seikon no qwaser (if this doesn't exaggerate its fanservice i'm gonna eat my hat... wait, i don't even wear hats -.-)

Written by sleepyrounin on August 31, 2012 at 4:17 AM

pros
+ nice concept (control iron -- not quite new if you think of e.g. controlling quartz in break blade, but it still works out... usually)
+ great animation
+ good character design
cons
- lacks a proper storyline
- dialogue isn't anything to get hyped about
- just short of being an average hentai (what's with the boatload of fanservice???)

conclusion: quite honestly, if i had seen this before i wrote my review for highschool of the dead, i think i would even have been able to give hotd a better rating. that one went overboard with the fanservice, but it's nothing compared to seikon no qwaser. seikon is without a doubt -the- non-hentai series coming closest to full-blown erotica. now i'm all for eye candy, but this boatload of fanservice simply drowns the story, and some parts are twisted like hell (milking underage girls? wth?? that's not even entertaining anymore, that's simply sickening).
the concept of being able to control iron is great, not exactly new (think about quartz in break blade), but it certainly would work out with the ecchi aspect lessened. the graphics in themselves are great, the character design is fine so far, and the mc would be interesting if they'd done the whole breast-milk thing differently (why are there devices that help the woman pump out (?) her milk so she can leave the baby to e.g. the rest of her family for a few hours? but no, ofc such things are unknown in this universe. =.=)
sense of my rant? a potentially good action/adventure series, but most of the potential just drowns in over-hyped 'ecchi'. if you don't mind near-hentai where it should be action, go ahead, you might love it. to me, this looks just too frivolous for its own good.

peace.