Review of Absolute Duo

So much potential. So much wasted. The art style, OSTs, and opening wasn't that bad. In fact I rather liked them. The beginning captivated my interest a little as well. Sure, it was your kind of typical school setting with magical powers and such (*ahem* angel beats *ahem*), but I thought I could get over it. The twist making students fight each other got me too, admittedly. I didn't think it would be too bad. Wrong. Beyond episode 2, everything just spirals into a pitfall. There was close to 0 character development, and the existing bit was overly-cliched. WAY over-cliched. And story? Don't get me started on story.Random plot jumps, overly-used tropes, there were holes just everywhere. You could feel the harem. The absolutely useless harem. Don't get me wrong, I think there are some good harem animes out there and it doesn't get a lot of credit. But the one in this show served no purpose and just tried to make the main character look better.

So an overall judgement is this: if you can get past the first 4 episodes without feeling too many issues, or you're just into harem and action scenes rather than story, feel free to watch. Otherwise, not reccomended.