Don't grop this anime because it looks like [insert anime here]...

Written by Maotsuki on January 30, 2012 at 1:40 PM

Okay, I'm new to this website, but I'm a huge fan of anime (watched at least more than 100 series...I just stopped counting ^^'). I hope this is going to be helpful.

First few minutes of the anime caught me. Implying the death of major character and stuff... I thought: Oh, this seems good and original, not many anime starts by announcing the future of their character like this. Then...we jumped on Macross style.

The little girl waiting for the show, tons of holographic posters of the singers with Sheryl-like suit, the location looking really similar, cell phone talking... I was like: Okay, this is just like Ranka and those girls are exactly as if we had split Sheryl in two. Also, the singing while fighting part... But then, it happened! I won’t spoil you, but something major happened and gave this anime something special. So yeah, I thought at first that this was as if we took Macross Frontier and Madoka Magica and had them have a baby. Oh god, I was so wrong!! After watching the fourth episode, my conclusion is not the same.
This show got an excellent story (very original with the mecha-magical part), great animation sequence and excellent characters. Yes, they sing, but not the Macross frontier way. Unlike Macross, their songs doesn’t affect the monsters, it just gives the girls power. Yes, it is a dark magical girl anime, but it’s completely different of Madoka Magica, not the same atmosphere, not the same kind of Magical girl. There is no cute talking animal by the way...

So, my advice would be: don’t let yourself fall into the old ‘this anime looks like others’ pattern. Yes, there are similarities at first (there always is similarities because there is so many anime out there), but if you give Senhime the time to develop his story, you will be discovering what I think is so far one of the best anime of this winter season.

Enjoy ^_^!