Audience reviews
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anabena24
Absurd plot, terrible world building and poor fight choreography pretty much sums up what you are in for. There is an attempt at some sort of a moral conflict, but the whole thing is so shallow that it fails to come together.
I'm struggling to identify a single element that would give this series any value whatsoever. The only reason for not scoring it even lower is that the visual character design is fine, with each girl having her own style. It's a shame they didn't receive a better writing. Do not waste your time and move on to something else.
Read at the sourceWystaria
I read the adaptation a few years ago, so I already knew what to expect.
In my opinion, the animation style is actually decent, if not sometimes nice... even still, at times it is a little clunky and character states between scenes can be somewhat inconsistent (usually during fights when someone gets cut, for example). The character designs are alright; I really like Tokaku and Haru's in particular, but Nio, Kouko, and Haruki are good honorable mentions... ah, and I REALLY liked Chitaru's. The music was not particularly memorable and the overall array of OSTs available could have used a few more additions for variety. Nonetheless, I suppose the character ED concept is cute enough despite the fact that I didn't really like any of them except Haruki's. They should've made one for Tokaku, I…
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Akuma no Riddle is a nice relaxing drama with a continuous chain of action. A black class full of trained young assassins who have one common goal - to kill a classmate, is a bit absurd in itself, but if you can break it down together with the fact that they all treat each other quite nicely, including their target Haru-chan, then I think you will actually enjoy the story, including every action. The point of the story is not who knows what, the ending is a little strange, although not necessarily bad, but overall I liked it - in addition, I appreciate the unique ending for each episode and I would also highlight the nice symbolism of Romeo and Juliet in the sixth episode.
Read at the sourceCBMiura
Akuma no Riddle... Even though I liked it, I don't think it's recommendable.
The anime brings a lot of assassins but fails to built up the tension. The animation it's pretty good, I don't have any major complaint about the animation. The characters have some kind of development, but for having such a large cast it surely fails to fully develop everyone.
Akuma no Riddle have a regular pace but sometimes it's just hard to watch it.
If you wanna watch it keep some points in your mind. The anime it's not well developed overall. They lack a lot of things, such as character development, building an atmosphere and the story itself. In the end I see this anime more a girls love show than a dark thriller action.
I enjoyed but I can't recommend it. So if you ask my opinion about this anime, don'…
Read at the sourceJoe_Devaney
Overview:
"Akuma no Riddle" definitely isn't your typical schoolgirls anime. After all, it's not every day you find one where nearly every major character is secretly an assassin, all of whom are targeting one of their classmates in order to have some kind of desire granted. Sadly, while it does provide a decent and entertaining action anime to sit through, "Akuma no Riddle" never even comes close to living up to the potential of its premise, making it an unfortunate yet all-too-common case of "what could have been."
Story (5.5/10):
"Akuma no Riddle" is set at the fictional all-girls boarding school Myojo Academy, where 12 girls have recently transferred and enrolled in a special class known as "Class Black". What very few people know, however, is that this class is actually a gathering f…
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If I had to sum this anime up in two words, it would be cringey nonsense.
The plot is about as contrived and nonsensical as it gets. It's about 12 assassins who are assigned to a classroom with one "normal" girl, who they're supposed to find and kill. That make much sense to you? Me neither. And the ending very much comes across as "I didn't know how to justify the absurd story so this is some bullshit I came up with". It tries to play it off as a plot twist, but the story and the characters are so poorly written, the audience probably isn't invested enough for it to work.
There are too many characters, and each with her own shoddy backstory that's supposed to somehow explain her shoddy motivations. These backstories are both wholly uninteresting and increasingly ridiculous. Although,…
Read at the sourceElrataun
After a lot of back and forth, I returned to this series with a new perspective. Thanks to the fandom, I learned this anime came out plenty of time ahead of much of the manga. While that is no excuse, it should put into perspective the stark differences and the "stuff more people liked" being in the manga and not the anime. The anime started after the manga had just concluded around the third assassin's attempt, so everything afterward, the anime actually went on plot first. The manga chapters that came out after added to what the anime established.
With that out of the way, onto the review. The anime is solidly watchable. The premise is not that special, being a survival game with shoujo ai subtext (not really yuri). Only two of the seven relationships get any screentime and one characte…
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Review contains minor spoilers; nothing the summary or trailers don’t go into
This anime was recommended to me by my brother, I had time to kill so I thought, why not?
I’m not a fan of the Battle Royale/Survival Game genre which has been on an uprise lately. High school settings in particular don’t do it any favors.
I admit i’m no match for the “Assassin falls in love with their target” trope but it just wasn’t executed well here.
The dorky pink haired anime protagonist is annoying and I just don’t find her interesting, more than half of the cast is more interesting than her. I trudged through the episodes because the other classmates were infinitely more interesting than her! There’s nothing memorable about this anime other than it makes no sense story and character wise.
If anyt…
Read at the sourceWaterlily22
Definitely not a masterpiece, but not bad either :)
Story - 6/10
The story was okay, given that Akuma no Riddle is classified as action, yuri and school. The progression and pacing is pretty good, despite some of the assassin characters having significantly less of a role to play in the story than others. Given that it's an action anime, I wasn't expecting too much exposition, but there's actually a decent amount between and sometimes intertwined with the action sequences. Why did I give a 6/10? Some of the story direction is pretty poor; mainly the ending, which I think would have been better left to the viewer's imagination, rather than the fairly cheap ending that Akuma no Riddle has.
Art - 9/10
One of the areas that Akuma no Riddle does really well, in my opinion. Not quite perfect…
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Going in, I thought this series would be utter chaos, due to the nature that the plot was explaining. One person needs to protect someone from multiple other assassins? Count me in.
Story: Riddle Story of Devil sets us up at a school where one class of thirteen students are dubbed "Class Black". Unbeknownst to their teacher, twelve trained assassins are given one objective: kill Haru Ichinose. The person who successfully does this is given one reward of their choosing, with basically no limitation to it. The rules? You must give Haru your notice card, which basically means she needs to be aware that you're going after her life. After seeing this card, you have forty-eight hours to kill her. Fail this, and you are expelled from the school. There's one catch: Tokaku Azuma has decided she do…
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I feel like people rating this show low are approaching it on a too literal level. I don't think of this as a story-driven anime, but as a surreal character blender. Underneath Akuma no Riddle's apparent absurdity lurks some pretty tightly crafted subliminal themes and exploration of morality, free will etc. The Haru-Azuma -love story offers a throughline to the show that you can latch onto, but the two of them will spend a lot of their time on the backseat, as most episodes basically elevate the "assassin of the week" as a temporary main character. I happen to like this kind of structure a lot - it's somewhat formulaic, but because it's so character-focused, the constant rotation keeps it fresh.
If you are the kind of person that can't stop screaming "why didn't they just..." at the scre…
Read at the sourceSaucinator
Saucinator review 7.
The concept of the story is simple yet due to some plot twists the understanding of the story might be in jeopardy. I like the dedication of the animation to dedicate the ending song animation to every characters that attempt to kill the target but of me its too sudden.
Having 1 or 2 characters per episode is quite fast for the story. They should make the story quite longer so that they can portray every character in the manga as the way they've should be
but the romance spice to the story is too bland. No kiss nor any confession ( if there was one I'm sorry). If the genre of this anime is a Shoujo Ai then they should make the romantic scenes more intense than being soft to the center.
Read at the sourceLouvioun
This show was good, I enjoyed it, not a masterpiece and not great but very good!
See, most of the aspects of this show are good, but the characters are where this show gets very fun. I highly enjoyed the show, although it did not end strong.
I would recommend this if you don't mind it when a show gets strange towards the end, even though the ending was satisfying it certainly was strange. I couldn't say much about art but I didn't mid the style, certainly no Bakemonogatari but good enough for me!
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TLDR
Good wacky show with a strange concept but decent excecution
Read at the sourceKilmere
Their poor teacher is just some random guy who innocently wonders why his student's keep "transferring". Promising fun idea having a normal student trying to survive with a room full of 12 assassins. Seems like something full of wit and clever characters. Too bad it's played way too straight and no one is deep enough to be clever. Maybe this just wasn't for me but I walked away with meh opinions because everyone was so guarded.
Story
Bunch of female assassins compete with their classmates to kill one girl, the main difference here is that each assassin gets only one 24 hour period of their choice to kill her. I'd say it's a battle royal like story, but like mixed with school life story. It's the highlights of school life where the cold character hangs out with the timid target. There's so…
Read at the sourceUnamed_Reviewer
well thats an yuri anime SO basically my opinon on this one matters alot bcs i am popular for that i am mainstream yuri fan for almost 8 years and am a male that watches yuri animes yes laugh all you want its my favorite genre and no its not bcs there are girls that kiss you assholes i am a true fan now with the review Akuma no Riddle was one of the yuri animes that i didnt expect to be a romance overall and wanned to see if it will be amazing anime well it was actually if you are into good fights that anime had it the story it had an intersting one the main characters were as well a good couple overall but that anime isnt only about those 2 girls there are couple of 2's that every and each one of those couples were amazing combination of killing machines and had big level of friendship p…
Read at the sourceAntyctus
It's rare that a standard anime can bring me to tears (hence its higher rating than my usual), but it is that good. The general concept of the anime, in which twelve female assassins are hired to an academy to pretend to be students while attempting to kill their thirteenth class member, Haru Ichinose, is refreshing, but the concept of the Queen Bee is confusing and ultimately irrelevant. Where this anime shines is in the romance that develops between Haru and one of the assassins, Tokaku Azuma. It's highly rewarding to see the character development Tokaku undergoes when compared to the other assassins, and how she goes from a bloodthirsty killer to devoted guardian (and potentially lover) of the hapless and cheery Haru, who may not be as innocent as she appears to be. Kudos to side charac…
Read at the sourceAmuletYuri
I've seen a lot of low reviews regarding this anime. I recently watched it so I thought a fresh perspective might be beneficial. Story-wise, it depends on the perspective you take. I think the low reviews come from taking the anime much more seriously than it should have been. I didn't feel like the show took itself very seriously from the beginning. They wouldn't have included some of the characters if this show was meant to be extremely serious. They wouldn't have written some of the scenes the way they did, unless it was supposed to be amusing. The yuri aspect is a bit of a stretch. The main characters aren't seen building a relationship and the one kiss scene in the show is barely considered a kiss in the first place. I felt there was more romance between two of the supporting characte…
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Akuma no riddle isn't a smart show with in-depth characters or anything like that.
But I still enjoyed it for what it was!
If you're someone like me who enjoys happy endings, yuri and edge, this is a super fun watch.
The drama in the story is pretty straight forward too and the show flows very well, though this also leads to its biggest flaw of being too formulaic, but for a simple brain like mine, I wasn't bothered at all.
The yuri was also very interesting since most of the roomies are definitely fucking, including our main hero Tokaku, who acts like a possessive girlfriend the entire time.
Jokes aside, the most refreshing aspect of the show I thought was our heroine Haru, whose probably the strongest heroine I've ever seen, despite her looking and acting like a super helpless cha…
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I liked the sort of main idea of the story but they could have executed it way better to be honest. The characters were likeable and all had different traits and cool designs which I enjoyed a lot. But what bothered me most was just that everything was soooo predictable. Like it was so obvious when and how something significant was going to happen and who would be there etc. I liked it when it started, but as it went on, everything just became incredibly predictable and obvious. Minutes before a scene would happen, in my head I would be like "yep i bet this much that this character is gonna do that in this place". Idk I wish they could have made it less predictable and more entertaining. But other than that I think it was alright, not the best but it wasn't a waste of my time.
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i watched this whole anime (almost) within a day, i hated every minute of it. i do have to admit it was like nice but not. it was like pulling up to the bathroom expecting it to be clean but someone had sprayed their sh*t all over the walls. to be honest, i overreacted, its a nice decent anime, watch it if you want to. overall an ight. I loved certain characters and their end developments, others were quite .... weird. there was two characters that were so strange, they made the story more surreal? i have a love hate relationship with this anime and my final message is watch this anime if you want to, you dont have to.
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