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Okay, for starters just going to get this out of the way. Caps for emphasis. THIS IS NOT A SHOW ABOUT BIG BATTLES USING SUPER POWERS. This is a slice of life and a harem/romantic comedy. This is a show about a club of friends and them developing powers is more of a background setting thing. Apparently a lot of people missed this completely when they decided to watch it. Taking that into account, I found the show to be quite enjoyable and cute. Some pretty funny bits but not too much that made me laugh out loud. ...

Regarding the harem aspect, there's next to no fan-service so it manages to avoid many of the same harem tropes seen in countless other shows (for example, the "Oh no you tripped and grabbed my boobs/walked in on me while bathing" = scream + slap routine). The slice of life aspect is mostly just their club activities or episodes mostly centered around a few of the girls at a time. Things move pretty slow.

Moving on, the MC isn't a spineless self insert or a pervert either, you can actually understand why these girls are all falling for him. When he decides to drop the chunni bit and act serious, he is insanely good at saying the right things and just happens to keep raising their affection levels. It's entirely possible that he could talk himself into a harem ending without realizing it and getting hogtied by the girls.

For the girls, I found them each to have their own personality and problems and were pretty decently done. Childhood friend gets a special mention just because she has the usual jealousy issue that gets old, but it's flavored by more reasons than just him getting along with another girl.

All that said, this show is by no means perfect. There's really no plot, just something shoehorned into the setting (that probably fit better in the source material) that gets needlessly distracting. Also the show really is all about the girls falling for the MC. Best just to view it as a romcom. Not surprisingly there isn't much of an ending either. Not a cliffhanger, but not any resolutions to the main plot. Personally I wasn't bothered by it since the plot didn't really feel like it fit in this show anyways.

I'm just going to start off with saying that you HAVE to watch the first season. And all of the second season. Almost everything gets explained by the end, but til then you will be completely lost and wish that someone would just sit the MC (and us) down and take 10 min. to explain stuff to him.

Story
I give this show massive props for having the story it wants to tell and using almost the entire 2 seasons to tell it. Far far less filler episodes than most series, and a VERY twisty plot that keeps throwing new ideas and curveballs at ... you. I greatly enjoyed it. This show also has a complete ending as well, not just one thrown in because they weren't getting another season. Yes it's a happy ending, bite me I love those :)

Art
I wasn't a big fan of how they designed the characters. It grew on me by the end, but randomly I'll be drawn out of the show just because of the art. Rest of it's fine with some great action scenes here and there.

Sound
I liked the OP. Rest of it wasn't bad. I found all the characters voices to match their personalities/art style anyways.

Character
Not bad at all. Nice little romantic triangle going on with MC, ghost girl, and demon girl, but it's not the focus of the series. MC is moderately useless but he's got lots of strong girls to protect him (I *guess* he's controlling the mech, but he seems to be just shouting it's name usually). Not a perv and will stand up for things so not bad. Doesn't really change much through the show, it's more overcoming his ignorance than character growth. Main 2 girls had distinct personalities and I liked em. Lots of side characters, but none felt like they were just thrown in there really. More importantly none irritated me which was rather refreshing (MC's best male friend is usually the guilty party in most of these shows).

Enjoyment
I really liked it. Crazy story, fun light romance, some humor, ok action, kept me entertained. Plenty of shows I loved more, but this is the only one I've felt the need to write a review for (it being confusing as heck and wanting to get my thoughts down I think lol).