Masou Gakuen HxH
Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia

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tl;dr: A very heavily H focused light novel series that does really well in that regard, but is also semi-decent beyond that.

This is very clearly an ecchi series, but it has a decent amount of substance outside of that. With that said, most of said substance isn’t that great. The plot is kind of dumb, but within that it still has a lot of interesting concepts. Such as an entire world being caught up in a situation where they have to conquer another world and enslave its inhabitants just to survive and whether it’s morally right to do so. Or a character ending up heavily ... attached to both factions in a war due to originally being born heavily involved in one but then getting amnesia and spending most of their life on the other until their memories suddenly return. Or gods having existential crises because becoming immortal and all powerful makes everything seem pointless. However, it doesn’t really explore any of these beyond a superficial level, and the resolution to everything is generally overtly easy to the point it feels pretty anti-climactic.

The plot also suffers from the author deciding that he was going to make every single antagonist eventually join the protagonist’s side. While it likely was planned from the start that many would, I don’t think the author committed to having every single one join until a good way into the series. And at that point in order to try to make it work he does some crazy things with the plot that in addition to being somewhat inconsistent and having characters deviate significantly from how they were first portrayed, also just kind of make the entire plot up to that point kind of pointless. Having a structure where every beaten antagonist is switches sides immediately after also lacks the satisfying punch of having beaten a major foe, wherein it would definitely be fine on occasion, but it happening so much gets kind of repetitive and made the plot feel like it was lacking in variety.

With that said, it’s kind of hard to think of who I would want to actually get beaten and disappear. The cast ends up pretty bloated, but at the same time the author manages to write pretty well around that by always giving everyone some presence even if he has to use bizarre gimmicks to do that, and the overall dynamics of the extended cast are pretty great. And though the vast majority of characters are incredibly flat including the main cast, they’re all written amusingly enough that they’re pretty likable. Some even manage to get pretty decent character arcs, mainly Nayuta and Gertrude. Things could probably be heavily rewritten with an improved plot and more depth given to characters, but it’s kind of hard to point at what I would want to change specifically. I’m not sure how to word this properly, but I suppose having a bad plot just works pretty well for this series because it’s more amusing that way.

With that said, the tangential aspects of the story were pretty well written. There’s some pretty solid world building and how the pacing of progression in regards to that was also pretty solid. The action was also surprisingly pretty good and the system in regards to abilities and power ups was fleshed out pretty well, even if what was powering everything was completely absurd. And finally, getting into the ecchi, it has a tremendous amount, and a tremendous amount of variety to it too that seems to hit in a lot of fetishes. It’s also pretty interesting how it starts out relatively light but slowly builds up to finally being straight up hentai in the final and epilogue volumes. And despite how much of a focus it was, it surprisingly felt well blended into the rest of the story. The art was also pretty great in general with pretty good designs all around, though I thought the upgraded mech designs were worse looking than the originals. The English fan translation isn’t all that great, but the prose in the original isn’t especially complicated so despite the translation’s issues reading it flows easy enough.

Disclaimer: if you don't like incest, S&M play, or any other kind of kinky sex play then you shouldn't read this (it doesn't have ntr though). Though if you can ignore those scenes or they don't bother you (like me), go for it.

FYI: the mc might seem dense and the usual beta mc from the Japanese novels but trust me, this guy is amazing at his "job", just give him until volume 2 or 3 to judge his character.

Review with some spoilers below:
This Light Novel has a generic story where you have a guy with an ability that only women should be able to use, ... just like in IS: infinite stratos for example, and from there the story revolves around these machines that they can pilot and this energy that they need to be able to pilot them. Said energy can only be recovered through ecchi acts, of course. The plot is actually decent-ish for a harem/ecchi novel and it can be divided into 2 parts:
Volumes 1 through 7 and Volumes 8 through 13. Volume 14 was written later just to tie everything together, which I think it perfectly did.

The 1st 7 volumes talk about AU collisions that were happening on Earth (Lemuria). This collisions connected Lemuria with another world called Atlantis and that obviously caused war and troubles because of various circumstances. We get introduced to 90% of the characters in this long arc and get to know them as the conflict escalates. If you don't enjoy the story up until this point, then I think that you should stop reading, because the arc that coms next isn't that great in my opinion. Though volumes 4 and 5 also had some "weird" (to say the least) things happening that people weren't a fan of.

From volume 8 to 13 the story moves to greater threats and goals and because of that the story gets a bit more serious, not much tho, aside from that at this point the ecchi scenes are also a bit repetitive in my opinion and although it didn't bother me much and I still enjoyed a lot of people were disappointed with them.

I think the author finished the novel quite well, even though if he wanted to, he could probably still make 1 or 2 more volumes.

If you are here this means it either you came from the anime or just stumbled on this series while digging for some Ecchi light novel.

so here are some cool things that you should know

The anime covered the first arc of the series which focusses on the introduction of the characters and its plot. People most likely hate the show because in the show it is only the ecchi things that are happening, the story isn't that deep yet to compensate the on why they are doing it so I can assume that, that's the reason on why the rating in it is low ... compared to the novel, but that's just a hypothesis I didn't really factor in the number of people that rated it but anyways.

Now for the actual review for the series

The show is Ecchi Romance first and Action is second, the series is based on "What type of ecchi play the main character will do to defeat the opponent?" instead of "Will the main character defeat the opponent?" and this is what I like about the series, the story starts on the high note in the romance department when they are doing Ecchi things to each other in order to fuel up their mechas that it seems like that's just it and it will probably get stale after a while but the staleness is removed when the author decided to add more characters and deepening the plot to make the relationships of each other mature when the story goes on that it feels like you want more after the series has been finished.

For the story, I will give it a 10 out of 10, the story is boring at first because that's that, it's just setting up the plot of the series but later on, as the plot gets deep and more things got added the more you get hooked on the series, and then you know it you already read 6 volumes of the Light Novel. There is also no boys that are deeply mentioned in the series and that's what I also like about it, having a boy in a series that is based on doing Ecchi things to a girl to fuel their mechas will be awkward and I give props to the author in doing that because in doing so the series will only focus on deepening the relationship of the mc and the girls presented in the series, and not adding like a "friend" that gets jealous over the mc having a ton of girls. The author didn't introduce any deaths in the show and that alone gives the story a good feel. At the end of the show, it turned very wholesome that it's one of the best ending I've seen in a Rom-Ecchi series.

For the art, I'll also give it a 10 out of 10, the effort that has been done to make the Illustrations for the series in bringing out the bad-ass moments and the ecchi moments is so good that you can easily imagine based on the illustrations on what is happening during that specific scene. (also for who is asking, yes the illustrations are censored, sad but they only hideout the "best parts" but they show the great amount of skin that you wouldn't mind the censoring)

For the characters, I'll give it a 9 out of 10, For the characters, you need the wiki for the HxH to be open to know which character is being described because dang, it gets confusing when the series has around 30 girls! that is introduced. I think some of the characters there are just for the quantity and not the quality but the story makes them so that all of the girls introduced got the justification on why they are there anyways.

For the enjoyment of course its a 10 out of 10, Some of the scenes are good in the action department that the suspense is getting into you and the ecchi scenes are so steamy that it makes you want to get it off too but actually didn't.

Overall, its a 10 from me dawg, the plot, character, ecchi scenes, action scenes doesn't feel like a chore reading it but instead you read it because its good, I hope that you will also feel the same as I did while reading this series