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Mar 22, 2024
Mixed Feelings
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Sad thing about this anime is that if it was not based on the manga it would probably be slightly more enjoyable. But seeing how majority of people who saw it were original manga fans I was expecting it to be roasted, and that roast was for good reason in the end.

I will also judge it by manga seeing hown it is after all an adaptation, ans with that let us begin:

Story: the premise is interesting to a degree, but nothing we have not seen so far. A dimensional gate opens in the Tokyo area and bunch od daemons starts invading. Entire hellish dimension (called Mato in story) is only as big as Tokyo area for some reason,and it is an environment where humans can live with some difficulty. What makes this story unique are the powers which are only usable by women and one specific power tied to our MC. Other than that there is still secrets to be explored and conflits to resolve but they are only appearing later on in story and many of them are still not resolved. So this entire anime is basically introduction story and thus only interesting to a degree because of that. My grade: 5

Sad thing is that the story in manga is much more interesting from the start as well as the world itself is more explored and some things were cut.

Characters: not much to say here unfortunately. MC is as bland and ignorant as they go, all other major characters are females (of course) and they fall into typical stereotypes: serious kuudere commander with revenge plot, tsundere second in command who is hostile first and then sweet later on, charming but not very smart blonde girl who is all into fighting and a loli who by some miracle is not lewed even if this is ecchi. They are explored to a degree but none too deep, and all conflicts with MC are resolved in just one episode after they are introduced. Tenka is by far the best girl and she is not even in the main squad cast. Other characters are underrated (especially the bad guys, we barely know anything about them except they are bad and they hate humans for some reason) except the sister who is slightly more explored. My grade: 6.

To be fair, by this point in manga we were still in the dark about many things but anime could at least give some hints.

Animation and music: quite enjoyable. Animation was good overall, the battle scenes were great and I didn't notice downgrade anywhere while I was watching it. Music was nothing special but it did its part well enough. Kyouka and Tenka VA doing OP and ED with their characters appearing in them was nice touch. My grade: 7.

Ecchi level: this needs its own cathegory because lets be real: most people were looking forward to this part of the anime. And boy, were they disappointed. Now, I didnt mention 'rewards' in story or animation segment as I was planning to speak separately about it. It is after all this franchise most unique thing, and it involves MC receiving a reward as compensation for using his powers and becoming slave in the first place. It first starts with Kyouka alone and later on others can also contribute (some even voluntary) and yes - even the loli character (but to be fair, they played it quite safe even in manga as the only thing she does is a kiss on the cheek).
But for some reason, even if it had 18+ tag, the anime really went soft here. If I am to make comparison, if manga rewards were any XXX site than anime version would be girl on YouTube at the beach wearing nothing but her swimsuit. In some reward scenes they even covered breasts with their hands, despite being quite visible in manga. Now, I could understand playing it safe but this is ecchi anime and we also have Gushing over Magucal Girls this season which also had 18+ tag and who detroyed this anime in ecchiness. My grade: 6.

Overall grade: 6. I personally gave it 8 as that was my enjoyment factor, but 6 or 7 is much more realistic grade.

If they even make 2nd season it should preform much better as the story really picks up where they left it. That and please let them get more down with the ecchiness and season 2 could even score 8.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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