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This is the best trashiest anime of this season, it's the usual edgy-fan service-death match anime but with some spice in the story, concept and fight scenes that makes it above average and very enjoyable. The story and the overall concept are its strongest points so far, however it does fall of later in the manga and we'll have to see how it gets adapted. On the matter of adaptation so far it's been doing good: some things were skipped, others added for filler, but some fixed perfectly what the manga did wrong (ep. 2). the art and sound are fine, nothing spectacular yet terrible. ... The characters are awful, their design is actually good with the main protagonist reminding of Rei from 3-gatsu no lion and Clair's design screams crazy without being an over the top yandere. Despite this, they are the stereotypical loser and the crazy abusive main girl, their motivations are weak and unclear, Clair's especially, but most importantly: the side characters are better characters. The first villain to begin with is so much more 3dimensional just thru a few lines and a 2 minute backstory, the other upcoming villains (I'm writing this review after watching the fourth ep) have better motivations and make much more sense than the very protagonists, if it weren't for the villains the character score would be much lower. Gotta give credit to the fight scenes, the choreography was fantastic and I hope they're consistent thru the whole show. Overall it's a 7, very close to 6 tho, out of sheer enjoyment and for how it drew me in with its concept, monster design and story.
EDIT:
after watching episode 7 I'm giving this a 6, it's just above watchable at this point, still entertaining, but it didn't keep up with my expectations. The fights threw me off the most, they were pretty average for anime and didn't match the first one which probably set the bar too high. There were some terrible cuts and it overall declined in quality. I don't think it's going to get any better with time unless they make big changes in the story which falls off in the manga, like I said before.

im not good at writing reviews, but just wanted to share my thoughts on this series.
I absolutely love it and the second season especially is a masterpiece imo, the art style was strange at first, but quickly got used to it and it is used in fantastic ways to emphasise the emotions of each scene with the use of colors, exaggerated imagery, surrealistic elements and backgrounds.
I can't stress enough how well it's used for both comedy and heavy scenes with equal expertise.
It goes without saying that the sound is equally amazing.
The sound and visuals are able to propagate the tension of each battle and the ... emotions of each character as if you were part of the story.
What made this season so outstanding imo were the characters and the themes of their stories, even what would seem the most forgettable characters like Junkei Yamazaki has his own backstory that's treated so well it sticks to you.
It manages to touch a variety of themes from the heavy ones to more lightheaded ones in an organic way jumping from character to character and their arcs while never feeling boring or overdone.
Must watch.