Unsurprisingly, the female characters are just as bad. Future harem anime should take notes from Sora no Otoshimono and HenNeko, and treat Infinite Stratos like the plague that it is.
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A decent harem series would have the protagonist aware long before this point, if not already actively pursuing one of the girls. The fact that he has seven girls blatantly chasing after him and does not recognise it is a testament to how dreadful his characterisation is.
He is so adverse to any female contact (even visibly cringing in one scene where a girl's breasts rub against his arm) that you would ordinarily assume he is a homosexual. The animators should have just drawn a rock instead - at least that way there would be one less thing to infuriate the audience.Īside from having the intellect of a toddler, Ichika has the maturity of one, too. What do they even see in Ichika, anyway? He is one of the most insipid protagonists ever created, absent of any personality. There are so many damn members to his harem that you may as well just throw in the entire school at this point. In the case of Kanzashi, all Ichika ever had to do was smile a lot and play the white knight role once for her to be head over heels for him. The two new additions to his harem (Tatenashi and Kanzashi) suddenly fall in love with Ichika for no bloody reason at all. Even putting aside the abysmal writing, the harem aspect (the anime's sole appeal) fares no better. I do not know how a show so stupid could have ever been produced. They then escape, and the story ends with a random onsen scene wherein Ichika passes out in the girl's bath. As the final insult to the audience's intelligence, a deus ex machina unfolds, placed in direct sight of the enemy at the most convenient time possible. Of course Ichika (the most worthless soldier in the entire school) and the members of his harem can take her on in a one-on-one fight, however. The antagonist's sidekick willingly reveals to one of the girls the location of a hidden bomb, and the main antagonist then unleashes a laser attack on thirty or forty armed mech soldiers, annihilating them all instantly. The final episode is the most brain-damaging of all.
Even the most brainless of Hollywood blockbusters aim for better than this, but I suppose Infinite Stratos never cared for quality in the first place.
She jumps into the air, pulls out two pistols and shoots them all with perfect accuracy. and all the bullets somehow manage to land in front of her feet or behind her. The antagonist walks down a dark corridor and meets five soldiers armed with assault rifles. Every single member of his harem then appears out of thin-air and catches him in the act, screaming and assaulting him as the camera pans away.Įven from the very first episode, we know that a trainwreck awaits. His complete lack of understanding about human anatomy results in him fondling the girl. He closes his eyes, so embarrassed by female cleavage, thinking to himself that a measuring tape does not require eyes to see. Her response? "Pervert!"Īnother scene involves Ichika being forced to take body measurements of all the girls in the school (which every single one of them is happy about for some incomprehensible reason). Rather than simply tell Ichika the situation like any sensible person would, she convinces herself that lifting her skirt and directly showing him is the only way to get her point across. In the sixth episode, Charlotte finds herself in a situation where her panties have magically disappeared. Hell, this is awful even by the first season's standards.Īllow me to describe one of Infinite Stratos' most asinine scenes. You would need standards so low that they pass the Earth's core and leave the other side of the planet in order to appreciate this trash. It is everything wrong with the harem genre and the anime industryĪs a whole, assembled into one cretinous pile of filth. Even the absolute worst of the medium (from the infamous Mars of Destruction to the nonsensical Cipher) can at least be laughed at in their awfulness. I struggle to think of a single good thing to say when describing Infinite Stratos 2. Maybe you'll feel dirty afterwards, but hey, at least you won't receive brain damage for it. An anime so insipid, so devoid of intelligent thought that a trip to the garbage can would likely yield something more interesting. Infinite Stratos 2 is the anime equivalent of a lobotomy.
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