A starting score of 7.80 is a bit overrated, but still in my acceptable range. However, the plots and characters building& development get weaker and poorer in the later episodes, which deserves a remarkable deduction of score. However, such deduction is not reflected. That's why I think it's overrated- when its disadvantages are neither recognised, admitted nor reflected.
Personally, this anime is fine. Some plots give me quite a lot of fun. However, it's only at the medium level, so I definitely won't rate it as if it's a masterpiece over 8. It should be somewhere around 7.50-7.80 for the highest. I gave it a 6 because "Things need to be balanced- Majima".
First, let me ask, what's the key focus of this anime?
"Slice of life and Comedy", "Action", "Plot", "Settings", "Background low-key Yuri (Yuri bait)"?
Actually, all of these are the focus, but they are not close to the level of extraordinary. They are just mediocre.
Start from "Setting": a near future setting.
Good thing: There are things flashing out in the anime setting such as the talented children, and the organisation who are helping them. However, they didn't elaborate more about this organisation, that's quite a pity.
Bad thing: The DA organisation, JK killer, and the ability of dodging bullets, all these settings are just... neither surprising nor interesting. Except the machine heart, there is nothing else about the near future setting.
TBH, there are tons of near future setting SF works with better settings that people could play around with. If they choose to play with near future settings, try to work harder plz.
Well, then quite a few people would say:" idc about the setting, I'm here for the 'Yuri + Slice of life + CGDCT'."
Good thing: There are quite a few slice of life plots being quite good as I remember about the cake selling plots and running the SNS account of their caffe. All these stuffs are fine.
Bad thing: However, the plot of slice of life are quite limited, because it needs to give way to the main plots. There is a poor balance out there. As a result, it satisfies neither people looking for Slice of life, nor people looking for good plot.
I've watched Yuri for years. Personally, I find a strong feeling of Yuri fan service when watching Lycoris, which makes the Yuri scenes very... unnatural? I used to be fine and loving these Yuri fan service, but not anymore these days. These things do depend on your personal favour, so no judgement on fan service.
Since the focus of Lycoris is clearly not "Romance GL", I'm not comparing it with those heavy romance GL works, that would be unfair to it. However, just comparing with other "Yuri+Slice of life+CGDCT" animations, the level of comedy and slice of life is lower than average, probably again because they need to make a balance between the main plots and slice of life. The contents of Yuri (Bait) is also very limited.
The "Action" is fine. The "Plot" is fine, as long as it's not completely broken. However, it's the part being judge by people the most. It's quite annoying to see that every time in the later episodes Chisato has to fight against Majima with the help of Takina. It's obvious that they want to show their close partner or friend ship, but 1v2 to win is bad for expression, and again this part of plot is very unnatural. "Sorry I have to go to help Chisato even though I may not get back to DA". It just feels weird and bland, probably because the development and change of Takina wasn't really shown adequately.
If they give up the "Slice of life" and turn it into a tragedy ending and a dark depressed atmosphere, and focus more on the development of Takina and make her more like the MC, the plot would be perfect.
Anyway, this anime is fine but mediocre with flaws. It's neither extraordinary nor a masterpiece, but it's popular.
Haha... quite a few anime these years are like this I guess. Sometimes we gotta review ourselves and what we like. Demon slayer, I loved it, I finished the whole manga, but I know as a whole (manga) it's clearly overrated, and as expected, people do realise this and the scores are getting reduced by few decimals now, and I agree with the criticisms.
