Busou Shinki Review

Overall Rating 7.9 out of 10 - Really Great Show, almost as good as Frame Arms Girl

I recommend watching.

Somehow in modern anime all good girls are palm size. As if girls' size is opposite proportional of her likability. 

I watched this shortly after Frame Arms Girl, both of this shows are surely a big bright spot among the typical woke drivel that modern woke industry likes to churn. 

Both Busou Shinki and Frame Arms Girl depict women as they should be and as we like them. That alone is good enough reason to watch both shows. 

Both are about little armored girl figures and walk and talk on their own. However, each franchise has its own approach to this them. I rated Frame Arms Girl a little higher, but each show has aspects at which it can beat its immediate competitor.

I will start with what Busou Shinki managed to get better compared to its competitor.

First of all, Busou Shinki has a male master and shinkis are very devoted to him. They crave their master's approval, do chores: clean, cook and help him out in various ways. They are too small for many tasks but struggle to accomplish them anyhow. All this is very endearing to watch. This is the best aspect of the show.

However, shinkis keep calling their master scatterbrained, while Frame Arms Girl have nothing but admiration for Aoi. Something shinkis should learn from FA Girls.

Personality wise all four main shinkis are very nice and cozy, especially Ann. However, their personalities are somewhat inconsistent throughout the show and sometimes they do things that seem out of character somehow. One time they all starry eyed and happy and soon after drink nitro and get drunk.

They even made an episode where Ann becomes human and goes on a date with master. Partly similar to how May in Hand Maid May later becomes human size. However, if May retains her original personality, then large Ann instead runs around and gets master to buy her stuff. Such as missed opportunity to get relationship right.

Story wise its more diverse than Frame Arms Girl, but episodes are hit and miss. Some like Okinawa trip were very nice. Others are more dubious.

Now on some things Busou Shinki went short compared to Frame Arms Girl. First of all is quality of animation of Busou Shinki is more dated compared to Frame Arms Girl. Visual design of girls is much more thought through in Frame Arms Girls and done consistently better. Busou Shinki animators sometimes slacking in keeping their girls consistently shapely, curvy and sexy. Also Frame Arms Girl is much more consistent with what it was trying to do, even if their episodes were somewhat less imaginative. 

You can clearly see that Frame Arms Girl was made by much more experienced studio. Lack of innovation and imagination is compensated with consistency as well as surefire popular tricks and tropes. You can be certain it will be well polished pleasant experience. Kind of like Nintendo.

In contrast Busou Shinki is rougher and more experimental. Sometimes they get it great, other times them miss by a several meters. You can see rough edges here and there. Yod do not know if next episode will make you think they are greater than FA Girls or cringe instead. Kind of like Sega.

Overall, however both of these shows are worth your time. This is a competition at the top, like Schumacher and Hakkinen or Senna and Prost. A lot of other shows I have been writing about recently were closer to Willams vs Haas with occasional case of Arrows, Spyker, Manor or Mazepin.