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  Humble

  72/100
  Angel falls for Demon and Demon falls for Angel

  While currently scrolling through Crunchyroll to see what anime I can add to my list for the winter season, I scroll across “The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil”. Hmmm an angel meets a demon in a school setting... Count me in! This anime has been one of my favorites of the season so let’s jump into why. __Synopsis__ Akutsu, our MC is a demon on a recruitment mission who is sent to a human high school to find allies to help assist hell in the fight against the angels. During this search he meets Lily, our other MC, and when attempting to recruit her he finds a surprise... Lily’s an angel. __Story__ Alright so being 100 percent honest this is a genre that is not hard to fail at. The genre of a rom com anime simply needs 3 things to succeed. That is romance even at the simplest form, comedy which is the hardest thing out of the 3 to achieve, and a lovable female MC. The foolish angel dances with the devil check all 3 boxes. There’s not much to provide within the story outside of the fact that we see the relationship of the two progresses to the point where they are rarely outside of the screen together. We all know demons and angels are archrivals but even then, the romance of the anime almost makes you forget what they are at the school to achieve. Lily is there to hunt demons which she does and turn them into little puppies to be well taken care of by someone who loves puppies and who doesn’t love puppies. Meanwhile Akutsu barely did anything for his mission. Not one person did he recruit let alone attempted to recruit. The story’s Juliet and Romeo kind of vibe isn’t bad but after watching this is literally just a show of how an angel and demon fell for each other. __Characters__ Starting off with Lily, the cute MC female that’s an angel. She does charm the audience with her angelic features and in ways but honestly, she’s a bit more demonic than the actual demon when you watch the anime. To begin with she turns Akutsu to her slave and basically makes him come with when she is demon hunting. Within this story she reveals that even though she seems perfect in the human world she was someone who has been looked on as an outsider within heaven. Akutsu shows the least progression out of the characters. However, there’s not much progression to be made. Yes, he’s a demon but also a great guy. There are multiple instances where he helped Lily even though she’s made him her slave and he knows that she’s an angel. The part where Akutsu shines the best is when he meets Lily’s brother SPOILER ALERT lol. Outside of the two MC’s, we have a few supporting characters on the screen for about 5 minutes. We have Hirota, Tanigawa, and Tanahashi. Tanahashi is really the side character who stands out the most due to her ability to get Lily riled up regarding Akutsu. We also see Lillia as well, which is Lily’s weapon but in human form if that makes sense. She’s portrayed as Lily’s older sister. __Animation__ There isn’t much to be said regarding the animation, it’s fine. Most of the characters are in the same outfits so there’s not much to really critique. This does kind of add boring affect to the anime, I’ve enjoyed seeing characters style within anime now days. I will give praise to the fight scenes. Yes, fight scenes in a romcom aren’t that rare now days. The fight scenes were a total surprise to me within this anime. __Conclusion__ To conclude this anime tugged heart strings, I enjoyed the comedy, and the chemistry between our two main characters. However, it doesn’t stand out within the romcom genre. There’s nothing I can point out that this anime does better than any other romcom anime. This is the downfall and realization that came to me when I finished the anime and thought of the review. Yes, it’s a nice romcom just to watch but nothing to recommend honestly. I recommend this anime as a - “Not bad it’s a good watch”. _Anime with a score of 70-80 receives a "Not bad it's a good watch". _
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  NaturalBeef

  30/100
  NGL this show reminded me of what I used to find constantly cringe in anime so many years ago.

  Don't want to come off as rude but uhh...

  I've liked to watch anime since I was super young, however I haven't called myself a true anime fan for years now. Recently things have changed, I decided I wanted to give it a go again as I've been having a blast revisiting shows like Serial Experiments Lain, Black Lagoon, Baccano! and even more recent shows like Frieren surprised me. I thought, well time to get back into the anime community, "Lets see what's recommended now". I saw this show on the sidebar banner for the r/anime and thought "if r/anime is recommending this show for rewatch for this month, it must be a hidden gem or something". NGL this show reminded me of what I used to find constantly cringe in anime so many years ago.

  There's so much to dislike about this show

  Why? Fan service up the ass, with some outrageous camera angles trying to constantly push in sexual jokes, and a sappy rom-com that quite literally goes through all the boxes of cliche situations.
  Just because you're calling out that you're going to make the "haha it's the famous stair falling scene, aren't we clever" only to then actually do them doesn't make it ironic. You're just calling yourself out and then doing it.

  The show felt so derivative, I feel like after episode 1 you already know how it's gonna end.

  The angel and the demon will fall in love, of course. What else would happen?

  "It's biggest sin is that nothing comes off as a surprise."

  I mean I understand there's different genres for different people but uhhh, yeah this show was cringe to sit through.

  "I had to blitz throught it if I wanted to really stick around till the end."

  I ended up seeing everything in 1.5x to 2x speed, both the reviews on MAL and posts in r/anime said that the show gets better after episode 5, but I beg to differ. You can't really change the underlying issues that is it's derivative story with an obvious outcome. I actually saw the whole thing cause "there's no way that the showcase show of the month can be this bad".

  The only real positives in my eyes

  The only part of the show that I thought was amusing enough to watch in regular speed was episode 11 because of all it's action but really, even that was a cliche. Oh big bad angel messes with his girl so dude gets powered up? no way, didn't expect that. Watching the whole show 2x speed I felt like was the only way I could had actually gone through with it. If it was only available in 1x I would had dropped this show so fast.

  Conclusion

  All in all, I wouldn't recommend this show. It's a generic overdone predicable show at best, and what I would call seasonal slop at it's worst. Again, don't want to come off as rude, and everyone is entitled to like what they like, but there was little to no value here for me and it would be a disingenuous for me to say this show is any good.

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