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Princess Connect: Re Dive is one of those series that you will either love or hate depending on your tastes. The show itself is a relatively simple slice of life comedy within a fantasy setting, the girls are cute, the comedy at the very least makes me smile.

Story and Writing:
There’s not much I can say about the story, since there is not much story to begin with. The first few episodes are spent introducing the main cast, and the formation of the gourmet guild. After that each episode is mostly about the gourmet guild screwing around having fun.

There was an arc where the ... story does attempt to be more serious, but the arc itself felt out of place and rather uninteresting for the most part since I did not feel any emotional attachment to the characters.

The show is at its best when it leans into more of a slice-of-life story. Watching the characters goof around leaves warm and comfy feeling similar to that of K-On and other moe based shows. Although there was some semblance of a main plot, it was rather uninteresting and the slice-of-life episodes were the real stars of the show.

As for comedy, personally it was hit or miss for me. There was not any scenes that were laugh out loud funny but, I found that every episode would at least get a chuckle out of me. The jokes can get a bit repetitive after a while. Personally by the time I finished episode four, I was watching the show more for main cast doing cute things rather than the comedy anyway.

Characters:
The two stand out characters from the main cast by far are Kyaru and Pecorine. Pecorine’s naïve and bubbly personality brings a lot of needed life and excitement to the main cast, while Kyaru is often bratty and whiny, basically she’s Aqua from KonoSuba but not stupid. While a bit repetitive at times, Pecorine's gluttonous attitude is very versatile and often earns a chuckle or two from me. While Kyaru also has tsundere like tendencies with the other members of the guild, it is nice to see how here interactions with the guild change over time.

The other two members of the guild, Kokkoro and Yuuki, are very boring in comparison to Pecorine and Kyaru. Yuuki often says a maximum of ten words per episode and feels more like a background character rather than a main character. He also is not very smart, but I do not think that it has been utilized effectively. While I think it's interesting that Kokkoro acts mature for her age it's usually really boring and even predictable when you see her character interact with others.

Although I did not enjoy the cast of characters in the first few episodes, they grew on me the longer I watched the show. As mentioned before, I just really enjoyed watching the cast be cute.

The side-characters introduced all have their personalities based around their own personal gimmick. For example, one character that was introduced in the sixth episode whose entire gimmick was being lonely, and her entire personality was based around, wanting to make friends and being kind of socially awkward. Usually these characters are only around for an episode or two so their gimmicks never get too annoying or tiring.

Art and Animation:
The series’ art is what will happen if you give the KonoSuba an unlimited budget. The animation is fluid and the art style is cute, and each of the characters look and feel very distinct from one another. Overall the animators did a pretty job. The use of CG pretty meh like most shows.

Music:
Soundtrack is really solid. I do not what else to say other than it feels like a fantasy setting and it does its job pretty well.

Conclusion:
This is one of those shows where once you watch the first episode you will know whether you want to continue watching or not. If you are looking for something simple and cute this is the show for you. If you are looking for plot, depth, and complex characters you are better off watching another show. Personally this show is not really for me, but if you think that is something that you would enjoy I think that you will really enjoy.

Look let's be honest here, this manga is REALLY trashy. The only reason why I started to read this in the first place was to see how trashy the story can possibly get. Surprisingly enough the manga as a whole is not nearly as bad as I thought it would and there are actually a few things I genuinely like.

The basic premise of Shuumatsu no Harem is about a college medical student, Reita, who decides to confess to his childhood crush because he has to go into stasis because of rare disease that he has. He wakes up from stasis five years later only ... to find out that 99.9% of the male population is dead, and his childhood crush is missing. Because he is one of the only men left on earth, almost everyone wants to have sex with him but, he is wants to save himself for his childhood crush.

Story (SOME MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD):
The story is okay, the writing is comparable to that of an average shounen jump series. The plot is pretty simple for the most part and involves Reita trying his best to avoid losing his virginity, while searching for a cure for the virus. Most of the plot twists presented are pretty predictable in a post apocalyptic story, and there was not anything in particular that bothered me but then again, I decided to turn off my brain when reading this. Besides a few pacing issues, the government not really forcing Reita to do it after a while, the only problem I had is that the story takes itself a bit too seriously, like come on the story is about the entire female population of a country trying to do it with a few guys. Overall the story is bearable.
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Characters:

I did not like the main character very much, his decision to choose his own personal issues over the human race is rather selfish. Okay, I get saving yourself for the person love but, come on dude this is a life or death situation we're talking about here you can't really be picky. Other than that he feels like like an average harem/shounen mc but instead of accidentally getting into perverted situations its more that he is forced into them and he has this good guy attitude attitude you get with shounen mcs. Overall he's not bad or anything, just not very interesting.

The next character I want to talk about is Doi Shouta, or the third guy to come out of stasis who lives in a high school. Doi gets quite a few chapters to himself and it was fairly interesting to see how he slowly develops as the story goes on. I found Doi to be more interesting than the rest of the cast, and he was actually the main reason why I kept coming back to the story in the first place. I actually audibly sighed when the story came back around to Reita and I kind of wish that Doi was the main protagonist instead.

The rest of the characters are pretty uninteresting overall, with the exception of Karen, Doi's agent who seems a bit too happy go lucky than the rest of the cast. I'm kind of interested to see what they do with her in the future.

Art:
The art is pretty good for the most part, it's actually fairly nice to look at. There's not much else I can say here other than it has a more mature feeling to its style when compared to other manga.

Conclusion:
Overall the Shuumatsu no Harem is okay. It's not anything terrible, but it's not exactly good either. I got most of my enjoyment out of this series when I read it without thinking about anything, so I recommend you do the same as well.

This is my first review, so if there is anything in particular that you think I should do to improve, please tell me but try to be constructive as possible. Thanks for reading!