It's about guns and girls. About a secret organisation, who fights terrorism with special trained girls called Lycoris. But you will soon enough see, that the focus of this series lies elsewhere.
That beeing said, this show is about the main female leads, it's about Chisato and Takina. There is no doubt in probably everyone's eyes, that those two carried the entire show. Chisato alone would've probably been enough to make many people enjoy the show. Her positivity and carelessness, the way she talks and thinks but also her backstory and her resulting motivations, it just feels so perfect. Takina builds a great counterpart with her more realistic and cold view on the world. As the anime moves on, we'll experience Chisato's cheerfulness leading to Takina loosen up a little. Henceforth we get to see a lot of cute and comedic interactions between them and it made the whole show so insanely pleasurable to watch.
But we shouldn't forget about the rest of the cast. We have the great "comedy-couple" of Kurumi and Mizuki, Mika as an awesome father-figure, an honestly really well written antagonist, although it might not look like it at first.
The characters paired with the enjoyment, that came with them was certainly the best part of the show. Here I should also recommend you guys to watch this show subbed. The seiyuus did their job so incredibly well. Again, it's Chisato and Takina who stand out the most. Their performance was simply stunning.
The animation is super solid, with some nice fighting choreographies and nice colourwork.
Soundtrack was honestly not something I will remember. The ED is pretty good and BGM is going smoothly with the show but nothing outstanding here.
Finally, we have to talk about the story:
It's fine but you cannot overlook somewhat of a wasted potential. I mean, the concept of the show was so great.
A secret government orginazation uses orphaned girls to fight terrorism, while trying to keep the people of Japan unaware of it.
We then have Chisato, the strongest Lycoris of all, but with an intresting trait of valuing everyone's life (because of things happened in her past) and therefore not killing.
We finally have an antagonist with some understandable intentions and some well thought off ways to reach his goal.
But the execution and especially how things ended left me feeling a bit underwhelmed. I don't wanna spoil anything here but ultimately you can see the creators valuing the characters over the story, which I dind't mind that much, however, it could be a turn off for some people, who are in for a great and well thought-out plot.
In addition to this, our main characters are getting supported by quite a bit of plot armor in various situations, such as gun fights or through convenient events or object placements, occasionally saving their lives. It is clear to see, how certain events were merely created to push the story in the right direction without caring much about, how reasonable it ultimately is. Again, I didn't really mind. However, I can see how stuff like this effects someone's personal enjoyment.
At the end, it's for you to decide to give it a try or not. If you like awesome characters having a great time, with lots of comedy and some nice action choreographies, then you most certainly should give it a watch.
If you prioritice a heavily action-focused show with great and well thought-out and executed plot, you better stay away from this one, because it simply won't satisfy you.
