Review of Absolute Duo

Absolute Duo is another of those anime that aims to capture people with cute art, to make a good first impression but it then fails to deliver in the development of the cast, the story and in keeping quality in check. Despite being generic I could see some potential in the cast and in the story, it is a pity they failed to bring it together here. Starting the anime hinting to the ending, and then having a weak generic conclusion doesnt cames in favor. I mentionated I liked the designs for the female cast, I like them cute, and they were for the most part cute,Julie, Tomoe and Lilith definitly had some really enjoyable cute designs, so I really wanted to like the anime way more. The OP and ED were even decent, better than what I expected for your usual generic harem. Though it was weird to have that Torou going berserk scene on the OP, getting a bit of hype to it, and then nothing of that sorts does occur.
I cited quality check because despite its dullest moments, maratooning it provide to be fun to watch at diverse occasions, and there is where I see the potential it had, just to see it crushed with an extremely predictable moment soon after, yes I m expecting most anime to use a certain handfull of cliches and tropes, but this one does use more than your average! Some where enjoyable, most were okay, and some were "really, are you seriously going that road?!"

The characters felt very empty inside, Torou and Julie where the only ones with backstory to it, but its use was so bland and not impactfull, that not having it wouldnt had made any difference. One dimensional characters can be enjoyable but, these lack the deep needed to make me care for them just a little bit, so I never felt anything was really at stake or was emotionaly invested, "the MC is full of wounds, so what?!", that kinda of thing. The revenge theme is overused in anime, but well pulled out it can be something to look forward, but again its use here was just to conect Julie and Torou a bit more, and the overall execution failed, so it was more wasted potential, and again the anime hints to stuff that happened in the past but never ever explains it, I understand it was adapted from the LN, and it maybe like that in the LN, but you never get a resolution of these, you just know something happened, and get stucked it with, it felt like something you just paste to add to it, without any care.
If this was a 2 cour anime, and the second half was to came later, and adapt more material that would be a nice way to built up the plot to something more meaningfull, but this is not the occasion.

I still enjoyed it, but that is me, I manage to even like generic harem, if it doesnt suck too much, and has cute girls!! The action could be better thought, but it wasnt like I was forcing myself to watch it just to finish the anime, if I had seen this while airing, I would possible had found it less enjoyable, but seeing it whenever you want makes some of its faults more easy to tolerate.

So it was a fine anime, it is nothing I would really reccomend to people with something to watch, or newcomers to the medium, but if you have some dead time and are bored, you will be way less bored watching the anime.
There are alot generic harems outhere, but almost all of them I have enjoyed more than Absolute Duo, and this had hidden potential to reach to the quality of those others (which for themselves isnt such a great one, for starters).
It was almost your good-to-watch average show, but it couldnt be more than a pleasant to-watch-and-conclude anime. Unremarkeable. But it is not like you get cancer watching it, just turn your brain a bit more than you do for the usual harem stuff.
So overall 6.4.