Story - 7.
Why? It is cliche, in my opinion. I'm quite a fan of that kind of anime, where you have an MC who is weak, but whoops - he is actually strong. The same happens here - Ikki is the weak beast, who is looked down upon, and our Stella is nothing less than a tsundere character (correct me if I'm wrong). However, I really enjoyed the show. I've heard anime like that appear once in a while, and it gets quite common, however, this has something special to it. Whatever it is, the execution of the story was great for me! It always kept me wanting to see the next episode. It starts out as a very straight-forward anime, but later it develops into something darker, at least that's what I thought while watching it! At times it felt predictable for me, but even at those times, it managed to take a turn I actually didn't expect, and I liked that.
Art - 9.
Now you may ask why. Even though I loved the fight scenes, they were really something, some fights felt unfinished, or cut out. Maybe that's just me, but I could just feel in some fights, that there could've been something more than what I did or didn't see (for example - the Ten'i Muhou technique during the fight against the 'Soul Eater'). However, overall, everything was very well done.
Sound.
I'm not a specialist of this, however, the voice acting was great, it fit every character for me, and the music, as well as the fight scene sounds, were all
in place.
Character - 9.
There is one thing to the characters - some were missing, according to LNs. Now that is not a big deal, and I don't consider it a big deal.
The development was completely fine - we had a weak beast MC, who keeps winning the fights, while nobody knows how he actually feels or what has happened to him, that he is the 'Worst One'. Overtime, he manages to get quite a huge fanbase, and that's what will make a significant appearance in the end (trying not to spoil everything). As we should expect, romance develops, while not taking up the space, everything is split to fit everything in, and I'm glad nothing was rushed for me, and the development of both, the relationship, and the story itself, didn't interfere each other and leave anything behind.
Overall - I really enjoyed the anime, it was something that after watching, I can say 'Wow, that was cool!'. I was only disappointed it ended at volume 3, however, the journey was great. Now, to make sure - yes, it has an ecchi tag in this anime, however, the amount of ecchi you see, compared to other anime, is pretty much zero, because it's not that kind of show-off ecchi you see everyday, and is almost non-existent (*cough* lodge *cough*). So even if you're against ecchi, I still highly recommend trying this out if you have this in your list. It's a great one.
