Reviews for Scared Rider Xechs

I’m having extreme difficulty trying to put this review into words. The show is so appalling that I’m questioning if it really deserves a proper review. If you’re reading this and was curious about the very low score, then this may be the show for you if you’re a masochist that is. Here we go again, this is another one of those ‘try and save the world’ shows which has been overused to the point of oblivion. I’ve never understood why producers stick their faith in these type of shows when they are for the most part predictable. A group of male high-schoolers situated ina town called Ryugyu work for a secret organisation called LAG, which stands for Life after God. These audacious young men (referred to as Riders) have the ability to combine with supernatural creatures/beings called Substances that originate from the Red World. They undergo a fusion transformation with their respective Substance allocated to them via a process of inserting a plug into a headphone jack, that centres the palms of their left hands. After this, they somehow get cool looking bikes from the spaceship and fight enemy creatures called Nightfly O’Notes during surprise incursions with their combined abilities. The power rangers theme is strong in this one.

The main plotline isn’t convoluted or anything but isn’t enticing enough for me to keep watching when it rehashes the same formula over and over again. The world-building was erected in a mediocre fashion by outlining that the Blue World is separated from the Red World which is the breeding ground for the so called enemies. After further revelations, it is known why the mysterious attacks take place and for me feels like a copout when it contradicts the main theme at hand.

The characters are all bland and one-dimensional, with some of the more annoying characters such as Yosuke and Takuto being given their own segments to make us believe they underwent some characterisation, which is far from the case. The other members of the Riders are not worth mentioning as they are there to fill up the numbers. The Riders only participate as a group when it comes to the band as a means of strengthening team unity.

Asagi Akira is the main focus of the very first episode after being saved in the transported container. She immediately is promoted to the operations director at the LAG base after being caught up in the accident. This anime makes you think it’s trying to be subtle in its approach but no its imbecilic methods won’t have an effect on me. Hako Sakura is another character that is directly linked to Asagi and is pretty stupid when it comes to privacy. Her role is found out by one of the Riders after careful observation. She links in with the explanation of the war between LAG and the Nightfly O’Notes and that is her only purpose. There is also that stereotypical villain Okazaki trying to make her moves in the shadows without being noticed.

The art style is pretty generic and is a carbon copy of its source material which is its visual novel counterpart. Its these designs that make me question if the character designers put any more thought into this, as they all have similar body builds and proportions. For an otome game adaptation, all the guys would look attractive considering they have that bishounen design to cater to their respective audiences. I don’t find any major fault with but I feel like they could have experimented a bit more with their resources. The animation is also very average with certain episodes being messily drawn at times highlighting that the budget wasn’t good for the source material.

The sound is the only thing that didn’t fail because if you look at its glorious voice actor cast, you will be surprised to see a few noticeable names which for me wasn’t enough. It’s unfortunate that they have to stain their record with such a miserable show that only should be recommended for its voice actors. It gets even worse people. The production committee somehow managed to grab the services of Abo Takeshi for the background music. This is the man who gave us great soundtracks for visual novels such as Steins Gate and Ever17. After this revelation, my opinion of the sound isn’t so bad after taking into the factors into account.

To summarise this show is offensive for my intelligence and is a complete waste of time. I wish you good luck if you partake in watching this series.

This is the first time I'm making an anime review here on MyAnimeList. Overall the first episode is quite okay for an Otome anime adaptation. However, the perspective is on Komae instead of Asagi, as she is the Main Character of the original LN. Overall, the story is interesting with incremental plot on the REAL MC as the anime builds onto the Otome game story. The artwork is pretty solid with nice backgrounds and the fine sceneries of Ryukyu. Character development is good with the first episode introducing all the characters (Without the REAL MC). During the time of this review I enjoy thesefirst few episodes with the reminiscence of Power Ranger, Kamen Rider and Super Sentai.

Ultimately, an Anime with this kind of linear and un-teresting storytelling would fail BUT, this anime was from an OTOME. A dating-sim made for girls and women alike. The OTOME was fair but the adaption was just. I would not like to watch anymore of this anime.

It is just simply bland and colorless. IRONIC, as to the characters.

STORY: They are Bandmates and best friends (Basically it's like a bond of a brotherhood). They are also the protectors of the earth! The Henshi & weapons reminds me of the Power Rangers. It is mysterious, intense, and contains a lot of THE FEELS! Plus, there is a lot of storylines involving Akira. CHARACTERS: • Akira - The team's commander. Young teenager, but very mature for her age. Intelligent. • Takuto - singer, writer, guitarist. • Yousuke - I ♥ Yousuke & Akira. Guitarist. • Hiro - Youngest member. Loves reading. Introvert. Drummer. • Kazuki - Weirdo - very flamboyant, unpredictable, passionate for music, gets the job done. Pianist/keyboard. •Yuuji - Bassist. Oldest member. Positive & generous.

OVERALL: Theme song is pretty cool. It is sung by the main characters on the show! As I stated previously, there is a lot of action, interesting story lines, however; it is kind of complex. Each Rider has 2 different eye colors on each eye. & this anime also has its own video game that is available in Japan on Playstation 2.

What's good about this anime is that it's a sentai, but aimed at a female audience. Which puts off the 4/8channers because it's not aimed at them even thought they have a billion isekai, sentai slave women anime aimed at them. The female character isn't a doormat which puts off the rest of the channers and the otoge audience that likes the main girl to be abused harassed and basically have no agency. She's actually proactive and knows how to do her job and doesn't need men always saving her nor telling her what to do. All the guys are actually decent, thought Hijiri pushes it. The anime howevershows that it's an act.

They don't treat Akira like garbage nor are they wanting to always peep on girls. Yuji does get into that situation and he quicky wants to nope out of it and not be a gross piece of shit like other otome will do with him. (Further putting off channers who think women are meat.

It also has a bit of political intrigue going on as well as the "what are the Nightfly 'o Note" and the whole Red World, Blue World. It's not afraid of shooting people and killing, where other otome games pull their punches a lot.

THe only drawback to this anime is that evil is represented by a sexy woman. It always happens. This only draws the anime down a little and the uniquness of the rest of the anime is it's shining achievement.

There's really no other anime like this that's aimed at a female audience but also so full of action and sci-fi.

"YOUR MOTHER IS A CRAB" I should be honest up front that an otome game adaptation is probably not something that was Made For Me, on account of being a grown-ass man who typically prefers his anime with heavy psychological drama or shonen punchkick action. That being said, I wanted to go into this liking it. It's pretty and shiny and I grew up on Power Rangers, and have been watching Sentai series recently, so that kind of Sentai action is definitely something I have a soft spot for. Seeing it polished up in a lovely anime package sounded great - except this show tradesproduction values in instead of charm, and that's where it stumbles short.

Don't get me wrong, Scared - or Scar-Red - Rider Xechs is very nice to look at. The cast is full of pretty characters, as befits an Otome Game, each one of them distilled conveniently into pretty bland tropes - the stoic main character, who my understanding is was invented for the anime anyway; the cool and perpetually scowling "lancer" who sits at the right hand; the Big Guy who is mellow and mature and kind; the token shota, girlish and cranky; and my least favorite, the wacky eccentric glasses character who constantly speaks in broken English, because that kind of gimmick hasn't been done absolutely to death.

The otome protagonist is here, too, perfectly inoffensive and there to be projected upon by the girls who want to be her, with a bubbly, blonde best-friend type to round things out. No one really stands out beyond their generic role, and maybe there's room for development in the back two thirds of the series, but at this point I've seen nothing to make it worth investing in any further.

After all, Sentai are predicated on fun villains and action scenes, and this show has neither of them. There's no Lord Zedd here, no Gorma commanders, at least not introduced as far as I made it, leaving the 'Nightfly O'Notes,' - and boy let's just chew on THAT naming choice for a second - as just a pack of generic monsters to be destroyed with little problem. The action scenes themselves feel pretty perfunctory, and episode 4 just straight up doesn't have any, being content entirely with slice of life, as it seems like the intent is just to have the action as a framing device, I suppose, while the characters and comedy and romance get the bulk of the air time, but that... doesn't really seem to happen either.

No, instead I'm left wondering why we're even here for most of the run-time. It seems like the implication is that the heroes are idols and musicians as well, and we're told in the first episode that Red Leader is more focused on playing guitar than training, because he cant transform for some reason - but that's a plot point that is given no time at all to develop, because instead he just... Does It at the climax of the first episode and it's not touched on again from there. There are a few scenes of them practicing music, but it's not delved into with any depth, and episode 4 starts with them filming a [hilariously bad, but on purpose hilariously bad so it's actually great] commercial, but that again just leads to wacky beach shenanigans, blue boy Takt getting stuck in a crab costume, and a relay race because... reasons.

Look, again, I understand this is an otome game show. It's build around pretty boys being charming and having fun and periodically doing Their One Thing but mostly just being male moe archetypes. And if you want male moe archetypes, I guess that's here alright, but they feel so bland and ill-defined it's hard to imagine anyone getting big husband vibes from any of them, not when there are dozens of shows that could better scratch that itch. A show like this either needs great character writing to elevate itself from the pack, or a great gimmick it can play with, and Xechx, frankly, doesn't seem overly interested in doing either of those things.

In the end, it comes across as a lazy cash grab, as so many mobile game adaptations are, slapped together with a competent and glossy visual production to draw in the fans of the game to buy more merch and blue-rays, with little genuine effort put into any phase of production. So, like, if you really like the game this is based on, I guess give it a shot, or if you're really, desperately thirsty for a new otome game-style show for another harem of boys, but man. I cannot help but feel like you should really try to shoot higher.

if you came here for romance just mentally throw that genre in the trash as there is absolutely no romance and was probably only given that tag because of the game the anime is base off of the rest of the review will cover everything else story 6 for the first 6 episodes the show feels more like a slice of life anime with moments that feel like they belong in a dramatic mecha anime sprinkled in and for some reason they forced in a band plot that really should of been cut there is also creatures that help the characters fight that really needed moreattention because the show really failed to fit them in the show the really everything for the first 6 episodes seem like a confused mismatched mess around episode 7 is were the series start mostly focusing on the dramatic mecha feeling plot which is the part i feel the studio was most familiar so it ended up feeling the least confusing and most competently done part of the anime if you like dramatic mecha anime you should get a decent amount of enjoyment in seeing things unfold

sound 6

for the most part there really isn't much to note but there near the end it uses music in a similar way to a mecha anime to hype what happening up

art 6

the art was decent and i noticed the show did a good job at switching between lighter colors during the slice of life parts and during the darker mecha parts things look darker to avoid having the color clash with the very different tones of the show and did a good bit of good it trying to blend things together

characters 2

the only characters that can really be said to develop is a side character called sakura and and the main character they have a few dramatic scenes that are even if a bit generic i feel were poled off well enough as for all the other characters for the first chunk of the anime the only thing reverse harem thing in the anime is the male characters personality's which act how you expect male characters to act in a slice of life reverse harem anime the problem is it absolutely does not mess well with the second part of the anime that change the characters to what is expected from a dramatic mecha anime which while done much better makes it feels like there was no characterization done to set things up they feel like they were completely made to do what the animators needed in order to fit the cliches roles of both genres it just does not feel like the animators knew how to write it to make characters naturally fit whats being done so they didn't even try to

overall 4

really the biggest problem is i don't think the studio knew how to blend the two parts so it just feels like a mismatched mess that feel more like two different anime and while i really did enjoy how the second half alot more if i rated this higher i feel i would be ignoring just how badly the characters were handled and how poorly the blend things together because i cant help but feel if they but the band part and maybe focused more like a action show it would atleast be less of a sad mess that i don't really think can please any group of anime fans