Sacred Seven

[branchandroot]

This is a cheesy, silly, melodramatic shounen fight show. It features a stoic (and unreasonably tall) hero with vast power. He's also seriously socially maladroit and does things like giving people a (cheesy) thumbs up gesture instead of actually speaking, is terrified of a lot of (perfectly reasonable for a normal guy) things, and rides a dinky little scooter. His knees stick out. Also? His magical-boy transformation armor is really silly looking. Did I mention he turns into a red crystal unicorn when he transforms without assistance? He does.

He is matched with a tiny little girl who believes in him unreasonably and has no super powers of her own except to safely activate his. She sky-dives out of airplanes without a parachute and hits her target dead on, has too much pride to ask for his help because her sister is entombed in crystal, and generally has all the spine and motivation for both of them.

Also, she has a mansion full of wildly competent and not over-endowed commando maids in sensible footgear. There is a sleek-looking butler in command, who is clearly completely gone on the girl and not too fond of the hero (who he is nearly a full head shorter than but twice as seme as, except with the girl).

I am just unreasonably delighted by the whole thing, and I'm only two episodes in.

ETA: Also featuring a shirtless Rival guy whose pants show his hipbones. Just to round things out.

Comments

[theodosia21]

Thank you for introducing me to this show! I just watched the first three episodes, and it's filling me with a rather ridiculous amount of glee. *laughs*

[branchandroot]

Isn't it cute? Alma is so adorkable (not a term I use often, but it's /him/). And Ruri is so kick-ass. And when you get to the Rival-guy, well, there's hip-bones showing and a distinct lack of shirts, which I find deeply appealing on my shallow side.

[theodosia21]

Yes! And I must admit I have a terrible weakness for butlers. ^_^

[phoebe_zeitgeist]

Okay, is the adorkable thing going to make me run screaming? Or is it sufficiently in the background that I can avoid it while enjoying the parts that sound wildly appealing, and as though they do not feature adorkability?

(I hate that adorkable is turning out to be such a major squick for me. It shows up in so damned many places; couldn't I have had an aversion to something less wildly inconvenient?)

[branchandroot]

*thoughtful* Good question. I have a bit of a squick for it myself in most cases; in this case it was acceptable levels for me. It may be borderline for you; consider skipping the school-festival episode (which adds nothing at all to the plot or even the character development). Alma is a good, well-meaning, serious guy. He just has trouble interacting with people; this gets better as the show goes on.

[dingsi]

... I think I need to look into this.

[branchandroot]

*grins* It's very silly. Intertwined with what could be a truly terrifying villain-guy if only he were the actual focus of the show. Only they're too busy with the commando maids kicking butt and the school-shennanigans.

[dingsi]

It's the commando maids who intrigue me tbh, kicking butt with sensible clothing. That made me curious. *g*

[branchandroot]

I /love/ the commando maids. They can do /anything/. In high-top tennis shoes!

[ravelqueen]

XD you will continue to be delighted, cause as far as I saw it, it doesn't let up being this silly (including your very own world-conspiracy and cackling villain!)

[branchandroot]

It totally doesn't! I scarfed the whole thing down in a day, and the silliness lasted to the last drop! OMG, those thumbs-ups are gonna kill me.

[afuna]

Heeeheehee ot oh it sounds excellent! Will keep an eye out for it *G*

[branchandroot]

It's delightful. And on Crunchyroll for streaming!

[afuna]

Can't view it due to licensing restrictions, alas /o\