Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Drakestalker
My instinct is to say you should skip this and just watch hentai instead, but there was a time in my life when I actively sought out and wanted to watch softcore shows that featured nudity in a non-hentai context. I suppose the thinking was that actual hentai is too gratuitous, so I wanted to see the titties of actual characters that have personalities in more serious shows – I wanted to feel like I’m getting away with something. It’s been a while, so I can’t really relate anymore, but I kind of get it.
As it stands, Shinmai Maou is tied with Masou Gakuen HxH as the most openly lecherous show I’ve ever seen that stands on a knife’s edge. A light breeze could tip it over into being hentai. That said, unlike Masou Gakuen, I did in fact not hate it. The basic notion of how the fanservice wor…
Read at the sourceAyakaze
In short, this ‘Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha’ is a more ecchi version of ‘Date A Live’. has some obvious flaws, but it is still worth watching. Its plots are a bit platitudinous; just ordinary protecting endangered girls. However, it tells a continuous story without significant logical failures, which is kind of rare in such ecchi harem genre. Also, the plots provide the characters with reasonable motivation to do the ecchi activities, while some of competitor anime make characters love and f**k each for no reason.
The ecchi scenes are wonderful. They are the Essential parts with the best animation in the anime. However, that there is no f**king scene is a bit sad.
Plot(4/7)/Animation & Art(1/2)/Action(1/1)/Erotica Extra Points(2)
Total 8/10
Read at the sourceAlabama_wigger
Fuck this shit. it sucks my massive bull testicles
do not fucking watch if you still have even the slightest bit of self-respect. I thought the characters were as useless as a broken pencil. The main character looked like someone tried to force him into a paper shredder but failed. The story is also bad. WHOEVER WROTE THIS CRAP, SHOULD BE BURNED AT THE STAKE. I would rather have sexual intercourse with an illegal mexican than watch this shit again. The only slightly amusing part is the flashback where the mio persons dad had no arms then blew up. Why does the white haired chick have no breasts what-so-ever. I have seen flat chested and occasionally liked it but no cardboard is the only thing comparable to her breasts. GOD DAMN THIS SHIT ASS ANIME!
Read at the sourceZaku88
Testament is an action-based ecchi that caters to all tastes in every sense of the word. Need a dosage of hero? Check. Need a loli succubus? Check. Need a childhood friend? Check. Need a horny little sister? Check. Need a cleavage upgrade? Check. Need contractual weapons/relationships? Check. Need an overtly aggressive school nurse? Check. Need a demon world? Check. The list goes on but I'd rather not bore you further. In comparison to other shows, it is closest in my mind to High School DxD in terms of setting as well as ecchi levels. It does borrow heavy from numerous other shows such as Touma's nullification power (Index), the hero with demon theme that we've seen in numerous other shows (Yusibu, Hataraku Maou-sama, Maoyuu), and the need of a hero to check heroines' powers (Date a Live)…
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It’s quite an achievement to stumble across something so unfathomably bad that you struggle to find the right words to sum up how awful it can be. The okatu-pandering, aimless and empty Shinmai Maou no Testament fits the bill and is the latest offering to leave me speechless for the wrong reasons. It’s a self-insert power fantasy featuring a sad excuse for a cast, the bulk of which whose sole purpose is attempting to procreate with a main character who has the charisma of beige wallpaper. Perhaps the most laughably bad aspect of Testament is that there is an attempt to weave a plot into the show, because the sole purpose of the events that take place is to force characters into cringe-inducing sexual acts with each other. It’s repulsive. Not a skerrick of Testament is memorable and not one…
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Shinmai Maou no Testament is definitely an interesting series. Evidently, a range of inconsistent reviews render it to the category of "you either hate it or love it".
The overall story is simplistic at best. The character development offers nothing unique; a hot red-head is presented as the primary love interest, a long lost childhood friend is introduced almost immediately after, former enemies develop feelings for the main character, and so on. Most of these clichés are now well-established fragments of the harem genre.
The battle scenes are not exactly terrible, nonetheless they offer nothing special. The overall animation and sound quality are also quite ordinary and not memorable.
Well then, it begs the question; why is an average, mediocre series rather interesting? Bluntly spea…
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MOD NOTE: May contain spoilers.
Watching a car rust is more interesting than this show.
Dripping with excessive fanservice, Shinmai Maou no Testament (The Testament of Sister New Devil) is a failure beyond words. Enter Basara, a seemingly "normal" high school student, who, in reality, is an ex-member of the Hero Clan. Two demons enter his life - Mio and Maria - who will forever change the course of his life.
Seems pretty straightforward, right? Not.
The Testament of Sister New Devil's plot is foremost its weakest point. Without going into too much detail, there are too many plot elements that are unexplained or weakly developed. For instance, we do not know much about the Hero Clan except how it centers around Basara and his father. Its purpose is briefly mentioned, but the anime doesn…
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A lot of people havent enjoyed this anime, the score is honesty much lower then I think it should be. People have their own reasons for not liking it, but if I had to say what one big reason for why people didnt like it, it would be the DAMN CENSORSHIP OVERLOAD.
I actually started watching this series when it aired, I watched the first episode then immediately gave it a 4 and dropped it.
Why?
Because the censorship was so ridiculous I couldnt take this anime seriously, the censors ruin any mood that is built up.
But then the uncensored version was released, and so I gave it another try and was not disappointed.
Story: 6
Its fine, protagonist protects girl from baddies. Honestly not much, pretty generic but done right.
Art: 7
The characters look good, the backrounds are solid, but nothin…
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Well, this has been the biggest roller-coaster of lewdness and perversity i've watched since DxD, but that doesn't mean it's good, nor does it mean it's bad, but, eh, this show just hits some buttons right and some very wrong, and i'm not even sure which ones, well, this should be fun...
Story: 7
So, Shinmai Maou no Testament follows our lovely MC Toujou Basara, as he is suddenly thrown in the deep end with his two brand-spanking new step sisters being demons, and what's that?!? Basara is actually a former hero from the opposing clan?!? WHAA-? As you can see, these *cough* innovative *cough* introductions basically plot out the course of the show, with the introduction of new characters at frequent intervals, and the big finale practically writing itself. The story isn't bad by any means…
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Very similar to HS DxD, but with more ecchiness. I mean, the intimate sexual acts are really great, you either would call this hentai but its not but it looks like one.
God/Angels vs. Demons vs. Humans and within them thier own faction issues like betrayal and forming new alliances.
And the master servant pact.... its both a curse & benefit, depends on which side you are.
Basara's personality drastically changes during the master-servant initiation ceremony and the side effectsafter pact was made. From a gentalmanly calm, naive, innocent seemly clueless teenage boy on how to make his servants happy by making them moan in ectasy, he begn to make sexual acts (ala hentai way) towards them and for a moment he was ashamed and refuse to do so..... talk about playing it hard to get.....
Mio seems…
Read at the sourceBanjoTheBear
(This has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
The Testament of Sister New Devil seems like a rather generic anime. And for the most part, it is: there is no shortage of magic, nakedness, and harems within it. But it at least attempts to play with the theme of protection. Which is funny when you think about it; in an anime whose strongest aspect is the very “ecchi” it thrives on, you’d think that “protection” would be the furthest idea from its mind. Regardless, this is what the show hones in on. Protecting the things you love, especially those people dearest to you, is something that we all do whether we know it or not. And while this one tries its best to flaunt this motif, the majority is mediocrity that suppresses any sense of worth it may have.
STORY
Testament…
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Just read the review...
STORY
If I were to guess at first, this show is basically a HighSchool DxD clone. Down to the presentation, character design and, to some extent, the storyline. As such, Shinmai Maou no Testament basically includes devils, a harem for the MC, and the obligatory fan service.
I would be lying if I say that I didn't enjoy the show it its entirety, there were some aspects of the show that were noteworthy at most. But overall, the story is just generic, bland and predictable. The fan-service, though obligatory in this kind of anime, does somewhat annoy me. There are even scenes that's just borderline hentai! Speaking of which, I can't really blame the producers of the show of the amount of hentai present, since it is an 'indirect' element in the story. There are some d…
Read at the sourcetorrapamii
How to easily earn money without putting much story into it:
Step 1) Make your anime with a shit load of ecchi (this anime is borderline hentai) and put harem in there.
Step 2) ??????
Step 3) Profit.
Story: 6/10
The story isn't that original, mainly because I've seen other successful ecchi anime that have this story. Not only was the story unoriginal, but they also made the anime before Highschool DxD BorN's first episode. Though, a lot of people do enjoy these types of stories (mainly because of the fan-service and harem, duh) and personally I do too, but without too much fan-service. The ecchi was basically borderline-hentai and overdone. If you want to watch ecchi, you might as well just watch a hentai. The action was actually quite decent, because the main character had a special…
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According to me, this is High School DxD on steroids. Don't get me wrong, I really like High School DxD. But I like this one better. Why, you ask?
Story is okay. It makes more sense to me than the HS DxD one. There are demons, the demon world and the hero clan. The MC is from the hero clan, and his dad has once been known all across the world as the "god of war" and feared like that. And out of the blue, he tells him that he got with a new woman and that she has two daughters and now he has two sisters. Tell me whatever you want, but that's a more "believable" story than DxD one.
Anyway, the MC is like Issei, but gets way more ass than him. Be warned though that unlike DxD here ---- there is censoring. I hate this anime for that and I've read that others hate it too. For a good reason. T…
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"I can't abandon a girl when people are after her life just because she's the previous demon lord's daughter. I'm going to protect her! But... Am I allowed to have only one precious thing to me? Must I limit myself to one?"
No, that's not me pretentiously attempting to attach some meaning or something -- Those are a few lines of dialog that summarize Shinmai Maou no Testament. It's all you need to know about the show, as it is about just as much as the show cares to let us know.
So yeah, Shinmai Maou no Testament is another harem whose sole purpose for existing is to fill out a time-slot. A show that makes you wonder if the people behind the scenes are engaging in copyright wars from making such an uninspired amalgamation of several elements from other shows put together to make the sam…
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(reposted because I apparently forgot to update my episode count to show as complete. Derp)
TL:DR: Testament of Sister New Devil is ecchi at its most ecchi & not in the least bit ashamed of it. It's the kind of show that validates every criticism & concern non-ecchi fans have of the genre & non-anime fans have about Japanese cartoons in general. But aside from that, it's pretty fun, albeit in a masochistic, I can't believe what I'm watching but I can't look away kind of way. Not to be watched with other people in the room...or within hearing distance.
Boobs. If there is one thing teenage boys & lonely authors love, it's boobs. Boobs can be big; they can be small; sometimes they're not there at all. But one thing is for sure, where there are women, there are boobs. & where there are boobs…
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Shinmai Maou no Testament... man this show was ALL OVER THE PLACE
One minute I'm watching and it feels like a pretty darn good action anime...which then falls apart into a mediocre "comedy" ecchi harem that borderlines hentai...
So basically the story is...
Basara is moving into his new home with his newly adopted sisters Mio and Maria. Basara is told by his father to protect his "sisters" because they are now family. All seems well until all 3 "siblings" discover that none of them are who they appear to be. Basara and his father are actually exiles from the "Hero Clan" and are natural born fighters whose mission is to stop and destroy evil demons. Meanwhile Mio is actually the daughter of the former Demon Lord, and Maria is a succubus who is protecting her. Basara decides to keep his p…
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This is the closest harem to Highschool DxD that I've seen yet. That is a plus in my opinion although everyone seems to either hate or like this series.
The story is rather simplistic but overall interesting to see the relationships between the demons and hero clan. I think there is much more depth to be mined in future seasons.
The OP and ED are very reminiscent of Highschool DxD in both the style of animation and type of music used. The music is good and fits the show.
The characters are underdeveloped which is to be expected for a harem that consists of only 12 episodes. I think more complexity will be added in following seasons especially with the revelations of the last episode which does hint at a greater depth than previously seen.
I enjoyed this series. It's very humorous an…
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Shinmai Maou no Testament - or the Testament of SIster New Devil is another one of this season's battle harems. With focus on powers, ecchi and girls, this is the typical classic harem, just better. Definitely recommended for everyone who likes a good story.
Story: 7/10
Surprisingly, this is one of the stronger parts of this show. While many harems tend to have a very brainless story, the plot is just secondary and mostly disappoints. However Shinmaoi Maou manages to introduce quite a lot of interesting plot twists and introduce mysterious characters masterfully, while still keeping faith to the usual harem tropes. It also set a good basis for the second season. Sadly, the big picture of the storyline remains predictable and a tad generic.
Art: 9/10
While mainly used to animate boobs and…
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For the past couple years, the idea of Ecchi has changed dramatically, and what anime is allowed to showcase over the course of their runtime. As the years went on, the idea of what is ecchi and what is hentai has been blurred to the point of almost crossing over into one another. And here, I believe that we have an example of that right here. Here it is, a review of Shinmai Maou no Testament, or The Testament of Sister New Devil, a show that I believe, like many others, could've done better as hentai.
Story (6.11/10): The story of Sister Testament as I call it, follows the life of a boy named Toujou Basara, a boy who has a father who is remarried, gaining two little stepsisters in the process. However, not is all that it seems, as it is later revealed that the two "sisters" that he now…
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