Shiira

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Overall: 7

I won't say I enjoyed watching this, but I liked it. What you would expect from any generic harem anime. Which isn't always a bad thing. Humor is a little forced in my opinion. If you want to watch this, its ok but don't expect anything new other than the jousting theme. I enjoyed it to the point that I finished it, which I usually don't do for bad shows.

Story: 6

The story revolves around jousting and a summer tournament that is held for the knights of Winford Academy to participate in. Students prepare themselves and train hard to compete in this important event.

Pretty unique anime, since jousting is not a sport that many are aquainted with. There is enough jousting vocabulary and aspects of jousting that shows that the creator or creators of this anime did thorough research on the topic and it shows when watching it. It does fall short on showing a serious side of jousting by adding cliche girls into the mix.

The main focus of the story is the relationship between the MC (Takahiro-kun) and a handful of female knights. Most of which, want him to be their begleiter (an assisant). I picked up on that halfway through the show. But he doesn't make any decision about that until later in the show. But with the forced humor and side stories, I couldn't find myself enjoying the story too much. There was a lot of date-like scenes and side stories that you almost forget about what the main story was about. There is also a couple of ecchi scenes sprinkled through the show.

Animation: 8

Nothing really to say here. The jousting bits were good to watch and the rest of the animation was decent. Also pretty scenery if you like that stuff.

Sound: 6

You can really get a western vibe here. By that I mean it feels like it was medival-ish or jousting-ish. I don't know what I'm talking about here but all you need to know is that it suits the anime and style. Gave the sound an 8 at first then I remembered the orgasmic sounds some of the girls made.

Characters: 6

I found some of the characters a little annoying.The girls were kind of cliche (adapted from a visual novel so I will let that slide) and the protagonist was super bland (again, letting it slide).

MC is a guy that cannot make up his mind. He starts out looking to be a begleiter (an assistant), becomes one for a short period of time, then struggles afterwards with the choice of either being a knight again or becoming a begleiter because he thinks an injury from a couple of years ago won't let him (the doctor even said he was fine). What I expect from a run-of-the-mill MC.

The girls were cliche but cute. Found myself liking some of the girls. Not gonna go into detail into the girls since this is a harem anime and I'm too lazy to wirte about or remember each of the girl's traits.

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