Review of Absolute Duo

I have to mention that I haven't taken the manga under any circumstances, let alone know about it. Therefore, I can not assess whether and how far the anime adaptation from the manga, let alone the novel, went away. Nevertheless, I have to say that I was really disappointed with Absolute Duo. And without exaggeration, I can confess that the actual opening of this adaptation was much better than the anime itself. No without a joke, the opening had better animation, better representation, and much smoother movements than the characters ever brought in the anime . This adaptation was felt with limitless clichés, a perfect "0815"setting, a bunch of monotonous characters, a plot that was hardly touched upon, and a protagonist who could simply drive you to the heat. Not to forget the fan service, which made up about 50% of the entire story. With 12 episodes, all of this is extremely important.

Now I’ll go into more detail.

Story:

Yes... I can't be that nice about the plot. There was a certain plot that was initially within the scope of the possibilities, but apparently, this work did not focus on him. Basically, apart from the background story, the anime only played on the "get to know character phase" + a rather clapped and practically incoherent finale. You could see that there was a system in the school, but not much was really made of it.

Subtext:
As much as I would like to do this, I cannot find any positive aspects. In terms of what this work had to offer, the 2/5 might still be too kind.

Animation / pictures:

Subtext:

The adaptation of this work was put in the hands of the 8-bit studio. But this turned out to be a real mistake. As with many other works, they did not seem to have had the skills or prerequisites to create even usable animations.
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As for the color tones, I can't complain, the tone was as you would expect, not too bright and not too gloomy. But then there were very serious problems. There were quite striking animation errors, both in the movement of characters and the proportions. Some characters looked like mutants at certain moments and also at certain distances. The other animation types were also quite an eyesore. You cannot animate anime while suddenly changing the animation style to 3D or various other types to save money. As a result, a lot of scenes were portrayed quite doll-like. The characters' movements were too viscous, you might think they were floating in the air in their fights without really attacking the opponents. If you compare it to the opening, you might think there are worlds in between.

Characters:

Definitely, the criterion that was hit the worst here: the characters. The protagonist was a common "I help you type" which could practically be the manifestation of Jesus. He ran around the area seriously and pretended to be the most social person on earth. I have nothing against civil courage, but this was seriously far beyond all possible limits. Then of course all the remaining extra characters follow the protagonists.

There was still to be found under the trimmings:

A Silent Loli, which was once again misused as a fan service object. The usual cool / intelligent student who practically broke out of a dojo. A double F person who was quite shy and again this monotonous girl who usually always plays the "childhood friend". The absolutely monotonous and typical rich brat.

This set of characters was just terrifying and I could almost get upset again. Apart from that, the characters brought hardly usable dialogues, had no character traits and were monotonous until they dropped. Speaking of "falling over". The female characters were far too stupid to go seriously. You might think they stumbled through half a room on purpose just to fall on the protagonist. Apart from that, the female characters didn't seem to feel any shame, their sports suits looked like a "second skin" and they didn't seem to care at all, despite all the details. I really couldn't find anything positive here.

But there was still hope apart from all the good characters. There was the said "enemy" which actually had some style.

Music:

Opening, Solid, Ending Solid, Soundtracks Solid. The soundtracks were also played at the right moments, so I can't complain.

My conclusion
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Absolute duo

A really "weak" work, which I would not even use to pass the time. This adaptation simply had absolutely nothing that would reflect itself as a trademark or would say to me "Hey, look at this anime again sometime". I have already tried a lot not to cancel it and I was able to finish it with all my strength. But I can absolutely not recommend this work and even had to do a pun.

Subtext:
No matter how you would try to rate it objectively, this anime could never go beyond the rating (5) Average. Possibly through a subjective evaluation, but never through an objective.