Etue

Hidan no Aria or Aria the Scarlet Ammo, this review contains spoilers

Story:

The story in Hidan no Aria revolves around Aria and Kinji in a school for special law enforcers or vigilantes. The first episode sets the premise of the first so called arc by having Kinji get into trouble only to be saved by Aria predictably. Kinji has a special ability which is that when he is turned on he goes into superhuman mental state that basically transforms him into someone capable of being better than Aria on every front. Aria herself is of course a high ranked vigilante capable of beating basically everyone else in a fair fight.

Now to get some random character connections in there.

A friend of Kinji turns out to be the great enemy and Aria is related in blood to Sherlock Homes, while the enemy is Cherlock Homes' enemies ancestor. The next villain is related to Joan of arc and the last one is of course a vampire. All of Aria's enemies have superhuman abilities which they fight with. This is as horribly forced as it sounds, the character connections serve as an attempt to provide depth where there is none and for people that know Sherlock Homes and who Joan of arc where it's simply annoying in my eyes, it was a horrible idea.

Characters:

Aria is your cut and paste loli tsundere who screams pervert in any instance she is touch in any situation. This is a running joke in the series, enjoy it. Kinji is a pessimist for the first part but afterward tags along like the good dog that he is. Shirayuki is a yandere who possesses little freedom of her own but still finds time to fall/be in love with Kinji and they of course have backstory with one other. Riko is a joyous psychopath and who I believe to be the most enjoyable character out of the bunch, She's far from shy in anything she does and her mind is completely fractionated.

Animation:

I'm not an expert on animation, but I'll say that I haven't found any worth to mention graphical flaws in hidan no aria. The battles aren't extremely energetic, though so I can't give it all point on that front.

Sound.

If you can bare with Aria having the standard Loli Tsundere voice actor then the sound is okay. The opening theme is nothing special and neither is the ending but both are of good enough quality to at least bother to watch once.