A bloody battle school harem featuring freedom-loving guy transferring into an all-girls school where man-haters armed with police batons and even actual swords "correct" the male delinquents into... crossdressers? Also he needs to collect five seals from the top five swords to be allowed to leave school grounds.
It's like Prison School, but less about female anatomy and more about the girls and sword-fighting styles.
12 episode arc-conclusive partial adaptation of a manga.
10/10★ - A refreshing take on a detestable genre.
Strengths: the main character, the girls, the fights, the pacing, well, everything.
Full of curious surprises: a competent MC, blades that actually draw blood, characters with very thick traits, a mysterious plot. A great mix of action, comedy and sad backstories.
What do people want in a battle school harem? Is it the battles that are actual fights and people actually end up in the infirmary? It's got it. Is it the weird school with its weird rules? It's got it. Is it a harem so varied it makes you think the MC has been blessed by Zeus himself? It's definitely got it.
Nevermind all girls loving the guy, this is an anime where all girls hate guys. Period. It's completely insane in its plot. And gives the MC a ridiculous quest: get a seal of approval from the five strongest students so he can freedom-ly set foot outside school without being expelled and without having to "behave." Those top five are, by far, the craziest ones.
So here you have a monster-of-the-week where the monster is a high-school girl wielding a katana, and the protagonist that fights swords bare-handed. This unfairness results in pure badassery mixed with your usual lighthearted school anime.
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Armed Girl's Machiavellism.
It's like Prison School, but less about female anatomy and more about the girls and sword-fighting styles.
12 episode arc-conclusive partial adaptation of a manga.
10/10★ - A refreshing take on a detestable genre.
Strengths: the main character, the girls, the fights, the pacing, well, everything.
Full of curious surprises: a competent MC, blades that actually draw blood, characters with very thick traits, a mysterious plot. A great mix of action, comedy and sad backstories.
What do people want in a battle school harem? Is it the battles that are actual fights and people actually end up in the infirmary? It's got it. Is it the weird school with its weird rules? It's got it. Is it a harem so varied it makes you think the MC has been blessed by Zeus himself? It's definitely got it.
Nevermind all girls loving the guy, this is an anime where all girls hate guys. Period. It's completely insane in its plot. And gives the MC a ridiculous quest: get a seal of approval from the five strongest students so he can freedom-ly set foot outside school without being expelled and without having to "behave." Those top five are, by far, the craziest ones.
So here you have a monster-of-the-week where the monster is a high-school girl wielding a katana, and the protagonist that fights swords bare-handed. This unfairness results in pure badassery mixed with your usual lighthearted school anime.
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This is a battle school harem anime at its finest. The setup seems pretty obvious at first: MC fights girl, girl ends up liking MC. You can then surmise the best part of the anime is the uniqueness of each girl; how she fights, her personality, etc. Most non-fighting scenes are a bit of comedy. The backstories of the characters are rather dramatic.
Note: it features a few Japanese puns through the series. Mainly of words of different meanings that are all pronounced kyousei (a.k.a. homophones.) For example: coexistence (of girls with guys, kyousei 共生), correction (of delinquents, kyousei 矯正), coercion (kyousei 強制), and, though not an homophone, castration (kyosei 去勢).
The gender-ratio is literally one guy, an all-girls school, and a bunch of crossdressers. (yes, really.) Since it's a harem, it's hard to call any part of it a romance. Although it's not ecchi, it does feature a lot of perverted scenes for a shounen anime, including naked bath scenes with "hair-bra" and so on.
There's some violence in this anime. A lot of blood from slicing wounds. Wow, that's... that's a lot of blood. It's enough blood to make you wonder if someone's actually gonna die or something. There's no gore, one torture scene that's not very graphic, a bunch of girls getting punched around, and one bitch-slap so glorious it's even worth writing about it here.
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武装少女マキャヴェリズムArmed Girl's Machiavellism.
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