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Jan 21, 2011
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (3/12 eps)
First of all i would like to start this review with the fact that THIS IS NOT AN "Genres: Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen" but it's a "Harem, Romance , Mecha with a spoon of Action and a pinch of Shounen" , i dont even feel the need to add a Sci-fi genre considering this is a mecha anime .
And second is that this show has nothing original in it , the Mecha looks like Strike Witches with some add on , the characters are like any harem characters , the story ( still undeveloped ) gives you nothing to even consider a storyline or just leaves you with some questions , the sound is okey , nothing new , nothing original .

Chapter 1 : "The story"
I would say , what story , the only things given are the fact that only females wear the mecha suits and for some reason the male character ( THE MALE since i have seen no other males so far ) can also use them and a fight at the very beginning with an unknown "enemy" .
And that is it , ohh i forgot , the scientist who created these mechas is missing? if i recall it and there are only a "few" mechas ( a couple hundred for the entire world ) .

Chapter 2 : "The art"
I would say it's very ordinary , nothing really stands out as good . The movements seem fluid but like i said , just ordinary .

Chapter 3 : "The sound"
Again , nothing special , the OP seems okeyish but it's like i seen something the same more than once and it doesn't really make it more interesting at all .
The ED is far worst than the OP imo , something used like a thousand times . The only sound that is okey and blends well is probably the "during the view" sounds you encounter , they fit good enough with the scenes played .

Chapter 4 : "The character"
This is the worst part of this show imho .
You have the thick like a brick male lead with a "wanabe"cool attitude surrounded by girls ;
The blonde with blue eyes "foreign high-class" stereotype with a superiority complex that breaks? down immediately after facing off the main male character and falls in love with him , going from hate to love in like "snap" ;
The "childhood friend" who's an usual tsundere ( like many other ) who is also a kendo master? and has a promise ( of love probably ) with the main character that he forgot , before she had to leave ( like many other ) ;
And in episode 3 we're introduced to another?! childhood friend , who is also chasing after the male character with a promise of "being together forever" that the male character conveniently misunderstood being the brick , oups i mean thick as he is ;
And the cherry on top for all of them is the fact that there are a lot of misunderstandings between them or subtext or one sided emotions that create a lot of awkward scenes that usually end up with the male character getting wacked or something like that .

Chapter 5 : "The enjoyment"
I would like to say that i started off kind of enjoying the show , with good expectations of shounen mecha action ( mostly because of the first minute of the show and the setting used for the show , an academy for training to fight? ) but by episode 3 kind of all of it was shattered with the 15 times use of the word "childhood friend" to "clear" misunderstandings , and totally setting the show on a harem / romance path .

OVERALL i would say this show is like a combination of Strike Witches + Chrome Shelled Regios + "insert random genre/show stereotype" x 'n' . The probably only "original" ( as in "i have not seen that many" ) is the having of two "childhood friends" introduced as such , and they clearly try to sell out this in episode three one way to many times .
For mecha / harem / romance fans this will be a show they probably will like , but for people who expected to see mecha / action this will be an annoying show .
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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