Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Ayakaze
In short, this ‘Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha Departures’ is highly recommended because of its ecchi harem girls.
That the story has a cliffhanger ending seems to be a significant flaw of this anime, however, the story or plot itself is a minor part of such R15 OVA anime. Being a service anime produced by the energy-saving-ism Japanese animation industry, this anime does its part, which is to provide ecchi scenes and not to make significant logical flaws in the plot, fantastically. The story is a cliche, but characters do not do what they are supposed not to do. Plus, the harem girls are wonderfully cute and ecchi. The concentration of ecchi scenes of this anime is high among the R15 (Japan standard) anime.
Read at the sourceEarthPotato
It feels the same as season 1 and 2. There is nothing new about it, I find that the plot are absolute meh, feels generic to me.
My review are the same, it's repetitive ecchi scene that happened inside their daily life, the girl are hot, lewd and thirsty, especially when it come to the school teacher ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). For me I feel that these erotic scene with the school teacher itself carried the whole series/franchise. Even if the plot are fucking boring, the battle are fucking meh, the erotic scene is repetitive but when it comes to the scene on the school teacher I would come back for it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Read at the sourceWhiteRocket
This episode seems to be a structural segment developed to hold the interest of the audience for a while longer while the third season is coming together, and probably because there were some important story elements that needed to get established that wouldn't fit well into the episode outlines of the next series.
That said, it's a necessary view from a total story point of view, but those that have read the light novel series, as I have, will be disappointed as there seems to have been some unnecessary elements added or at least significantly modified, while other elements were substantially reduced or eliminated from the novels. Perhaps I'll create a forum thread to discuss that last issue, this probably isn't the place for comparisons with the novels in any depth. I will say that the…
Read at the sourceZiyall
Blue Balls of the century!!
It's a cute story to finish off the series. The animation is top quality, and some of the censoring done in this OVA was funny and well made for this being an anime.
My main annoyance with the entire show though, both the two seasons and the OVA (haven't seen the extra fanservice OVA, so can't comment on them), is that the main protagonist never actually get laid. He's surrounded by 5 hot ladies that services frequently, yet he never gets anything in return.
The fact that it is an anime and not a full blown hentai, means they can't show everything, I get that. But given how far they go to show skin, bunnies, tusch, even nipples (something I haven't seen outside of hentai, still fairly new to anime though), yet not even off screen sex. I just don't get that.…
Read at the sourceCataOrShane
Technical aspects first: there's plenty of instances where the dialog is not synced to the animation.
Okay, so this 1 hour special is a lot of near-hentai scenes with a little bit of story at the end. This is the reason why it's so bad. The story it gives is incomplete and there's still no news about a sequel after 2 years.
As far as fanservice goes, I feel that this series already showed everything so anything related to nudity, boobs, massages, kissing, licking, etc. has already been done with all these characters. Therefore, because there's nothing really new it was boring to watch all the near-hentai usual shenanigans.
All things considered, this was a 4/10 for me.
Read at the sourcehexashadow13
tl;dr: A solid prologue to a new arc that does everything you would expect from it in the context of Shinmai Maou, though ultimately it is just a prologue.
This isn't really a proper story but rather a prologue to the next arc in that it ends with them beginning to journey to towards the village. It focuses on establishing why returning to the village is an issue not just in terms of potential danger, but also in terms of bringing up old traumas for Basara, Yuki, and Kurumi. This is conveyed to the other members of the group, and in doing so it gets everyone on the same footing before departing, which naturally involves some decent relationship development not just between Basara and the rest of the group but also amongst the other group members themselves. This is able to occur because B…
Read at the sourceConsumedAM
This did not live up to the hype that was built through months of promotional material promising an animation so lewd that genital organs would spontaneously explode out of sheer excitement and joy. I was so looking forward to Chisato/Basara having an intimacy scene that would top the raw passion of the bath scene in the first OVA. Instead we got a lukewarm, rushed onsen scene that had zero build up and failed to capture any the raw sexual emotion of the light novel. There's a scene where Basara and Mio are making out in a cave under a waterfall which is...cool? It's nothing we haven't seen before dozens of times already. This OVA was supposed to introduce something new to the animated franchise and increase the lewdness to a level not seen in the BD and past specials. To cross that thin l…
Read at the sourcesuperior13
I'm writing this as somebody who has read the novels and understands the entirety of the series plot.
Visually Departures is the best the series has ever looked. There were some cool nods to LN fans with some of the characters casual clothes from SWEET! getting animated. The service scenes were never going to be on the same level as the novel, because that would have certainly pushed it into R18 territory, but the anime original scenes were a let down, because they lacked the variety and intensity of the novels.
I think Departures did a better job of setting up the Nonaka's getting summoned back to the Village, but the rest of the anime original content was kinda filler nonsense. They would have been better off just doing a straight adaptation of chapters 2 and 3 from volume 8.
There's…
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