Now as a long time fan of the "Strike Witches"/"World witches" franchise who has seen S1+S2, the movie, and Road to Berlin (S3 or right after the movie), as well as Brave Watches, I feel bad for this series because at this point, it has a VERY niche audience to seek out. Newcomers would be easily turned off by the very premise of the idea of "Witches", real world WWII ace pilots turned into cute anime girls with kemonomimi ears and tails that fly around in "striker units", and long time fans would be put off by both the lack of any actual fighting againstthe Neuroi, the fact that the girls now occasionally wear pants (yes, I KNOW you guys out there), and that it's basically an idol show now, complete with CGI'd song and dance performances.

That being said, I definitely enjoyed the show as a way to further flesh out the I guess "World Witches" universe, exploring more countries than ever, and adding the idea of "familiars" to the witches mythos. To keep things short, if "Strike Witches" was half war with Neuroi, half CGDCT SOL, and "Brave Witches" was mostly about the war, then Luminous witches is mostly a CGDCT SOL with elements of strike witches sprinkled in. There's plenty of heart and character to each of the girls though, regardless of the lack of fighting and it's still plenty cute-lewd with the usual yuri-bait. Just don't expect it to be as lewd as original SW or that one Brave Witches OVA, and you'll have plenty of fun.

Unfortunately, I don't see there being too many like me that'll thoroughly enjoy this, as strike witches is incredibly old by now and the few fans that remain might not like this new direction, and the "world witches" is again, a very hard sell to a new anime viewer. I do hope that "Noble Witches" will get an anime next though.