I think I stumbled on the harem batch of happy I was given recently… there’s no other way to explain why I’ve been watching anime that seems to be harem-themed over and over, like a rehashed idea mixed with slightly different ingredients to twist the plot as the theme tries to change from one form of fantasy to another.
Absolute Duo starts off just like you’d expect; new guy starts off the school year and the school turns out to be your more than average school. In this case, our lead, Tooru Kokonoe - the centre of our harem – enters an interesting school that specializes in combat, training those known as ‘the Exceed’.
These individuals are capable of manifesting their souls into actual weaponry which they use in combat, they call this Blaze. But obviously, as is the formula of shounen anime, our main deviates from the norm as his Blaze turns out to be not a weapon but instead, a shield, thus making him an irregular.
But why stop there with the twists? Enter Julie Sigtuna!
See, not only do our battling exceed learn combat while at school, but they do so in ‘duos’ for various reasons and as poor Kokonoe-kun soon learns right after struggling his way into the school and somehow landing up with the very unconventional male-female duo, it’s not just the battling that duos do together, but everything…
Admittedly it’s an interesting story as it has me hooked into trying to figure the main guy out, as well as his partner whom we get almost no information on, aside from the fact that she’s strong and has some dark past and almost no boundaries where Kokonoe-kun is concerned.
I also don’t mind the side characters that make up the harem as they bring more to the story as it all moves forward.
I have to be honest though, my love of sharp pointy objects has some bias in this show, so that might affect my judgement just a tiny bit… oh well.
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