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Okabe is an average guy with no marketable skills except for a delusion of grandeur, discovers that his friend has accidentally built a Time Machine. He soon finds himself surrounded by six gorgeous girls madly in love with him.

However, a series of mishaps with the Time Machine creates a situation where five of his harem girls must give up something dear to them in order to save the sixth. The first girl gives up her father’s life. The second gives up her identity and becomes a man. The third gives up her future by taking a one-way trip to the distant past. The fourth and ... fifth give up their lives and die, because they are just so in love with Okabe—even though they only met him two weeks ago.

Okabe is sad because girl #5 was his favorite. Luckily his future self helps out with a plan for him to travel to a parallel universe where all her girls are alive except the third doesn't exist, but that's ok because she's his friend's future daughter so it would be weird to hook up with her anyway. And now Okabe lives happily ever after with his 5 harem girls.

BTW it turns out Okabe is actually special, he alone has the unexplained super power to use time machines, and yet this show is based on the premise that world war 3 will happen because people will fight over the time machine, why? Because of the plot holes of course, oh man the plot holes, this show is practically Swiss cheese.

The show claims that in the event of a time travel altering the past, the universe will "reconstruct" to remove any paradoxes or inconsistencies caused by the time travel, by removing the act of initiating the time travel, but keep the results of the time travel. This means everyone in the show will be unable to observe time travel, because that experience will be removed by "reconstruction".

How will our characters ever learn the existence of time travel then? Simple, the universe will just conveniently, NOT reconstruct, so the act of time travel will not be removed, and everyone will remember it. What about the paradox then? Shut up and don't think too hard! It's just an Anime! Okabe with his super power however, will always experience time travel this way, it will never be removed from his memory.

The show then explains this is due to parallel universes, when time travel makes a difference, Okabe's consciousness is moved to a different universe where the difference have been made and everyone have been living with it, except for Okabe. Which again begs the question of what happens to everyone else besides Okabe? They cease to exist (the show calls it "inactive") which basically means they're all dead, so that's great isn't it, not only can nobody use time travel, they all die if time travel works out. Yet none of the characters act like it, they fight over time travel as if they can use it, they can't. They also push Okabe to use time travel to achieve their goals, which makes no sense because the time travel simply kills them. Someone clearly did not think this through.

Time travel is initially limited to sending a text message back in time, which is an interesting concept if it wasn't ruined by the aforementioned plot holes, but it goes further than that very quickly. Girl #5 is a super genius, a world expert in neuro science, but also inventor of time travel via micro black holes, and she's 18. Anyway, she builds a brain scanner out of a pair of headphones, it will scan all neuro connections in like 5 seconds, she sends this enormous data into a black hole, which somehow compresses it down to a text message so she can send it back in time. What good will this data do? Isn't it obvious? it goes into your past phone and when you pick up the phone, it instantly brain washes you and reprograms your neurons to the same state as the scan! Effectively traveling you back through time! killing your past self in the process but who cares! Right?

If there's one word I can use to describe this show, it's PRETENTIOUS

The show isn't aware of how dumb it is, to give you another example, someone is browsing some English e-mails, they don't understand English so they click the auto-translate button, cool now they can read it but, out of nowhere, one line in the e-mail isn't translated and it says:

"human is dead, mismatch"

This isn't a joke, it's dead serious, what they mean to say is something like "error, test subject killed". Obviously, someone does not know English, and they simply translated this garbage with 2000s era machine translation! WHY? Why not just keep writing it in Japanese! You already set up the explanation! But nope, the author simply thought Japanese was not cool enough, and he just had to show off his Engrish skills.

In the same fashion, the author simply could not leave the mind time travel machine unexplained, nope he had to show off his elementary school science knowledge by giving you all the details of how it works. They even explain this gadget can only send you back 48 hours because the mind states can't be too different. But wait a minute! The MC can go back 48 hours, and then immediately use the machine again to go back another 48 hours! In fact he can do this infinitely for as long as the machine is still available for use! Did the author go to like grade 3? Did they learn that if A=B and B=C, A=C? if I transfer my current mind to 48 hours ago, then that mind would be too different from my mind 96 hours ago to do another jump!

So we said girl #3 is Okabe's friend's future daughter? Yes she came from the future in a time machine, and she will go to the past to make a change that will help Okabe get back his favorite girl. She botches it and dies in the past.

She leaves a letter for Okabe to find out that she fucked up, after he sends her away in the time machine. You see the problem here? why not leave a letter that's dated to BEFORE she leaves in the time machine? Oh it would create a paradox, yea it's almost as if the show's stupid time travel model is set up for plot holes and must rely on dumb characters to work!

Why was it so difficult to save this one girl's life, requiring the sacrifice of 5 others? Because she's "fated" to die, in other words, because the author said so, because it's a plot device. Somehow even plot devices can't escape plot holes in this show, because it turns out that Okabe's favorite girl #5 is also fated to die. Don't worry though like I said his future self will deus ex machina and reveal the secret method to saving someone fated to die. What clever method could that possibly be you ask? How can one escape fate imposed by the very fabric of the universe?

You knock her out and pour some fake blood on the floor to make it look like she's dead.

I AM NOT FUCKING JOKING HERE! That's the solution! That's the end of the show! Except our MC is too dumb to even pull that off, instead of bringing prop blood, he brings a red glowstick planning to pour that liquid as fake blood. I'm sure even kids know glowstick liquid doesn't look like real blood. So Okabe ended up having to seppuku and use his own real blood, again I'm not kidding here, he's just that dumb. It's supposed to show how heroic our MC is, he is so horny for his favorite girl that he's willing to do this to save her life, aren't you just absolutely tearing up over this shit?

Yes, this show has an OP protagonist, in fact you can watch it as an Isekai show, where the protagonist is a modern day medical school honored graduate reincarnated in historic NotChina, where she solves all the problems with her superior 21st century medical science, physics and chemistry.

But that does not make the show bad, because in my opinion, this is a One Punch Man style show, where the OP protagonist is used to explore other ideas. Saitama's heroics can never be challenged because he is the ultimate embodiment of that ideal, instead the story is about the world around Saitama, how does it react ... to a true hero, how do other people without Saitama's strengths become heroes of their own etc.

This show is just like that, except Maomao is like a demigod of wisdom and virtue among men, and the focus is on this exploration of what those ideals mean, and how characters other than Maomao can obtain them. Instead of the protagonist, this show is really about power struggles, and women working at this brothel, which is very interesting and unique topic for an anime.

Macross 7, an interstellar colony ship venturing out into deep space encounters an unknown enemy, who in addition to having various space ships and fighter jets, is also allied with Dragon Ball Z style super beings, and yes they have the full suite of ki-based super powers. Super strength, super speed, invulnerability, energy projection, flight including flight through space at light speed etc. The bad guys' plan is to suck the ki out of all the citizens on our colony ship, yes just like imperfect Cell, so they can super charge their ki powers.

Luckily our colony ship also happens to have some ki users capable ... of standing up to these enemies, Band members of the Fire Bomber, yes they're a band. They are super strong because they can generate infinite ki by singing, which you might think plays into the enemy's hand because they absorb ki. You'd be dead wrong because the Fire Bombers' ki is deadly to the bad guys, just like how Cell is not actually immune to ki blast attacks. You know how Goku powers up by shouting AHHHHHHHHHH? Our heroes in this show powers up by singing 90s rock songs!

Since it's a si-fi show, naturally they need to sing in space, the military have prepared classic Valkyrie fighter jet mech robots for them to fly around and sing in space. These robots instead of boring joysticks, have music instruments for controls, yep guitars, keyboards and drums to control their mechs, because they're the FIRE BOMBERS!

How exactly do you sing in the vacuum of space? They've thought of that too, because of course they have, they are very serious about this science fiction show. Their mechs' guns are loaded with Armor Piercing Bluetooth Speaker bullets you see, so all they gotta do is shoot a bullet into every single enemy, the bullet pierce and lodge into their space ship/mech/body, so they can hear the songs! NO laws of physics disrespected in the making of this show!

This show has an obviously dumb setting, the overarching story is somewhat predictable but we all know this is not a show about any of that. I would say this is a show that mostly succeeds at what it wants to be, and what we are obviously here for, it has good dumb action, and good fan service ecchi scenes.

In fact the action is so good I would argue it has one of the best time stop power fights in anime. There is no cheap speedster nonsense where the speedster stops using super speed for no reason so they could be beaten. This is ... not a speedster, she has straight up time stop abilities which is even more fun but even more difficult to balance, how do you beat someone like this without resorting to plot armor nonsense? Well watch the show to find out.

The ecchi appeal of this show is also well-done, not in a visual way, I think the animation is average at best. It's good because it gives you the right amount, at the right time, and always with interesting flavor. The show is never bogged down by random fan service like a bad ecchi show would be, it can be very focused on action, story, and real character development, and mostly only starts the fan services when it makes sense within the story. There is even a great mix of flavor meaning different girls, sometimes accidental, sometimes a little hesitant, and sometimes fully intentional.

This show is recommended, it could use better visuals, many of the background settings and drawing are just really bland and boring, anatomy is sometimes questionable, but still overall a great show.

This show is extremely annoying because it constantly invokes the trope of characters not communicating key information to create conflict. In fact they constantly withhold information from the audience, and only the audience, when all the characters involved know what's going on.
I kept on watching because I wanna know what's going on but guess what, they simply don't tell you all way till the end. The more I watched the more questions I had, and then the show was over, leaving me frustrated and wishing I never watched. I liked the characters and wanted to know how they would react to information not communicated to ... them but guess what, they never found out either, or at least not on-screen.

I love to scrutinize si-fi settings and this show seems like it wants to be somewhat hard si-fi but utterly fails at it. As other reviews have pointed out for example, they have programmable matter that can transform into weapons but they mostly just transform into normal guns that shoot normal bullets, so why even bother with this setting, it doesn't seem to serve any purpose in the story compared to a normal gun holster, but it's more stupid than that. For they specifically mention in the show that mass is conserved when it comes to this programmable matter, ok so I guess bullets cost them this ultra high-tech material which is dumb enough but wait till you hear this, THEY DISCARD SPENT MAGAZINES! Yep, it's empty so might as well toss it on the ground.

Ok first of all, if you have programmable matter why does the gun even use magazines in the first place? Surely bullets can be supplied without a magazine or any external ports because it's programmable matter!? Secondly why not you know, keep the fucking magazine so you can turn its mass into more bullets?

They even get a space ship that's supposedly entirely made of this programmable matter and can transform into other vehicles at will, which sounds really cool and has amazing potential for some action scenes right? Guess what for basically the entire show it's just a normal armored bus that drives the cast around. What even is the point of this si-fi super material gimmick?

Speaking of vehicles, this show has some of the worst looking space ship designs ever put to anime, they don't even look like they belong in the show because the 2D animation is good, even great at times but we get these.... extremely amateurish 3D models of what are supposed to be space ships, it's just awful.

Believe it or not the actual story is not predictable at all, not in any detail, because nobody would predict things like two characters with a serious misunderstanding, who have hours and days together, but somehow they don't communicate what their misunderstanding is, so the problem does not get resolved, and they keep fighting the next time they meet. You might then think ok maybe the broad strokes are more predictable then? Well no because one of the biggest threats in the story showing up half way into the show, is never explained in any way. The show is over and I'm still not sure what's that about. The only predictable thing about this story, is you can easily tell who's actually the bad guy all along just by reading the synopsis, because other things that happen in the show are either out right unexplained, or because two characters won't communicate key information for no reason at all, causing a misunderstanding.