With 9/10 episodes done, I think it is safe to say that this won't be getting any better. I had initially come to this show after watching Seven Deadly Sins (the prequel, not the OTHER show called Seven Deadly Sins), and was sorely disappointed by both the episodes actually just being shorts, and the lack of any actual story. In Seven Deadly Sins, the angels were actually made out to possibly be a threat, and the demons were given actually fun characterization, even if it was often cliche. I had expected some sort of continuation of this story.
Instead, what we get is a few impressively
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Nov 11, 2017
If you liked Yuuki Yuuna, you'll probably like this. A little history to Mimori's character, why she had more faeries than the other girls, why she seemed to have more going on than the others in the first season.
That said, it doesn't exactly do anything new. It's just an earlier iteration of the cycle that was established to exist in this world: girls are gifted powers to fight Vertexes, girls get pushed to their limits and realize that there are sacrifices to be made. Almost all of the actual explanation for why Mimori is how she is is in season 1 is done in ... 
Nov 10, 2017
Gyakusatsu Kikan
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While my final rating for the show comes out to a four, I also note that this is because I am extremely forgiving if a show or movie can at least deliver on a decent concept that makes me think for a few moments. Someone less easily swayed will almost certainly view this in a worse light.
Everything besides the premise is a train wreck. The animation bounces between being generic and looking like some of the more clumsy CGI that I have seen outside of a Syfy original. The actual storyline itself is clearly adapted from something that had more time to flesh out motives ... 
Oct 21, 2017
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
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This show was what made me realize the difference between a 2 and a 1 on the ten point scale. A 2 will be bad: it isn't to your tastes, and even if it were in the right genre or hit the right tropes, the execution is off enough that you know you can do better. It might think little of the viewer, with gratuitously sexual shots of otherwise non-sexual characters, or have a generally nonsensical plot. There's a million different possibilities that all lead to a show not being good.
Then there is a 1. A 1 is something that just shouldn't exist. A 1 ... 
Oct 21, 2017
Plot went nowhere.
No sense of stakes. Art is probably the most interesting thing in the show, with the otherwise generally beautiful or sexy characters almost morphing into disgusting human-beings when they talk about gambling. I can't tell if this is supposed to be more than it is and be a feeble attempt to say something in an otherwise quite soulless show, but coupled with the lack of stakes or any real losses taken on the part of the characters, it just results in cringe. While I understand that the show is based on a still running manga, if the protagonist's motives and goals are supposed to ... |
