Secondyear student Ritsuka Tachibana has the perfect schooltolife balance but all of thats thrown into chaos when she discovers that several of her handsome male classmates are actually demons in disguise. This was a terrible terrible show. I enjoyed every minute of it. Because HOO BOY HAS IT BEEN A WHILE SINCE I WATCHED A SHOW SO UNINTENTIONALLY STUPID. Let the Pomeranian Greek Chorus usher you in. So what the description above taken straight from Funimation didnt tell me was that the devils would be part of a battle between Evil andOther Evil fighting to find some Magic MacGuffin tied to our main character of course. Look the storyits there. If the show had wanted to focus on the story it wouldve been fine. But this show is the poster child for guilty pleasures: its focus is Ritsuka a singularly boring cutout of a character getting tangled up with extremely pretty magic boys who are determined to use her or protect her from use and who sing about it. so much. Oh? Didnt I mention? THIS IS A MUSICAL. And it transformed what would have been an otherwise mediocre show in an extremely entertaining mediocre show. No wait come back Im not done yet. Watching because the story sounds interesting? It falls flat. Watching it particularly with another person to see how much more ridiculous and stupid it gets? Fantastic. As we watched it veered more and more into the realm of absurd entertainment because the characters are so stupid. Ritsukas defining trait as the protagonist is a blind and unrelenting inability to keep herself safe. Dont leave my side a character will tell her making it clear this is so Ritsuka wont be killed. Wait I need to go do this thing. Better do it and just not tell anyone especially the person worried about my safety Ritsuka will think twenty seconds later. There are multiple episodes where the plot which this show technically has I guess moves forward only because Ritsuka has decided to ignore anything that might keep her safe for the fifth time this week. It occurs to me you could easily make a drinking game: take a drink every time Ritsuka willfully endangers her own life. Take a drink every time a male character expresses feelings for Ritsuka. Take a drink every time Best Friend Azuna the only character with a brain tries to bring sense into the equation. Take a drink for every character that bursts into song. For health and safety reasons I recommend nonalcoholic drinks. The main devil student council president of course Rem has exactly one facial expression annoyed one emotion annoyed and one way of dealing with everyone or thing that comes up treating them like an annoyance which is why its frikkin hilarious to me that hes supposed to be a love interest. To be fair every male character is a potential love interest the portrayals of which involve less desire than me picking out cheese at the grocery store. At the end of the second episode when Ritsukas older brother Lindo shows up I wondered if this was a spinoff of a dating game. You already had 4 pretty devils with tissuethin personalities and even thinner explanations for any attraction they felt toward our mushy overcooked cauliflower of a heroine and here was yet another male character who was very prettily designed. Too prettily designed. And he doesnt look super related to Ritsuka I wonder if thats relevant Spoiler alert: it is indeed relevant which I called before he got his own rock song about how he will protect her as an expression of his love. Worry not this show isnt nearly good enough to deal with the implications of this so it just doesnt Onesided pseudoincest is just thrown in there on the side to spice things up and give Ritsuka or the audience a pretty boy whos not ostensibly evil. But no the anime is original Which makes this all the more befuddling because there wouldnt have been a builtin audience yet Verdict English Dub? Yes. The voice acting was okay. And that would have been fine without further comments except this show is a MUSICAL. And these poor poor English voice actors were clearly not chosen for their ability to sing at least in most of the keys the songs are in. I suspect in keys bettersuited to their voices and without having to try and put on a character voice they would be fine. But thats not what happened here. But no every main character gets at least one song. I get the distinct impression that the lyrics were translated very close to literal translations and then they were never adjusted to make those words syllables in English fit the existing melodies. What probably sounded fine in Japanese and if you watch songs in Japanese they do indeed sound melodic comes off as clunky and awkward in English and thats before they try to fit these words and phrases into the melody of the existing songs. Like theres a duet at the end with the lines Two dissimilar worlds two dissimilar paths and they really have to rush to get all the syllables in when two different worlds two different paths would have worked JUST AS WELL. For example have this wonderful song from early in the series: https://youtu.be/NhjcZRC7q3Q See what I mean? I spent so SO much time ranting to my watching companion about how I couldve easily rewritten this line or that line and made them so so much better to English ears while keeping the same meaning. I dont understand why the decision wasnt made to adjust the English song lyrics but hey: perhaps it meant the English version ran perilously close to having decent audio which would then put the focus back on how flimsy the story itself is. Visuals: Nothing standout not terrible since I literally never thought about them. Too distracted by lines like So helpless and pathetic like a rabbit controlled by Providence those melancholic eyes reflect a life so pitiful. Worth watching? AHAHAHAHA grab a friend and dont warn them in advance then inflict this on yourselves with no other preparation. This is the most fun Ive had actively watching a show with someone in months.