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A very light and easy read. It's quite enjoyable if you enjoy slice-of-life romance.

The characters and relationships are very well-grounded and likeable. They're adults but still have that childish charm, and they each have distinct personality traits that aren't unnecessarily exaggerated, making the characters and their dynamics with one another feel organic and realistic.

It's a heartwarming story with very cute moments of everyday life that kind of makes you appreciate the little things. Overall, it's a sweet and lovely story. It's a good story to binge/ read for whenever you're looking for something simple and/ or want to feel warm and fuzzy inside.

If you can suspend your disbelief and enjoy very typical shounen stories, it's surprisingly a fun read.

The story is very straightforward and follows the usual story progression you'd see in shounen series. There's nothing about it that particularly stands out, either good or bad. There are moments that makes you think "this is definitely targeted towards teenagers" but there are also some moments that end up touching your heart. The conflicts and resolutions are a bit too "convenient" at times, and even if you know that the protagonists won't lose because the story makes it obvious that they're supposed to be the winners, the climax ... scenes can still be quite hype. While the premise is about MC, Sakura, wanting to be the top fighter, the story progression focuses more so on his growth in bonding with others and finding a place to belong. The story feels more like a "power of friendship which helps him become the very best" kind of thing rather than "him becoming the very best."

While the story isn't bad by any means, the worldbuilding on the other hand leaves much to be desired. There's little to no adult presence which makes the story hard to believe at times. While Furin is meant to be a high school, not a single teacher is present (with mostly the upperclassmen being the ones to run the school) and with no showing of academics being an actual part of the setting which might pull you away from the story and ruin the flow of it.

It has a large cast of characters, and while most are endearing in some way (with distinctly different designs), the story suffers from it in which the development/ progression can be quite slow or nonexistant for some. The development/ progression is definitely present for the MC and more prominent characters, but if you end up liking the side characters more, you might end up being left frustrated.

Art-wise, it's quite clean for a story about delinquents and fighting. The fight scenes are very easy to read and follow, and you can definitely feel the impacts and movements of the characters. For some characters, you can even differentiate their fighting style from others, and the fights themselves don't get stale after a while (as of writing this review).

It's a pretty average story with one of its better aspects being the art, but it's still a fun story overall.

It's cute, and it has its heart-pounding moments, but it's very typical and average of a reverse harem shoujo. That isn't to say that it's bad, but nothing about it particularly makes it stand out from other reverse harem/ shoujo manga. As with most reverse harem, it has the flaw of the characters fitting into your usual tropes with little to no development that make them seem flat and "cookie cutter"-esque, but they aren't written badly by any means.

Despite the premise dealing with the yakuza, it's actually a very light-hearted manga with the yakuza aspect being more in the background. It does have some moments ... of drama/ action, but the tension doesn't seem all that high-strung if you're familiar with how romance clichés go. The plot is very straightforward and easy to read, and the focus is moreso on different romantic scenarios between the MC and three male leads. The art is quite nice which makes the romance scenes fun and might make your heart skip a beat if you're a hopeless romantic/ enjoy looking at pretty boys.

It's a pretty decent manga if you're looking to just pass the time or otherwise are looking to read something casually/ that's easy to digest.

This is one of those shows where it's obviously meant to be targeted towards those familiar with the franchise, so if you don't know much about Touken Ranbu, you might want to either skip this or otherwise try to familiarize yourself with the characters/ setting beforehand.

This show does the absolute bare minimum in introducing/ establishing the setting and characters as it assumes the viewer to already be familiar with them and their general relationships/ dynamic with one another. As such, watchers jumping into this without any prior knowledge of the franchise will most probably be left with either confusion or annoyance/ frustration as they try ... to make sense of who the characters are and why they (the viewer) should care about them/ their struggles, especially moreso when there's such a large cast and new viewers have to figure out who's meant to be a main character and who's meant to be a supporting character.

This anime is meant to be an adaptation of the Touken Ranbu stage play; however, it does not follow the stage play exactly and instead omits certain plot points (Sayo's fixation on revenge) or puts them in the background (Yamanbagiri's self-doubts about being the attendant). It adds a few differences here and there, but the main points of the stage play are still present. If you've watched the stage play before, it's a decent enough adaptation that's worth the watch as it does adapt certain key scenes from the stage play and gives a bit more insight on the focused characters. If you haven't watched the stage play, then it does a decent enough job of getting the story across and can serve well as a general starting point to garner interest towards the actual stage play continuity.

The primary focus of the show are the swords of Oda Nobunaga, primarily Fudou Yukimitsu (the main focus), Souza Samonji, and Heshikiri Hasebe. Of course, they include the other fan favourites such as Mikazuki and the starter swords, but the Nobunaga swords take most of the spotlight.

Despite being a short anime of only 8 episodes, it can get awfully repetitive as the story moves extremely slowly with little to no development of the characters themselves until near/ at the very end, and even then, the development comes across as rather abrupt and maybe even confusing.

The animation and animation quality itself is pretty nice. The fight scenes are animated quite well, using 3DCG for the enemies as well as adopting a few stylistic choices here and there.

Overall, it's a decent to good show to watch if you're an existing fan of the franchise; otherwise, if you're new to the franchise, you might want to reconsider watching this or try watching the other Touken Ranbu anime (ex. Hanamaru and/ or Katsugeki) first.

A very fun and casual read that's great for when you want something that's easy to digest and pass the time.

Mairimashita! Iruma-kun is lighthearted for the most part with some serious parts of tension that pays off well with moments of hype. The premise makes you believe that you'll follow the story of the MC, Iruma, navigating around demon school while trying to keep a low profile, and while this is indeed the case, the story is more about wacky school life shenanigan and hijinks than anything else. The worldbuilding is very basic and only meets the "bare minimum" due to the story wanting ... to focus more on the characters' actions/ interactions with one another rather than their interactions with the world itself.

There is a more serious underlying plot behind all the slice-of-life aspects that's hinted at, but it's very much in the background and progresses rather slowly, so if you prefer something with more tension and drama in the forefront, this might not be the manga for you.

All of the characters are rather endearing, and while they may start off relatively "flat" when they're first introduced, you start to see their individuality shine the more that they interact and play off of one another, forming bonds along the way that you can't help but love. You watch the characters grow both as students and as characters. It might feel like the primary cast of characters have "plot armour" that kind of removes the tension as to whether or not they'll be able to find themselves out of an unfavourable situation; however, you witness the characters' work to improve themselves that makes you want to cheer them on, and their victories feel well-earned for the most part.

With a somewhat large cast, some arcs tend to focus on more specific characters than the others. Later down the line, arcs start becoming a bit longer, so some parts might feel particularly long and boring if you don't particularly care for the character(s) of focus at the time.

Overall, Mairimashita! Iruma-kun is a good read that's worth checking out if you're looking for something that doesn't require having to think too much. It's pretty straightforward and more or less consistent in quality from start to more recent chapters (331 as of writing). If you prefer something more thought-provoking and/ or serious/ dramatic in tone, I would suggest skipping over this, but if you're more into silly hijinks, you might enjoy it.

It had promise, starting off relatively well with what appears to be a strong female lead, Claudia, promising to use the knowledge she learned from her previous life to bring down her sister who wronged her. Except she doesn't.

The story follows the typical beats of the villainess genre, but one of the things that makes this story unique from the others is Claudia supposedly being a successful sex worker which she would use to her advantage. "Supposedly" being the key word, as the story tells you this rather than shows you how before she's brought back in time.

One would think there would be more opportunities ... for Claudia to showcase her wits and use the knowledge she learned working at a brothel to manipulate others into how she wants them to act or otherwise control the situation in later chapters, but this almost never happens. There are a few instances in which it does, but those instances are far and few in between, and they hardly leave any actual impact in the scene itself that it comes across as lacking and underwhelming.

Claudia vowed to "become the ultimate villainess", but she takes no proper initiative, leaving the reader to wonder what Claudia's goal actually is. She only decides to respond and act after her sister tries to accuse her and besmirch her reputation/ character multiple times, and even then, Claudia only does the bare minimum in defending herself that keeps the reader frustrated and wondering just where that strong female lead from the first couple of chapters had gone.

The pacing is a mess, acting too fast at times in resolving certain conflicts but then acting too slow in dragging out unnecessary scenes.

Most characters are one-dimensional, lacking any sort of characterization asides from the role they're put into (the caring older brother, the loyal and indebted maid, etc). Claudia's characterization is also inconsistent, switching from "confident femme fatale" to "typical blushing shoujo protagonist" to best conveniently suit the scene rather than acting as different facets of her character.

Despite its faults, it isn't a particularly a bad story per se. If you've read other villainess stories, then it's more or less the same thing, so if you enjoy the genre, it's still worth checking out, especially for the nice art and appealing character designs. The only thing that this story had going for it that made it stand out from other villainess stories was Claudia's backstory as a successful sex worker, but this is hardly utilized that it just becomes any other standard villainess story out there.