Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
January 6, 2011
Status:
Still Airing
Summary:
Infinite Stratos (IS), a weaponized exoskeleton system, has become the dominant tool of warfare and conflict. Unfortunately for the men in society, only women are able to operate Infinite Stratos... with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is ORIMURA Ichika, an orphan raised by his older sister who is herself a famous IS pilot. When his compatibility with IS is discovered after he accidentally touches an IS at the age of 15, he's given a scholarship and enrolled in a school that specializes in training IS pilots. Which of course means an... intersting life surrounded by girls for this shy, unassuming boy.
This was an obvious set up for harem I mean he's the only guy in the school so it was a given. However that doesn't mean in any way that its a bad anime on the contrary its quite good.
The animation is bright and smooth so all the scenes are easy to follow. There's very little dark scenes since this is a school life genre it takes places during the daytime not to mention the anime hardly touches the dark serious stuff so in the end I guess there was little need for dark scenes anyway. In some cases I thought the animation was a little out of place but then again that could just be me.
The characters are you usual harem characters childhood friends, a rich upherself person, a person with a promise of "marriage" to the main character and of course your classic romantic dense main character whose cluelessness gets him into most of the trouble.
The voice actors are pretty well suited to the characters there are a few familiar voices I found. The English dub was only recently released in America this year but looking at the cast they're not too bad (Hilary Haag really does such Rin's personality).
The soundtrack is pretty average nothing to go crazy about. Oh for the heads up the end credits song has various versions so if you get confused when looking it up the difference is the number of voices in the song and that's about it.
So for those after a mecha genre, likes or doesn't mind the harem and is after comedy then I'd suggest this anime to you. Its short and easy to finish. Unlike most harem the level of echi is very low and is more centred around the trouble Ichika gets into being the only guy in the school. If you enjoyed the anime then there's also the manga which is ongoing still and also the original work of the light novel which is also ongoing.