Audience reviews
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_Bubassotto_
The most forgettable anime I've ever watched.
Normally, when I review an anime years after watching it, I can remember at least a few memorable moments: a fight, a charismatic character, an emotional scene, or even some absurd detail that stuck in my memory. With IS: Infinite Stratos, however, something rare happened: I had practically forgotten that this anime existed.
When I migrated my notes to MyAnimeList and found the title again, I tried to remember anything relevant about the work. The result was almost a complete blank. The only memory that came to mind was a scene of Tatenashi Sarashiki wearing a sexy cat costume, and I'm not even sure if that was from the first or second season. Besides that, nothing. And honestly, for an anime I watched to the end, that says a lot.
The premis…
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i cant lie this anime is probably way worse than im giving it credit for, but man this was my first watch. I saw a recap video on youtube about 5 years back maybe 4, and it made me watch my first anime. couldnt have asked for a better first watch and man it was so amazing and seems so distant and nostalgic to me now. I should rewatch it but i really cant rewatch/reread things all the way through unless its with someone else. Thats why i gotta get a girlfriend and stop being a bum. Its aight tho, because maybe ill be able to go to an all girls school as a dude because the plot is so well written and stuff. Love this show
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Wow actual amazing season finale. Honestly, the fighting sequences of this anime deserve high praise because ****, they were the best part about it. Apart from them, honestly IS really is generic harem slop and falls into a lot of tropes, but that's okay because it's one of the best of its kind and one I really enjoyed. Character writing could be improved, especially with some of our heroines. I think that Charlotte and Houki were the best girls and the best of the bunch, while our Mc did have some really great moments, he didn't do too much for me, which I hope gets improved in the next season, but overall pretty alright, didn't expect a whole lot from it, still glad I enjoyed it plenty. Will definitely be watching the 2nd season.
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Infinite Stratos is one of the most generic animes I have ever watched. School, check. Mecha battles, check. Ecchi harem, check.
Wait, ecchi harem?
That actually is the best part about this show. Despite it being episode after episode of boring, generic, forgettable slop the ecchi managed to carry it enough that I watched the whole thing.
There's a nonzero chance that if you like ecchi, then this show might actually be a hit for you. But for everyone else, probably not. Generic slop! Stay away!
It doesn't compare favorably to other ecchi animes like Absolute Duo, Fruit of Grisaia, or Hagure Yuusha. Like, this show is barely serviceable, barely function, barely working.
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Somehow, I find this anime to be at least watchable. To be honest with you, I returned to this anime just because I watched it when I was still a young teenager. It didn't strike me as anything special or groundbreaking, I just wanted to finish what I started. Season 1, this one exactly, I remember about 85% of it and I still retain the same feelings about it. It's just slightly above average but even then it can still be foul at times.
The plot and action are some of the more offensive things about this. It's dull and even frustrating at times. The concept of fighting aerodynamic robots is also difficult enough but having it as just a medium for them to push the plot is merely lazy. Most of what you view is the character dynamics and additions to the harem which do carry the anime in ter…
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THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW
On my way back into anime I decided it would be time to come back to my favourite genre, which has always been mecha. Infinite Stratos is the premier mecha anime of the year 2011 and it´s combination of mecha, comedy and fan service looked like something that would suit me, so I gave the first season a go.
Story – 5/10
My god, what an absolute car crash this plot is. Imagine every single high school cliche packed into a single school. This show has it all: Insane fan service, beach episodes, our main character literally has to share a dorm with like 1000 Girls at this school. The sci-fi mecha aspect was clearly not the main focus of this show. This is more like a ecchi, harem comedy set in a school WITH mechs in it. There has been absolutely zero plot progr…
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Infinite Stratos is very dear to me. This was one of my earliest animes I ever saw. The IS suits are fantastic, basically humanoid body armor that gives the person a unique power set depending on either potential. That really cool. The OST soundtrack for this is great and the animation/fights are well choreographed. The characters are all fun and very well designed. The dub is my personal favorite, not only is the MC played by the King of Harem Scott Freeman who has been in everything from Highschool DxD to Date A Live. But the main heroin is voiced by my favorite VA Monica Rial. Its also a nice touch that the girls from France, England, and German all have accents. I highly recommend this series place go and check it out
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I either dropped it closer to very end or actually completed it.
This one is another mixed feelings anime, that has things I love and hate simultaneously.
On one hand it has mechas, futuristic environment and a harem full of rather likable girls who are completely obsessed over main protagonist. They actually do fight each other over him. It almost could reach 7 or 8.
However on the other hand, all these females are very violent and brutal, especially towards protagonist himself. They not as much fight each other as they should, as much just vent their anger on him. How it is a guy's fault, if one of their rivals for his affection trying to get his attention. That kills all possible enjoyment for me.
Somehow it gets only worse as show progresses. It becomes truly painful to watch. If…
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This show isn't terrible but it's not great, so don't take the show too seriously, the main female characters of the show are the main focus and are based around simple cliches so you'll catch on real quick, the male main character is dense as all hell but is to be expected from a harem, the mechs are cool to watch and the fight scenes are super flashy or epic but they're not terrible. the lore for the universe is a little lacking they don't explain much in the anime although I can't say the same for the manga as I have not read it as of yet.
Overall just don't take the show too seriously. If you're looking to something to fill the time then try to give this show a shot.
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This anime caught my eye as I'm a sucker for harem ecchi anime and mechs. Because of this, I was both disappointed and pleased at the same time, which is weird.
The story is as cliche as it gets for an anime in this genre, but there were aspects of the story where I was pleasantly surprised. The trope "only guy in an all-girl school" isn't used as much as it should, so I'm always happy to see it be used. The story is there but isn't really used unless absolutely necessary. The obvious main focus of this anime is the harem aspect, which is done unnecessarily well. This anime switches aspects extremely well, switching from your typical harem ecchi experience, to your action mecha experience, and it does this extremely smoothly and seamlessly.
The characters are all cliche with a twist. The…
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Honestly I really liked the idea of the story but all the girls were REALLY and I mean REALLY annoying the "love conflicts" voices make me want to scream into a pillow and throw my computer against a wall, and their always getting on the mc's ass about them being better than him and about how he's not doing things right and that's the entire show. I would like to say that was just the beginning of the anime but it was the entire 12 episodes this was probably one of the worst animes I have watched in a LONG while.
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Didn't upload the same time of the month, unfortunately. That was just laziness on my part.
*SPOILERS, BUT YOU REALLY SHOULDN'T CARE*
So...uhhhhh...where do I even begin? Well, this show was painfully bad, there's no denying that. Strangely enough, I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen; go figure. In this world, these large pseudo mechas, called IS's or Infinite Stratos are used as weapons for the Japanese military. And also a few other countries. Only women can pilot the IS's, AND NO ONE ELSE! Enter cookie cutter, boilerplate, light novel protagonist #756 Ichika Orimura. He's so suave and dreamy for no apparent reason. What a fucking hunk of man. He is the only male in the world who can pilot the IS's. Which is perfect for him, because it gives him the perfect opportunity to start the…
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Ok first I want to say is that the genre Mecha, is not really suited for me. But because my friends did suggest me this anime. I decided to give it a go. And well...its not the worst choice if made.
STORY: Without spoiler to much. A guy joined a all girls school in japan. And well...alot of pretty girls, and a handsome boy. Alot of harem I can tell. But besides of that there is not really a great story in it. There is no main goal what thoses girls and boys have. The only goal I can imagine...well the girls want this boy to love him. But yeah....Not the best story in this serie.
ART: Well its nice to see its not full mecha. What I mean is that I really like this style. No robotic face/helmet. Just a little bit coverd, its not bad. But well...thats the only thing what stood out for me.…
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first season of Infinite Stratos overall pretty wasn't good as was it about one guy which he look handsome too but he end up in girls school who they tries to challenge to become mecha and join forces of IS academy. the story wasn't proof because they one character who is big sister of main harem protagonist
tries to abuse waifu with twin tails and I don't like trap scene it was cool to have more handsome character joining to IS academy but it never happened in this show unfortunately but artstyle was fine but fansevrice wouldn't work as well either of this anime I wasn't excepted to see sensei being as tsundere and tries to abuse main protagionst which is disappointed but character like Laura example she wasn't my favourite because nothing to do with french girls keep beating crap of whil…
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We bought this series around the same time as the "Divergence Eve" collection (see Divergence Eve review, for more information), and despite my lack of expectations for this series, it ended up being a brief respite from a few hard things in the real-world, that were pummeling me at the time. The production is a surprisingly brisk and a refreshing take on the harem genre. Before watching this series, I thought this sub-category had outstayed its welcome in the industry and had done everything that it could possibly do, in the two decades that it was prevalent (1990 to 2010); but, alas, I underestimated the power of Japan's ardor for mechanized, power armor!
⚠️ This review will have spoilers ⚠️
—Story/Characters
Before watching this series, I thought to myself "is this series just going…
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***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS***
In a world where IS Units were created by a super genius, these IS Units were Mechas designed specifically for annihilating armies and creating mass destruction but the only drawback was that it could only be manned by females! As expected this may seem cliche and a little fan service but as to be expected of a harem anime, the only male that can man the deadly machines is the male protagonist Ichika. He is soon enrolled into the elite High School that dedicated itself to training the world's future IS Pilots which is entirely all female until the male protagonist comes in, harem time!
Although the story and the plot development is terrible, mass destruction capable mechas manned by highly trained overly confident female anime girls? That sounds…
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This review contains some spoilers. (Not that there actually is a lot to spoil)
I´ll assume that everyone who reads this alredy knows the premise, so I won´t go over all of that again, but basically, in this world, there are mechas called "Infinite Stratos" (IS for short), and only woman can pilot them, but our MC, Ichika, is for some reason the only man who is able to pilot them, so he goes to attend a school that teaches you how to use them and is therefore the only guy there.
Story (2/10)
Well, I don´t really now what to write here, because there is very little of what you could call story. 90% of this show is just our MC adding new members to his harem, lots of stupid ecchi scenes, and the harem members getting jealous at each other and fighting over MC-kun. Then there are some for…
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Note: This review may contain [Spoilers]
Overview:
~ Recommended to me by a friend on TikTok, Infinite Stratos (Season 1) has a lot of potential for an ability exclusive-academy series. However, I feel that this series in its entirety (of season 1) manages to use every cliche trick in the overused-anime-elements-book to make a story line. In this series we have: a tsundere, beach scene, duel scenes, random enemy attacks academy scene, accumulative harem (characters introduced are only introduced to add numbers in the MC's harem), boy in an all girls school etc. For a series in 2011, it definitely became a pushover in the anime community because of it, as can be seen in the MAL rating (6.89 as of Apr 8 2020) I will now be giving my review despite these mechanics hehe.
Story:
The narrativ…
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First of all, this is the average ecchi anime you can watch everywhere else.
The story is totally boring, only the side storys and the fact that nearly everything gets explained to you is making the story halfway acceptable. The soundtrack is not remorable (i always skipped it), the voices actors did their job like expected.
The characters are quite decent, the main protagonist is as stupid as a overcooked potato, in fact i often thougt about how stupid a human can be before he looses the ability to keep up the motoric abilitiies that is keeping him alive... well hes the answer.
The side characters are somehow enjoyable, they are not logical nor do they have any kind of personality. Just a bunch of teenage girls that puberty is hitting worse than an 500 pounds bomb.
Some characters are…
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The first time when I watched infinite stratos, I will definitely lower all my expectation and try no to be harsh toward this anime. In fact, if you really try shut your brain and watch it, Infinite Stratos is kidda okay and decent anime which most moment are laughable. Main character is mediocre Ichika Orimura good looking and good in sociable with woman and good in house work which very difficult apply in off from realistic . He being allow into their IS pilot academy for some circumstances and despite all are girls. Overseas also able to apply IS pilot academy there. I think one of the best character is Charlotte Dunois which is a french girl which showing her french style and I like both japanese and english dub for her character. Others female kidda simple and predictable, Chifuyu Ori…
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