrible but the inconsistency is a massive pain, becuase it gives me a taste of bareable CG right before slapping me in the fact with really bad and obvious CG that makes me wanna punch my screen. Aside from e drag-rides everything is pretty avrage, there are a few really good parts but then there are also some really poor parts and so overall I'd say it equals out to be avrage in the long run. It didn't really change how much I enjoyed it.
Overall I didn't hate it, I spent a lot of time ragging on it but that's just becuase it does a lot of things bad and it is a generic ecchi harem that makes poor use its one good chareter and for every good thing it does and has just as many if not more bad things in the same thing. Only one solid character, every good amazing fight has just as many stale fights. Every clever moment has an ass pull counter part and all the really well made moments are ruined by being followed by something really poorly animated or by having something dull happen in the amazing area. That really stupid final fight between Lux and Yoruka happened in a beautifully animated area that looks absolutely stunning. But the fight is one huge ass pull plus it's also stale and just makes Yoruka who was super threatening, just a dumb dull girl who is obsessed with Lux like everyone else. So objectivily it's pretty dull and that did effect my enjoyment a bit but overall I still enjoyed the show most of the time. I never felt like watching it but once I just selected the next episode and started I enjoyed myself for the most part and never wanted to click away or stop watching becuas of the shows fault. It's just hard to be interested when your not watching it, I was never hyped to find out what would happen next and show ends in the worst way. With Lux surroded by all his Harem and they ask which one he loves and then each of the girls say there line and he just screams. Even his sister gets a line in even though she has never been shown to feel that way towards him, even Lux is shocked when she chimes in which just shows how stupid it is to make her a part of his harem in legit the last minute of the show. But I did enjoy it enough, its just bad in a more objective way.
5/10 average.
