Mato Seihei no Slave

As his school days draw to an end, Yuuki Wakura worries about his future. While lamenting the prospect of living an ordinary life, he is suddenly drawn into the world of Mato: an alternate dimension filled with dangerous monsters called Shuuki. Over the years since the existence of Mato was first confirmed, incidents of people accidentally wandering into the other world have become commonplace. To combat the threat of the Shuuki and rescue victims like Yuuki, the all-female Demon Defense Force was established. Its members have been blessed with the power of "Peaches"—Mato fruits that grant supernatural abilities only to women.

Though Yuuki's situation is dire, he is saved in the nick of time by Kyouka Uzen, the chief of the Demon Defense Force's seventh unit. Despite Kyouka's impeccable skills in battle, she has long been held back by her Peach-granted ability, Slave. Slave allows Kyouka to put a living being under her control and draw out its strength, but the Shuuki that she had enslaved until now had all proven to be exceedingly weak.

When Yuuki and Kyouka become surrounded by a horde of Shuuki, Kyouka resorts to something she has never tried before: using her ability on a man. To her surprise, Yuuki's slave form is much more powerful than she could have imagined. Believing the young man to be the key to unlocking her true potential, Kyouka invites Yuuki to join the Demon Defense Force—but not as a regular member.

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Uzen, Kyouka Main

Kitou, Akari Japanese

Azuma, Himari Main

Miyamoto, Yume Japanese

Suruga, Shushu Main

Hino, Mari Japanese

Wakura, Yuuki Main

Hirose, Yuuya Japanese

Ookawamura, Nei Main

Tachibana, Hina Japanese

Izumo, Tenka Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Shikoku Supporting

Morino, Mako Japanese

Wakura, Aoba Supporting

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Azuma, Yachiho Supporting

Hieda, Nene Japanese

Yuno, Naon Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Watase, Shouta Producer

Itou, Hirofumi Producer

Watanabe, Yuuki Producer

Kashimura, Emi Producer

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Mar 21, 2024

Omarumba

Recommended

Well, the season of "I want to be a slave to Makima" has come to an end, the era of "I want to be a slave to Tenka" has begun, and femdom fans are back to their old ways....

If you know anything about the world of animanga, you probably know or have at least heard once about such a popular person as Takahiro, a man whose type I call an "idea generator". Takahiro is the author of several manga and short stories, including popular works such as Akame ga Kill! or Yuuki Yuuna Is a Hero. However, bloody fantasy and maho-shojo is not the only ... thing that this brilliant man can produce, because Takahiro knows all the delights that can appeal to readers, mostly Japanese. In 2007, for example, he co-wrote with Makoto Kanata the visual novel Kimiaru, a work where the story centers on a brother and sister who become the servants of three girls and, yes, yes, it's harem and ecchi, just the way we like it. Then, a year later, Takahiro took part in writing the script for the anime adaptation of the same Kimiaru from A.C.G.T Studios. And so, starting in 2019, Takahiro began releasing his ecchi shounen manga "Chained Soldier" in collaboration with artist Youhei Takemura, and then the announcement of an anime adaptation from Seven Arcs came out, with Junji Nishimura stepping in as director, taking a vacant slot between the two seasons of The Fire Hunter. And AT-X TV rewarded viewers with an uncensored screening of the show.

Yuki Wakura, the protagonist, has the unheard-of luck to find himself in another dimension filled with monsters ready to crawl out through the opening gates to the real world. In order to keep the real world safe from the threat, the dimension has created squads of female warriors who fight the monsters with their abilities, while living in the same world in their spare time as if nothing had happened. Wakura was in the middle of a gate and almost got killed, but Kyouka Uzen, the leader of the seventh monster-fighting squad, came to his rescue. She rescued him and made him a slave, recognizing his potential. After becoming a slave, the boy acquired the ability to turn into a large demon, supporting in such a state warrior girls as a reward for...erotic desires. Thus began the story of the slave Wakura, burning desire to fight monsters and the desire to become a hero with a lot of rewards in the form of sexy girls.

Chained Soldier is notable for the fact that it combines a lot of erotic moments, clearly dividing the line between an interesting plot and the whole vulgar part of the show. The picture is full of battles between the characters and their relationship with each other, and the fanservice desired by many remains as a cherry on this sweet cake. And the fanservice is really not based on the level of casual poses or showing underwear, but on various fetishes, I'm sorry, but I won't list them, you have to see it for yourself. The show also has a large number of female protagonists, among whom the brightest stands out a person with the name Tenka Izumo - a short-haired captain of the sixth squad, which, by the way, according to the results of the vote among readers took the leading place among the most popular characters of the manga. She is a cunning and charming girl who at first treated Wakura as a pet, not just a slave. And there are tons of such lovely characters in the show, as it's also a harem.

Seven Arcs and the animators are to be thanked for the spectacular and special effects, but still it was not enough for such work, especially the CGI graphics of the monsters in the second half of the anime, which apparently wanted to save the budget, but it turned out a bit crooked. Erotic scenes, in turn, shown in the adaptation are depicted worse than in the manga, although they appear in color with a couple of new angles.

Takahiro's manga can definitely be called ecchi with a good plot, while the adaptation by Seven Arcs can be understood as a good advertisement of the source material, which I, again, highly recommend to read. But still it's nice that the beginning of 2024 pleased us with ecchi shows, because the previous year was rather poor in this respect.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 29, 2024

Soulmask

Mixed Feelings

Meh. I was looking for more fan service than this, but it seems as the season goes on there is more and more actual plot, which is kinda mid. I think the monster villains were pretty cool, but there are alternative "neutral villains" and the basic monsters are pretty boring.

Also the girls running over the MC and making him clean and cook gets old pretty quickly. The MC almost always seems to be in a "male worker" outfit. I guess it's the main premise of the show, that the MC is a "slave", but in the combat scenes the MC seems to be a pretty ... important part of the squad, with the "slave" gimmick simply being a collar and the excuse for the "reward". They didnt have to make him a maid/cook too, but they did, and apparently he likes it and is very good at cleaning and cooking. He takes great care into this "not even a real member of the squad" role. I guess if you are an actual masochist, you might like this premise, but again not for me.

Like I said I came here for the fan service and the fact that even in the previews, the guy seems to be pretty powerful and the slave thing seemed to not be like a real actual slave but a power. In the end, while it is like that in the combat scenes, the MC is more than happy to become an actual servant in his off-time.

Overall I give it 6 for the fan service and cool, but barely shown, main villains.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 21, 2024

TheRealist68

Not Recommended

Over the past 12 weeks, I have spent a combined 4 hours of my fleeting time on this planet watching Chained Soldier, and through 12 episodes, all I can say is that my experience was only slightly better than taking the SAT, getting a colonoscopy, or having a physical done by an old man. This series just feels forgettable; in the depressing way where it isn’t laughably bad enough to be remembered, but it’s nowhere near good enough to be remembered either. This series is just another redundant entry into the bloated ecchi ___ genre, that blank being an amalgamation of different story beats that ... try to add more substance to the main plot of watching the main character be lusted after by beautiful women.

Kill la Kill is an ecchi anime that does this well; Its overall story is equal parts gripping and ridiculous enough to keep the audience engaged. Unfortunately for Chained Soldier, its story beats aren't strong enough to accomplish this. Chained Soldier goes for this weird Solo Leveling rip-off angle by establishing Mato: this mysterious shadow realm-esque location linked to Japan somehow. Unfortunately, Mato is hilariously underdeveloped as a setting.

As viewers, we only really know 3 things about Mato: one, that people can just wind up there somehow through a “Mato Mishap”, two, that there are peaches that grow down there that give superpowers, and three, the place is packed with monsters that the “Anti-Demon Corp” fights. This is absolutely everything that the plot operates on, so whenever Mato is treated as a “desolate wasteland” that impacts our characters or drives the plot, said character development or story beat usually is underwhelming, due to the sheer shallowness of the Mato. In addition, there is non-Mato-based character development, but it’s so bog standard that it isn’t even worth mentioning.

Mushoku Tensei is an ecchi anime that has very strong characters; Eris, Roxy, Cliff, and Sylphie, among others, are developed enough so that if the author decided to make a story featuring any of them as the protagonist, it would still have the impact of the main quest. Chained Soldier doesn’t even get close to doing that, as the characters are some of the most generic, trope-built characters anime has to offer.

For example, Yuuki is a black-haired self-insert mc whose key character traits are that he gets nervous around women and he has a generic “good boy” sense of duty. Kyouka is a generic tough leader who spends 90% of her dialogue saying leader shit, and 10% of her dialogue questioning Yuuki’s kinks. Shushu is a “teasing girl” who is really horny. Himari is a tsundere that initially doesn’t like men, but is now horny for our main character for…reasons. Nei is actually the only character that I have somewhat positive feelings for, only because she is a sweet distraction from the rest of the character cast. (Also I’m really happy she is not lewded in the story, as I really didn’t feel like making 20% of this review an explanation on why that isn’t ok.)

Keep in mind, those characters who might seem shallow are the “MAIN” characters of this story. The side characters are even more shallow; Tenka is just horny, albeit forcefully, and Azuma’s only memorable character trait is that strikes a Jojo pose to freeze time. I shouldn’t have to tell you that a character roster this bland and generic isn’t a recipe for success in any anime.

“So what if the characters and story are generic and non-compelling, at least we have the animation and fan service!” You might say that, however, unlike something like High School DXD, which looks good enough to be compelling as an action or fan service anime, Chained Soldier accomplishes neither. In fact, it looks like shit. Mato is this wasteland with a charcoal-esque ground and a reddish-purple sky. If that doesn’t sound visually appealing to you, too damn bad, it's the backdrop of every single fight that this show has to offer. Speaking of the fights, they aren’t animated well at all. Character movements often look chunky and cumbersome, like they deserve more frames to be fluid. Of course, that’s when the characters actually are in motion; this series uses a lot of animation tricks to avoid doing that as much as possible, i.e, sword slashes coming out of a charging character instead of animating them actually swinging their sword, and panning the camera instead of moving the character on a jump slash or something.

The art style of this show is just visually unappealing at times. Honestly, High School DXD, which was released 12 years ago, looks better in every capacity. The lighting is often strange whenever we are outside of the reddish-purple skies of Mato. Impactful moments are often defined with a chain flying across the screen, but these chains are so far outside of the show’s art style that they are jarring whenever they appear. And then the CGI, oh god the CGI. You see, all of the Shuuki, those monsters I mentioned earlier, are made through horrid CGI. Whenever they move, it is incredibly jarring, and it honestly fucks with any non-CGI aspect of the scene. This is even more disappointing for the more impactful Shuuki, who are imbued with special powers, thus having a different appearance, yet they have the exact same CGI movement patterns. Finally, the Shuuki don’t look good either; the basic ones look like Temple Run gorillas and the more advanced ones just look bad.

So… Chained Soldier is an ecchi “action” anime that fails to establish any sort of compelling story or characters. The show doesn’t look good either: the animation of the fights is bad, and due to the shitty art style, the ecchi fanservice isn’t fulfilling, and even if it was, it isn’t appealing enough to save the rest of the story. So, what does Chained Soldier do well? Well, other than not lewding Nei, not much. The biggest praise I can give this series is that it isn’t offensively bad in any department. Everything is mid to bad, but nothing is appealing, terrible, or anger-inducing. The only problem with this is that in the long run, Chained Soldier will just be forgettable. Hell, I’ve already started. I needed the MAL page for this series to criticize its characters, before referencing it, I only knew the names of two characters out of the entire story. I doubt I’ll be able to name a character in 2 months; in 11, I’ll completely forget that this series exists. And that right there, is a damn shame, because, on paper, this was something that could’ve been at least memorable.


Thank you for reading.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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