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Jan 17, 2018
I've seen people get holy-handed angry about this series, claiming it's nothing more than dialled-back netorare (i.e. a subgenre of hentai revolving around a female lead cuckolding the male lead) or that it's comparable to School Days, of all things. The lack of imagination and empathy towards these characters when it comes to understanding that this is not simply "School Days 2017" but actually much more mature, intelligent, and hard-hitting than School Days could ever hope to be. Other people say that it's an uncomfortable anime to watch, and there again I don't get why they seem to think so. If this had been rooted
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deeply in the Seinen genre with despicable, lousy characters who possessed extremely cynical and cruel personalities and set against a painfully realistic storyline, I would understand. But no, this story doesn't. It's more interested in presenting the world through the eyes of Hanabi and Mugi, two teenagers who, despite their aching hearts, are still pretty well-adjusted teenagers that haven't completely and totally given themselves up to angst like Catcher in the Rye or the insanely annoying "moral nihilism" that pop up in series featuring Light Yagami expys.
Some people also claim this is basically soft-core porn, also like School Days. I for one do not feel like a voyeur when the implied sex scenes occur. Rather, I feel like they are handled elegantly and tastefully while still being realistic in the context that they're placed. Closeness and intimacy are what these characters desire, and sex is a vehicle for those desires to be found. Characters react realistically to each other, libidos are naturally strong in teenagers like Mugi and Hana and they've found reciprocating outlets to express those sexual desires of theirs.
A compelling theme that also underlies the story is the question as to whether unrequited love can be compartmentalized in order to make room for other relationships, or if it truly "doesn't matter" if the love isn't reciprocated as long as the two are still in close proximity and on good terms. Is being in their presence "enough" for a person, or does it only serve as a constant reminder of what they don't, or can't, have? And at what point does unrequited love step graduate from private suffering to underhanded imposition on the uninterested object of affection? Are people obligated to recognize and return the feelings of those who feel so strongly for them, even if it's acknowledgement? More than that, does love breed love -- that is, can a person be swayed to develop similar feelings in turn after bearing witness to another's devotion to them?
The balking at a story such as this is simply proof that people believe love to be a static and definable thing when in fact it is as ebbing and amorphous as water. It manifests itself in different shapes and types, filling and emptying, freezing and thawing endlessly in reaction to, in synergy with, and in anticipation of the actions of others. If exploring the entirely gray world of love is something that makes you feel uneasy, then watch something else that saves you the pain of prompting you to re-evaluate your own personal relationships and what those relationships mean to you by just telling you "These relationships = Good; Everything else = Bad".
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 29, 2017
Let's get into it.
Story:
Mafuyu Oribe and Tomo Yamanaobe attend a private religious school called St. Mikhailov Academy, a parochial school of the Eastern Orthodox branch. Mafuyu is the adopted daughter of Tomo's father, the previous dean, who's been missing. The two find a Russian boy with white hair and blues eyes named Aleksandr. Quickly they become discover and become embroiled in the battles had between Qwasers--people blessed with the ability to control elements of hte periodic table; Aleksandr is thus established as the Iron Qwaser. A Qwaser's powers require the replenishment of energy through Soma, a magical substance drawn from the breasts of a woman
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(basically soul breast milk and no, it doesn't matter if the woman has had kids or not). The women who act as the support-combat-partners of Qwasers are referred to as "Marias" in reference to the fact that a Qwaser feeding from a Maria is similar to that of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding baby Jesus.
What quickly unfolds is that Aleksandr (aka "Sasha") is at St. Mikhailov's on a mission to root out "heretics", or people who would use a certain religious icon for their own benefit, and from there is becomes confusing. There is a special group that Sasha works for called Athos who are full of Qwasers and want to protect the icon, and then there is group of Qwasers called the Adepts who want to use the icon for their own gains, and from the Adepts is a sub-org. called Paracelsus, and these bits of information are often given to the reader in a page or two and aren't very fleshed out. Unsurprisingly, this makes the story hella confusing after a few chapters due to the insistence on secrecy that Sasha, his Maria Teresa, and the priest are keen on keeping, much to the frustration of both the reader and Mafuyu.
Other characters roll in: The 11-13 year old Gothic Lolita named Ekaterina who is not only a master sadist but who's heavily hinted at being one of the daughters of the royal Romanov Family thought to have been killed during the Russian Revolution. Hana, her masochist Maria. Several different depraved and creepy as hell Qwasers that showcase their own tendencies towards torture, BDSM, and desire for world domination. And then it turns out that Tomo is special for some reason. Her breasts are like triple platinum in the soma department. And then there's the fact that Sasha wants to defeat the Gold Qwaser who killed his beloved Olya and tortured and experimented on him to turn him into an Iron Qwaser.
And then there's the matter of protecting Tomo all the time since she's got a target because people suddenly want her. And then people want Mafuyu.
Do you see how I'm telling you what happens? Because these story threads pop up just as quickly and either trail off into the unforseen future or are forgotten to build something else up. There are so many elements in this story that honestly could have possibly worked if there wasn't so much of it. A manga about something to do with the Eastern Orthodox Church would have been a decent read; an ecchi manga about people with the ability to manipulate the elements and the vendetta that Sasha has against the one who turned him into the being he is now would have sufficed.
The reason for the Eastern Orthodox theme is to likely justify the origins of the male lead and the act of breastfeeding as the central kink. That can't be denied. At the same time though, those two puzzle pieces only join together at one spot and leave all these other prongs and holes to be haphazardly built up around this very unlikely combination. In the end it makes the story seem a bit gimmicky, and in the case of the shadowy organizations apparently at work throughout the story, very confusing upon first read.
When other Qwasers and Marias start showing up, they're established well enough with their powers, but sometimes their motivations seem to be simply "antagonist", though really a lot of famous villains could be boiled down to that term now that I think about it.There are so many threats that obscurely operate from the shadows that naming even one could be a spoiler due to them being situated way along in the series. They're a name and a vague figure, not a character until much later on, which means you're given an outline of something that will not really show up until much later, so why give that to me now when there are four other things going on right now in *this* chapter? Again, the balancing of various story elements are not pulled off as effectively as this manga's set-up would naturally call for.
I think I have to bless this manga regardless because despite being an ecchi series, there is pretty much never the deadhorse trope of "Guy walking in on naked girl on accident. Girl screams and beats him up". With the story being the way it is, girls are often naked or topless and despite that being the case, the male characters rarely if ever express sexual desire for the females. Being Qwasers, their interest primarily lies in the quality and amount of soma to be derived from a potential Maria. In a way it's very practical. Of course the act of drinking soma can become a very personal thing between Qwaser and Maria due to the fact that the Maria is basically having her actual life essence sucked out of her. In this regard the story does manage to convey the dichotomy between the "lawful" taking of soma (with the woman's consent and blessing) and the "unlawful" (basically milked or sucked dry against their will). I mean, I'm into this kind of kink that the creators are trying to establish, so if I'm reading too much into it, it's likely because *I actually dig this story a bit*.
Characters:
Aleksandr "Sasha" Hel is very much a try-hard shonen protagonist. The attempts by the creators to push his signature lines "Tremble with fear" don't hit home for me, quite honestly. He's also a tsundere and his blunt disregard for people who can't help themselves is very one-dimensional and of COURSE he pulls the whole "anyone who gets involved with me will get hurt/die". Not very subtle use of tropes there... While he eventually grows to care for people like Mafuyu and Tomo, the initial presentation could have been done with more subtlety even when his past was established half-decently. Although he does "melt" a bit very quick once he befriends Sasha and Mafuyu, bickering with the latter as if they were an old married couple which only adds to his dimensions as a character.
Teresa is Sasha's Maria and a semi-kuudere. She doesn't speak much but she takes her duties to Sasha very seriously. The relationship between the two sometimes dips into the personable, but on the outside they are very professional. Being a Sister, she and Sasha are the two that most emphatically represent the religious-battle duo set-up that this series revolves around. There's not much to say here about her. She exists, she's kind of cute, she's quiet, she's Sasha's personal Soma machine.
Mafuyu is very much like the reader in that she doesn't know initially what's going on, but it is pretty likely that unlike how many of us would act in her situation, she doesn't throw her hands up and run away screaming. Her desire to protect Tomo is noble and out of love and devotion to the new home she was given by her adoptive father. Personally, the "Female Knight" trope is one of my favorites to see because of its emphasis on same-sex love and devotion that can be played romantic or familial/platonic. While at first unsure how the whole Qwaser and Maria thing works, Mafuyu is very much a character that tries to make sense of it all and takes it in stride as best as she can. Since this is an ecchi series, she thankfully isn't a tsundere like "Sasha"...Above all, she's brave, has a strong sense of justice, and will throw herself into the fray to protect others. Not too shabby.
Tomo's most defining qualities are her breasts and her gentle demeanor. There isn't much going on with her other than that, overall, but her ditsiness isn't unbearable to me, oddly enough. She's just cute and very motherly. Kind of like a big-chested Bubbles from PPG. Sasha comes to dote on her as much as Mafuyu does, in his own way, due to her resemblence to a woman who protected him when he was young. The relationship is kind of sweet in that regard, especially considering that otherwise Sasha is pretty icy towards everyone else.
Ekaterina is a whole mess of things. She's an 11-year-old Russian Gothic Lolita who switches between being the embodiment of moe and turning into an S/Dom that prefers to be referred to as "Queen" or "Empress". As the Qwaser of Copper, her main method of attack is to manipulate a puppet she calls "Mama"; it is clear that she still retains a child-like desire for family, being an orphan like Sasha. To draw more parallels to Sasha, she also had a brutal past that involved being taken advantage of by unsavory characters, compelling her to develop a closed-off, misanthropic attitude to others. She is arguably the one that provides the most fan service for the series as her primary hobby involves sexually torturing Mafuyu and Tomo's fellow classmate Hana, her reluctant lolicon M/Sub who becomes an even more reluctant player in the story as time goes on.
Other Qwasers and Marias make their entrance, some that go on to be bigger players in the long run, but the ones I've outlined are arguably the main characters.
Art:
The art isn't exactly generic, but I've seen similar shonen styles in other series. There is an emphasis on showcasing the ecchi and dynamic entries of characters. During lulls in action the story is well-contained within typical panels, but when hell breaks loose the characters and the action break free as they begin to overshadow and overlap panels. It's a fairly decent effect, though it does lead to the page looking a bit busy. There is also the tendency to put script and monologue declarations outside of speech bubbles and atop the art itself, which is fine when done sparingly but in my opinion only adds to the clutter of the page when added to the already numerous sound effects and speech bubbles that pervade. Oftentimes I find myself disappointed that I didn't get a "clear picture" of what could have possibly been a great splashpage because of this. It's shonen so unless you're super invested in the series, magnificent entrances and power-ups won't 'wow' you all the time, so on the rare occasions that they do, they were ruined for me by the aforementioned elements.
And of course, how could I forget. The artist knows how to draw breasts and the female figure. That can't be denied. There's some respect given to them in how (dare I say it) cutely they're drawn. They're still breasts and drawn as breasts, but they're not drawn with the XXX-nipples you find in hentai but instead shaded softly and why am I getting this invested in nipples..let's move on.
As for the color art, I have to say that it's a bit inconsistent. Whatever markers the man's using, he may need to add some lighter shades because the cover arts have a grungy feel to them. It'd be one thing if this were a dark, gritty series, but it's not. Maybe it's because I'm used to the colors provided by the anime, and maybe the artist wanted to use realistic pigments, but the shading is very basic for the hair of Elizabeth and Ekaterina, for example, and with unflatteringly "bronze blond" colors. The usage of color kind of reminds me of late 80s, early 90s style of application, where white was used extensively as the highlight instead of a lighter shade of one you were using to color fabric. This coupled with sparsely detailed white background only further highlights the dark, muted colors used for pigments. It's a personal preference of mine, at the end of the day, I guess...
Overall:
Seikon no Qwaser is one of those borderline-H mangas that manage to surprise you with a somewhat interesting premise. Unfortunately, its ability to balance the ecchi and the plot fall short in several places. It contains some semblance of creativity with the usage of periodic elements as special powers, but the inclusion of the Eastern Orthodox Church as a basis doesn't fit 100%, as the Christian imagery often becomes another element that is muddled up along with the combat and several story threads that are added and disappear at whim, most of which aren't explained very well in the first place. You're just expected to pick up on them. Unfortunately, try as I might there has not been much effort by the few fans of this weird manga to come together and create a semi-coherent wiki. It exists but it isn't that extensive, so good luck on making sense of some things...
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 28, 2017
Story:
So we have a main character named Sakiko Kinoshita who's in college and very much in love with her professor Takashou Chifuyu. She shamelessly hits on him and he rejects her advances. No matter, just try even harder to win his love! Personally, I've grown used to this being a source of comedy in romance stories, so it doesn't bother me that much. Anyway, she learns that she will not have enough money to pay for college so she decides to become an escort. This plan falls through within five seconds when she stupidly asks for the whole tuition upfront with a potential customer. Before
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things can get violent with the naturally confused gent, a long blond haired man (A/N: yeeeeesssss) named Natsuo saves her and decides to teach her the ways of seduction. Lo and behold, it's revealed this guy is her professor's younger brother! Not only that, but he's married! Surprisingly! No matter (x2), she'll become his mistress and seduce him to be with him that way! And not only that (x2), but he'll pay for her room and board in the meantime, since he feels like it's his duty as a professor or some shit! And he quickly changes his mind about her being his mistress! So she has a chance!
Thus begins a polyamorous relationship with Sakiko, Takashou, and Natsuo.
I'm all for polyamory being portrayed as vaguely as it is in this story, though this may have not been the intention of the author. Whatever, I take my representation where I can get it.
As for the comedy, it falls flat nearly every time. The sex jokes aren't crude exactly, but because they revolve around Sakiko basically acting like a stupid dog in heat, and with her being quite unlikable in my eyes, they fall flat 99.9% of the time. It's just not a funny story, and what's more is that I've seen much better executions of the whole "humor undercutting potential sexy times between love interests" in other manga. Much, much better.
Art:
The art is very much embodies a late-90s shojo style, which is pretty enough to look at. My one gripe is this woman's ghastly chibis. They're meant to be a source of comedy in how grotesquely ape-like they are used to represent the female lead and how sexually voracious she is, but I find them extremely annoying and off-putting during sensual moments in the story. to break my immersion of the story when I'm settling into what is otherwise beauty and sometimes sensual art. I despise it so much, I wish I had a way to erase them from every panel so I can enjoy the story in peace. Seriously, they're grotesque.
Characters:
I am a sucker for male characters with long blond hair. It's practically a kink at this point. Natsuo and his brother Takashou are very patient and level-headed people compared to ditzy and painfully clueless Sakiko. Sakiko herself is very driven but like I said, naive, and not even in the cute way, but in the annoying way. She's pretty selfish and childish and the dynamic among all three of them is basically that Natsuo and Takashou have to take care of this air-headed princess while she manages to charm them with her stupid antics and failed attempts at wooing Takashou. Volume 2 is barely over and she makes a nuisance of herself by throwing herself at Takashou every chance she gets.
Now I'm not someone who is against women being forward and aggressive in a relationship, but it is very clear from the outset that Takashou was basically badgered into compliance because of Sakiko's stubbornness. Not only that, but for a 20-some year old she's sure dense as all hell when it comes to being a mistress for Takashou. At one point she is confronted with the realization that chasing after him while he's married is technically the MORALLY WRONG thing to do! Has she been living under a rock for two decades? It wasn't natural love that occurred but "Well, I guess there's no harm..." which is what all relationships should be built on, right, reluctance and low-key apathy! She isn't mean-spirited or completely beyond help, but her personality is one that less patient guys would realistically become tired with very quickly.
Overall:
This is an average manga. I'm hovering between 5 and 6. 5 totally due to the ugly monkey-chibis and a 6 because of the otherwise good art. In the end, though, the story isn't completely all there in regards to logic, but it's 20 chapters and it's not extremely horrible, so if you like this mangaka's art style and something silly and polyamorous, I'd give this a look. Not making any promises on quality, though.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Sep 24, 2016
Seikon no Qwaser is an enigma: Balancing action with extreme ecchi; BDSM elements; in-your-face fan service including faux lesbian (and real lesbian) action, panty shots, and bathing scenes; a developing harem for the main male lead; slightly tired character tropes; and an overarching religious theme a la the Eastern Orthodox Christian church, it would seem like this anime would be destined to fail.
The fact that I enjoyed it for the most part and found that the story and characters were much more layered than they first appear makes this much more highly rated than other series that attempt to do something similar (exceptions being, arguably,
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Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne).
STORY:
If you stripped the extreme ecchi out of this series, it would seem like typical shonen fare: Special people named "Qwasers" can control elements from the periodic table and two different groups of them, one aligned with the Church and another deemed "heretics", are trying to find sacred icons that are believed to grant Qwasers enormous power.
One of these Qwasers, Alexendr "Sasha" Hell, transfers to St. Milahov Academy where Mafuyu and Tomo (two childhood friends with the former being the latter's sister via adoption by the former, now-missing Dean) attend school after he defeats a Qwaser that had been murdering women nearby. What quickly unfolds is some conspiracy of "heretical" Qwasers known as the Adepts whose motives and actions are shrouded in mystery and blood.
Enter the reason this series is rated as mature: The source of power for Qwasers is called soma, a magical substance that is most commonly found in the breast milk of women. Naturally, breasts and breast feeding are prominently featured in every episode. The amusing thing is that the women are teenagers or young adults that have not even had children yet somehow can excrete this substance regardless. Whatever, anime/manga logic.
Now this is blatant fetish fuel and the anime takes care to focus in on these scenes with attention and detail that outshines most hentai. The thing of it is though..I dig it. I honestly dig it.
Can I take a moment to explain why I like this anime? Could you bear with me for a moment?
I feel like this anime, while obviously fetishizing the breasts, also at the same time honors it. In multiple instances the act of a Qwaser taking soma from his "Maria" is likened to that of the icon of the Virgin Mary suckling the baby Jesus. Now whether you take this as sacrilege is up to you...
Time and again the Qwasers Ekaterina and Alexandr find themselves in need of a woman's soma to help them defeat their enemies, and each time they take it they show their gratitude. In contrast, the enemies they fight--the "heretic" Adepts--treat women as if they are cattle, simple living sources of soma that are to be milked dry (if you'll pardon the pun) and discarded.
The quiet reverence that the heroes display for the power that is to be had from the soma they consume is level with that of body worship in a fetish porno. While drawn erotically with blushing ladies that are taken to the heights of ecstasy after offering their breast to a Qwaser, these scenes also contain the creator's obvious homage to the intimacy and closeness that could be found between mother and child. This is a ball of Freudian complexes
Another thing that branches off from this idea and also seems to work with me is how surprisingly genuine the relationships between the girls in this anime are. There are times when LesYay occurs for the sake of enthralling the audience, but the relationship between Tomo and Mafuyu is perhaps the definition of love with a capital L. It is not erotic love per se, but one built upon a kind of understanding and enduring sisterhood and unquestionable friendship that would make a feminist proud. In fact, if you take Mafuyu is Tomo's self-proclaimed "knight" that protects her from harm, as Tomo is just as ditsy and prone to illness and harm as she is sweet and kind. They grew up as sisters after Mafuyu was adopted by Tomo's missing father
In fact, this anime feels like it's a shade away from being feminist, in a weird way. To me, anything can be empowering to someone if you perceive it to be, so since I think it is empowering, it is empowering.
The most obvious reason for me is the way breasts themselves are treated in this anime. The mammaries that are featured range from nearly flat-chested to Hitomi J-Cup sized. All are treated as worthy of respect and a source of power by Qwasers. It is not necessarily the size of the breasts that determine the quality of the soma, but the woman's emotions and personality.
Another thing surprisingly and refreshingly absent from this anime are the men drooling over said breasts. There is probably one episode were this was a problem, otherwise it is never shown. While the breasts featured in this anime and the breast feeding is depicted as erotic fetish fuel, to me it is framed in such a way as if a woman wrote it instead of a man. There is little to no focus on how the few men who are featured feel about breasts; instead it is the women and how good it feels or how embarrassed they are. Now embarrassment is a main theme and kink in hentai and BDSM, but for those Marias and Qwasers like Teresa and Alexandr who have been partners for some time, the relationship dynamic between them is like warrior and faithful servant. While the act itself is arousing for Teresa, there is no romance between the two.
In other cases between other Qwasers and sources of soma, there is a layer of respect and gratitude for the act of taking it.
There are several women in this series who prove themselves to be fully capable and versatile: Ekaterina is a lesbian gothic lolita who manages to reel in punk bully Hana to be her "pet" and "Maria". The relationship between Ekaterina and Hana is that of master/slave with heavy BDSM and pet play, and while it is fan-service-y, there is a real relationship that develops as Ekaterina becomes attached to Hana and Hana herself grows to revel in her "Queen's" brand of sadism. It quickly becomes clear that Hana is a willing participant in this relationship and Ekaterina simply had to bring her to terms with her inner masochist, as Hana saves Ekaterina from danger multiple times.
As Tomo's "knight", Mafuyu is the first one to shield an innocent or defenseless person from abuse. Despite the "bullies" evolving into element-wielding psychopaths, she never hesitates to unsheathe her *shinai* and square off against them and do her very best to at least
Teresa serves as Alexandr's source of soma and despite being a very quiet and serious Sister of the Church, she is competent with a bow and can land some sick kicks when required.
Lizzie is a tomboy and her skill with her sword is matched only by her enthusiasm and eagerness to fight and train.
Miyuri, the daughter of the current dean and resident Ojo-sama bitch Queen Bee, reveals a much less narcissistic and self-centered personality where Ekaterina is concerned. While being ignorant of Ekaterina's secretly devilish and manipulative side, she sees the little Loli Doll as a little sister in need of protection, and in some instances her grudging respect for Mafuyu and ability to wise up during serious situations leads Miyuri to extend the same courtesy to her, as well.
Even Futaba, the shy wallflower class president, manages to gain enough confidence to stand up against a particularly dangerous Qwaser.
As I've said before, the relationships among these young ladies, past, present, and future, are actually a bit fantastic to behold as companionship becomes love or at least some level of understanding.
As for Alexandr himself he's a tsundere in every sense of the word. It's in his DNA, and whether it's a result of his past or the fact he's Russian (often referred to as a "tundra brat" by Miyuri a lot)--or perhaps both!--while simultaneously balancing a straightforwardness with rare compliments gives him hints at depth that promote him from being one-dimensional into 2.5-dimensional.
As for the villains, their motivations are as single-minded as their bloodlust is blatantly apparent.
Personally, personally, personally, I love it. I love this kind of eroticism mixed with what I consider decent character development and neat action scenes. This is an anime that is unwatchable if ecchi is not at all your thing or if you're someone who doesn't consider girl-on-girl action at all stimulating OR you hate boobs. It's impossible to get past the first 10 minutes if none of these concepts thrill you even a tiny bit. Being bisexual and a "breast woman", this was right up my alley.
SOUND:
The soundtrack was surprisingly good. While the first opening theme sounds generic at first, after a few episodes it grows on you. The second opening theme is much more heart-racing and has that sweet, sweet church choir backing up the main vocals, an element I am an absolute sucker for. The ending theme "Passionate Squall" remains to be one of my favorite anime tracks of all time, and its music video features a mixture of erotic bathtub still shots with dream-like scenes of an underwater bedroom and other odd uses of said tub (a boat, for instance), making it much more creative than I would have expected the series to spawn. While the soundtrack otherwise doesn't stick out very much otherwise, it isn't bad or lacking, necessarily, and I'm honestly willing to give Sound a 10 simply for "Passionate Squall", for serious.
ANIMATION:
As for the animation, there are some shortcuts that I see but overall the colors are slick and vivid, especially whenever Alexandr is onscreen. As I've mentioned before, since this is an anime revolving around breasts, the nipples are drawn with care that you don't find in most hentai, or even ecchi for that matter.
OVERALL:
This is my guilty pleasure that at the same time I don't feel that ashamed in enjoying. A girl's got needs (not to mention body hang ups), and this fulfills those needs. Bless you, Hoods Entertainment, you're doing a perverted god's work.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Sep 4, 2016
Only watch this if you like to revel in "so bad it's bad" kind of stories.
All of the guys in this anime are abusive and cruel to the girl; this anime doesn't even stroke the "guilty pleasure" part of my brain. They are just outright assholes.
Twilight's Bella Swan has more initiative and backbone than the girl in this anime, at least ten times as much. For all the whining and moping Bella Swan does, she still has some bit of an impulsive and defiant streak. None to be had with the girl in this anime.
What bothers me is that this girl is absolutely and
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completely in the dark and for maybe two seconds one of the guys won't treat her like absolute dirt but there they go again sucking her blood or calling her very rude and demeaning names or hurting and scaring her. Not even the 'kichiku megane' is appealing to me, and I really, really dig those kind of glasses-wearing asshats.
The animation is passable, but it features that dreaded art styling where the eye outlines can be seen through the hair.
The shortness of each episode makes this much more bearable than it would be if it was a full 20+ minutes.
The only thing this is good for is a hearty chuckle at how absolutely bad it is. Please don't get too angry at this, it's almost like a mentally handicapped super villain that doesn't know it's incompetent.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jul 16, 2016
I still feel a pang of disappointment whenever I see this title. It had potential. A simple title of vampirism with an absolutely gorgeous male lead and an okay female protagonist but it just fell into melodramatic schlock with a very dissatisfying ending.
I loved the art very much. I found it to be quite beautiful and competent and the male lead was competently okay in that he was serviceable for being the charming vampire that he was. The daughter was fine but easily replaceable with any other random girl, and the other vampire butlers could have been done away with.
The whole "I can't live
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without you" plot has been overdone and didn't bring anything new to the table: Paint-by-numbers and very typical, with an ending that left my so disappointed for what the story could have been--basically anything but what ended up happening.
You know, I don't think there really even was that much potential in the story, I just hate it when gorgeous red-haired bishonen are wasted in a crappy story such as this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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