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Mar 14, 2011
Preliminary (8/12 eps)
Story - The idea is good, Female dominant world Female only mechs, and a guy that can use them, which leads to one of the only harems where the guy has a reason to be in a harem, instead of being a regular guy who gets one for no reason. Now if they backed this up semi well the story would have been at least a 7. It is extremely easy to pick apart the story when you focus on it, saying that the world is dominated by females because of these mechs (which let's be honest don't look like they are really so big and bad) is a foolish claim when they proceed to say that the powerful ones are in quite a limited supply. Looking at the benefits to these over heavy artillery include maneuverability, shield, portability (you can bring it anywhere you walk.) flight and decent weapons. Now assuming that the entire world didn't lose their mind they probably have most of that technology in non mech form to at least the same degree, in fact currently in the real world we have lasers that are quite a bit more powerful than the guns they wield appear to be, so assuming they didn't lose their minds they have hover tanks with mounted lasers, leaving that alone, I highly doubt that anywhere in the world would it be accepted to have females so much more overpowered than males, but that can slide. I won't go into why only females can use them or why he can as the author really doesn't seem to plan to either. Next up is the school where people from around the world, their countries representatives no less, learn to pilot war machines, no, just no, What country do you know of that is willing to train it's adversaries how to use weapons that would likely be used in war (against them), or even their sport that they partake in (against them), just no. Also I feel that I'm misunderstanding something as I have no idea why these barely trained children are "representatives" Other than this is a harem so no real story here.

Art - About the only redeeming factor here, I rather like the art in this anime, moreso for the backgrounds than the jiggly bits, and definitely not too big a fan on the character art for the most part. The art is skillfully done with vibrant colours and great detail. I'm a fan of the school uniform but the mechs... not so much, I will give it originality though

Sounds - SFX is meh throughout you don't really notice it throughout but most of the characters voices are annoying enough to have your finger on the mute button at all times. Exception Charles, Charles has a wonderful voice actor I'm actually a Hanazawa Kana fan, and she is the only reason that sound gets above a 1.

Character - Here comes the most fatal flaw in this anime, the characters are the most stale unoriginal and annoying characters I've seen in a while.

Ichika - He had a good thing going for him with the "first male IS Pilot" thing, but then he became the most typical harem character I've ever seen, he is legitimately so typical that it is actually atypical to be as typical as he is. He's an idiot completely unaware of everything around him. He is far to easily surprised and should get an afro.

Houki - Scratch that comment about Ichika being the most typical harem character Houki beats him by leagues and miles. Not only is she the too shy to say my feelings but I'll act like I own you and get mad because you don't notice how I feel psychically (though if he wasn't such an idiot he probably would have) childhood friend

Cecilia - Read Houki except more tsundere and she isn't a childhood friend but instead from England.

Fang - Read Houki except a Chinese loli this time.

Maya - (the other teacher) It's been too much of a negative train here so how about something positive Maya is a neat character she's fairly moe and a teacher, yes that much is boring, but she's not useless, which was a big surprise to me generally moe teachers are completely useless 190% of the time but she can fight well and isn't as dumb as she looks, personally one of the only saving graces in the character department.

Laura - She has serious problems, she starts of yandere and then just degenerates into a more forward and more shy version of Houki/Cecilia/Fang, admittedly at a speed I've never seen before. her background seemed interesting for like 10 minutes but don't worry it gets completely discarded after a harem joke or two, luckily she has an eyepatch so you can tell the difference between her and the other three.

Chifuyu - She's one of those people who thinks that love can only be showed through being a complete bitch 24/7 Apparently really powerful but she decided to retire because her career and the safety of her brother were colliding or something she is so far the oldest person in the anime at 24.

Char - I lol'd hard at her new nickname. She is the only real reason to watch this show, she is adorable and nice, she realizes that Ichika is an idiot and uses it to her advantage to get closer to him.

Enjoyment - Not present, the only enjoyable time is when Char is on otherwise it's useless. Neat note: Ichika will most certainly end up with Houki, that's not a spoiler after watching this for two seconds you can come to that conclusion which is upsetting because Char deserves to win, however if he ends up with anyone else it will be effectively the same as an M Night Shyamalan movie and will actually be worse, what a twist.

Overall - Don't watch this, just find the Charlotte parts on youtube or something that's all you really need.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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