Review of Love Tyrant

-Bits of spoilers ahead- Story: 4 I will admit, even if it seemed cheesy, the whole introduction to the kiss note and the power it contains didn't seem that bad to begin with, but unfortunately, even that key item was burned, then replaced with a cellphone, and then it basically gets left out for most of the story. What I actually found interesting that at first, it wasn't actually a super lewd anime like To Love Ru or Infinite Stratos, and it actually had me surprised when they showed intimacy in the show without actually including the main character (I'm talking about the class pres and theteacher here). I also feel like they could've done more and explained what Stolas is, why he is a penguin, and why he is particularly interested in Akua, or explain how Shikimi has those powers, what her branch family is like, and how she hasn't already taken over everything. I get that it's supposed to be a comedy and not meant to be taken too seriously, but for me, I could really only find joy in speculating the things that weren't really explained in the end. (References were decent, the comedy was not my cup of tea, but it did have moments when it was funny)

Art: 5
I actually didn't find anything wrong with the art at first, or how the characters looked, but sometimes you can find things at certain times which makes you question if the animators really paid attention or not, for example, episode 10 on 10:27 Seiji's legs are somehow inverted and the shadows are unusual as well, this one really caught my attention, besides that I could only complain about how sometimes the characters' eyes were sometimes a bit too high but that's easier to miss, so now I'm just venting.

Sound: 4
It mainly just used cheesy soundtracks so that didn't really get me anywhere, there was one song near the end of episode 6 that was decent but I couldn't really find anything about it, because the only song that the anime actually has is its opening...

Character: 3
Quite poor, even if they're literal representations of their own tropes, I don't think they were likable at all, or at least at first, the only interesting character development we ever got was Akane actually noticing Yuzu's existence and Akua kicking Stolas I guess? Besides that we've got :
Yuzu starting to fall in love with Seiji (It's a harem anime, what do you expect?), and Guri trying to understand love, then trusting the same girl that once tied her friends up in front of her and tried to kill them. (I'm sorry if I come off rude, but Guri really was a nuisance at the beginning of the show, I saw no redeeming qualities later, but I guess we were meant to feel bad because she didn't get any attention? And that she actually trusted that kleptomaniac??? It's gotta be her own fault for being this oblivious I swear.)

Enjoyment: 4
There were definitely times where I stopped to think if this anime is going to better or not, and most of the times I was proven wrong, it rarely made me laugh, more-or-less actually annoyed at times (Comedy is subjective, forgive my shitty humor and me not enjoying this show) but the ending wasn't bad nor really good at all, it was a convenient way of ending the show, but in the end, it didn't make me hate it as much as I did, maybe the 12 episodes were enough to make the characters bearable at the very least from my perspective. (Except Shikimi)

Overall: 4
At most I would give it a 6 but with the plotholes, and some other minor mistakes I decided I would give it either a 4 or 5, then rated each piece of the anime (by that I mean story, art, etc.) and decided on a 4. Maybe the choice of including other types of romances was somewhat redeeming, cause we don't actually see that that much (Yuri, Yaoi, whatever, basically anything other than the harem).