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I don't really like this kind of anime, but I always end up watching it just because of the fanservice [lol].

Anyway, here are my thoughts:

Story [6/10]: Random guy enters in a school for rich people, get involved in some trouble, there are some fanservice and two girls [or more] fall in love with him. That's an old cliche we are all used to. The only original thing about it is that it's a ladies and maids/butlers school. It seems a little too fantasy, but you get used to it. It's actually quite fun to see how they are teached differently, and there's some mild society ... critics deep in there. I mean, really deep. The end is predictable. Fair story.

Art [07/10]: Almost nothing to complain about. The art is cute and good, clothes and scenario are really nice. Some hairs are weird [Flamehart's is the most crazy one XD] but you get used to it too [specially because the characters themselves make fun of them]. Sometimes boobs are a bit too big, and faces/feet are a bit weird, but overall it's quite decent, pleasant art.

Sound [10/10]: I absolutely LOVED the songs, they placed the mood really well. OP and ED are great, they have nice beats and good voices! There were some great seiyuus involved in this, so there couldn't go wrong, they made a great job.

Character [08/10]: There's almost no character development. Only Flameheart and Tomomi make some serious breakthrough during the series. But the characters are funny and cute, so I enjoyed them. I tend to like the dark haired girls, but this time I really went for Flameheart, she's cute and her hair is awesomely weird XD go doriruu!!~~ I also fell in love with Ayse and Pina. I'm sure you'll find a least one character that you'll like, they're all very different, funny and interesting.

Enjoyment [08/10]: There was a lot of discussions and posts in Sankaku Complex about the explicit ecchi content of this series. I enjoy ecchi, and I think it was well done. I laughed a lot and was touched by some characters, I enjoyed it. I've seen lots of animes like this, but watched all the episodes, so yay for it 8D I'm really picky.

Overall [08/10]: It's not the first time you see an anime like this, I think it's a "can't go wrong" formula. If you like animes with this genre, go for it, it's a pleasant story. The end of the series is totally expected, but it's part of the old "formula" thing. Ecchi is quite good, it gets to almost every fetish you guys may have. As an ecchi fan, I liked it. So, if you have an afternoon with nothing to do, and want to watch some light, funny and hot anime, get into LadiesxButlers. If you don't like ecchi, or want complexed characters/etc, please don't even bother watching it.

When I first started reading Koudelka, I didn't think I was going to enjoy it as much as I did. I thought "oh, okay, strange girl who escapes from a sanatorium... SANATORIUM, yeah *-*" [yeah, I'm crazy about those things XD]

Story - (8/10)
So, ok. Koudelka is about a girl who escapes from a sanatorium and has some strange powers. She doesn't know anything about her past or her abilities. But then she meets Joshua, a little boy who lives alone in an abandoned church in a small city after his mother passes away. After that meeting, both start to discover things about their ... past.
The very first chapters are placed in the small city where Joshua lives, but after some problems he and Koudelka end up at where he used to live with his mother, in Paris.
So, the story is not new, especially what comes after they go to Paris, when you read you go like "oh, I've seen that before, it's going to happen this and that..."; but still it's good; you can't compare with other stories about the same genre, like FMA or Shaman King. I'd say it's a mix of other series [and Moulin Rouge as well], and I liked how it worked out.
The only problem is that the manga is only 3 volumes long. So, yeah, for such an intense plot you'll feel that another 1 or 2 volumes are missing.

Art - (9/10)
Nothing to complain about. As an artist, I enjoyed the art, although it's a bit too much polluted and sometimes you get confused. But I loved the eyes, and the clothes! If you liked the dresses from Moulin Rouge, you are going to enjoy this manga for sure.
Although the women are super cute/beautiful, the men are... I wouldn't say ugly, but very characteristic and plausible.

Character - (8/10)
All the characters have their own issues and reasons for doing everything they do in the series. Which is great, because nobody wants to see a character coming out from nowhere. Still, I think in the end they rushed a bit the story, what makes you feel [again] it shouldn't be 3 volumes long. But all the characters are charismatic, especially the courtesans Koudelka and Joshua meet in Paris.

Enjoyment - (10/10)
I gave a 10 for enjoyment because I really, really liked the story. I could feel what the characters where felling, and cheer for them - something I was not expecting to happen when I first read the synopsis.

Overall - (9/10)
It's a pretty story, if you like the genre you should check it out. It's a short manga, so you won't feel you wasted your time even if you don't like it. Koudelka is a beautiful story about accepting who you are and how you can change your future with your attitudes. It's also a story about letting go your past, so you can build up your future.
I didn't gave it a 10 just because I thought it was too short. But I think that if I felt that, was because it somehow catched my attetion.


[This was my first review, I hope you liked it! ^^' and sorry about some grammar mistakes, English is my second language, so I'm still practising my review skills.]