icefirestone23

As a huge fan of kentaro yabuki's To Love Ru, and someone who enjoyed Black Cat, this show sort of missed on all cylinders. It basically tried to fuse those 2 shows, and it didn't excel in either. What happened. Why is everyone so apathetic towards this show. Needless to stay, this probably isn't getting another season based on comments from twitter, so we are reviewing this based on what is here so far. Yabuki may not get another series animated for a while. It wants to be an ecchi, wants to be an action show with lore, wants to be a romance, wants to bea comedy. So there is a fundamental identity crisis. As an ecchi, it is incredibly uncreative an just goes for the usual topless scene, usually focused just on Matsuri. Compared to Love Ru, it just feels lazy. As an action show, nothing to write home about in 2023 with unimpressive action. It will look great in manga form, but this studio unfortunately won't be able to meet modern standards. Powers more or less ripping off Naruto characters like Sai and Ten Ten. Sosuke was a cool villain but unfortunately a fairly villain of the week one. The story lacks a lot of structure, and if you aren't a fan of his art style, you will likely lose interest fast. It switches between action then sol, and more or less does the same thing. As a result, the simplistic story is not going to cater interest. It more or less just there to explain the transformation and becomes less relevant later on. The biggest problem is definitely the characters since despite a smaller cast than TLR, Lucy and Yayoi feel way too secondary to even most of the TLR cast with no role to right home about. So there role feels gimmicky like Risa from TLR. Comedy was good at the beginning with the transition but sort of fizzledo out later on, and I don't think the romance is well written. It is basically I have feelings and such. He is a phenomenal artist but probably shouldn't try to tackle a manga by himself. To Love Ru didn't deserve to die for this. There are extremely talented writers like Koshi Tachibana that can fuse ridiculous fan service elements into an amazing epic. But Yabuki has shown he isn't one of them.

GravenER

Listen, I know, sometimes they need to censor scenes for the actual broadcasting, but this is just ridiculous. It doesn't show anything: all the 'important parts' are covered by a cat sticker in an almost mocking way. They're not subtle at all, and that's terribly irritating. What even is the point of watching it, then? Surely not for the plot or the characters, because those are abysmally generic and uninspired. It's stuff I've seen done way better a dozen times. Highschool DxD showed boobs and butts more than a decade ago and even managed to slap a hint of plot into it (enough not to makeme doze off while nothing of relevance was on screen if you know what I mean), while today, 2024, I need to buy a blueray to see some backwater, generic ecchi-supernatural anime as the author meant it - all that because the media industry is getting increasingly prudish. It's like removing all the blood and violence from, say, Chainsaw Man, and forcing you to buy the blueray to see them. What about no? What is the rating even there for? Miss me with these petty schemes.