Assault Lily: Bouquet Review

Overall Rating 5.7 out of 10 - Flawed waifu show that barely works as intended

I can recommend watching if you have no better anime to watch

Even a talentless studio that has little idea what they are doing can sometimes produce something half-decent. 

Assault Lily is one such example. It is based on a series of anime figurines, featuring cute dress in sexy clothes with overengineered weapons, called charms. This alone carries the show. Figurine designers knew what they were doing and their girl design is indeed sexy and likable: black dresses with white frills, small puffy skirts, stockings - near maid outfits. This design is what carries the show. This show is about staring at cute girls on screen and little more.

The bad parts clearly came from the scriptwriters. Personalities of must girls are rather unlikable, too much jealousy, toughness and wickedness, too little moe. Waifu shows are all about moe, take K-On! for example, girls there so innocent, cute, silly and stupid in a cute way. Kyoani clearly knows how it's done. Here instead most girls exhibit rather unlikable personally traits instead.

They also tried to tap into lesbian dynamic too, but they did it like real lesbians where one girl plays the guy's part in a relationship. That is how yaoi is written for female audiences, lesbians written for male audiences are instead written by making both girls equally sweet and innocent.

The story in theory revolves around fighting huge, but most of the time is dedicated to girls' drama instead. It's the kind of girl's drama that is nor entertaining in any way.

The only thing that carries the show is uniform design. This barely pushes this show to above average overall. Because of that I can recommend this show for times when there are few good anime and there is nothing better to watch, like post 2012.