Oh, a couple of notes: I will NOT be reviewing Uta Koi, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, La storia della Arcana Famiglia, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Sword Art Online, and Tari Tari until further notice or heavy request. Sorry, don't have the time.
Secondly, fuck you Doki for messing up sub timings in NakaImo's final episode. It's not rocket science, guys...
Thirdly, fuck you Silver Link - that was a terrible thing to do, besides messing up Kokoro Connect as a series in whole. Now a perfectly good series has to be tarnished by the scumbags that you guys are. Will review more on this later.
The Lolium tigrinium (common name: Tiger Loli) is a species of loli native to northern and eastern Asia, including Japan. It is cultivated in Asia for its edible
To tell the truth, I held off on Oda Nobuna no Yabou until about the 4th of 5th episode. Gimme a break - would you have watched this series while Sengoku Collection was standing over it, reminding us all of how absolutely horrible a series about the Sengoku era could get? I didn't think so. So I watched it with some...trepidation.
To review this series reveals a consistent conflict in my interests, one that has plagued me ever since I started on this blog. Oda Nobuna no Yabou throws in the usual historical facts - enough to keep the viewers that don't really know much about this era ooh-ing and aah-ing at the obscure names and events, but with a smear of bullshit to scrape what little plot this series has across the railroad tracks. Yet, the production values (not just the girls, but also the fluidity of the frames, esp. during battle scenes) of this series is such that it managed to suck me in. Call me a sucker for good graphics, but seriously - it's hard to resist any battle series nowadays when they have a good level of animation, and the fanservice was just boosted by this increase in standards.
......
Oh! A bite!
A LOLI's on the hook!
Now, I'm not entirely sure as to how I would recommend this series. The plot is enough so that it gives tension to the romance/harem development while giving a very, VERY introductory shove into events that happened during the historical era, but not enough so that it's anything worth noting (it's actually not even really coherent between the battles...) However, I might venture to say that this lack of plot somewhat fits the selling point of Oda Nobuna no Yabou - after all, it's a series based on the romantic relation between the time-traveling prophet protagonist and the feminized conqueror of Japan (who's way too nice for her own good, because...you know...that's how heroines are and shit nowadays), as well as his harem.
Oh, and how he gets by in the world he's stuck in, with character development and all. That's sorta important too.
The point is, the historic event-focused plot serves to move the romance along, rather than the romance being a part (or even a byproduct) of the plot. In the end, I really can't recommend the series for its plot, yet the fanservice is also not as developed as it should be for a series that's centered around the protagonist's harem. By going the middle path between that of fanservice and plot coherence but rolling out the production value at the same time, I can only really give it the evaluation/curse that I have been giving to so many modern series thus far.
Recommendation: Watch it for the fanservice/harem-ish romance (the harem is implied), not for any real plot.
Loli Guard:
+3 vs seduction (+6 vs older women)
+10 to Lolicon
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