Review of Samurai Girls

It was another one of those days where I just felt like sitting back and watching people go nuts over each other for one reason or another. Unfortunately my cable was out and so I was stuck here lol. But seriously, I have been watching a lot of serious titles recently, including the new season of Samurai Jack. So i wanted to take a break and watch a light hearted rom-com. Seeing how this too was about samurais, I thought why not. So let's slice into this one. Story: 6 I have to say, I barely recall the story from beginning to end. I remember the setup well enough but the details of each episode more or less are foggy. I can already see you going "Duh, its a harem. The plot was going to be boring and forgettable from the start". To you I say, yea I know. But I honestly tried to care. Set up wise, you have a guy who is called to an academy to help look into a string of disappearances but suddenly catches a girl who fell from the sky. When he catches her, she turns into what the story calls a "master samurai" and it turns out he has the power to make people (girls) into them. The story then put the investigation part on the sidelines and focused on what harems normally do, the girls. Like I said, this story isn't much that will stick with you. It does make headway in the end and does manage to have a conclusion. They also shoehorn a revival at the last minute. No dialogue, no build up, just boom..... alive.

Art and Sound: 7 and 7
This is one of those times where the artists said they wanted to have a unique theme and would never stray from it. They went for the brush painting look, which means that aside from the characters, the setting, transitions, and effects will look like they were done with a brush and ink. At first it will look cool and unique but believe me when I say it gets annoying. I ended up getting used to it, but still cringed when the scree would get splattered with ink when people powered up or landed blows. The sound good too. The opening was actually really catchy (and I listened to it the whole time I wrote this too lol). I had a really nice beat to it; I would probably pin that to the electronic bass. The ending is also a really cool track as well that I actually listened through to the end instead of just hopping to the next episode. Although, much like the story, I don't remember any memorable tracks that played during the episode. Voice acting was also pretty as nobody really sounded out of place.

Character: 6
Speaking of characters, let's open this bag and take in the smell of tsundere for a minute. Yea, a harem that used a different flavor of the same archetype. Before that let's talk main male lead. Our piece of Osmium (the densest element the naturally forms for you chemistry fact of the day) is Muneakira (yes I had to look up the spelling). He is a normal samurai who got roped into the role as piece of meat that girls seem to like. The guy at least knows how to fight, but ends up letting the girls do much of the work for him. Morally in the right place and emotionally hopeless. Although he at least admits he can't decide from them. Now for the fifty shades of tsundere. Well our first girl actually acts like a dimwit most of the time but she has a hidden tsundere who when in battle. The next girl is a smart tsundere whose ego for her brain is meant to cover her lack of features. The third is the tsundere childhood friend who can't help but continuously boss the lead around. It ends there for the fawning girls but there are other pieces of eye candy. The problem with these characters are that they only follow their archetype, which just gets old when they consist one type.

Enjoyment: 7
In a way, I could of just stopped watching this and not given a damn about the ending. Although, I stuck with it because there was still a story to follow, and it came through in the end. I probably won't rewatch this but considering how I forgot most of the plot by the time I wrote this, I may just rewatch it just to remember. All in all though, it was an alright show and left me with enough energy to watch season 2.

Overall: 7