Going into classroom of the elite, it's easy to be fooled; you see a loner protagonist who isn't popular in school and you're already mentally preparing yourself for the alien vampire transfer student with ridiculous knockers and the fallen meteor that gives our protagonist superpowers, but that's not how it goes.
What you get in the end is a surprisingly cerebral drama based around sociopaths and delinquents being basically thrown into a freak show and our protagonist having to work his way out, if I had to draw a parallel to another well known franchise I'd say this anime is The Fruit of Grisaia but much, much smarter and with an actual coherent plot rather than just the mc getting to know 1 girl per episode for little payoff.
A lot of people didn't give this anime a fair shake and reading some of these 3 and 5 reviews it's obvious why, they fell into the trap of expecting a brainlet titty harem anime but what they got at the end was something that only an older viewer who has watched a lot of stuff can usually appreciate. I guarantee that if this anime was 12 episodes of the girls getting caught changing and accidentally flashing pantsus all the 3s would be 7s and vice versa.
But this is an anime review rather than a meta review of MAL itself so I'll say this, this anime's art is absolutely beautiful, the sound is just fine, the story is compelling and really makes you wonder 'how will they get out of this mess?' just as any good drama should and all of the characters are done absolutely brilliantly.
This anime is S tier at what it set out to be, all that remains is whether you're the right viewer for it. If you just want dumbed down titty flashes or nonstop action then obviously you won't enjoy this, this isn't some isekai fantasy or super power shounen, it's just a brilliant intriguing drama about a fucked up highschool with fucked up people.
Only reason I would ever hesitate to recommend this is because I've heard lots of murmurs that season 2 won't be happening, and at 12 episodes this will definitely leave you wanting more.
That being said I haven't seen any evidence of this so go ahead and watch this, you won't (shouldn't) regret it.
~Jgod sama
Sep 28, 2017
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