Story: 6
In the first half of the series we have just complete and utter cliches. Hot redhead who is supernatural/related to demons? Check. Childhood best friend that's madly in love with the MC? Yep. Enemies defeated and absorbed into the harem? Of course. Lots of panty flashes and topless nudity? Spot on. Finally we have a MC that is quite literally powered by being a pervert, with special interests seemingly on girls' breast sizes.
Because reasons, a shinigami (death god, erm goddess) finds herself on earth and powerless against her foes. She comes across the horndog MC, and forms a temporary bond with him to survive. Of course his lust is overpowering, surprising the girl. As the show goes on, we see several instances where the MC powers up the girl by having dirty thoughts, giving her the needed edge to defeat either the other supernatural girls, or these weird tentacle monsters that seem to be after her. His hornyness is so pronounced that he can inject her with great power, and whereas it would take most humans several days to regain their strength, it only takes him a matter of minutes as he fantasizes the girls doing sexy things. He's able to charge even faster if he manage to grope any girl's tits, which he actually does pull off a few times.
So far, so DxD-ish right? However, once we get past the 'girl fight of the week' and the harem is well established, the show switches gears on us and becomes about saving the MC (who everyone has fallen for of course) from his imminent death. Instead of the usual 'save the damsel' line, we get the girls moving to try to save the guy instead. The plot after this shift, say around episode 7 or so, changes the entire mood of the series. While it still remains highly trope-ish, this new wrinkle adds enough depth to it to make finishing the series bearable. Come for the boobs, and stay for the surprisingly interesting plot that finally develops over the second half of the series.
Of course the story is far from perfect, we still have a girl who is close to the primary female in the devil realm, only for her to betray her not long after hitting the human world. Instead of getting a severe ass beating, the primary girl dismisses the event, and the two faced girl suddenly becomes a harem member. The treason girl forms a contract for her own energy with the MC's childhood friend, who of course cannot bring herself to openly admit her intense feelings for the MC. She's just happy to be around, even when the MC is obviously falling for the primary girl.
And of course the monsters/enemies being sent to destroy the primary girl or the harem are of course tentacle monsters. We get some very typical hentai-like shots of the tentacle monsters holding the various girls before they regain their power and defeat the beasts. So yeah, we're looking at a great deal of fanservice for absolute sure. And even through the fanservice, there is a story, though flimsy at best at times, running throughout. It's not Shakespeare but it manages to stand on its own in a rather overcrowded genre.
Art: 7
The art looks good of course. It's not super high end, but it's good enough for the show's purpose. It's hard to have a show based on bare tits and panty shots if the art look horrible. The coloring is interesting, and the battle costumes the supernatural girls wear are pretty cool, even if they are quite skimpy, and prone to being ripped to shreds at the drop of a hat. While some of the characters suffer from blimp sized tit syndrome, oddly enough the primary girl does not. And the girls who are stacked don't always have their breasts jiggling around like they were made of Jello. Overall it's the kind of quality one would expect from the title's genre.
Sound: 6
The opening and closing themes are fun but forgettable, though the background track does use sound effects and music to heighten the tension or feelings regarding various scenes. The voice actors are all pretty spot on, but my biggest knock was all the yelling. The MC is constantly yelling about being horny or about girls' bodies and all that. The primary girl is constantly shouting about him being such a perverted weirdo. It did get grating after a while.
Character: 5
As I said, the characters are for the most part cliche. The primary girl being a powerful shimigami with red hair smacks of Rias the demon heiress of DxD. She of course falls in love with the MC but tries her best to hide it, and often denies her feelings to others and even herself in the aforementioned shouting. She's not like Rias in the department of constantly coming on to the MC however. Also, for her to be a member of the ruling family of the underworld/hell/whatever, she does seem to be a good deal underpowered. She's often near defeat and only pulls out victory because the MC gropes her breasts or thinks dirty thoughts. On her own, you would expect her to be more dangerous, but she's not much of a match for any of the other girls/harem members in a one on one, no power refilling match. It is kind of cute that she does get so embarrassed about her feelings and all, instead of throwing her lust at the MC from beginning to end, as is common in the genre.
The traitor girl is kind of odd in that she was able to secure a contract for power with the MC's best friend when she clearly attacked both him and the primary girl. She didn't seem to have any concerns over sparing him or keeping him safe, so why would the girl with the secret crush help out someone who was previously so very hostile to her love interest? Nor is it really explained why she made the about-face in becoming friends with the primary girl after being defeated. She was said to have been the primary girl's best friend in the Underworld, which makes sense, because she was secretly looking for a way to topple the primary girl's family from leadership so her own could take the stage. After all that, one ass kicking brings her to abandon those ambitions and throw her lot in with the harem? Not making very much sense there.
The childhood friend is also a little on the underwritten side. She's always been in love with the MC, but never told him so. She's also our queen of super tits, as the quiet ones tend to be. She knows of his perverted ways and is accepting of them, to the point where they openly talk about her breast size and what cup size she is wearing. She's also the unassuming one in glasses who just wants to make the guy she loves happy. She's a likable character, just seems odd that she wouldn't have made her move before the show began, or expressed herself in some way. If a guy looks at a girl and tells her he's been raptly watching her breasts grow for years, that's kind of an opening for developing a relationship. Either that or getting the piss knocked out of ya.
The other busty supernatural girl gets her power somehow from a life insurance company? It's....odd. She has a stable power level and is pretty ferocious, but again, as always, folds after she witnesses the awesome power delivered by the MC's lustful ways.
All in all, we have some pretty cookie cutter character types, but there's enough hints thrown in to give them more personality than 'girl with big boobs' or 'girl with glasses' or what have you.
Enjoyment: 6
Even with all the knocks, it was an enjoyable story, I do admit being a fan of the genre (among many other genres) and liked how the story went down. It might not be DxD quality, but it sure as hell isn't as grating as say, Valkyrie Drive Mermaid. This was obviously created for younger males and it serves it's purpose well enough. I'm not a younger man anymore, but I can still appreciate good fanservice, and as I've mentioned before, I do dig the supernatural, especially dealing with religious iconography such as angels and demons and all. I know some people's scoring system (and at times even my own) often make a six out to be abysmal. No, six is still above average, if only by a little bit. I don't regret watching the show, and I did get a laugh or two from it, but it just is what it is, kind of middle of the road.
Best Girl: Okura Mina. Yes, I said the childhood friend is kinda thin character wise, but she's just so innocent and cute I couldn't help but really like her. And being stacked like a brick shit house never hurts either.
I say give it a spin, especially if you like fanservice/ecchi content. Just know that it actually does pick up a bit of a plot before it's over, you just have to wait for it. It's not a hard thing to wait for either, as the 'monster girl of the week' is mildly entertaining as well, and leads to some really funny moments. But don't come expecting anything more than the standard points nearly all ecchi/harems follow. It treads well worn ground, but does so with just enough spring in its steps to justify another trip down that old road. I say it's worth a try at the very least.
