As his school days draw to an end, Yuuki Wakura worries about his future. While lamenting the prospect of living an ordinary life, he is suddenly drawn into the world of Mato: an alternate dimension filled with dangerous monsters called Shuuki. Over the years since the existence of Mato was first confirmed, incidents of people accidentally wandering into the other world have become commonplace. To combat the threat of the Shuuki and rescue victims like Yuuki, the all-female Demon Defense Force was established. Its members have been blessed with the power of "Peaches"—Mato fruits that grant supernatural abilities only to women.
Though Yuuki's situation is dire, he is saved in the nick of time by Kyouka Uzen, the chief of the Demon Defense Force's seventh unit. Despite Kyouka's impeccable skills in battle, she has long been held back by her Peach-granted ability, Slave. Slave allows Kyouka to put a living being under her control and draw out its strength, but the Shuuki that she had enslaved until now had all proven to be exceedingly weak.
When Yuuki and Kyouka become surrounded by a horde of Shuuki, Kyouka resorts to something she has never tried before: using her ability on a man. To her surprise, Yuuki's slave form is much more powerful than she could have imagined. Believing the young man to be the key to unlocking her true potential, Kyouka invites Yuuki to join the Demon Defense Force—but not as a regular member.
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Omarumba
Well, the season of "I want to be a slave to Makima" has come to an end, the era of "I want to be a slave to Tenka" has begun, and femdom fans are back to their old ways.... If you know anything about the world of animanga, you probably know or have at least heard once about such a popular person as Takahiro, a man whose type I call an "idea generator". Takahiro is the author of several manga and short stories, including popular works such as Akame ga Kill! or Yuuki Yuuna Is a Hero. However, bloody fantasy and maho-shojo is not the onlything that this brilliant man can produce, because Takahiro knows all the delights that can appeal to readers, mostly Japanese. In 2007, for example, he co-wrote with Makoto Kanata the visual novel Kimiaru, a work where the story centers on a brother and sister who become the servants of three girls and, yes, yes, it's harem and ecchi, just the way we like it. Then, a year later, Takahiro took part in writing the script for the anime adaptation of the same Kimiaru from A.C.G.T Studios. And so, starting in 2019, Takahiro began releasing his ecchi shounen manga "Chained Soldier" in collaboration with artist Youhei Takemura, and then the announcement of an anime adaptation from Seven Arcs came out, with Junji Nishimura stepping in as director, taking a vacant slot between the two seasons of The Fire Hunter. And AT-X TV rewarded viewers with an uncensored screening of the show.
Yuki Wakura, the protagonist, has the unheard-of luck to find himself in another dimension filled with monsters ready to crawl out through the opening gates to the real world. In order to keep the real world safe from the threat, the dimension has created squads of female warriors who fight the monsters with their abilities, while living in the same world in their spare time as if nothing had happened. Wakura was in the middle of a gate and almost got killed, but Kyouka Uzen, the leader of the seventh monster-fighting squad, came to his rescue. She rescued him and made him a slave, recognizing his potential. After becoming a slave, the boy acquired the ability to turn into a large demon, supporting in such a state warrior girls as a reward for...erotic desires. Thus began the story of the slave Wakura, burning desire to fight monsters and the desire to become a hero with a lot of rewards in the form of sexy girls.
Chained Soldier is notable for the fact that it combines a lot of erotic moments, clearly dividing the line between an interesting plot and the whole vulgar part of the show. The picture is full of battles between the characters and their relationship with each other, and the fanservice desired by many remains as a cherry on this sweet cake. And the fanservice is really not based on the level of casual poses or showing underwear, but on various fetishes, I'm sorry, but I won't list them, you have to see it for yourself. The show also has a large number of female protagonists, among whom the brightest stands out a person with the name Tenka Izumo - a short-haired captain of the sixth squad, which, by the way, according to the results of the vote among readers took the leading place among the most popular characters of the manga. She is a cunning and charming girl who at first treated Wakura as a pet, not just a slave. And there are tons of such lovely characters in the show, as it's also a harem.
Seven Arcs and the animators are to be thanked for the spectacular and special effects, but still it was not enough for such work, especially the CGI graphics of the monsters in the second half of the anime, which apparently wanted to save the budget, but it turned out a bit crooked. Erotic scenes, in turn, shown in the adaptation are depicted worse than in the manga, although they appear in color with a couple of new angles.
Takahiro's manga can definitely be called ecchi with a good plot, while the adaptation by Seven Arcs can be understood as a good advertisement of the source material, which I, again, highly recommend to read. But still it's nice that the beginning of 2024 pleased us with ecchi shows, because the previous year was rather poor in this respect.
TheRealist68
Over the past 12 weeks, I have spent a combined 4 hours of my fleeting time on this planet watching Chained Soldier, and through 12 episodes, all I can say is that my experience was only slightly better than taking the SAT, getting a colonoscopy, or having a physical done by an old man. This series just feels forgettable; in the depressing way where it isn’t laughably bad enough to be remembered, but it’s nowhere near good enough to be remembered either. This series is just another redundant entry into the bloated ecchi ___ genre, that blank being an amalgamation of different story beats thattry to add more substance to the main plot of watching the main character be lusted after by beautiful women.
Kill la Kill is an ecchi anime that does this well; Its overall story is equal parts gripping and ridiculous enough to keep the audience engaged. Unfortunately for Chained Soldier, its story beats aren't strong enough to accomplish this. Chained Soldier goes for this weird Solo Leveling rip-off angle by establishing Mato: this mysterious shadow realm-esque location linked to Japan somehow. Unfortunately, Mato is hilariously underdeveloped as a setting.
As viewers, we only really know 3 things about Mato: one, that people can just wind up there somehow through a “Mato Mishap”, two, that there are peaches that grow down there that give superpowers, and three, the place is packed with monsters that the “Anti-Demon Corp” fights. This is absolutely everything that the plot operates on, so whenever Mato is treated as a “desolate wasteland” that impacts our characters or drives the plot, said character development or story beat usually is underwhelming, due to the sheer shallowness of the Mato. In addition, there is non-Mato-based character development, but it’s so bog standard that it isn’t even worth mentioning.
Mushoku Tensei is an ecchi anime that has very strong characters; Eris, Roxy, Cliff, and Sylphie, among others, are developed enough so that if the author decided to make a story featuring any of them as the protagonist, it would still have the impact of the main quest. Chained Soldier doesn’t even get close to doing that, as the characters are some of the most generic, trope-built characters anime has to offer.
For example, Yuuki is a black-haired self-insert mc whose key character traits are that he gets nervous around women and he has a generic “good boy” sense of duty. Kyouka is a generic tough leader who spends 90% of her dialogue saying leader shit, and 10% of her dialogue questioning Yuuki’s kinks. Shushu is a “teasing girl” who is really horny. Himari is a tsundere that initially doesn’t like men, but is now horny for our main character for…reasons. Nei is actually the only character that I have somewhat positive feelings for, only because she is a sweet distraction from the rest of the character cast. (Also I’m really happy she is not lewded in the story, as I really didn’t feel like making 20% of this review an explanation on why that isn’t ok.)
Keep in mind, those characters who might seem shallow are the “MAIN” characters of this story. The side characters are even more shallow; Tenka is just horny, albeit forcefully, and Azuma’s only memorable character trait is that strikes a Jojo pose to freeze time. I shouldn’t have to tell you that a character roster this bland and generic isn’t a recipe for success in any anime.
“So what if the characters and story are generic and non-compelling, at least we have the animation and fan service!” You might say that, however, unlike something like High School DXD, which looks good enough to be compelling as an action or fan service anime, Chained Soldier accomplishes neither. In fact, it looks like shit. Mato is this wasteland with a charcoal-esque ground and a reddish-purple sky. If that doesn’t sound visually appealing to you, too damn bad, it's the backdrop of every single fight that this show has to offer. Speaking of the fights, they aren’t animated well at all. Character movements often look chunky and cumbersome, like they deserve more frames to be fluid. Of course, that’s when the characters actually are in motion; this series uses a lot of animation tricks to avoid doing that as much as possible, i.e, sword slashes coming out of a charging character instead of animating them actually swinging their sword, and panning the camera instead of moving the character on a jump slash or something.
The art style of this show is just visually unappealing at times. Honestly, High School DXD, which was released 12 years ago, looks better in every capacity. The lighting is often strange whenever we are outside of the reddish-purple skies of Mato. Impactful moments are often defined with a chain flying across the screen, but these chains are so far outside of the show’s art style that they are jarring whenever they appear. And then the CGI, oh god the CGI. You see, all of the Shuuki, those monsters I mentioned earlier, are made through horrid CGI. Whenever they move, it is incredibly jarring, and it honestly fucks with any non-CGI aspect of the scene. This is even more disappointing for the more impactful Shuuki, who are imbued with special powers, thus having a different appearance, yet they have the exact same CGI movement patterns. Finally, the Shuuki don’t look good either; the basic ones look like Temple Run gorillas and the more advanced ones just look bad.
So… Chained Soldier is an ecchi “action” anime that fails to establish any sort of compelling story or characters. The show doesn’t look good either: the animation of the fights is bad, and due to the shitty art style, the ecchi fanservice isn’t fulfilling, and even if it was, it isn’t appealing enough to save the rest of the story. So, what does Chained Soldier do well? Well, other than not lewding Nei, not much. The biggest praise I can give this series is that it isn’t offensively bad in any department. Everything is mid to bad, but nothing is appealing, terrible, or anger-inducing. The only problem with this is that in the long run, Chained Soldier will just be forgettable. Hell, I’ve already started. I needed the MAL page for this series to criticize its characters, before referencing it, I only knew the names of two characters out of the entire story. I doubt I’ll be able to name a character in 2 months; in 11, I’ll completely forget that this series exists. And that right there, is a damn shame, because, on paper, this was something that could’ve been at least memorable.
Thank you for reading.
KANLen09
Chained Soldier - Great manga with a stupid localization name, eager-but-turned disappointing adaptation, once again by Junji Nishimura, the long-standing director who can't hack a decent adaptation for time millennia. If you know an author by the name of Takahiro, he's the creator who has created one of the most defining works of the 2010s: Akame ga Kill!. Anyone who've seen this show will tell you that it's one of the most popular shows of that time period, when anime was just about slowly going into the mainstream. And based off on one of the most prominent characters of that series, another work is created, andhas undoubtedly become the author's next hit, which would become Mato Seihei no Slave a.k.a Chained Soldier (honestly, what a stupid localized name). And since this Winter season is where the cultured degeneracy amps a notch thanks to this and Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete a.k.a Gushing Over Magical Girls, as a manga reader, I was expecting at least a somewhat decent adaptation to translate the well-regarded source material into anime. Sadly, that is where all my excitement is ripped to shreds.
The world of Mato Seihei is actually quite interesting, taking a fair few cues from and sticking true to the action-dark fantasy genre duo which Takahiro has become famous for since Akame ga Kill!. The dark-fantasy vibes, ranging from a dystopian Japan where gates to another dimension known as Mato began popping up out of nowhere, sprouts monsters known as Shuuki wrecking the inhabitants of Earth. To combat this, the resources called "Peaches", when consumed by only women, grant them supernatural powers to keep the Shuuki out of bay within reach from the portals. And it's where in one of these portals that the main MC Yuuki Wakura finds himself entangled into a Mato Mishap, only to find himself facing not just the Shuuki, but also Kyouka Uzen, the 7th Squad Commander of the Demon Defense Force. Fearing for the safety of his life, he consents to Kyouka's enslaving him to rid of the Shuuki, turning him into not just a capable chained soldier, but also a slave of which his power help aid her in revealing into her untapped potential. Of course, what's a slave without his reward, and that's where Mato Seihei ups the ante on the sexual innuendos, making it a defining trait of the entire source material. As Yuuki retains his standing in the Mato world as a caretaker of the 7th Squad to help Kyouka ascend in rank into becoming the Supreme Commander of the Demon Defense Force, he will find mysteries within the Mato world that connect dearly to him.
If you haven't noticed well enough, doesn't Kyouka Uzen resemble one of the characters in Akame ga Kill!? The eagle-eyed among you will realize that she is the embodient of Esdeath, and almost every inch of her character traits come straight from her, albeit a less tamed version when it becomes to the extreme. Together with Yuuki and the other girls of the 7th Squad: Himari Azuma, Shushu Suruga and Nei Okawamura, they're only a handful of what makes up the Demon Defense Force, all responsible for distinct areas where potential Shuuki may reside and appear from. As for Yuuki himself, he isn't a bad character, but he's kinda of bland, and by the appearance from the girls, a genuine caretaker to a literate power-up tool that like Kyouka, is able to take the girls' distinct powers to new heights, which at least makes him a valuable slave.
As for the girls of Mato Seihei, there have always been the competition for Best Girl of the series, and at least for the anime, we're blessed with a few standouts. Of course, Kyouka herself would be one, with the affinity of a clear level-headed leader, with Shushu being the clear next with her big assets, and both Himari and Kei looking up to Yuuki as just a companion within the small squad. Turn your head, and you have the 6th Squad members of leader Tenka Izumo, Himari's estranged sister of Yachiho and Shushu's match of Sahara Wakasa. Manga readers will already know that between the squad commanders, no girl has displayed as much rizz as Tenka, whom even in the face of trouble, still manages to assert her dominance, both to Yuuki and her enemies with her overwhelming Ame-no-Mitori space-time power, with an intellgent and exquisite mind-over-matter function. Anime onlies, now you know.
Sadly, the production of the anime has been the biggest Elephant in the Room, with Seven Arcs at the helm. I mean, I don't expect the studio to have good animation, but in my very humble opinion, the studio does not have the capability to handle action all that well. It's very foretelling that as the anime progresses, the reliance on CGI (especially for Yuuki's slave transformation and the Shuuki) becomes a necessity to combat the shortcomings from such an action-packed series like Mato Seihei. Sure, Seven Arcs may have done both the Trinity Seven and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series, but both of those series are from the pre-2020s, at a time where animation wasn't the priority, but looking distinctive to stand out from the pack. Nowadays with so much sakuga going around, Mato Seihei just looks like a low-effort ball from people who don't understand how to make decent adaptations, and it all stems from one person: Junji Nishimura, whom in my opinion, is not the director that you want to lead a high-profile show like this. Even with the show being led by a new debut episode director of Gorou Kuji, there's just no saving the anime in this disappointing state that instead of being pumped for more action-intense fights, these battles just become boring as time passes.
The music is at least decent, though the OST is nothing memorable. At first, I wanted to like Akari Kitou's OP song, but it just felt so dragged out that the song becomes just as uninteresting as the visuals themselves. At the very least, Maaya Uchida's ED is somewhat in the realm of creativeness, expressing the 6 main and supporting girls, especially Tenka (since you already know the reason why she's featured quite a lot). The song, like the OP, is just borderline mediocre to fine.
As an AniManga fan, you know when your favourite source materials have anime adaptations that don't live up to the expectations, you're bound for a bad time, and that's my sole expression when it comes to Mato Seihei no Slave. Stick to the manga and forget that the anime existed, or just albeit willingly, try the 3-episode rule on the show if you intend to read the manga for yourself.
Soulmask
Meh. I was looking for more fan service than this, but it seems as the season goes on there is more and more actual plot, which is kinda mid. I think the monster villains were pretty cool, but there are alternative "neutral villains" and the basic monsters are pretty boring. Also the girls running over the MC and making him clean and cook gets old pretty quickly. The MC almost always seems to be in a "male worker" outfit. I guess it's the main premise of the show, that the MC is a "slave", but in the combat scenes the MC seems to be a prettyimportant part of the squad, with the "slave" gimmick simply being a collar and the excuse for the "reward". They didnt have to make him a maid/cook too, but they did, and apparently he likes it and is very good at cleaning and cooking. He takes great care into this "not even a real member of the squad" role. I guess if you are an actual masochist, you might like this premise, but again not for me.
Like I said I came here for the fan service and the fact that even in the previews, the guy seems to be pretty powerful and the slave thing seemed to not be like a real actual slave but a power. In the end, while it is like that in the combat scenes, the MC is more than happy to become an actual servant in his off-time.
Overall I give it 6 for the fan service and cool, but barely shown, main villains.
audioxtc
Chained Soldier was one of the best series I've seen in awhile. It doesn't do anything better than any other series in particular, however the combination of elements really come together for an enthralling watch. First and foremost, this is an ecchi show and it doesn't pretend to be anything but that. With that said, it has a surprising amount of depth to it, whether it be in terms of relationship building, story progression, character development, or world building. I was honestly surprised how well the events of the story were conveyed. For a brief synopsis, our main character is Yuuki Wakura, a listless mansearching for an occupation. The world he lives is not too dissimilar to our own, except females have obtained magical abilities. The abilities are a side effect of an existing alternate dimension, the Mato dimension, from which monsters will periodically cross over to attack the human realm or bring humans back into. Since women are the only ones able to wield magic, the defense of the human dimension falls on them, making the Anti-Demon Corps.
In the first episode, we're shown that Yuuki's sister Aoba has disappeared prior to the events of the series, but we don’t know what happened exactly. This prompts Yuuki to want to become hero, so others don't suffer his sister's fate. This is somewhat of a weak motivation for his proclaimed desire to become a hero in my opinion, but it's not so incredibly far fetched either. Regardless it’s this reasoning he chooses to become a "slave" to the commander Kyouka of the Anti-Demon Corps, when he’s unexpectedly transported through a gate to the Mato dimension. It's his agreeance to becoming Kyouka's slave that he is able to acquire power from her ability of the same name and escape the ambush of monsters he was transported into. I don’t want to go into a full synopsis, but characters, setting, and story all crank into high gear for the rest of the series.
To start, Yuuki is just great. He's not so much of a bada$$ that it feels unrealistic or unachievable, but also not so much of a wimp you lose all respect (looking at you Takemichi - Tokyo Revengers). He has a story I can generally vibe with and had no problems following him for the story. I also appreciate his actions and motivations, and seeing how he grows throughout the series. His character is just done incredibly well in my opinion. They fleshed it out to a significant degree from the start, but also left room for him to grow.
This leads me to the women of division 6 and 7. The show definitely provides an impression that men are not taken too seriously because of their lack of powers. This is conveyed incredibly well though, because of the obvious lunacy of this worlds setting. The girls all respond to Yuuki’s presence in a variety of ways, whether it be through indifference, concern, friendship, teasing, or attempted bonding. Each interaction had its own unique feel to it as well. Kyouka clearly does not warm up to Yuuki immediately, but slowly starts to depend on him as the show progresses and even starts to get jealous at points. I loved seeing her subtle vulnerabilities being shown sporadically throughout the series, especially given her tough facade. Similar to Kyouka, Himari is cold to Yuuki from the get go…I’m not sure her reasoning aside from maybe seeing him as a distraction from her goal to become stronger. Regardless, when she is given the opportunity to duel her sister, she is somewhat forced to interact/train with him. These episodes with Himari are perfection imo. Not only are we treated to both lewd and hilarious occurrences, but we see growth from an initially unlikeable character and a bond between these two that I considered incredibly heartwarming. Shushu’s character was surprisingly quaint as well, which becomes a theme. She starts off quirky, aloof, and somewhat perplexing, but as she gets to understand Yuuki she realizes the importance of love and just men in general. She’s no longer careless and misdirected by the end of the series. To me, Shushu showed the largest amount of growth of all the characters. Each interaction Yuuki has with his fellow female “military” members is so quaint and bring an unexpectedly welcome amount of both comedy and ecchi.
Speaking of comedy and ecchi, I loved how they were incorporated into the series. To me, as an ecchi fan, I was happy to see the amount of degeneracy shown, and it’s done in an interesting way with levity. It also enables a lot of the comedy to occur, which was effective here. The fact it was fully uncensored gives it major bonus points as well. As degenerate as it was though, it still left room for a great story and set of characters. To be honest, I wouldn't consider myself one to like the idea of becoming subservient to anyone, however, Chained Soldier really makes it seem more appealing XD. It's not one sided either, everything seems to have a fair trade off. For example, Yuuki receives rewards for being a 'slave" to Kyouka, in which she has no control over his subconscious desires (but agrees to for the overwhelming power he provides).
The abilities shown are all unique and intriguing. I consistently looked forward to seeing the next revealed abilities of any new character. The cg animation definitely left a lot to be desired but were done well for the most part, it's not particularly jarring. What really resonated with me was the relationships built. The dynamic of characters toward the end of the series was really great to watch and I personally couldn't wait for more.
In reference to Yuuki’s sister Aoba, it’s, in my opinion, here where the story gains depth. Up to her introduction at the start, this series is just a well directed ecchi in a complicated setting. The revelation about her disappearance adds a complex dilemma I personally would’ve had trouble resolving. Seeing Yuuki and her life together before her disappearance was great and made the situation Yuuki is in, in episode 1, bittersweet.
To end, when you watch Chained Soldier, you know what you're getting into within a few minutes. In my opinion, this is not a series looking for deep introspection or philosophical discussions. Its only intent is to entertain (whether it be via comedy, ecchi, romance, or action). I've read through several reviews for Chained Soldier. Some of the negative ones have comments saying this series has things like slavery, sexism, attempted grape, SA, physical abuse, blackmail…and more buzz words to try and indicate how vile this series is. Over sensitive individuals like this are why we can't have nice things in the west, and why I rely on Japan so heavily now. Most of the events in the series are literally there for ecchi and/or comedic purposes. I’ll admit,this is definitely not a show for everyone. There is wonky cg animation at times, characters could stand to have more individuality, there could be a stronger plot, more drama/depth, and a variety of other small gripes. If you start watching it while comprehending the intent, however, it’s a very enjoyable experience for its short 12 episodes…so much so that I binged it in one evening. Chained Soldier is obviously no icon of modern anime, but it does its job better than most others in the same genre. I highly recommend Chained Soldier and hope to see more series like this in the future, along with a season 2.
Rian_Rahmat
Before watching, I thought that this was the worst anime this season, especially with the Echi and Harem themes which were definitely very boring. But it turns out I was wrong! Indeed, for the first and second episodes I was quite no understand about this anime, especially in the story and background of the incident location, slowly but surely I started to understand that they were in a different world and were tasked with protecting there. For Harem or Echi here it is still in a safe condition, not excessive, let alone making the audience horny, this is just my opinion, whether anyone else's. This is different fromthe Ecchi anime that I often see, most of which show too much lewdness compared to the progress of the story, and this actually makes me disgusted to see it.
Indeed, this anime tells about slavery, but only that, there is no such thing as Lucky Sukebe, or a little bit of perverted things for no reason.
The MC himself is also not stupid, he is strong and has his own convictions, not easily tempted by perverted things.
In my opinion, the character design is quite good, perfect, not made randomly.
When fighting is also quite good, not stiff and not too much drama with unclear nonsense.
I also think comedy is funny, it even makes me laugh at some comedies, and this doesn't make me bored watching it.
The point is, don't judge something you don't know and don't immediately judge something as bad before you see everything.
I quite like this anime because:
The fighting action is good.
The characters are beautiful.
The MC is not bad.
Echi is not excessive.
This anime focuses more on story progress rather than perverted things.
In addition, there is a little romance too.
Samisami5253
I don't get why all the hate. It's an Ecchi Anime with good story and great Animation. Yes there's slavery, blackmail, almost rape, forceful sences. But the MC likes that shit so i say it's okay. But to be honest though the only girl with good character is Tenka's team.(Anymore would be spoiler but Tenka best girl) If you want to watch Tiddies with high quality this show is for you. (My rating would be an 8/10. I gave 10 cus people rating it low) Extended review: Animation: 8/10 Action: 7/10 (not bad) Ecchi: 7.5/10 (They show skin but MC'S wired fetish isn't that erotic)Harem: 6/10 The character's aren't that good(other than Tenka)
Plot: 7/10 the story is somewhat good
McGuy281
What is truly disappointing about this show is I really had high expectations for it. The premise seemed very interesting and the kind of original as well, and even seem to have some decent production value behind it. Now that I have actually watched it, I am sad to say I was slowly disappointed. Not to sit here and complain all day I will sum it up by saying pretty much every character in the show is completely irredeemable and extremely annoying. The MC is probably the only character who is kind of okay, however he has absolutely no spine and never grows one. Heacts all embarrassed during any scenes for the "rewards" or otherwise indecent moments. However, during the duration of the show he never becomes accustomed to it and continues to act surprised at every opportunity without becoming bold.
All the women in the show are completely despicable. They are all completely annoying to no end and full of themselves to the point I wonder if they were going to burst open. They all have great abilities and skills, but if you think about it for 2 seconds, they are stupidly dressed, overly pampered, completely self-righteous idiots who literally got their abilities by EATING A FRUIT and proceeding to act strong and as if they deserve to be showered with praise.
I have many other complaints but the plot is my other concern I will mention here. Far too much time is wasted on fan service and pointless moments, and the show is never allowed to proceed. We are never given a history on why these demons are invading Earth, where they come from, how long they've been there, and why they have to put a bunch of girls dressed in stupid military outfits who live in full-on resorts in the middle of this demonic world. Near the end of the show they tease there is going to be more, but it does not leave you wanting anymore and just thankful that it's finally over. I truly hope this does not get continued as it has no need for it.
TL;DR This is a poorly disguised harem anime with unlikable characters, terrible plot, and no real purpose or progression. Had it taken itself more seriously, it would be substantially better.
Mega14343
I'm not gonna lie, I came here just for the tits but I ended up finding a pretty interesting story. I felt the anime had a nice balance of plot and PLOT. I expected to not like it at first because being submissive isn't one of my fetishes, but the anime knew how to balance out the truly important bits. As for the story itself, it seemed rather interesting. Nothing groundbreaking, sure, but interesting enough to make me pay attention to more than just the lewd scenes. Honestly, if this anime doesn't get a second season, I'm considering going to the manga.
lemonflick77
Finally, today, I completed watching "Chained Soldier." I had read the manga a long time ago, before the anime adaptation began airing. I thought it would be interesting to revisit the story through the anime. However, after watching the entire season, I must admit I'm disappointed. When I started reading the manga, around a year ago, I had hopes for a compelling storyline. However, after delving into it, I found myself encountering repetitive content in each chapter. There seemed to be a lack of character development, which made it hard for me to get invested in the story. While I understand that sometimes it takes timefor a plot to unfold, after 25 chapters, I expected more progress.
As for the anime adaptation, it fell short of my expectations. The pacing felt rushed, with numerous scenes cut short, ultimately damaging any chance for proper character development. Additionally, the animation quality was lackluster, failing to captivate me visually. The ecchi scenes, which could have added some excitement, were heavily censored, diminishing my enjoyment even further.
Comparing the two mediums, I would say the manga is the better option. Despite its flaws, the artwork remains commendable, providing some redeeming qualities. However, I wouldn't necessarily recommend either to someone unless they have ample free time and a strong interest in the genre.
Given my disappointment with the first season, I have little hope for a second season. It's unfortunate, but I doubt the series will improve significantly without addressing these issues.
Marinate1016
Mato Seihei was one of the most hyped adaptations of the year and sadly failed to live up to expectations. It never managed to capture the magic of the manga and just felt like a flat, soulless seasonal. I’ve read the manga for the past year or so and was pretty excited when this was announced. I knew the battles could be tricky to animate, but I at least had hope the erotica content would be handled well. I mean, that is the main selling point to the story after all.. but my hopes and dreams were quickly dashed within a couple episodes of this.Scenes were changed or omitted from manga chapters and the ones we did get, were just mediocre. There’s a handful of decent scenes, but it’s just not enough considering that’s what made this series famous.
The story has never been the strongest part of this series, but it is decent. Basically your usual bleach style set up of an MC unknowingly being recruited to join a secret evil fighting organisation. What carries the story is the characters and the character interactions. I do think the studio were able to nail the personalities of the girls and the seiyuus were excellent. You can really get a sense of the various quirks of each character. I just couldn’t help feeling that something felt “off” in this one. Whether it was the skipped chapters or cut scenes, I’m not sure, but it didn’t feel like the same story I anxiously waited to read chapters of and I think the current score differential underlines that being an issue for many fans.
The other big thing we have to talk about is the CGI. It’s bad, like really bad. Because of the nature of the battles in this series, I understand CGI was probably a necessity, but there’s such a huge contrast with how it’s used here vs say a Synduality Noir(also from this season). It looks really out of place and jarring here. The 2D action scenes aren’t exactly anything to write home about either.
Overall, to say I’m disappointed in this adaptation would be an understatement. While the manga isn’t the best thing in the world, it knows what it’s trying to be and succeeds in it. Great art, fights and characters. You’d think translating that to the anime medium wouldn’t be too difficult, but clearly it was an issue for this studio.
Mato Seihei gets 6, out of 10.
KimuraTheHatoru
Well, this was quite the ride if i do say so myself. The girls who straddled this anime's MC would say the same . Jokes aside, this anime was actually surprisingly good. And what i mean by that is the plot. Usually these sorta fanservice anime have a paper-thin plot. This one however has an actually intresting plot. The animation is allright, except for the CGI(obviously). And the fanservice is rather weak as well. The way powers work and all is also very nice,with all of them having drawbacks. With an exception here and there though. So yeah, if you came around excited mostly forthe fanservice... It's pretty scarce but it's decent when it does happen, so in that regard you might get dissapointed. But instead you'll be welcomed by a solid world foundation. A thing that i doubt anyone who watched it at first expected. A nice watch. Over and out.
Jagerbars
The backstory is generic but OK, the animation are good for a small company but the real thing here is the ecchi scenes, really amazing to the public who like of it. Pay attention, its not a amazing anime with huge storytelling, the main point here is the ecchi scenes, the public want to see the battles that are good for watch the rewards after it. The story can be better desenvolved and has space to grow properly, but its a one main person with a huge harem without much personality than the expected for the main public. The peoples who deslike it just dontare the target public. Of course the anime can be much better with proper storytelling, but this kind of ecchi anime is rare to the modern industry who must be brave to make comercial animes like this. Its a decent 7.5/10 anime but i will rate more because of the audacity of the studio haha.
nudesushi
Way better than expected. Do not be fooled by the low average score. There are some topics that may turn people off, but there are so many turn ons about this show its worth trying the 3 episode rule. Feels like Akame ga Kill crossed with Quintessential Quintuplets. 1. Lots of nudity and ecchi - done in a creative and funny way. 2. Fun action with interesting powers - grounded and suspenseful. 3. Submissive main character - but actually not totally boring or spineless, the show literally tells you he will be a (heroic) slave so be prepared. His inner desires will surprise you every episode. 4. Simple andengaging story - doesn't go into giant monologues and complicated information dumps while keeping you genuinely curious about the world and its characters.
Eagerly awaiting season 2.
tony1982sc2
This is the classic anime with lots of fanservice but done right, for once. I'm rating it as what it is, an ecchi, not as a regular anime, and that's why I gave it such a high note. The characters are your classic vanilla characters of any harem anime, you have a bunch of eres, and an idiot main protagonists that, someway somehow, it ends up making them fall for him even if he doesn't notice a thing. The plot is simple but fine, nothing out of the ordinary, and pretty predictable... So... Why an 8? Well... After watching a lot of this kind of showsand getting really disapointed, even if I didn't expected that much, this one, someway hitted the spot that I wanted to watch more, which is really weird on this kind of anime. The fights were nice, the plot, even if it's simple and predictable, it made sense, the characters, even if they're boring, they have some kind of personality and overall I liked them. Am I overrating the show? Yes, by a long shot, and I think the rate that it has on myanimelist, is the right one, tbf, but I feel it should be a bit higher and, therefore, I gave it an 8. You can hate me, don't care xD.
Why mixed feelings? Well... It's the king of anime, more than anything else, but If you decided to watch it, you know what you're in for.
PapaSomm
Chained Soldier had every potential to be breast in class, breaking the mold and proving that there’s a place for degeneracy in the upper ecchi-lons of anime. Unfortunately the story just couldn’t seem to get it up. Our titular character, and the majority of the cast were pretty dry in the end. The animation and the action were actually decent, and it was fun watching everyone get licked. There was one great moment of character driven story between two sisters, but the rest was hard to swallow, and otherwise the plot on the hole felt really forced. If culture is all you’re here for thenyou’re in luck, because it’s all you’re gonna get.
MrPrince_06
This is a really decent adaptation. Various shortcomings - most noticeable - obvious and jarring CGI. However, one hard truth of modern animation is that CGI is an easy manner to reduce the workload, especially for smaller teams with strict deadlines and reduced budgets. The show makes up for it with superb voice acting, a great opening and ending, as well as an interesting style with bold colors and stark contrasts. Not to be that guy - but if you enjoyed the anime or like the look of it - you should definitely take a glance at the manga. The manga is amazing, no other wayto phrase it. Clean-cut, extremely well written story with a hint of fanservice at just the right moments. Not convinced? Take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EkiEdFn1gU
Overall, the anime did a decent job at bringing this story to the table, but could definitely do better.
Chuy_diazz
The ecchi that had the most potential but they decided to be afraid of success. This work is well known for its ecchi more than anything else. Those of us who made the decision to watch it knew that its strongest appeal would be the fights and fanservice. The bad thing is that the worst of the work is just what we expected the most, the fights and the fanservice. I would like to take the story into account so I can give it some extra points, but they don't even take it seriously. The only thing the anime seeks is to try to provide thebest settings for the reward scenes.
The fanservice isn't even good enough to make it worth watching 12 episodes. Censorship is bubbles of light that saturate the screen and from the little that can be seen, it can be said that the uncensored version of Blue ray will not be better. Seven Arcs was afraid to focus on the ecchi scenes, this is where one would have preferred a studio, like Passione, to have taken over.
The fights lack intensity or emotion. The powers, although they sound interesting in their mention, in practice they look pretty meh. One might expect nothing from the fights against creatures made of dubious CGI, but that the fights against humans/humanoids are boring should be considered a crime.
From here it will be a somewhat personal rather than objective criticism. What did they do to my girls Kyouka and Tenka. They are supposed to be squad leaders, one who seeks to be the supreme commander and another who seeks the love of her life respectively. Whether they both have a meek personality or no personality at all is something that hurts. Both are my favorite characters in the work, but if the anime had told me that they were extras for a few chapters, I would have believed it without a doubt.
In conclusion, Mato Seihei's production was afraid to be successful with the work. They decided to be lukewarm and provide a half-assed product. They had something in their hands that could have, at the very least, marked the season. We already saw that the author knows how to make us look again at his work with Akame Ga Kill and his deaths. This time, the author and the artist gave a work that had potential thanks to ecchi, but that the production did not want or could not exploit.
Chawwn_
Mato Seihei no Slave is just an ordinary modern day ecchi action series; it's neither particularly good nor awful. Is it worthwhile to watch? Most probably. This show is probably not for you if you're looking for a deeper plot, but it's clear that it's not attempting to be one. It's a lighthearted show with occasional ecchi content that's quite watchable. The plot isn't too crazy: parallel worlds, bad guys that enter the human realm and have the potential to kill or kidnap people, and a defense force that is made up exclusively of women because they are the only ones with abilities in this universeto oppose the bad guys. But, surprise! Even though he is a man, the MC is involved in something :P
I promise there aren't many fanservice scenes in this show; either I'm dreaming or I remember the manga having a ton of them. Furthermore, because Kyouka has to give Yuuki something every time she uses her slave powers, this content isn't overly insistent for the sole purpose of fanservice or ecchi content. Rather, it serves a purpose in the plot.
Although the animation studio is not among the most prominent, it was still done fairly well for modern anime, with some decent CGI used occasionally that didn't look out of place unlike some other shows.
I only heard the opening and ending themes once, and consequently skipped them the first time I watched an episode, so I can't really comment on the soundtrack.
