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Coming from the anime, I must say that it is really not for the people liking the good aspect of it but rather the more juvenile one.

The Origin depends on a two facets logic, we will be shown one or the other all the story and there are some moments when those two parts meddle with each others. Which should be a good thing, if their affinity wasn't so disastrous.

You have the "evil" part. The characters are depicted to some extent, we are actually lacking the why at many instances having simply a personality but it is still worked around and their strategies/feelings aren't bad. ... They often talk around the point leaving a feeling that many is left unsaid and will come back later, it is unfortunately not the case.
Those are interesting enough to make us want to dig up more about most of them. As it is a war after all, it is still easy to understand that not everyone can have the spotlight.

Then comes the "good" side. Shallow, actually almost none of the characters stay in mind. The MC is just a brat, which is understandable since he is a brat. Point is that he is the deeper character on the good side making all the other just awful.
They win all their fights. Because of a sixth sens, Gundam, kids, miracle, just because.
And guess what happen when the "good" side win? They spit on the "bad" one.

That is basically the more let down element of The Origin: The more interesting ones, that actually do a war, use strategy, have some motivations, a personality, get trashed by the bland ones thanks to some sixth sens, OP mecha, kids or whatever.
Once you get the formula, all their determination, fight to death, just change to some comic relief.
They'll just lose for no reason after all. How can we take them seriously?

Now, let's say that there is absolutely no reason even for those miracles to happen.
Gundam? A mobile suit prototype. The research on the enemy side is actually farther in, so they shouldn't be able to do something that overpowered. Let's add the fact that revolutions with the engine and alloy can't be done out of nowhere.
Sixth sens? New Type particularity. A sens developed by humanity going into space. MC's coming from earth, how the hell is he a new type? Most of them come from his crew while the enemy, the actual people from space, almost don't have them. Again, research is more advanced on the opposing side, and yet, it is always used against them.
Kids? I would rather avoid the subject. It was just awful.

So what is The Origin?
A the good guys win story.
Simple right?

That being said, it isn't high level writing to begin with.
Many are left unanswered, most of the important dialogues feel like people talking with themselves rather than each other, no character development only fight after fight, the love parts are only here to show the cruelty of war and sprout out of nowhere with no foretelling, characters are mostly characters without actual origins founding them, you get good lessons about how wars can be fought alone to be shown the contrary all along.

I would probably not even gotten interested if the animation actually adapted the beginning of the manga.
It is the spirit of the story, the past arc being just a spin-off in it.

This season does have a lot of series with traits from others popular ones, I'll give it that.
This common trait is also shared with the lack of the causes and consequences, and while I was hoping this one to be different, it was but a mere hope after all.

It isn't difficult to be aware of this lack right away. You just have to look at the reason for the title itself and the why aiming to be a villain and that'll be enough: because the heroine was all clean and proper so she felt better with the villainess. End.
Does it feel like a reason? Obviously ... not. It seems more like a joke than anything but the story goes with it ironically representing the shallowness of the whole work.
If even the writer does not take his story seriously, why would anyone else does?

Then, it just keeps on going, using the pieces of what made that other work popular but without any background to make it real.
The MC is dense because why not. The prince fall for her because why not. All the characters of the game like her because why not. The game's MC too because why not. She suddenly says things out of nowhere making conversation not feel like conversation because why not.

The important part that would give weight to the story are completely out.
What was the game story? The one of the characters in the game? How come the MC was the rival of the game while being 5 years younger than the others? What is she doing while the time is skipped? How come the MC of the game is so cheerful while supposed to be bullied among nobles?
Nothing.

Why care? Basically, that's the idea. The more you watch it, the less you care.
And are we at fault when the author himself obviously didn't put any effort into his kinda "work"?
I would say no.

"I'm going to get this meeting"
"I finally got it after many trials"
"I did it"

Basically all the story.

I wondered why, even though the intrigue wasn't that bad, I did not feel to actually read the original work but now, after 12 episodes, I get it.
There is no climax.

It's like, look, I have my arc, I have the purpose of the arc, I have the troubles to get my purpose and, I win.
... Win what? No freaking idea, but the purpose was gotten even if you have no idea in what way it'll help in the story nor what was even the point in the short term.

Aaaaand, that's basically the whole story of Karasu wa aruji wo erabanai.
You have complots but when it ends you just don't get what was even the point to begin them for most parts in it.
You have a twist but when you think about it, you don't get why the character would actually bother to do a twist having nothing to gain but all to lose from it.
Feel like all of them are just the puppets of the author, making them move because it's otherwise boring rather than having characters in a box moving by themselves.

Now, that's the case of most stories but there are still anchors saying that you need to bring the story there, but those here are so far away that you're basically watching fillers.
I dare say that of the twelves first episodes, you just have to watch 3 of them. The others are colors.

Oh, and the main character has almost nothing to do with the story too. Too bad, the mc is one of the few likeable one, he's just watching other people while getting as much as us.

Making the whole anime, like... Not bad but I remember almost nothing?
Which is to be expected when the arcs are useless and characters shallows.

Have a hard time to believe that I spent 10 episodes on this one. The opening is great but beside that.
There are basically four big flaws ruining it.

The first is the story.
It's just a kaii thingy, you don't even need a basic story to begin with but this one tried to go with it and is completely failing because the MC just doesn't care about what happens beside her.
So no matter how big of a mystery is laying around with an MC ignoring all of it without even a thought, it falls short.
The worst being that she goes with all the story because she is ... supposedly a writer and want material and doesn't go to the actual material.
Not that the actual story is deep neither, you can guess it just at the first few episodes then it just unravels when none of the characters are here.

The second is the actual kaii.
You would think youkai and legends of the kind but here it's actually more like some ghost stories.
That would have been good in itself but the author had to put it in a youkai fashion explaining it using a bit of one youkai, another from a legend, the last bit from a theory and you basically have a weird mix of a bit of all just popping out at the end to explain it all as if there was actually some logic behind it.

The third one being the victims.
There is actually some background story on them on how they become how they are and a prey to the kaii, it's supposedly dark with bullying and bullying and some others (no, it's not only bullying, just mainly bullying), but it was just so shallow. Like, "even in the darkness, if you have your phone with you, you'll find some light" level.
Whole point being how they have become victims, you get it ? Victims. There was no good path for them. They've been broken one way or another and yet there is none with an actual shadow at them in their behavior.

The last one is the characters. Kind of goes with the why the impact of the third one is almost to none.
Basically, they are all young girls on the paper, some forty-year-old drunkard in fact.
They only talk about how the MC has big breasts or about panties. The character with the only conversations without those being the only guy.
Kind of feel a pattern here. It would be gross, pervert, just some sexual harassment if it was the guy saying them but, oh wait! They are girls! False alert, It 's safe!
Well it doesn't change the fact that those aren't the way normal people would speak, even less a middle-schooler in an all-girl school or an idol but, hey, who cares? More fanservi-actually no, even though you have a skirt up every two episodes, you don't see them so it's just character killing.

I wonder, does the Ecchi tag come mainly from their very girly conversations? I think I'm on something here.

Well, I'm one of those guys who love stories. You know, the thing that we don't really find in 3/4 of anything. And so, HDxD have a pretty decent story, it's a light novel after all, story is important. Writing skill too.

It's kind of sad thinking that the anime is pretty much a pair of tits. Pretty strong to put fanservice where there no need. Even better to do an ending and opening who is fanservice. And, hell, the anime is fanservice itself. That's big.

What ? You want something worth watching for ? Well, HDxD can be a very enjoyable material if you use it ... for sexual enjoyment, I think. It's nearly uncensored for a good reason.

But if it's story that you want, go for the light novel or the manga. The anime will just put your mind upside down and made you wonder what the hell you are doing with your life. It could destroy your self-esteem. Seriously.

I just read some review about Kamisama Dolls, and, yeah, I saw the score too. It was quite funny so I'll talk my mind here.

Kamisama Dolls, at first it seems like a good anime. Art okay, Sound that you don't even hear -which is neither good or bad-, story seems great... Well, the characters are pretty shitty but Aki is here so you kind of find some comfort.

That's what you think when you've finished to watch the first episode.

But... You keep going on to just find out that while Kamisama Dolls makes 13 episodes, it could have be only 4. You're overbored most of the ... time, you have episode who just shows the characters who aren't even worth a penny, others that are just here because of some psychological disorders from most of the characters, other are here to show us a new guy come in the game.

The thing is, all this don't even have a point.

The hero is a dumbass who goes all red for nothing, his sister have a brother complex and in the first episodes she makes all sort of sound (what is she thinking?), the hero's lover is limited to a pair of tits, etc, etc...

You know what is really sad ? It's the story. It isn't that bad it's just that when you don't know how to use the interesting points of your anime, you don't make it.

It can be a good anime to watch, but in this case, just watch the first, sixth, tenth and maybe the last episodes. The rest is just trash and even the end isn't a end. Kind of religious guy the producer to hope a second season when he has such an anime.