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This anime was a tease: The premise was enough to get me to watch it (or rather, to convince me to TLC it), but it turned out to be as uninteresting as Ben Stein reading the Yellow Pages.

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When I saw that the show was going to be set in an advanced engineering high school run by a megacorp on a space colony, that sounded amazing, and when the first episode showed that the program was being shut down and they needed to save it, I thought it was also going to be great! Love Live was one of my favorite high ... school anime, and they did the "save the school" plot very well, so I was expecting similar themes running in Classroom Crisis- namely, the class pulling together and making a stand to save the program with their own hands. Now, this did technically happen sorta, but it was merely a background event, and most of the class did not have much in the way of character development or exploration.

What ended up taking center stage most of the time was the business end of the corporation, intra-family backstabbing at the top of the ladder, and political bullshit less interesting than the US primary races happening now. Only towards the end did we get some interesting development with our resident anti-hero/anti-villain (he swayed back and forth for a while) essentially finding out that he was a kagemusha for one of the other students, but that didn't even get revealed properly at the end to the other characters, so it was a bit of a waste of a plot point for so few of the characters to even find out about it.

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With that said, if I weren't forced to watch it for TLC purposes, I would have dropped this show quicker than a hot frying pan. It was far too boring most of the time, and we didn't have too many well-developed characters to like. I give it a 4/10.

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This show was a tease, in every sense of the word. The premise, and the first episode or two, really piqued my interest- a show about a bookish guy trying to search for aliens in memory of his presumably dead childhood friend. Then enters the childhood friend, or at least a doppleganger thereof, and we get another plot element. Add magic, and we're set for a great-sounding show! However, this gets thrown out the window by episode four at latest, when our male protagonist becomes a walking, talking plot contrivance, with a new non-magical skill popping up basically as the ... plot demands it. This problem is compounded by piss-poor character development, opting instead for a new female character showing up practically every episode, and either joining Murakami's harem, or getting killed in 'combat' with this ever-growing harem.

Now, I have very low tolerance for harem as a genre, but I do understand its basic appeal, if on nothing but an intellectual level- we're supposed to identify with Murakami, and enjoy having a practical army of cute girls fawning over him in the most fanservicey ways possible. Brynhildr manages to fail even on this basic level by over-censoring the erotic elements, and detracting from the supposed budding romance between former childhood friends Murakami and Kuroha.

After each character makes their initial appearance, they start to fade into obscurity, rather than actually develop personalities beyond the superficial. In fact, I can even perfectly identify each character by nothing but trite anime cliches: Kuroha the shy childhood friend, Kana the tsundere, Kazumi the sexually aggressive pettanko, Kotori the easily embarrassed, busty one. The worst part is that they did introduce a few characters near the end that weren't total stereotypes, but they each only lasted an episode or two before they were axed from the plot.

All and all, this show is a meandering mess that even harem-lovers would dislike. I'd give it a skip, if I were you.

This was a refreshing look at semi-realistic high school relationships, particularly lesbian relationships. The characters were all quirky and unique, and I enjoyed each of them in their own ways. (except maybe Kotone and Shizuku) The jokes were nearly always funny, and the show did not overdo the yuri fanservice, and instead gave us genuine character interactions which made us love each of them more. This is easily my favorite Studio Deen work, and at this point, my favorite show of the winter season.

This show did not start off well at all. The characters were interchangeable, the music (except for the ending theme) was mediocre, and there wasn't even enough of it for a solid idol show. Also, the dramatic backstories and attempts at plot devices fell flat on their faces for most of the show. The last three episodes were a huge step up in the show's quality, and saved its score from being very bad. If you liked AKB0048, Love Live, or Idolmaster, you're better off watching those and skipping this show.