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This would be my review of Hidan no aria (obviously) and for not being that known it's a great anime, i'll start with the story

I gave it a 9 since i am rating the ANIME and the story of it doesn't nearly cover the Light novels. What little bit we got is borderline amazing, however it doesn't contain much of plot twists or just plain content of epic scale. And to be honest, it is a little bit to spread to have the potential in a near future. I would very much like to see more of this show and the idea surrounding the Male ... lead's power is top notch and is totally original, and i would really like some development of it's role in the main characters relationship.

Next up is the art. not an astonishing feat but. It's nice and i like it, however when rating art one should really keep in mind that its to some extent held back by the setting/s of the show and since this is set in (mostly) a "normal" city with none whatsoever geographically special futures. Shadowing/lightning does magic and considering the budget such a show would get i think they did exactly what they should have done and delivered the best they could

Regarding the sound, i didn't give much thought about whilst watching the show more than the framed soundtracks (like i do with most shows) and i spot no error. the seiyuus are nice and i'm a big Rie fan and there's no faulty synch(there never are... tsch...) overall i find it a little bit hard to rate sound in detective shows where the audience is intrigued in analyzing the plot and all the focus on the background is removed (this is true for other genres aswell)

The characters are good, and the Male lead is almost genius! His power is so damn original to (atleast non-h shows) that i was almost knocked out when i realized what it actually was. His backstory doesn't have any filthy spots and you can't expect angel beats from every show (competing with drama is hard as it is) and i enjoyed watching him create dialogue and act for further dialogue material. The female lead is fairly speaking ( I love tsundere but i'll try to contain myself for a rational review) OK, she has a special lineage. Not that unusual for making character, or story for that matter. she act accordingly to the traits given to her and doesn't confuse the viewers and care them away since being comprehensive is a arguable subject when making characters and different parameters exist regarding the genre whilst being original is a diceroll way to sell a show there's a fine line where you lose noticeable merit.

I would absolutely recommend the show to anyone reading this review since you are probably interested in genre or a character trait involved, which is what makes any show enjoyable

Okay, let me start with the story

Highly predictable, nothing new or out of the ordinary but it isn't a that bad tough
the bomb thing is quite unique tough, it is a little bit like the hunger games 74 and 75 mixed with the whole island thing but it doesn't have the clock feature like the island in hunger games book 2. the whole survival game concept is used often and not that entertaining.

everything is mediocre or kind of good except for one big thing. The Characters, i don't think there was even one well written character in there, let's start with sakamoto

His intelligence ... is bad written, the thing showing this is the thing with the timer bombs. I mean he was 10# BTOOOM! player in the world (wich i hope require some intelligence) he was programmer etc. etc. but it takes two bombs to figure out its on a timer? Then the thing with the fight with implosion guy fight, It should have been more things with the mind state of seeing him from behind or i don't think it should have been added, and i also his personalty breakdowns works according to his overly good personality

and himiko, first of i think this show has to much rapists and androphobia. And i think the whole incident that sent her there could have been better. Like the think her friends was really mad on her when there really there was nothing she could have done except for running and get the police, And then getting away from them was good to begin with. even without accounting gender 4 v 1 is a quite hopeless situation. and the other man hater is misjudging since it was a horrible human act that wasn't influenced by the male gender that traumatized her in the first place

Since only horrible human beings that people wanted to disappear got to the island i think the characters are allowed to have some weird personalities but atleast their past could have been better written and be more realistic and be more in accordance with the influenced traits