Review of Absolute Duo

What is Absolute Duo? It is a story about charachters who lay their souls bair. So, the strong part of the series should have been the charachters and their motivations, and desires. Unfortunately this anime never capitalizes on that, The writers had many intriguing back stories for their charachters, but didn't provide any sort of closure for any of them. The story itself opened many plotlines, but in the end focused more on jiggle physics instead of charachter development. Ultimately thats what make this anime dissapointing. It could have been much more than just a harem series, with unneccesary amountsof ecchi. If the series had put the same work into charachter development that they did into juggle physics, the series could have been top notch.

On to the voice acting - I am a person that prefers dubs over subs most of the time, but in the case of Absolute Duo the sub was far superior. The Japanese VA's gave the charachters depth and emotion, whereas the English VA's felt pretty flat in comparison. The English VA's take away the charachters depth and charachter development.

Music - A big reason why I enjoy this series was because of the music. The OP is in my top 10, if not top 5 in the harem/ecchi genre. The OP pumps you up, and the EDs are kinda forgettable, but they also mark the changes in the story arcs. That is something that I find admirable overall. The background music throughout the series really shines in the battle scenes, and keeps you engaged in the story when the voice acting or art does not.

Animation - I enjoyed the art style of this show. The charachters were each unique and distinguishable from each other and all of them had a certain charm to their design. Unfortunately, the series could not capitalize on the designs. The art was anything, but fluid. The movements were awkward, disjointed, and unnatural. (Plus there was way too much attention put into the jiggle of each charachters breasts as they moved. It felt like the director put all of the animation budget into the battle scenes. The battke scenes were easily the best animated portion of the series, but they couldn't cover up how poor the rest of the animation really was.

All of that being said - I really did enjoy this series for the potential that it gave. The first 3 episodes hinted at something grand, and the rest of the series just couldn't compare. If you want to watch a fun series with some minor charachter development, and fun battle sequences then you can watch Absolute Duo.