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General Esdeath wrote:

About Armed Girls Machiavellism, thinking of starting it since I didn't really start that anime yet as I was unsure. But since more people are watching it I'll give it a try. The beginning has mediocre animation, but for the most part it's pretty good. Protag is kind of an ass, but a good ass. Subverts and plays with different tropes common in Shonen works, and most importantly, the fights are much closer to Reality than the average Shonen work.

Mostly because the author actually studied and trained in different martial arts. The manga and the author's previous manga, Shinakoi, while not super-popular, at least stood out because of this, making the fights less "OMG THATS AMAZING WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED BRO" and more like an actual martial arts fight, though still with some things exagerated to classical Shonen levels.