Imagine taking a French fry and putting sugar on it. Imagine getting a bowl of cereal and pouring orange juice into it. Imagine eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich but the jelly was replaced with mayo. Now grab a plate and put all these foods together and eat it all. Are you utterly confused by what I just said? Thats how much I felt confused watching this show. This recipe is what I call the Engage Kiss which was a plate of every trope imaginable in the most nonsensical and dumb ways sometimes plus a lot of plot points crammed together. Harem check Cute girls check Demons check Dumb waifu wars check Ecchi check Little sister check Ripoff Naofumi check Say hello to yet another A1 Pictures original airing this summer season and once again the animation and music did not miss. Everything else though had its share of frustrating and generic moments. This show really does not start well in my opinion and because of that it really lost me for a good chunk of the series except for a few very good episodes which made this a passable series overall. If you were wondering which A1 Pictures original from this season was better it would easily be Lycoris Recoil. Funny enough Id thought for sure itd be the other way around but guess I was wrong. My grading criteria: Story: /25 Art: /10 Music: /10 Characters: /20 Enjoyment /15 Thematic Execution /20 STORY: 9.8/25 To give a quick overview first this show takes place in Bayron City a rather futuristic and extravagant looking place that strives to give every citizen a lavish lifestyle. However for wannabe Shield Hero MC Shuu Ogata that is not the case. He struggles to make ends meet and is taken care of by his demon partner Kisara who holds down the fort and takes care of chores. These two work side by side along with the military forces to take down demons who pose the biggest threat to the city. In order to gain enough power to defeat these formidable creatures Shuu and Kisara must kiss for her to turn into a more powerful being. This arrangement comes at a cost for Shuu and it whittles him down bit by bit throughout the story. So this seems interesting right? So it seemed but this show has quite the identity crisis in that instead of having some world building for us to understand how the city works and why the demons are here it focused a lot of the romance aspects instead of a lazy deadbeat and his harem who for some reason are smitten with him. To be honest an exposition dump of why the demons were here would have been better than whatever was presented. In a show like this you would expect that the romance would come second and the story come first but nah lets just have girls getting jealous for a big chunk of the show. There are some good parts about the story and some emotional bits too and while the emotional scenes were honestly executed well if everything was developed properly it would have hit even harder. Otherwise the plot is quite ambitious but because of a lack of world building nothing felt very significant it just felt like many things crammed together in an attempt to make a good plot but felt like a pile of things that didnt mix well just very messy. ART: 8.9/10 The animation is quite worthy of praise. The action is fluid and the character designs are decent except for Naofumi 2.0. The colour palette also works well. Lots of pinks that give the show its uniqueness. MUSIC: 8.4/10 The sound is pretty solid too. The OP and ED were both great songs and the soundtrack fit well in each scene. CHARACTERS: 9/20 The character development in the show was quite abysmal because first of all there was so little backstory so we had no idea how why all the girls like Shuu and that made it hard to justify their motives. Kisara was the cute character and helped Shuu make ends meet and was also the militarys biggest weapon in countering the demons. Ayano was the more mature character who also played a role in fighting the demons. Some of the supporting cast felt more well developed than the mains honestly especially Miles who was Shuus caretaker when he was little. Shuu while he starts out being extremely frustrating to watch ends up being a solid character in my opinion but all his goodness came at a point where I already lost most of my interest in the characters. ENJOYMENT: 8.7/15 There were good moments in this show but few and far between. I did enjoy the action sequences too but not much else. Pretty average throughout. THEMATIC EXECUTION: 8/20 Like I have mentioned throughout the lack of world building made a lot of the themes dull and the plot points insignificant and I just found myself not caring a whole lot. The show attempts to make you feel a wide range of emotions but it doesnt work out very well. OVERALL: 52.8/100 There is some minimal enjoyment to be had here but there wasnt a whole lot to enjoy except for the action. If you like waifus go ahead and give this a try but the dysfunctional plot had me bored at times although there were a few great moments in this show. I dont exactly know what we were served up here but it ends up just feeling messy and tropey.