Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism: Doki! "Goken-darake" no Ian Ryokou

When in doubt, hot springs episode. You know the drill, it's a bonus OVA for if you bought the home media release so it's going to be fan-service and pandering the whole way through. Not bad if you liked these characters and you're into that, but nothing really of substance here. It's the kind of episode where after I was done watching it it had already pretty much left my brain, like it was never there at all. I had to go watch parts of it again for this review just to make sure there wasn't anything special about it I might have missed becauseI genuinely couldn't remember what had happened. Basically you can boil the plot besides the fact that they go to a hot spring down to a pissing match between the 5 swords girls over who can be the most tsundere. Honestly situations like these get so tiresome that's it's refreshing to see one of them just say what everyone is thinking. The girl at the end who actually gets protagonist did so by just admitting how she was feeling and taking what she wanted instead of hmming and hawing about it indefinitely. 7/10 hot springs

This OVA for Armed Girl's Machiavellism is jut a simple fanservice episode. If you don't like fanservice, don't watch it, if you do like fanservice, then do. The story continues where the main anime left off. The pacing is quite bad to transition from being in the school to going to a hot spring but the anime does address all steps however briefly. There is no real story apart from going to the hot spring though. The characters, voice acting and animation are all the exact same as in the main anime. Overall it's an alright fanservice episode with bad pacing.

As everyone knows, OVAs are a brief entertainment and a continuation of the story when a second season is not possible.Well, the anime itself is great, but I thought it ended very open-ended and only now that I discovered there was an OVA did I decide to watch it and it became even more confusing and open-ended. Watching the manga you understand but without addiction.Regarding the episode, it was basic, I thought they dragged it out a lot, especially in the study part, and some of the anime's fanservice scenes were better than the ones that were presented, but apart from that, it was asa normal episode final grade 8/10.

Another one of those "bonus" episodes bundled with a manga after the TV episodes have already been forgotten which in my case as soon as the last episode finished. Without any memory of the series that spawned this "special", it felt neither special nor a bonus. The harem cast was pretty much as generic as they come so to pair it up with a bog-standard cliche episode just underlines the typical problem with these type of standalone episodes. Any dialogue or story narrative is secondary, if even that with the emphasis solely to throw as much fanservice as possible on the screen but even thatdoes not stretch beyond mildly titillating. A boring way to waste time.

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