Dokyuu Hentai Hxeros: There are good elements to this show, but they're totally drowned out by the phony directions the plot goes in order to excuse random, unnecessary, and excessive ecchi situations. Why would the hero power blow up your costume every time it's used? As an excuse for the characters to be nude. Nothing else. When you build your whole story up like that with lame excuses the viewer can't suspend disbelief anymore and it collapses in on itself.
I'm quite fond of ecchi series with genuinely funny and believable excuses for why the characters keep ending up in provocative situations that I can roll with. To Love-ru was a master at this. Hentai Hxeros isn't. The eros wasn't the problem, it was the excuses. Fail.
Lapis ReLights: This is a promising series that combines idols with mahoutsukai. You're supposed to train up your various talents in this academy and if you fall behind you get expelled, so it's also a sort of sports tournament with single elimination on the line. Plenty of drama to go around, with lots of cute girls to be dramatic about. What could go wrong? Pass.
Maou Gakuin Futekigousha: Ugh. The protagonist is an arrogant asshole with unlimited power, about the worst possible combination. The heroine is an expressionless vacuum with no personality. And the villains are over the top weak but cruel idiots who pick fights for no reason they can't possibly win. Everything disgusts me. The worst aspect is I was eventually wishing the villains would win the hero so needed to be knocked down a peg or two. But of course that's impossible, the hero is omnipotent. Who thought this was a good story deserving of an anime? Who buys this crap? Fail.
Monster Musume no Oisha-san: This series is way too ecchi for what it purports to be. It's not really about treating patients, it's about coming up with an excuse to do lewd things to various monster girls. Then you have this cock-blocking nurse that stops him from getting anywhere with any of them so the whole thing is an exercise in futility. The only experience generated is frustration. Fail.
Kanojo, Okarishimasu will probably be good, but I'm not even interested in trying out the remaining new shows. Based on their synopsis and the previous works by the artists involved I have no confidence in any of them. This isn't to say the summer season is a wipeout -- rather it means we should focus on the known good series like Railgun, Major and SAO. There's plenty of worthwhile stuff to watch this season so all these rookies have been irrelevant from the beginning.
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