Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de

I found this title buried in my watch-list and dove right in without looking it up. And binged it in one go. As others have already pointed out: if you're looking for epic clashes between super heroes, look elsewhere. This is a standard school life harem and the whole magic thing exists mainly as reason for some parts of the plot to happen. It is overall light-hearted, cute and funny. However, it does play the "more serious" card here and there with characters dealing with their anxieties or breakdowns as well as in the very scarce moments addressing the supernatural background plot. While the heroines are quite stereotypical, I wouldn't call them bland or shallow. They all have their moments. Two of them clearly get more developpement than the others but it doesn't feel like a big problem when looking back. Now for protag-kun, forget the usual shy loser finding himself in all kinds of involuntary groping situations, he's actually kind of awesome in his own way and doesn't seem to give much thought to the horny stuff. In fact, you could probably remove the romantic feelings and still end up with a nice story about friendships. Tomoyo's secrets would still work the same. The impressive "WAKANAI" speech would still hit home. Kudos to her jp VA for such a powerful delivery. (The dubbed version of this scene falls short to be honest. She sounds like a teen shouting at her parents because she got grounded.) On the production side, I don't have any critics to formulate: the animation is fine, the musics and FX work well and help set the mood. When it comes to the supernatural part of the show, it is actually kind of frustrating that we don't get to see more of it but there is a reason for it in this story so it's... acceptable. But I'd say this first season could be a very cute introduction to a second part focusing on the whole other side. Too bad it's not the case.

people seem or probably misunderstand the anime story and why is it just a "normal High-school harem genre anime" or so that's what they call it, and I feel like I understand what does the anime title means now, and why is everything seems so normal.. "when supernatural battles became commonplace".. a supernatural battle indeed.. (just so you know, this contains spoilers, anywho..) just like the title said, the "supernatural battle" must've been referring to this whole War thing about fairies and group F's or something, I still haven't know more about it cause I don't read manga's that much, and I'm broke. and secondly "supernatural battle became commonplace". sure indeed.. a common thing where everything is normal.. well at least for the virgin child squad lmao, while on the outside world, the others are fighting to their death with powers because of this "war" that is occurring right now, and I'm guessing the anime will get crazier and crazier since I don't read the manga, I'd doubt that the story gets darker and darker, and things get intense, I bet. anywho, what I'm trying to say is that I'm just explaining what does anime mean is. and just so you know, this anime isn't really about people fighting with their superpowers and stuff, well there are some scenes about it, but there isn't that much, which is pretty "common" I guess? but I think this is at least a good anime and has a nice story, I'd say decent. not to mention that the animation is outstanding, and good lord the fan-service isn't "overused" in this one. overall, this anime is decent. not that bad or not that good. so It's decent, sadly this is an old anime from 2014, and won't get another season because of the budget, and It's strangely Underrated in my opinion, literally. I really love animes that are from the old times, right now around 2018 - 2020, the animes are just a bunch of isekai stuff, and overuse fan service scenes.. which is disappointing. that's at least all I gotta say about it, nothing else, just too clear out a misunderstanding about what does the anime title really meant, and is it really good or not.. to be honest, I'd totally recommend you watch this if you like High-school romcom and somehow a plot-twisting supernatural one.

It's a good Anime. Those who want to watch anime with simple story and comedy this anime is perfect. All the character are really interesting and if you like comedy with romance its a perfect work. I had watched all the episodes from 1 to 12 and each episode contains two different stores. But I truly don't Understand why the producers stop completing the story and left the anime. The earning is not just important. Those who love to watch certain anime really do expect the completion of the series. Anime is different things which cannot be replaced by the manga or Novel. I hope so, may be producer changes their mind and get us new season for this anime.

I would be lying if I say that I was not disappointed in the show. This show was no where near the expectations that I have with this. Even though it fulfilled the genre involved quite well but still it lacked something animes based this kind of theme ought to have- "Some serious battles, whether like life and death type or even mock battles similar to shows like Asterisk War or Irregular at Magic High School." The art work was quite good, so do was sound effects. The character development could have been a lot better with lesser time consumption. The progress of the show was slow. The direction was not good either. Don't know what the direction team wants to convey, they skipped quite a few major events with little to no info about events during the skipped period but devote more than 2 episodes for somewhat silly romance element. I know that was also relevant but frankly I felt those could have been paced a bit better. Felt more like watching filler episodes. The story was something that destroyed the show. May be the light novel have more content (I guess it would) but what the show adopted was more like an overstretched version of introduction of a potentially great story. What else to say about this show. I doubt that I would recommend this show to anyone else. Also, I don't think I would watch any subsequent season of this show that might come someday.

A poor man's Chu2byou. That's basically what this anime boils down to. WARNING: This review may be LONG, LONG-WINDED, and contain some MINOR SPOILERS (not like that should matter though) Studio Trigger were riding a high in the years 2013-2014 fresh off saving anime with Kill la Kill and charming everyone with Little Witch Academia. So why did they make something like this? As far as MAL is concerned this is the only LN adaptation they have done yet and they haven't dabbled with it since they made this in 2014. Did they blindly follow the craze of LN adaptations which just started to explode into the scene at the time? Judging from the quality of this anime as well as what this anime says I have a sneaking suspicion that might be the case. If you go into this anime expecting a fast-paced battle-action anime where our rag-tag group of main characters use superpowers to battle for survival against circumstances put against them, you'd be disappointed. If you expected this anime to be a more grounded realistic take on the typical "characters with superpowers do quirky antics" shtick where they hunker down on the explanations and see how possessing powers affects their livelihood and brings around new trials to their everyday struggles as outcast, you'd also be disappointed. So what if I look at the bright colours and the comedy-harem tag, and all the recommendations from Chu2 that may have brought you here? You'd also be disappointed. Why? This anime doesn't know what it wants to be, what it can do, and what it should do. It's very apparent that this anime tries to do a spin on the battle powers genre with a bunch of characters suddenly given powers. Like the tittle implies, they go around their daily lives as normal people who just happen to have powers. This is not a particularly unique setting but it is something that can be explored on multiple levels. This anime elects to take a more grounded Slice of Life route that contains comedy and wacky hi-jinks. This, combined with its frequent jabs and nods to actual power-fantasy stories that we see everywhere, could have actually made a pretty good comedy parody in addition to being a good SoL. This anime however, fails to do so for various reasons. Not least of which is the fact that its really hard to care about the characters. Any SoL anime is built on its characters. The characters of Inou Battle just aren't compelling to watch or follow. They're all basically one-note stereotypes. There's the Chu2-esque MC who I'll expand on latter. There's the kind and caring childhood friend, the stern yet troubled Club President (Oh did I mention they were in a highschool club? The most goddamn overused and abused setting? Nope? Okay.), the red-haired tsundere who does tsundere things, and the token loli. I know perfectly well that the story does this purposely to build up expectations before proceeding to subvert them, but this anime...sort of doesn't. Never do the characters in any way act outside of what is expected of them. This anime follows an episodic style which sees the MC interact with a chosen girl-of-the-week in your typical harem encounters to build love points/meter/gauge etc which doesn't do anything but get out female MCs to like our male MCs. Never once have I thought that these characters could have lives outside of this show's incredibly closed and looped-around world where they don't revolve around our male MC. It doesn't help that the anime never gives them any meaningful development that sticks nor do they show the consequences of said development which really burns in such a character-reliant show. Chifuyu gets the first standalone episode and she is the victim of some of the worst character building of the series. It's heavily implied by the anime that she usually spends long bouts of time alone even though she's a child because her parents don't hang around for some unexplained reason. Okay, cool. You got something you can build your character on and have her resolve slowly throughout the anime. No? What? Who's this Cookie girl? Nothing about her is explored, not the motivations for her hanging around the Literature Club with the other MCs, not her aunt who's a teacher and somewhat of an important character who is hardly ever in the show and you probably forgot about her, not anything. Her main purpose after her episode is to be a cute mascot and that's about it. Though I will admit the MC shouting out loud that he was a lolicon for a gag did bring some shades of Araragi (Oh how I wish he was even a fraction of the character Araragi is). Tomoyo and Hatoko are two sides of the same coin and if you've seen any harem anime or know literally anything about VN romance harems you know their interactions with each other and the male MC. Tomoyo never breaks out of the tsundere character mold and her being a LN writer brought bad memories of other pseudo-meta bullshit that other light novels throw in their wok for shallow self-gratification. It never reaches that point but that was at least something you could have built her character on but her development never felt natural. It all boils down to another "Oh the male MC is doing what literally any reasonable human being would do, I think I want to bang him". Outside of that, she also has wasted potential in that she was a chu2 herself and her brother is somehow a major character in this show. The anime does nothing to advance these bases in any meaningful way outside of making our MC look good. Hatoko is probably the most basic character of the cast yet she has one of the most infamous scenes in anime and arguably a reason why this show got some attention. She is very much your typical childhood friend but she carries the burden of being the main torpedo to sink the power-fantasy vessel that is the fleet ship of the very shows this series subverts. Her emotional call-out in her designated episode was very impressive to say the least - helped immensely by Hayami Saori's powerful voice. SHe clearly expresses how she is not only angry at the MC but also at herself for not understanding him. It makes it all the more infuriating that the anime doesn't do any meaningful followup on this instead giving us a stupid might-as-well be filler episode in the follow up. And then she returns to being the childhood friend character with the only difference being she likes the male MC more and, instead of discussing more of the inherent flaws of the male MC, actually puts him on a higher pedestal than the one he was knocked off in the pipe-bomb outburst. His inherent flaws are instead re-stringed to somehow be positive, helpful traits of the MC. God I hate what the anime did with that. Sayumi is...basic...I have no idea what to think about her...Her character itself isn't too bad. It's kind of a typical club president trope. But she's a good example of how awfully the anime handles its character building. Most of what we learn from her in her episode comes from her sister - a character purely there to provide us raw exposition and nothing else. Like, really? The MC just so happens to leave his notebook at her house so she has a good excuse to call the MC to dump exposition. That episode (6) makes the flaws of this series apparent. Whenever this series needs to get a move on with the story they just blindly introduce new characters you would forget about (the teacher, Saymi's sister, Kuki, etc.) or rashly throw events at our group just because they have powers. The male MC is...really annoying. It's not that I dislike him or his character archetype but I hate the style in which he was handled. There is no more wasted potential among the other characters than this guy. Why is he chu2? Why is he in the literature club? Why are his powers useless? Why do you somehow manage to subtely give us clues on his character (like him having good marks) but then never give us any explanation as to how he is like that nor have the anime do anything which shows it …

Inou-Battle is an anime that doesn't know what it wants to be. This may be due at least in part to it being an adaptation, but I can't comment on that having not read the source material. In any case, it starts out really strong. The premise is really fun and initially well done. Even though there are superpowers, they're there as a comedic device to create interesting situations. For awhile, there was no indication that it would stray from keeping to its premise of a regular high school club suddenly gaining superpowers, experimenting, and having a laugh with them. The characters all seemed really interesting at first, and it looked like a few more superpower-wielding characters were set to be introduced. Unfortunately, things went downhill steadily, starting after the introduction of the first new superpower user... because, well, despite being introduced, she then promptly disappears and is hardly touched again. After this, Inou-Battle experiences an identity crisis. What started out as a light-hearted comedy suddenly takes a dark turn out of nowhere with the introduction of the "fairy war" concept and a large cast of undeveloped characters who somehow get additional screen time despite this. But just as suddenly as it turns dark, it jumps back to comedy. Then romance. Then you start to notice it's feeling like a harem because all of the conveniently female club members start falling for the male lead. Meanwhile, you realize that you haven't seen or heard anything about the club's superpowers in several episodes, with the only superpower-related scenes being about the completely unrelated fairy war with the cast of extras who are ultimately never connected to the main cast. And, in the end, the romance aspect never goes anywhere either. The farther into the show you get, the more distorted it becomes. As I mentioned at the beginning, I suspect this is likely because of poor adaptation. It seems to me that the producers wanted to focus on the light-hearted comedy aspect, using the superpowers and characters' personalities/interactions. However, they ended up shackled by having to include the original aspects of the source material, which presumably include the darker parts of the story. However, without enough time to develop everything in detail, the serious side just ends up as a disaster that ruins a perfectly good comedy. As much as I loved the first few episodes, I can't in good conscience recommend watching this anime because I think that, like me, you'll end up disappointed. The strong start makes the terrible mess that it becomes so much harder to endure. However, if you like chuunibyou and superpower comedy with a touch of seriousness, I recommend Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai. It's quite similar to Inou-Battle, but is cohesive. Though the superpowers are all imaginary, rather than real.

It's alright I guess. You could even say it is a bit of a unique show. I had fun watching it. Not too much fun but juts enough. There are interesting ideas here. I get it is mostly slice of life, but not really. It's about friendship and romance (but only from the girls' side, as the guy is 100% clueless). So if you are expecting to see romantic development, you won't. If you are expecting so see supernatural battles or something, you also won't. Maybe psychological exploration of what it means to have a superpower? Nope. It's a very lighthearted show. I would call it a bit shallow, but that's not exactly correct either, as it does have a few serious moments where characters talk about real things. As I said I enjoyed it, as it was easy to watch and lighthearted, and sometimes that's all you need. Nothing too bad about the show either, it's just a bit mediocre. From what I've written so far it maybe sounds that I didn't like the show, but the main thing I didn't like is that it isn't finished. Idk how many people will go read the manga / VNs after watching, but I doubt it's many. Idk if it's even good. I wish they had 1 more season of the show to bring it to ANY conclusion. It just ends into nothing. Even though it is kinda slice of life, also it has a few other things going for it, it could have a few interesting storylines if it bothered to develop them. I can't say the pacing is bad, so this definitely needed another season. It could have been fantastic. Unfortunately as it stands, neither the romantic development or superpower stuff goes anywhere; rather the show ends before there is even a chance for it to go anywhere. Therefore I can't recommend it, but I can't call it bad either. It is surely not for everyone though, it is a peculiar show.

It was alright. Nothing insanely special, but surely worth a watch if you like supernatural + romance. Other then that, it wasn't much of a watch. Character development is good, but definitely needs another season. You can't really expect much done when you got 4 girls and one guy, especially trying to cramp it all into 12 episodes. Like i get that the base is that they all have powers, but the MC having such a bland special power and being able to do absolutely nothing with it, i don't know, like just don't give him any at all at that point. -Nice Artstyle -Good character development -story is a bit lacking but good enough TLDR: Neat watch if you're bored, but definitely won't pick you up.

This show doesn't really go anywhere. If you're looking for a time-killer with minimal plot, this is an option. If you think there's any real depth to this, you'd be wrong. It's pretty clear from the start that this anime does not intend to try and give you a good, well thought out story. The writers clearly had a concept that they wanted to write about, came up with an ending that they wanted, then just made up a reason to lead to it happening. Everything is technically there for a story, it's all just really bland. It's a bang average anime. If you're looking for something non-consequential to put on while not really paying full attention or caring about what you're watching, it's good. It's entertaining enough to not regret watching. I initially gave this a 7 because I found it to be good for what it is, a time-killer; then I watched more anime and realized I needed to be harsher because it couldn't be hanging around other series' that properly earned 7s.

In the past few days I have really felt the supernatural battles around me to the core of my heart, When I was only expecting some fun I got a story smack sandwich, half of it being the nice pat on the head by that comedy and cuteness overload and the other half being those long lasting drama sadness hits that could not be replaced by anything. These ingredients with salt and sugar together were the mix of that beautifully constructed story smack sandwich. Considering that poster, the rating, the tags, the genres, I expected a fun relaxation time with some laughs here and there but not only I got that, moreover I got a taste of that heart pounding feeling of romance beating me in any sensible sensation possible. When I am laughing to the fun plot and I get hit with truck of emotions I truly feel help less with words. This character design will free you of your endless thoughts, slapping you with many dramatic lines, dragging you to the depth of the story, makes you feel what the characters feel. And who am I to not to talk about the best voice acting I have ever heard, though, ashamed to say I was spoiled, it made me sit up right put my headphones on and with a high volume blast my ear drums with the great acting done by miss Saori Hayami for the second time. I have heard that shooting that scene in the voice acting studio was a sight to witness and I'm sure so many people after seeing that scene will agree with such fact. Where is the detail? As some what of a ritual that I always follow, I first proceed to compliment the greatness of my subject and then destroy it with the also noteworthy truth. The characters gave me so much to work with but I could never use them in their own world with how simple it was. Maybe another season with more story and more detail would make the amazing character writing shine in their world but as of this season the story is rather dull making the characters also stand somewhat far from what they actually are and result in a few somewhat confusing plots. I will also mention how long it took for the true sides of this dramatic character design to show themselves dividing the anime into two parts of fun start and dramatic end. With all the truths shoved in your face are you ready to have some fun with a bit of highschool romance drama?

I think someone else said it best. Watching this is like going into a burger place expecting some okayish burgers, and finding out they make some really good tacos. Most of the plot of the show would be exactly the same if there were no superpowers. The main character's power does not allow him to fight at all. It's a rom-com with some funny, but not super original characters. If anything, the show's big selling point is probably that it's a rom-com with much less annoying versions of our favorite archetypes that don't feel like the characters were simply strewn together. There's an actual connection between them, and it's a great show about friendships. Characters 9/10 - MC: Yuuta Togashi is the better chunnibyou MC. He's a more dynamic and interesting character. Tsundere: She's a fairly layered character with an interesting connection to the MC, and isn't violent towards him. Kuudere: She's a more boring, less cute, and less psychopathic version of Satori Tamaba. Oujodere: Very cool. Classic oujodere. A more boring but less whiny version of Utaha Kasumigaoka. Main loli: Cute, but lacking in a lot of personality. Side loli: Bubbly but doesn't get enough screen time. Overall, the characters aren't super original or interesting themselves. They all have 2-4 main personality traits that drive them as characters and the author is consistent with them. Where the characters shine is not as standalone but in their relationships. Story: 6/10 - The story isn't terribly interesting, and isn't delved into a lot. For some of the episodes, if you were to reorder them, the story would still make perfect sense. The character arcs/relationships arcs are the most interesting part of the story, as opposed to a somewhat classic plot-driven story. It teeters on the edge between being a slice of life, and a thriller. Overall: 8/10 - A lot of it has been done before, and the title is misleading, but where the show shines carries it really hard: The relationships between the characters. If there was more focus on the dynamics between the main cast that don't involve the MC directly, I'd have rated it higher, but it primarily focuses on MC-to-character interactions or group interactions. The other great thing about the show is that the writers don't do weird baits to drag out the story, where they tease a confession or some other major plot event, and then have some really convenient interruption that prevents it, and the whole scene turns out to be filler.

This show is garbage. In any other series where the characters get supernatural powers, they would usually be explained the reason they got them in the first place. But not in this dumpster fire. They were just chilling at their clubroom, and now all of a sudden all the main characters are ability users. It was later revealed (spoilers) that the big brother of one of the heroine wanted to keep them out of a fight which weren't even explained. Seriously? Everyone just agreed to that? I'm pretty sure that if this is a series that makes more sense, a jerk or two would attack them anyway. But nope. They were only attacked twice. I saw a reviewer saying that this show is more focused on slice of life part rather than the actual battle, to that I say he/she is completely right. The issue I have with this is that what's the point of giving them powers if they're just going to fool aorund with them anyway? you could literally take away the parts where they used their powers, and most scenes of the show would still make sense. And the characters! The MC is an annoying chuuni garbage who's somehow a chick magnet for just being kind at the right time. And the worst part is his holier-than-thou attitude. He told a girl that she can't just go around and revive people with her powers, and he told another that she can't go create life with hers. I mean, f*** off! Who are you to tell others what they can and cannot do with their powers? and even if they did, what are you going to do? Give them a cringey chuuni speech? Try to stop them with your garbage power? Just go rot in a corner and get NTR'd, you freaking dumbass. The girls aren't any nice either for the sole reason that they're in love with the garbage. I can't really be bothered to elaborate about them.

Spoiler-free The anime was cute and enjoyable, but at the end I felt more of a "that's it? it feels like it's missing a lot" kind of wanting more rather than a "that was good! give me more!" feeling. The anime seemed largely directionless, (and the jumping from scene to scene was a bit confusing at times, but not to the point that the viewer gets lost completely), but at least the small paths it took were entertaining. I'm a fan of drama, so I enjoyed a lot of the tension and conflict in the show (between the main characters), but the "overall" story was lacking quite a bit. Like I mentioned before, it was very directionless. There are seeds sown for a larger story, but the seeds are hardly interesting, and take away from the direction the anime seems to go with the actual main characters. It seems almost like they got to the twelfth episode and went "uhh what are we doing? just sort of wrap up this random plot point we added in and hope we get the green light for a season 2?" (take a look at when this anime came out... it's not happening). The anime also misses many opportunities to explain and show how difficult it was for the kids to develop powers, but instead all we get is a couple of lines of dialogue saying "it was hard". A lot of depth is missing here. The characters aren't very fleshed out, and the decisions some of the girls make don't make sense, nor do they seem to fit their characters. The MC is a generic harem MC, which is to be expected, anyway, so I don't really fault the show for that, but it would have been easy to make the girls a bit more enjoyable in their own rights. The show even set aside an entire episode to explain each girl, but instead of providing important depth, those episodes were largely spent on filler-type plot points that didn't add anything to the story. The show is really saved by the art style and animation for me. I enjoyed the visuals quite a lot. If the interactions weren't so entertaining (in a junk-food kind of way, though), I would have rated the show much lower.

History: 6.4 It is not bad at all, everything is going on in that a group of students got powers which gives for some narrative content and being a comedy, a good use is made of superpowers so that the plot advances, it fulfills its function of entertaining and add some more things so it is good but without anything very remarkable Animacaion and Drawing: 6.25 In some scenes the animation was quite good but in most of the series there was nothing very remarkable Music: 6.3 The opening and ending are good as well as the ost which was very well used but there is nothing very remarkable Characters: 5,605 There are different points in which there are remarkable interactions between the protagonist and the girls but again there is nothing remarkable except for that, I see a lack of development in almost all of them since the only development that I see in some is that they fall in love with the protagonist But in Censia everyone remains the same from start to finish