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While reading the episode comments for this anime, you'll notice a great many people referring to it as a feminist's dream or something similar.

This show, however, represents the opposite of feminism and any true feminist will be utterly disappointed by it. Initially, the girls all loathe and distrust men, true. They attack the man protagonist without cause and generally make his life miserable. But, this is representative of society's misconception for what feminism is all about. These girls start out as the "feminazi" stereotype, violent, hateful and overbearing. The MC is introduced as someone just wanting a fresh start who wants to put his ... past behind him and lead a peaceful existence. He's not allowed to do that though, due to the "feminists'" distrust and violent tendencies. They immediately begin attacking him and putting him in a position in which he has to defend himself. The man is made the victim.

Ultimately, through the awesome power of his male-ness, he defeats each female in turn. After each girl's defeat, the former "feminist's" actions are those of a woman who cannot overcome her adoration of her abusive spouse. Every girl who has fallen into the MC's harem only did so after being defeated by him and sexually intimidated by him (even if mistakenly so). Each girl was "put in her place" (so to speak) by a male and went from powerful, angry, dominant women to subservient, starry-eyed bubbleheads.

At the story's end, all of the females have been knocked down a peg by the main villain and need to be rescued by their knight in shining armor, a male. The main villain is, of course, a psychotic woman whose only motivation seems to be that if the male protagonist won't be hers, then he must die.

This is not feminism. This is a male fantasy of overcoming feminism.

This manga had some good potential. Due to its short run, however, it failed miserably. There were so many characters that you never got a sense for any of their personalities before they got killed off. I didn't even remember any of their names. It would have been much better with only 3 or 4 characters with more fleshed out personalities. The art was decent in some spots, but seemed frenetically rushed in others.

If you're in to survival anime storylines, then this one is worth a read just because it falls so neatly into the genre. If you're a completist like me (I have ... to read/see everything having to do with a topic/genre I enjoy) then it should definitely be on your list. If you only want to read the best stuff a genre has to offer then do yourself a favor and give this one a pass.

4/10 overall.