Hatenkou Yuugi

I'll just quickly share my personal thoughts on this one.
this is considered a romance but for the anime at least, theres pretty much none. Which is surprising for a Jousei anime. But its also refreshing, since Jousei romance is usually cringe. Not to say this anime isn't incredibly cringe, because it is. In fact it's just not a good anime objectively lol. From the voice acting, to the music/ost and lack of story... BUT, it is a very fun and interesting watch. And Rahzel, the protagonist is so damn adorable. Her outfits change each episode and each one is absolutely stunning and cute. I ... love the Lolita style. Not to mention shes smug and arrogant, but adorable and extremely refined. I love this mc. Her two companions aren't completely insufferable either. Theyre your usual ikemen type dudes with charming personalities each. Their characters are complete opposites but when together they have some pretty funny banter. It's mostly episodic but each story is fun to watch. And the humor is quite funny a lot of the time.
Overall 7/10. It's only 10 episodes. So if you're bored and looking for something to give you a laugh, I say check it out.

This is the first anime I've ever seen that I would call random. I think the word random is overused when describing many shows but this show is random - random in a funny and fun way, but random none the less. Yes, I know the reading the manga would probably make it less random but that itsn't the point.

What the MAL description fails to convey is that the show is really just ten episodes of following a trio of dysfunctional people on a journey. It definitely suffers from a lack of plot, but it redeems itself because dysfunctional people on a ... semi-random journey can be really funny (the reason I stuck with it and suggest you do as well).

The journey has some vauge goals like revenge or finding something, but the goals are not the focus of the show - not that there is a focus to it aside from the before mentioned journey and the people who are on it. The themes of the episodes are to repetitive - just variations on Rahzel seeing and child in need and saving him/her with the help of Alzeid and Heat again and again and again. The story is poorly developed and ends up being disjointed - partly because it is so episodic. Many good shows are episodic in nature, but in this one the individual episodes rarely connected to each other at all and there is no transition between them e.g. random.This lack of buildup leaves the show with very little tension and almost no climax. Major parts of the story are never explained (for example how or why people can use magic is never addressed), although I assume the manga which I haven't read contains more detailed explanations. The show proceeds as if there is no gaping hole and you have the needed information to understand what's going on which makes it rather confusing at points. Several times I was left wondering either what the heck is going on or why on earth would this be happening.

The characters are amusing if not not well developed, and their banter will keep you laughing. Rahzel comes dangerously close to just being annoying -privileged 14 year old girl need I say more (?), but stays on the likable side by a small margin. Alzeid is a pretty great character, and really adds to the humor. The dialog is pretty fast paced and witty which is the biggest redeeming quality of the show. The lack of charter development is a little problematic, but somehow it mostly makes them seem disgruntled which adds to the humor of the show.The people introduced in each episode mostly do not have any real connection to the main characters and are only occasionally used to illuminate something about the main characters past, so in the end you have a random assortment of people who have not contributed to the plot. You find out very little about the main charters' pasts or even why they are traveling together which is kind of ridiculous.

As far as the art and music is concerned it's nothing special but overall not bad. The character designs are fairly generic and a little goofy. The op and ed are pretty bad.

While the lack of explanation and development of the plot (if you want to argue there is one) can be frustrating, I still enjoyed the show mainly for its humor and wit. It's kind of a silly anime but may prove to be a fun watch.

If you're in the mood to settle for less, this is the anime for you!
Because this may very well be the most generic anime i've ever seen.

It doesn't feel like any emotion was put into the creation of this series, it feels like it was made to fill a time slot, by people who had to use every cliche in the book to make up 24 minutes of content.

I felt like I'd already seen the premise to every episode of this show done better in Fullmetal Alchemist. While I understand that it's hard to make an episodic series without taking ideas from different places, none ... of the characters were likable enough to take my mind off of how lackluster the writing seemed.
Pretty much every character has a really grating and stupid sense of humor, the kind of quirky shit that you only hear when you're watching something that thinks it's really funny but is NOT (ex:"ur stupid" "wat?!? i am not stupid my precious kawaii-chan!!!"). Not to mention the fact that they flip from thinking the others are stupid and annoying to TREASURING OUR PRECIOUS FRIENDSHIP whenever the plot calls for it, which is about once or twice every 2 episodes.
Take Cowboy Bebop for a better example. They did plenty of "homages" that were pretty much ripoffs of other stories, but they had style! and characters that you could think of as people, and not just anime characters.

The biggest issue I have with this show other than the annoying characters is the pseudo-philosophy that the girl spouts near the end of most episodes. The main girl speaks wisely about the emptiness of revenge and the importance of friendship, but it's all the same shit we've heard in every other shounen anime on the planet, so it only results in climaxes that are almost as lame as the fucking jokes.
The difference between this and something like Gintama is that Gintama, for one, is actually FUNNY, and manages to bring some life into these stereotypes by giving the characters that espouse them actual compelling reasons to, and bringing them out during developed story arcs, instead of just SAYING them because they might as well

In short, you'll only like Hatenkou Yuugi if it's one of your very first anime and you're 12 years old. Even then, you should probably just stick with Gintama or anything else I name dropped in this review.