Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox

Yoshino Hide is an average girl who always seems to find trouble wherever she goes. One day Yoshino visits a local shrine to pray in order to pass her upcoming test. However, Yoshino sees a blue light coming from inside the Shrine and looks inside to find a mysterious person performing a magic spell. In a stroke of bad luck, Yoshino trips on a small bell and crashes into the shrine, prompting the stranger to catch her. Upon Yoshino's capture, the magic spell spirals out of control and sends Yoshino back in time to the Sengoku Era.

Yoshino then encounters Akechi Mitsuhide and Oda Nobunaga. But unlike what really happened during the era, Hideyoshino realizes that everyone in the world is female. She then decides to help Oda Nobunaga find the Crimson Armor which is said to allow the person wearing the armor to conquer all of Japan.

Oda, Nobunaga Main

Toyoguchi, Megumi Japanese

Hide, Yoshino Main

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Akechi, Mitsuhide Main

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Date, Masamune Supporting

Hirata, Yuka Japanese

Uesugi, Kenshin Supporting

Ise, Mariya Japanese

Shiro Supporting

Sasaki, Nozomu Japanese

Imagawa, Yoshimoto Supporting

Mochizuki, Rei Japanese

Chousokabe, Motochika Supporting

Oki, Kanae Japanese

Takeda, Shingen Supporting

Kokuryu, Sachi Japanese

Tokugawa, Ieyasu Supporting

Akesaka, Satomi Japanese

Kinoshita, Tetsuya Producer

Oono, Ryousuke Producer

Okamoto, Hideki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Imaizumi, Yuuichi Sound Director

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Oct 29, 2018

Synchrogayzer

Recommended

This anime is better than it has any right to be.
Made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of a pachinko machine, Sengoku Otome is an anime whose brilliance lies in the fact that it knows it's terrible. This allows it to be silly and fun without taking itself seriously.
It's very lighthearted, and has both surprisingly good writing and likeable characters.
Some warnings:
- This is a yuri anime, there are no men anywhere
- There is some nudity, but less than you'd expect.
Bottom line: This is a fun show, and not to be watched with expectations of drama or action.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 10, 2016

GrayRealm

Mixed Feelings

Alright. I discovered this show when I saw a picture of a gender-swapped nobunaga, one of the characters in the series. I would say that overall I liked it, detailed breakdown is below.

Story:
Overall half of the anime feels like it is sengoku version of .... yuyushiki. We have sengoku generals, well, "girl versions" of sengoku generals doing various silly things that often revolve around some sort of misunderstandign related to what hideyoshi ("protagonist") said. They are mildly entertaining, but nothing special. Closer to the end, the series switch to a slightly more serious mode, but never get too dark. There's some fanservice and even a ... bit of nudity here and there, but overall it has innocent feeling to it, and if not for occasional slightly more dramatic scenes, it would perfectly pass as sengoku period version of yuyushiki. Meaning girls doing silly things, blushing, having fun, and getting in interesting situations. Interestingly the anime has almost no men in it, and it doesn't go out of its way with fanservice attempts. Meaning you won't see many situations when somebody slips/stumbles and falls in an "ecchic" position. Right, since it is in sengoku period, there are obviously fight scenes in it too.

Characters:
Protagonist - "hideyoshi" is somewhat annoying "clumsy ditziy but cute girl" archetype. She's mostly useless for most of the series. Generals are fairly stereotypical with Nobunaga being a "strong woman warrior" archetype. Over time characters evolve, but some of their actions are a bit hard to be taken seriously and more look like characters are half-joking sometimes. The show looks like it wants to be serious sometimes, but only puts half-hearted effort in the attempt. So most of the time it is mildly entertaining comedy, without overly dramatic spots in it... and without incredibly hilarious spots either.

Music:
Music seems to be decent, but it doesn't stand out for some reason.

Art and visuals:
Design of character costumes is interesting, but they generally have low level of detail. The art style is somewhat simplified, with lower number of lines than you'd usually see. For example, if you saw the difference between "You're under arrest OVA" and "You're under arrest TV", it is roughly the same level of difference. It is not bad, but it is just the level of detail on characters is on low side. On a few occasions closer to the end, there were few scenes when the anime OBVIOUSLY pans unamiated cells, but there were very few of those. Animation is usually okay, but it is nothing breathtaking. Interestingly backgrounds seem to be fairly detailed and of decent quality. One of the rooms had a huge tapestry/rug in background with a complex drawing on it, it looked fairly detailed to me. Fight scenes weren't breath-taking, but they were decently animated in my opinion.

Bottom line:
It is a fairly relaxing show with yuri overtones. It is not overly ecchi and is not erotic despite having some rare occurrences of nudity. It isn't overly dramatic either, most of the time it is mildly entertaining comedy. I would say it is worth a watch if you want to chill watching somewhat that is somewhat relaxed and more on a peaceful side, without heavy drama, but with a fight scenes in it... and if you want to check out designs of girls characters.

So, it is an alright show, and might be worth checking out... unless your standards are very high and you want to watch nothing less than a masterpiece. IF you were looking for an ecchi title, then "kinda sorta ecchi" material in this anime is nowhere near the level of, say, To Love-Ru. But if you wanted to chill for a while, This might be a right title.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 11, 2015

ktulu007

Not Recommended

Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox is an anime from TMS Entertainment based on pachinko games. And to think, it hasn't been that long since I looked at Umi Monogatari, another anime based on a pachinko game. I don't get it, what is it about pachinko games that makes people think they'd lend themselves to a story? But Umi Monogatari was a good series, so maybe this one will be too. Let's find out.

Story:

We open up with Japan in the modern day, a middle school girl named Hide Yoshino, nicknamed Hideyoshi, stops at an old shrine to pray for success in her exams because she is doing ... very badly in school and doesn't want to attend summer classes. While there she stumbles into a strange glowing circle where a feminine form is sitting and stumbles into an alternate world set in the Sengoku period. In this world there are no men and Hideyoshi runs into a burning village where she's rescued by Mitsuhide and Nobunaga. They take her to Nobunaga's castle because Nobunaga thinks she might be helpful in acquiring the pieces of the crimson armour... somehow. Hideyoshi decides to stay and help Nobunaga because she as no idea how to get home. This leads to all kinds of shenanigans.

Let's talk about the problems with the story. First off, there's not much point to having Hideyoshi as a modern day girl. They use it for a few “fish out of water” jokes, but it doesn't do much. Secondly, the entire population being female is dumb. Really, it would have made more sense if they'd just had it set in a world where women were the ones in power but men still existed. As it is they have to waste time with a stupid explanation for how reproduction happens and then just never bring it up again. The humour is pretty mixed too. While there are some funny moments, there are also a lot of attempts at humour that fall flat. For example, they have an ongoing joke about a talking male dog perving on the various female characters. It's not funny, it contributes nothing and it makes no sense. Why is a dog interested in human women? See, this is another reason that men should have existed. They could've made this character an old guy. Sure, it would still be stupid and cliché but at least it would've made sense.

On the positive side, there are plenty of jokes that do work, albeit they're in the minority. I also do like the way they handle the question of leadership and what makes for a good leader. It's a nicely done little side element. The series also does manage to have some competently handled sources of tension by using actual historical events.

Characters:

The characters are a bit mixed as well. There's some really good stuff with Nobunaga herself and some of the side characters get some good moments. Unfortunately our main focus, Hideyoshi, is an obnoxious moron who spends more time getting rescued than she spends doing anything remotely useful. Most of the side characters are pretty one note too. Which wouldn't be so much of an issue if they played less of a role, but they consistently show up for the same few jokes. For example, Kenshin and Shingen have two ongoing jokes. They have a rivalry going and they're homo-erotic about it. It's kind of funny in one episode and it is funny in another one based on the execution, but most of their appearances don't really offer anything except for a reminder that they still exist.

Art:

There are some good aspects of the art. The backgrounds are pretty well done. The action sequences are pretty strong too. Then we've got the character designs, which emphasise mindless fan-service above making sense. These women are supposed to be warriors but most of them leave all their vitals exposed so that they can prance about in battle bikinis. There are also some art errors. There's a scene where Masamune Date goes from not wearing her eye-patch to wearing it, to not wearing it again. Where's an editor when you need one?

Sound:

There are some good performances in this. Kitamura Eri in particular gets to show a great deal of range and does it very well. Toyoguchi Megumi also gives a good performance as Nobunaga. Akesaka Satomi is also quite good in this. Even the actors who voice more annoying characters, like Hidaka Rina as Hideyoshi, still manage to give competent performances. There is some exaggeration to them at times, but it manages to keep them mostly toned down and more realistic. The music is also nicely done.

Ho-yay:

We've got the les-yay between Kenshin and Shingen. Mitsuhide is also shown as being in love with Nobunaga and there are a few cases where they use “onee-sama” in its yuri sense. There are a few disturbing scenes with Hideyoshi. Disturbing since she looks and acts significantly younger than the other girls. Furthermore, she's probably supposed to be given that she's in middle school. To be fair, there aren't many scenes like that with her and most of them are done so that they're more ambiguous but there's still enough that it gets sketchy. The ho-yay factor is going to be a 6/10.

Final Thoughts:

Sengoku Otome is not a bad series. It has some funny moments and some that are pretty good. However, it also has quite a few stupid moments, the main character is annoying and the art is overly fond of fan-service. Even though it's not a bad series, it's certainly not a good one either. In the end my rating is going to be a 4/10. It's below average. If you're really interested in seeing a comedic series about important historical figures as women, I'm sure there's something better out there but giving this one a try isn't a bad idea. Who knows, you might get more laughs from it than I did. Next week I'll look at Strike Witches.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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