Maken-Ki!

Pure fanservice.

Looking for an interesting and deep plot with meaningful and complex characters? Then you’re better off looking somewhere else lol because you’re definitely not getting that here!

Looking for girls with big boobs and shots of their butts? Then you’re in the right place!

Maken-Ki is a very fanservice heavy show. Don’t go in thinking you’re going to get anything of substance here. It’s big boobs, panties, and butt shots all the way through.

Now yes, there is a “plot”, but it might as well not exist. It’s nothing interesting, and the writers may have been better off cutting it completely because it doesn’t really go anywhere, ... and it just takes the focus off the fanservice and the girls, both of which carry this show to the end.

Certain characters can be pretty annoying too, mainly the MC, who says and does some pretty stupid things. It gets a little better I guess, but the show probably would’ve been better off without them.

If you’re a fan of fanservice, you’re in for a treat. Not a fan and think fanservice should not exist? Stay away. Chances are you’re going to despise this.

This anime was both good and not so great. I enjoyed the first season thinking it would lead to some sort of continuation and eventual completion of the character arc.
However so such thing happened, I was able to tolerate to control bumbling and goofiness of the mc because he showed the potential to grow and mature to something better especially as his powers grew. But they completely abandoned the story line in the 2nd season and it seemed as though a bunch of random people all got their chance to create an episode.
It was so much more they could have done with this. I'm just ... tired of weak mc that have no balls or show ball but never use them.
The 1st season was funny and showed some semblance of a plot and build up but then went nowhere. I started investing my attention in the characters thinking they would develop but in the end it was just a lot of random teasing that leaves you wanting to watch hentai.

Recommendation: Not even worth it for the fanservice.

Maken-ki is deeply experimental at its core. The experiment being performed is whether an anime that consists entirely of the most well-worn harem cliches in the industry can somehow be far more loathsome than the sum of its parts, and in that way, and only that way, Maken-ki is a success.

This is a show without a single redeeming quality. The worst part, as it so often is with these kinds of shows, is the main character. Takeru is a pathetic creep that reeks of loser so badly that no one could get laid within 500 yards ... of him if he were a person in real life. Of course, since this is a childish wish fulfillment fantasy for virgins, the ladies are instead inexplicably drawn to his utter lack of social skills, his creepy behavior and his blank slate personality and all fall in love with him instantly. Once again I have to ask why this type of show always insists on making the designated audience self-insert a cringeworthy incel that no one could possibly tolerate, let alone fall in love with. Why would anyone want to self-insert as a loser with a room temperature IQ?

The other characters are no better of course. Every female character in Takeru's harem is some sort of stereotype that you've seen in a million other shows, such as the flat-chested tsundere with twintails or the airhead with enormous tits that declares herself Takeru's fiancee within seconds of meeting him. You will groan as every subsequent character introduction is more uninspired than the last, from their character designs to their personality to even the exact dialogue they use. Once again this series manages to be extremely generic while also being abnormally unwatchable.

If you're watching it for the fanservice, more power to you I guess. There are a lot of bare breasts, but you'd be better off watching porn if that's what you're here for. Then at least you wouldn't have to sit through this aggressively dull and recycled story, which might actually have worse writing than most pornography.