Armed Girl’s Machiavellism - Reviews

Alt title: Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

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NinjaSushiMaster's avatar
Dec 30, 2021

Despite the average rating I enjoyed this anime a great deal. To me personally it would be a 9/10, but I also have to be realistic. It isn't anything new, but its good at being what it is, a harem anime. The plot isn't too memorable, but it was enough to keep me watching. What really did it for me is the characters, but surprisingly the main character himself. Someone with backstory and unlike many other harem protagonists, he wasn't the shy and nervous type, but the type to get things done and that additude was a breath of fresh air. Amou carries the show and single handedly bumps the rating to an 8. 

7.5/10 story
7.5/10 animation
7/10 sound
8.5/10 characters
8/10 overall
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Archert's avatar
Jan 27, 2020

No es canon en su genero, ni va ser la mejor de la temporada, pero entretiene y me gusto el carisma/personalidad del protagonista. Repito no es de lo mejor ni tampoco es una serie que recomendaría pero me lo pase bien viéndola.

6/10 story
7/10 animation
7/10 sound
9/10 characters
7.3/10 overall
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Ryukami's avatar
Feb 16, 2018

Fudou Nomura transfers into a former girls only school, which has a policy of "de-fanging" male students and immediately get's into trouble by refusing to comply and thus begins our story of battle and love.

A pretty run-of-the-mill harem/battle anime, with characters that feel cliché, but grow on you during the course of the show.

Thoughts

Based on real world with fantastical martial arts, but carrying blades and attempting murder are a-okay.

Also get ready for some special moves, cause everyone's got like twelve.

7/10 story
7/10 animation
7/10 sound
7/10 characters
7/10 overall
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TheFachi07's avatar
Dec 29, 2019

Gotta say i was pleasantly surprised by this and really enjoted watching it

?/10 story
?/10 animation
?/10 sound
?/10 characters
6.5/10 overall
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ReviewBonfire's avatar
Nov 20, 2020

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

Armed Girl's Machiavellism


I'm still not quite sure whether this should be a pure comedy, parody, or something else or whether this title actually wants to be taken seriously. Because of the plot and the approaches, I will probably assume his very absurd action-comedy.

And yes, it's by far the probably best 3/10 Anime I ever watched, compared to any other I would rate with 3/10. But in the end, it had nothing for a higher score.


The story revolves around a school that switched from an all-girls school to a mixed school. And to protect the girls, they were allowed to use self-defense against boys. But the girls used their power and subjugated the boys at school, they would be withdrawn from them and henceforth let them live on as women in disguise.
Then the Protagonist appeared and everything changed. My cliche counter cant almost follow it.


Anyway, the anime goes like this. The protagonist fights one of the girls after the other, changes their minds, and finishes defeating the final boss. Except for the final boss, everything was actually quite boring, monotonous and the humor was also very limited. Maybe one laugh per episode and this is a bad statistic. And this actually only worked as long you turned your brain offline.

Story:

Basically, none exist. The protagonist has to fight his way through rows of bad schoolgirls to change her mind.

The only story relevant is the queen of the school. But it's not enough to really talk about it.

Animation / Pictures:

Episode 1 probably used up the whole budget. The title started with a very solid fight that could at least grab the attention of the audience. Apart from that, the animations were in the basement. They should have saved this for the last fight.

Characters:

The girls were mostly the collection of all Stereo Type personalities as you know them.

The only two interesting characters are the protagonist and the antagonist.

The protagonist is a very chilled character who hardly shows anything and has enormous self-control and a good poker face. It is not profound, but it is simply not off-putting. Does not come close to this 0815 Prota level.


Main antagonist didn't have too much screen time, but enough to rise above all other characters. He was a book-name sociopath with multiple personality disorders. His perspective of things and the world wasn't that wrong either. Compared to the whole work, she had at least some ambition.

Music:

The intro is almost below average like the outro. The Osts in the anime are still solid and average. Was probably the strongest area in the title.

Conclusion


Well, as a bizarre and questionable low mediocre comedy, it can definitely be recommended if you want to watch a "Wtf" title. Apart from that, it is below average in all areas, although more could have happened here with the right implementation.

2/10 story
4/10 animation
5.5/10 sound
4/10 characters
3.5/10 overall
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