If you want to know how I got around to watching this, I had a friend over and put on some random anime. We watched a few episodes while basically messing around on our phones, I think he was chatting with girls on Tinder while I was just looking at random dolls and women I follow on Instagram that look like dolls; so there you go. Anyway, about a few episodes in; it started to click with my friend. For me, Absolute Duo is a pretty run-of-the-mill harem anime. Insert adolescent male youth into a school where his spirit is being tested for some magical quality. Throw in a bunch of waifus and especially hook him up with a damn near loli waifu that has some special locked power, not to mention a past that left her with a scar on her back. The slice of life scenes outside the school are quite comical as well as a few other scenes in the anime. There are definitely ecchi scenes a present, with bouncing breasts to be found from their bunny girl maid teacher and the English transfer student; who actually made a rather good mark on the series when she first appeared as an an enemy of sorts. Most of the students use energy swords, but she used a sort of psionic sniper rifle. This rifle surprisingly can take lives just as well as a real gun with bullets and my friend and I were both shocked when we’d seen what was effectively a mass shooting in a mall that left three people dead. Now considering the nature of mass shootings these days, you would think that this English woman would be headed to prison; but not so in the world of anime. Not to mention the fact that during the battle with her mid-way through the series, she also takes out a few students – permanently. Yeah, so get used to death in this anime. Things can get especially dark and violent, especially when the enemy of the series appears as what may as well be a hundred year old man in a twenty-year old’s body. Why? Because he apparently killed the locked power girl’s father and she was still very young when that happened. Not to mention the fact that dude hasn’t aged a bit since then. There’s a few interesting moments in the anime where ninja battles are had during Summer Break and of course, the final battle between our hero and this armored villain; who manages to nearly kill him until the locked power girl unlocks her power and pretty much destroys him. They use the Absolute Duo power to rid of him completely and that’s the end of that. There’s also the bizarre instance of the English transfer student’s ownership of our hero. She basically said the she wants to marry the dude, even though she knows that he and unlocked power girl have some great magical bond. That being said, they’re sitting at the table while she’s sipping tea and this guy has to ask her for permission to go see unlocked power girl in the hospital. What the fuck? Do you have no spine? That’s one thing that I think really bugs me about this anime, the guy acts like he’s a fucking worm until it comes to battle; which to be honest – he sucks at. The man who killed unlocked power girl’s father has way more balls than the boy I’m supposed to root for in this anime. All in all, I’m quite glad that there’s nothing more after this, because what I was doing on my phone was actually more exciting than this anime. Though the series has it’s moments, I found myself watching a bland harem anime with only a handful of total intrigue at best. My friend enjoyed it, but he hadn’t seen much harem anime to begin with. To each their own though.
(12 Episodes)
