Apr 3, 2012
As me not being a big fan of animes like Senki Zesshou Symphgear I never expected I'll watch it or even like it but it became one of the exeptions that I end up enjoying.
At the start I thought this anime was going to be like all of those generic magical/sci-fi fighter girl animes. When I saw the summary I thought "Hmm they sing and fight this is a silly plot, I may try it though. I don't realy have allot of animes to watch this season ." Then I learned that Nana Mizuki(wich is one of my favorite singers) will
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be one of the VA's I decided to check it out since it won't be that bad if she is perfectly matched with her character.
It turned to be better than I originaly expected. The songs were perfectly matched with the fight scenes and characters. It also didn't have those long a*s(couldn't find a better expression) transformantion scenes wich show EVERY SINGLE CURVE(not that I hate it, it's kind of annoying and embarrasing to watch) of the body while transfering to the next piece of clothing they kept them short and relatively fast. They decided to bet more on the songs than fanservice wich magical/sci-fi fighter gril animes have. Aoi Yuuki and Ayahi Takagaki aren't as good singers as Nana Mizuki they still had enjoyable songs for their characters.
Thanks to those things the stuff I was able to ignore the generic elements that made up the rest of the anime like monsters and big baddies. Personaly I think they should have concentrated more on the reason they need to be kept secret and the quarrels with America but then they would have needed more episodes. It ended like every other anime like it though with a big monster bad guy.
The main characters were realy likeable but the personalities are not that unique. Miku felt like the producers were trolling and thinking "Kekeke! We will make you think that we will develop her more but that won't happen!" Genjirou was a badass but get's a bit overdramatic and felt like he is here only to add some diversity from the all girl fighter atmosphere. The other supporting characters were realy annoying I'm glad they didn't give a bigger role than they already had.
Overral a realy enjoyable anime despite the major flaws that magical/sci-fi fighter girl types make me ususaly stray from them.
PS: This is my first review and since English isn't my mother's language I may have spelling gramatical mistakes and typos.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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