Finished watching Lycoris Recoil

My score: 8.7



Finished watching Lycoris Recoil

My score: 8.7

Lycoris Recoil is an anime that tries to fuse the "cute girls doing cute things" formula with a darker premise: instead of sports, music, or school clubs, these girls work for a secret organization tasked with taking down criminals. Guns replace guitars, and missions replace after-school club meetings. It’s definitely a strange mix, of course has been attempted before but not often enough for it to feel unremarkable.

That said, for almost half the series, I found myself wondering if the writers had forgotten about the “secret organization” angle altogether. The first six or so episodes are padded with so much fat that I genuinely questioned why I was still watching. Slice-of-life antics and café scenes, dominate the early run, with some cryptic scenes and action shots sprinkled here and there. The characters themselves are likable, but not strong enough on their own to completely carry such a meandering start.

Overall i think this is a good anime and worth a watch. If you have patience, are familiar with the cute-girls anime genre and are willing to peel layers upon layers of filler fat, you gonna get greeted with an anime that it's like a rollercoaster like you have not seen before.

Oh! and there is NO YURI whatsoever. I keep reading people call this anime "yuribait" but there's nothing, nada, none. I'ts not a complain, i just wonder why it has been called like that for so long, maybe i just am too naive to see the undertones? who knows. Theres a hint about a yaoi relationship but that's a spoiler and i am not gonna talk about it.