Jun 23, 2014
To get a good idea of what this show is like, just imagine what a 6 year-old boy would write if he was trying to make a story with "badass" protagonists and "evil" villains.
- It has your generic harem MC (Main Character) who thinks girls have cooties.
- It has the dark&edgy side-characters repeating the same cringe-worthy intro lines every few minutes.
- It has the laughably poorly-written bad guy who is so poorly written that he literally says "My greatest pleasure in life is making people sad". Yes, he actually says that.
As with most harems, the redeeming quality is that the girls
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are mostly all great, but the MC is so shitty that the show was still quite bad.
Story 3/10
The universe that the story takes place in is well written. It is a world where magicians control puppets and have them fight. It is fleshed out and the setting has a nice atmosphere that comes across nicely. That's the good part. The bad part is the events of the story. The MC has some insatiable need to get involved in the business of strangers. The writers couldn't explain it because it's so stupid; at one point they even had the MC say "I have no idea why I'm doing this". Anime with male MCs typically have a problem of having main characters make retarded, implausible, reasonless decisions. This show is no exception. What hurts this show even more is that we are supposed to think of the MC as a badass, despite the fact that he has a phobia of sex and avoids it at all costs.
How the hell is anyone who pretends he doesn't have a sex drive supposed to be cool/badass? That is really why this show ends up being utter garbage. The girls(especially his partner) are all in love with him and want to have sex with him, yet he always avoids it and acts like the girls are about to kill him whenever one of them tries to bang him.
Art: 9/10
The art and the art-style is fantastic. The outline lines for the characters are hardly visible. The art is probably the only reason why I was able to watch this dreadful show. While I was watching this, I kept thinking that it's a huge shame that this great art had to be wasted on adapting such a terrible story.
Sound: 7/10
Pretty good in the sound department. Great ED. And the OP was good as well, even if the lyrics were so edgy that it was cringe-worthy.
Character: 1/10 for the male characters
8/10 for the female characters
The male characters are terrible. The male characters besides the main character constantly repeat their own introduction lines over and over again because the writers apparently thought that was "badass", when in reality it's embarrassing, because you know that the staff thought it was so cool, when in reality it is so pathetic that it makes you cringe.
The MC behaves in such an implausible way that its infuriating to watch. He has no desire to have sex with any of the women who want to bang him, even when they are naked on top of him. He gets annoyed by the concept of sex. The only thing he cares about is getting involved in other people's personal business. He doesn't have a desire for romance, or love, or sex. However, he has an insatiable desire to help random people for no reason (once again, he himself states that he has no idea why he does it. There is no reason for it. The writers just shallowly make him do these things so that there is a story).
The female characters are great for the most part. They're all cute eye-candy and they all nicely represent their archetype that they were written as. They all have generic personalities (e.g. being a typical modern tsundere, or an overly attached yandere), but I'm fine with that. Anime girl archetypes tend to be great in my opinion, so I'm fine with typical anime girls. I wish there were more huge titties though.
Frey best girl.
Enjoyment: 3/10
The main character's retarded behavior ruined the show for me. I'm getting sick of Japan writing such dense male main characters who are always scared of sex. It's ruined so many shows.
Overall: 3/10
If you're desperately looking for a waifu, then you could try watching this show. Other than that, it's not worth your time. The generic main character ruins this show with his unrealistic decisions and actions and his phobia of sex.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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