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Sep 30, 2020 8:56 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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The finale between the EVOLs and Queen vs. Black Swan and Hades: to change the evolution or let evolution be the change...the generic fight of good vs. evil.

In the end, the trust of Haku, Zen, Simon and Kira, with the awakened Queen's power, triumphs over advocacies to emit judgement, that's a twist that I actually like that keeps the Otome Game genre from being quite stale: GIRL POWER aesthetics.

The show's adage quote: 'In this world, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place...' really sums this game (and now the anime adaptation) well.

Overall, a better-than-average Otome Game of a show that I personally felt jaded for the genre, but definitely was a treat to see something different.
Sep 30, 2020 11:08 AM
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Well, this was kind of underwhelming honestly. We got a snippet on the Black Queen looking eerily familiar with our MC and I can't help but think of a similarity with a certain popular character from the past season...

It's a 4/10 from me. Thought the first half was just about fine but the second half definitely dropped the ball for me.

@Lucien4ever I’ll consider doing so, thanks!
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Sep 30, 2020 11:16 AM
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As a massive sucker for certain death moments where its believed your life flashes in front of you in seconds, and people have returned to describe it. I ike nothing more when such pseudoscience is involved in a characters awakening and rebirth just as they die. Love it. The queen did not disappoint.

Im mixed on the ending. They teased more story, the dark queen, the 4 main evols going off and doing there stuff with the hacker guy clearly getting into some shady shit. Should they of done that I dont know, its a show I doubt we will see again. But fuck that anyway. Overall I wasnt expecting to like it but it grew on me and turned out a decent story.
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Sep 30, 2020 11:19 AM
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for me, best seasonal handso down.
10/10 and 5/5.
boys and boys, action, cliffhanger, romance, serious topics.
i love the game and i love this adaptation
THANKS MAPPA
the name is finally revealed and the battle is only at its starting point. they covered the first branch of the game, without the different timelines.
i really wish a season 2
Sep 30, 2020 11:20 AM
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This show went to shit starting from episode 7. I was lenient about the changes in the earlier episodes but in the last 2 episodes, the anime had its own story and IT'S SO CRINGEY. Man I'm a HUGE fan of the game if you can't tell by my profile picture but I DO NOT WANT A SECOND SEASON.

HOT GARBAGE (COMPARED TO THE STORY IN THE GAME)




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Sep 30, 2020 11:23 AM
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_MushiRock11_ said:
Well, this was kind of underwhelming honestly. We got a snippet on the Black Queen looking eerily familiar with our MC and I can't help but think of a similarity with a certain popular character from the past season...

It's a 4/10 from me. Thought the first half was just about fine but the second half definitely dropped the ball for me.


Go play the game seriously.... You can access the main story in the game for free without spending anything. The original story in the anime is just trash compared to the one in the game.

Every ~2-3 months the game releases epic chapter expansion trailers
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Sep 30, 2020 12:12 PM
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This episode was... far from good. It wasn't clear. Who is the black queen? Why the hell even her dressed were dyed? What happened to Kira (Kiro)? Who did he join in the end? Why Shimo (Lucien) was with the Black Swan to begin with? Why now he acts like everything is normal? Why does she act like nothing ever happened with him? And why do you say it's only the start when it's obvious there won't be second season?


Sep 30, 2020 12:13 PM
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While I think this episode plot was somewhat off and a bit cliché, It was OK. It could have material to create a 2nd season, but nothing is granted.

I don't know how the story is developed in the game, but this anime is OK, enjoyable and very good aesthetics and catchy songs. I found the last part of the series a bit rushed though.
Sep 30, 2020 12:32 PM
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Eh... well, it had the potential to be good, but ultimately failed to deliver.

5/10 for me, it tried.
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Sep 30, 2020 12:47 PM

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EfiChan said:
This episode was... far from good. It wasn't clear. Who is the black queen? Why the hell even her dressed were dyed? What happened to Kira (Kiro)? Who did he join in the end? Why Shimo (Lucien) was with the Black Swan to begin with? Why now he acts like everything is normal? Why does she act like nothing ever happened with him? And why do you say it's only the start when it's obvious there won't be second season?


It became clear to me that the anime is a promotion for the game. Since the game storyline goes along the parallel worlds theory, this should be seen as one of the possible outcomes MC went through while she was trapped in a time loop. The thing is, there is no possible way for anime viewers to know that, so that part was just a cheap save on their part to make anime relevant at all I guess. No matter of their intention the anime was bad but the game can answer all your questions if you choose to give it a shot.
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Sep 30, 2020 12:50 PM

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So many things left unanswered... Helios is a big one, like wtf happened to Kiro?

I appreciate this anime for making me interested in checking the game, tho. Seriously people, if you like the plot go play the game, is SO much better.
Sep 30, 2020 12:55 PM
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EfiChan said:
This episode was... far from good. It wasn't clear. Who is the black queen? Why the hell even her dressed were dyed? What happened to Kira (Kiro)? Who did he join in the end? Why Shimo (Lucien) was with the Black Swan to begin with? Why now he acts like everything is normal? Why does she act like nothing ever happened with him? And why do you say it's only the start when it's obvious there won't be second season?
same are my questions.. I'm so disappointed with this ending and episode..
Sep 30, 2020 2:09 PM
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The best thing about this show was her collection of shirt dresses. Kinda meh otherwise.
Sep 30, 2020 2:12 PM

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Okay, so I haven't watched this episode (or 11) yet, but from what I've heard (this is directed towards the game players), is it true that this episode had the confrontation on the boat? Did they just adapt TWENTY FOUR long, beautifully detailed and emotional chapters into TWELVE episodes????? WHAT?! This is actually making me really angry...(and from what I've heard she was confronting HADES? Not the piano-time-manipulator guy like it was in the game?)
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Sep 30, 2020 2:35 PM
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I watched this episode until 13:40 cause i felt like giving it a hopeless, bad ending. overall this anime was a 4/10

favorite character was gavin
Sep 30, 2020 2:35 PM
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EfiChan said:
This episode was... far from good. It wasn't clear. Who is the black queen? Why the hell even her dressed were dyed? What happened to Kira (Kiro)? Who did he join in the end? Why Shimo (Lucien) was with the Black Swan to begin with? Why now he acts like everything is normal? Why does she act like nothing ever happened with him? And why do you say it's only the start when it's obvious there won't be second season?


black queen is the queen basically. in the game she is mirrored version of mc. she was there to tell her that she can't change the future. kiro became helios, member of black swan so he can fight against them in secret. like he said he became the dark to protect light(mc).lucien was forced to be in black swan ever since he was a child, they explained this. And lucien is kind of person that will act normal and not let his guard down in many dangerous moments. he's like that.

there probably won't be second season but making it sound that way is probably promoting the game. they want you to play the game to find out what happens next
Sep 30, 2020 3:14 PM
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Since episode 1, I got this nostalgic feeling. The heroine from Koi to Producer: Evol x Love resembles a grown up version of Anzu from Ensemble Stars in almost every way.
The physical and personality features are similar (the medium length brown hair, the brown eyes, the timid and shy personality, how both girls act startled and surprised very easily)

I wish I could give this show a better rating. But for a reverse harem anime, the plot had more of a mystery element about the evolvers and less intimate romance scenes. The final episode also had a few action scenes.
Sep 30, 2020 3:25 PM
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Yeah, what did I expect for the perfect ending?, the anime was supposed to promote the game, there's no way that it will cover the whole story of the game in the anime since it only has 23mins.

So I highly recommend to the anime-viewers only to play the game, it's 100/100 better..

Well, I should respect MAPPA for their efforts to make this as anime, Love MAPPA😍
Sep 30, 2020 4:20 PM

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_Ridley_ said:
The best thing about this show was her collection of shirt dresses. Kinda meh otherwise.
this person knows whats up, i dropped this after not watching it for weeks but seeing her nice outfits was enough to keep me going with otherwise mostly boring but somewhat interesting plot shame the anime is yet another promo for a game that does it a disservice

maybe one day if i'm board i'll just speed run through the rest of it.
Sep 30, 2020 5:55 PM
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So, yeah, Hades being defeated, Black Swan ideas based on him demolished, but its not end yet, right? The black queen, or the true queen, still creeping on behind, ready to posessed the girl. Oh, well, i thought i might seen her scenes posessed, or, maybe some story that Zen encounters in the future. But alas, i got to see this end. At least, it was a happy end, eventhough for sure its just a temporary.

Damn, i feel like watching GoHS right now with the end that felt so rushed as hell, but in the form of Shoujo typical. I should not expected highly based on that. XD The show held some promising story. But still, MAPPA always messed up with the storyboards, so i don't have anything to said. Everything was good, actually. The art, and character design was so beautiful, and very smooth to my understanding. Th soundtrack was okay too, not so great, tho. Then with the characterization, it should be better if they would not rushed and forced everything. Well, at least its in my fine level.

Overall, as the story not ended up in a well positions, everything must stayed at my good level. So, on these one, i decide to take this anime at my 6/10. So, yeah, thats it, wasting their potential. Its very unfortunate situations ....
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Sep 30, 2020 6:05 PM
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favorite character was gavin

My reason of watching the series was Gavin. Feeling Too frustrated with the abrupt ending 🙄
Sep 30, 2020 7:52 PM

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eh it was ok, 5.7/10 or just 6.


Sep 30, 2020 8:59 PM
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Lol, every villain in the end be like "Wh-What?! This isn't possible!" like he didn't consider the possibility.

16:58 Lol, MC got enlightened & now she talks sugar.

An "Ok" series ; the game's good.

- GAVIN , LUCIEN , VICTOR , KIRO.

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Sep 30, 2020 10:37 PM

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Despite it having a reverse harem element, it wasn't too bad. I think the Evols having powers was what made this series more enjoyable. The names threw me off way too many times than I would have liked, Kiro/Kira, Gavin/Haku, Zen/Victor and so on lol.

It was pretty average overall but I didn't hate it. It was definitely better than a lot of trashy shows that were released this season. MC girl was pretty cute, IMO. Usually in these type of shows, the MC is so-so but she was quite cute.
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Oct 1, 2020 6:15 AM

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omfg what a hot mess this tried so hard to be plot-driven but the world-building was horrid, i felt like this anime was pretty badly executed. believe it or not, not everyone plays the game or wants to play it so if they just assumed that we would like what we saw in this anime & proceed on to the game for more content, well they really failed & made this as lackluster as it could be

while i liked the MC, she was refreshing for a reverse harem protag, the other characters were so underwhelming. especially lucien/simon - they tried to do a big twist with him but it fell completely flat & just left me with even more questions. i must have fallen asleep somewhere, what was the point of revealing that whole "ares" bit it felt completely unresolved

MC had some nice action scenes with victor/zen, had the most chemistry with kiro/kira even tho haku was obviously set up nicely as best boi for me, but he just conveniently comes & goes WAY too often for his own good, it's almost like he had no presence. what a shame, they could have done so much more for his character/their pairing. i also liked his character design the most (and helios)

and seriously, the animation (especially during the action scenes) was almost laughable. and as someone who was drawn to this series as the premise sounded really interesting, i expected more from their fights. they built up all these EVOL powers & then when they actually showed it, i thought i was watching some juvenile cartoon

idk, i tried to like it. i just felt like it had so much potential. just looking at the PVs for the games, it could have been something else entirely.







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Oct 1, 2020 7:50 AM
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Wow, IMO, this episode really rushed, like GoH-tier rushed. Most of the stuff just pops out of nowhere too. But, overall it's a decent series. Not bad for my first otome series, although the shoujo tag which attracted me in the first place. 7/10
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Oct 1, 2020 5:16 PM

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tbh for an otome game adaptation, this was easily the best by far. Nice female lead, nice male leads and a pretty nice story (regardless of how different it was to the source).

The ending bit with watashi getting that powah from all the harem dudes was nice to see, and she just omega rekd Hades xd.


overall I say it's a pixiv fanart/10
Oct 2, 2020 1:44 AM
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I agree with someone that this anime went downhill from ep 7 or so.

To me, out of main 5, Victor was the only consistently written character till the end.
Oct 2, 2020 8:20 AM

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It was pretty average overall but I didn't hate it. It was definitely better than a lot of trashy shows that were released this season. MC girl was pretty cute, IMO. Usually in these type of shows, the MC is so-so but she was quite cute.

I agree. I enjoyed it. My favorite character was Haku.
Oct 2, 2020 9:03 AM
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The most surprising thing to me is that Kira seme mode.
Oct 2, 2020 4:44 PM

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Not bad for an adaptation from a game, pretty good in my opinion. It was one of the most interesting animes I've ever seen by far. 7/10 for me
Oct 3, 2020 11:40 AM
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A bit disappointed, I was hoping that the main boys would interact to each other at this episode but in the end they didn't :( 5/10.
Oct 7, 2020 2:16 AM
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interesting plot but rushed & random on later parts. Suddenly black queen, other short stills so confusing. The comedy & mystery parts were most promising.
Music fairly good esp atmospheric osts. A fun proactive mc in this genre is refreshing. Bit odd the 4 guys rarely interacted.

Oct 8, 2020 11:37 AM

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Evil defeated with the power of...hot anime guys!

Welp the plot was a bit of a mess (random new plot element introduced 10 min into the last episode lul) but at least the guys were pretty hot likeable. And I gotta say I really enjoyed how the MC wasn't just the good ol' damsel in distress we see so often in this genre. This gets a solid 6 from me. Maybe I'll check out the game now that I have a phone that might actually be able to run it.

Dat season 2 tease at the end though. They always gotta throw one of those in huh
Oct 10, 2020 1:30 AM

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wow... the ending really killed it for me. I was laughing so hard when Hades was fading away with all the glimmering elements from MC. Definitely rushed.

6/10 for me.


The game is a lot better for sure. Please play the game if you wanna get in-depth with the stories.
Oct 13, 2020 11:25 PM

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Damned if I can figure out what happened, but it seemed like a happy enough ending.
Oct 14, 2020 6:48 AM

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I find the whole power of bonds shit incredibly stupid specially given that the MC could barely even use any powers at her own will till last episode. Added to which Crunchyroll being stubborn and using the original names instead of the ones used in the Japanese dub made it far more worse.
Oct 19, 2020 9:56 PM
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There is just one word to describe this animate - LAME! Every line is designed for the ever-typical girl game. There is no one part of the animate you can't guess what happens next including the lines... it feels like it is written for 12 years old.
Oct 25, 2020 2:20 AM

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Watch for ikemen

Story is meh
Jan 8, 2021 12:23 PM

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Too bad...really hoped for the True ending where mc would rule the world as the Harem Queen. Jokes aside I personally feel like this anime is more enjoyable compared to other reverse harem anime which are kind of boring. But as an anime on its own, its kinda rushed towards the end making certain scenes kinda cliche and average. Still decent watch.

May 19, 2021 1:38 PM
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Extremely rushed in this episode, not good at all compared to the game.
On the other hand, I enjoy seeing all the characters come to life. That's the only reason I'm sticking with this show.

I would've given it a 2/5, but The MC was just so beautiful in her white dress I couldn't resist giving an extra point for her.
Jun 30, 2021 8:03 PM

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the art style of the characters was the main reason why I kept watching this 😂
Mar 3, 2022 8:35 PM
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I've seen a lot of people saying that this was a promotion for the game, which actually makes a lot of sense, after all, a lot of questions were left open in the anime. And you can see very well that the anime came from a game, for the simple fact that the male characters NEVER INTERACT. Okay, but I'm not just going to complain, I also found the art very beautiful, I don't know if this is normal among animes but I'm watching a lot of them with a bad quality (which may be the case), but I found it very beautiful .
And I had to rewatch the last episode because I fell asleep halfway through :/ but then I can't blame the anime for my disorganized sleep.
Oh, and as much as I didn't understand anything that happened to Kiro, I thought he looked hot with those clothes and that white hair.
Sep 29, 2023 10:45 AM
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I’ve never played the game, so am not sure how the endings for the 4/5 routes were…but wished that this episode was clearer in explaining the ending…

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