Was there a story? Did they execute it well or not at all?
How was the art? Better or worse then anything i've seen before?
How was the sound? Did i like the Voice Actors selected for this series?
Were the opening and ending songs likable enough for me to search for the band itself? How was the music between each scene itself, did it work or was it over the top or simply was corny as all fuck?
Did i truly enjoy this series, or did i just hop on the happy train and let them shove laughing gas down my throat?
All legit questions you should ask before saying a review is helpful or not, or even if you actually liked a series.
The story, is....simply isn't there. You jump from one point to another with no decisive or even reasonable conclusion from a previous incident. I looked over the first few episodes just to see if i wasn't actually paying attention, but it was as i thought the first time i watched them. It simply isn't there, you have your background, your setting, your characters, all in the right place at the right time, not doing the right thing...this is not supposed to happen normally no? But it does, and there is NO excuse, they had ample chances to recover by episode 10 yet; one filler and one half filler and you see some major mistakes.
The art is actually surprisingly good, more so even if you've watched as many as i have, which all in all isn't really alot. It's superior to much of the artwork, backgrounds that i've seen. However it does have it's slip ups here and there, but that's to be expected in any show, nothing is perfect.
OP, ED and everything inbetween, it's a listen to mem, but forget. Not memorable what-so-ever. The VA's were spectacular choices, and kinda is a real downer when you get some real talent mixed together and then instead of mixing carefully like you would stew, or soup to make sure it doesn't burn. They casually tossed around and just left there and waited till it was done.
Ah the characters the character that brings this up by a solid point itself is Leapard, he hands down has the utmost amount of details around that are actually clear, and precise. Kannagi Itsuki is the second better of the two, and in my opinion the real main character of the series, though she has a serious martyr complex which tends to get on ones nerves quite fast unless you're into that type of thing.(IMO though i do like her character, I just wish she was more reasonable with her decision making.) Honoka Kawai...almost sounds like a bad pun...but with a good character making solid strides to a round character instead of a hexagon. Now we get to the one I absolutely detest...the famous 'I'm the hero of story so therefore everything i say or do must happen. If i say it needs love...(poof) it needs love, if i say it needs to be beaten down...(poof) we somehow manage to see some spectacular feat of shear amazing and raw stupidity.' This my friends and haters is Shishidou Akiha, the character this story centralizes around. The other characters are hardly worth noting for praise or otherwise pushing into a chamber of dread. They make solid progress as any normal character does, and then manage to revert to their original character which all in all is dissapointing if anything but not completely unheard of in a practical character make or break.
Enjoyment is...well not really any at all, I decided to watch this on a whim because it sounded like it would be a pretty decent series if not to enjoy itself, but to kill some time, I even looked at the reviews which i've only gotten into recently so i was expecting something but sadly i must say that i had freaking face palm with my mouthopen and almost faceplanted my keyboard by episode 8. Was quite shocking to see a show so aimless, as many first time writers stories. This is also from Sunrise and Bandai two very big names instead and out of the anime business. Quite frankly that was more dissapointed then the show itself.
Overall, this show really had something, but with reused sound effects, no character or story direction, and even incosistantsy all around, this show is something you should really avoid, though if you're gonna test your luck to see if it's actually enjoyable to you. More power to you, however it is doubtful if you have the eye for details as i do.
Everything said and done, with a half-done review, this gets a 3, it's most redeeming feature so far being its art, its unlikely it has anything beyond that.
